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Emily Reuschel is a keynote speaker, coach, and farm mom and wife. She teaches rural women how to get intentional, live into their passions and live life on purpose. Her personal growth journey has changed and evolved in different seasons of life.
Emily and I have so much in common. Personal growth and development have changed as jobs, roles, life stages, etc evolve and finding a way to live intentionally, be grateful, and be in touch with emotions makes the difference between drowning in the chaos of life and thriving with purpose.
What is personal development?
How do farm/ranch/rural women do personal development?
How to feel more content
What does balance mean?
What does peace and contentment feel like?
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Podcast- Gather in Growth: https://open.spotify.com/show/4kQ6k3C6YmKp6EY58URPH6
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Fair week was the first time I realized what anxiety really felt like in my body. Fortunately, I have an amazing mom who recognized it and helped me to do some deep breathing and bring some perspective to my pre-fair worry. Except that is really an understatement because I was like a bridezilla on steroids, I was a fairzilla for two weeks leading up to the fair.
This episode is all about the things that helped to make our fair week go smoother. I consulted with my mom on this episode because she was the mastermind behind the planning that went into 4-H and the preparing for the fair.
1. Have a DIY deadline-Anything that doesn’t need to be done last minute should be done a week before the fair.
2. Have a list for things that need to be done last minute i.e. Baking projects, cakes, washing animals, etc.
3. Pack your camper and do your shopping ahead of time, if you do crafts and things then packing that stuff into the camper saves space in your primary vehicle
4. Remember that this is about kids learning skills not about winning, one of the most important skills they will learn to how to keep calm when they are under pressure.
5. Have a plan for food and have plenty of east snacks available.
6. Have a few ways to lower anxiety available for when the tears inevitably come. For kids a few options can be taking a few deep breathes, taking a walk, dance party, writing a letter to their current self from 5 years into the future.
7. Keep a flexible routine, this helps to avoid getting hangry, overtired, and exhausted.
8. Unpack as soon as you get home
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Paige Dulaney and her family farm and ranch in Colorado. She is a mom of three and a busy social media advocate (aka agricultural agvocate). She does a fantastic job and digging into research and facts about our food system, supply chain and agriculture in general. She always keeps her cool and bring the best information to the table.
We also talk about some sanity saving moms hacks and start off the episode with our biggest fear, losing keys in Walmart. We talk about how things might suck for the first few years, but if you can adjust your expectations when trying new things on your farm or ranch, it makes it easier to stay calm and avoid feeling so defeated.
Topics Covered:
Mindset shifts when you try something new
How to choose what to focus on and how to let go of the rest
Seven sanity saving mom hacks
How to have patience with people who don’t understand food
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Mary Pat Sass loves cheese, farming, and journaling. She is a farm wife, entrepreneur and social media influencer. Her what to make for supper video’s, mom content and farm lifestyle piece have gone viral because people love her down to earth, funny and real style.
Mary Pat Sass’ Grounded Journals are the perfect prompts to remember the good times, collect memories and share photo’s. She created them because she wishes she would have written more down about family, things they have tried on their farm and simple moments with her kids. So, she created these gorgeous journals to help us all do just that. Collect memories, photos and share stories with our future selves and loved ones.
Check out the Grounded Journals here: https://www.groundedjournals.co/
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5 Paradigm Shifts I Learned in Therapy
1. Set boundaries early and often, say no, and protect your time, space and family
2. You cannot change other people, changing the way you react to situations in your life is more valuable anyway
3. The story you tell yourself is the only thing that matters, the “truth” is subjective
4. Sometimes you just have to talk things out
5. When your childhood, your adult family dynamics, your financial security and the stability of your families future are all intertwined, it’s more difficult. Just acknowledging that fact, and recognizing when things get messy
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Ashley Brazo is in Commercial Real-estate by day and by night she is a mom and farm wife. I met Ashley a few months ago and we talked for a good hour about the challenges of raising kids when your husband is in the field. We hit it off right away. I asked her to come onto the podcast to talk about how to work through feeling lonely and sorry for yourself when the guys are busy.
Topics covered:
What to do when you feel lonely
What mindset shifts helped
How to make a hobbies, Netflix show’s list
What to do when you get invited somewhere and your husband can’t go
What to do when you feel sorry for yourself for always being alone
The importance of getting out and doing fun things even if it’s just you and the kids
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Did you know that May is Mental Health Month? The American Farm Bureau Federation has a campaign going called Small Gestures, Big Impact.
Week one: Send a text
Week two: Give a card
Week Three: Take a ride
Week four: Deliver a treat
Week five: Make a call
Farm State of Mind: https://www.fb.org/initiative/farm-state-of-mind
National Farmer Mental Health Alliance: https://nfmha.ca/
6 Things to Improve your Mental Health according to Headspace (not a sponsor)
1. Relax and reduce stress.
2. Find ways to learn and be creative.
3. Spend time in nature.
4. Connect with others.
5. Look after your physical health.
6. Try to get enough sleep.
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On our farm, it feels like spring planting is getting started late. In reality we are not THAT late, nonetheless, I am anxious about it. We have something scheduled every weekend in May, this means I will have to leave the farm and do the activity. This gives me farmer guilt, it’s similar to “Mom-guilt” where you feel like you can’t be away from your kids or else you are an anxious mess, while simultaneously knowing that you are your best self when you get away. This boils down to a whole lot of anxiety on my part.
If we could get a good inch of rain every Friday night in May, everything would work out perfectly!
Since I don’t live in lala land the following list are 5 things I am committing to doing every day so that I can manage my anxiety, my house and the springtime chaos without losing my mind.
5 Daily Practices to Survive Spring Planting Chaos
1. Do one load of laundry and one load of dishes every day
2. Take a mindful minute and remember why I love farming
3. De-escalate a trigger-For me this is that I have to have at least one clean countertop in my kitchen. Another trigger for me is when I don’t get my “must do list” done so for me de-escalating a trigger looks like doing the most important things first.
4. Have a mantra for when things don’t go as planned. If it’s a change in my plans for the day, I say something like “I am flexible, I can adapt and change” if it’s a breakdown or problem I say something like “Ope there it is, good thing we are prepared”
5. Improve your communication -group texts, morning meetings, etc.
Here are a few episodes that may help if you want to dig deeper into this.
Episodes #22 is about field meal hacks
# 7 is about how to ask for help
# 59 is 13 ways to Cope with Stress and Lower the Stress Response
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#63 ChopLocal-Online Direct to Consumer Meat Sales Made Easy
Katie Olthoff is co-founder of ChopLocal which is an online farmers market platform where farmers can sell their meat products direct to consumer. They created this online platform during the pandemic to help farmers and consumers who wanted to buy local meat connect. They remove the marketing and technological barriers by making the online portion of sales easy.
Katie is a entrepreneur, Turkey Farmer, Author, and so much more. We talk about motherhood on the farm, how farmers can easily keep their cool when talking to the public, and how you don’t have to be a niche farmer to sell your meat products.
Topics Covered:
How to sell Direct to consumer online
How to handle shipping frozen meat
How to create a marketing plan for online meat sales
How can farmers sell products online
How farmers can use ChopLocal to help them with technology and website issues
How using ChopLocal reduces stress
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Connect with ChopLocal
Sell with ChopLocal and Learn More: https://sell.choplocal.com/
Website: https://choplocal.com/
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#62 How Gratitude Changed My Mom Guilt and 5 Easy Gratitude Habits
This past week, we went to the American Farm Bureau Fusion Conference in Jacksonville Florida. It was so nice to get away but I felt more Mom guilt than normal. This combined with the huge chore of packing for a cross county trip with a baby, sort of plagued the whole vacation and it got me thinking about how we can change mom guilt? While I am not sure we can ever totally get rid of it, I know that gratitude has changed mine is a big way.
Adrienne DeSutter said, “Say Yes to help and no to everything else”. So I have begun saying Yes to help, without even thinking about it. It was just an automatic Yes please. Yes please take the baby, yes please prepare a plate for me, yes please get me a drink, yes please to, “do you need anything from the store”.
People genuinely want to help others, LET THEM. Then instead of feeling guilty for accepting help, thank them and move on. When we use gratitude, it switches off our fight or flight response in our brain and helps to re-route blood from the survival mode part of our brain, to our “thrive” portion. Part of this is called our frontal lobe where we process information, emotions and logic.
But a daily gratitude practice isn’t for everyone so here are 5 easy ways to express gratitude
1. Instead of saying what’s up ask, what’s good?
2. Ask for everyone’s “highs and lows” at the dinner table or in the car
3. Take 5 Exercise
4. Trade “I’m sorry” for “thank you”
5. Journal-write it out or talk it out
Sources: https://halo.com/10-amazing-statistics-to-celebrate-national-gratitude-month/#:~:text=In%20a%20study%20of%20800,well%2Dbeing%20by%2010%25
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#61 Contentment on the Homefront and Actual Seatbelt Wearers with Jordan Waas
Jordan Waas is a farmer in the Laurel highlands of Pennsylvania. They farm row crops in the hills and mountains and raise cattle where it gets too steep. She has four kids, a herd of registered red angus cattle and loves to make soap.
We talk about how important it is to be comfortable at home and be able to actually relax. How God helps us to be more content and happy. He helps us to get through the hard times and move forward during loss and heartache. She teaches me all about raising Cattle and how EPD’s (Expected Progeny Differences) are helping farmers strategize to build the heard they want.
I also ask probably the worst question you can ask, “Do you actually wear your seatbelt [In the tractor]”?
Topics Covered:
How to be more comfortable at home
How to be more content
How to cope with a hard calving season after lots of loss
How to manage kids and farming
How to actually relax on vacation
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#60 What is Stress, The Lesson All College Freshman Get Day One
Stress is a reaction that our body produces when we think we cannot meet the demands based on the amount of resources we have available. Those resources are things like time, money, man power, sunlight or nice weather, tools, knowledge, etc.
In caveman times stress was a good thing it helped people to fight, run, outsmart the predator. Those stress responses were meant to help people to survive. Those who had the stress responses passed them onto the next generation.
Stress is a good thing, it helps us to get more done, act without thinking, run, fight, push, argue, etc. In the short-term it helps us to tackle the task at hand, in the long-term it can harm our mental health, our relationships and ultimately our overall wellness. This also can make us angry, anxious and chronically stressed out.
The seven dimensions of wellness are physical, psychological, intellectual, financial, social, spiritual and environmental.
13 Ideas to Cope with Farm Stress
1 Morning routine
2 Gratitude practice
3 Create a helpful Mantra, something to remind yourself “this is what it’s all about”
4 Use music as a tool
5 Mindful Minute
6 Get a hobby
7 Get creative
8 Spend time with friends
9 Do a date night
10 Exercise
11 Explore
12 Journal
13 Podcasts as a way to get your mind off of things
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#59 13 Ways to Cope with Farm Stress
Now is the time to put together good stress relief habits. We tend to put things off. We say things like, after harvest, after Christmas, after taxes, after planting, after spraying, after hay is off, and then harvest rolls around again.
Whether you are listening to this episode when it first comes out or anytime throughout the year, right now is a great time to put together some habits that will help you to manage stress. This episode is full of easy to implement ideas that will help to manage your stress. Some of them will help you face it head on and some will help you to get away from it for a bit.
13 Ideas to Cope with Farm Stress
1 Morning routine
2 Gratitude practice
3 Create a helpful Mantra, something to remind yourself “this is what it’s all about”
4 Use music as a tool
5 Mindful Minute
6 Get a hobby
7 Get creative
8 Spend time with friends
9 Do a date night
10 Exercise
11 Explore
12 Journal
13 Podcasts as a way to get your mind off of things
Download the Farm Stress Bundle here: https://www.throwingwrenchesmendingfences.com/
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#58 I was Burnt out-Here’s Three Things That Helps
Burn out is something millions of people face every year. It can cause anxiety and depression and unfortunately it doesn’t just go away. I was burnt out, as you could probably tell from my last episode and here are three things that helped.
Take a break from as many things as possible Re-evaluate what you are doing. Needs, Wants, Obligations and say no to something Let go of the guilt and shame associated with itBrene Brown is one of my favorite authors. Her work changed the way I thought about my past, my emotions, my relationships and the way I think about myself. She speaks about guilt and shame and for me, the two overlapped until I heard her quote, “Guilt is, I did something bad, shame is, I am bad”.
Just because we are burnt out, overwhelmed, depressed or whatever, doesn’t mean we can’t move forward. You owe it to yourself to move past the burnout.
Rebekah Lyon’s book Rhythms of Renewal: Trading Stress and Anxiety for a Life of Peace and Purpose talks about inputs and outputs. Inputs are rest and restore while the output rhythms are connect and create.
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#57 Survival Mode-You Have Permission to do These 5 Things
I am on survival mode right now. If I am lucky my daughter will sleep for one two hour stretch per night, other than that, she is up every 15-60minutes. It’s funny what your brain does to you during these hours of sleep deprivation. The tik tok audio that says make the plan, execute the plan, expect the plan to go off the rails, throw away the plan, cry, sums things up perfectly.
Here are a few things I gave myself permission to do.
Ask for help-do it early, do it often Overcommunicate Give yourself a pass, give yourself 10 passes, lower your standards Stop to take the picture Eat the cake-stop to enjoy the simple moments of joy; they are all around you just have to slow down enough to enjoy them.Download the Farm Stress Bundle here: https://www.throwingwrenchesmendingfences.com/
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#56 New Vulnerability and Same Old Anxiety with Tales From a Rookie Farm Wife
Abbie Raudabaugh is a farmer, mom and blogger at Tales from a Rookie Farm Wife. She writes about her experiences with vulnerability, humor and a want to encourage others. Today, we talk about the importance of good communication, being honest and upfront with your needs and expectations and how to laugh at yourself along the way.
Topics Covered:
How being new is hard
How to be more vulnerable in your marriage
How to be more clear with your communication
How to manage expectations and needs
How to manage anxiety on the farm
How to communicate better in the midst of anxiety
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# 55 5 Ways to Gain Perspective This Fall Harvest Season
Fall harvest is extremely stressful. Whether you are the one operating the combine, cooking meals or anything in between there are hills and valleys to climb. We also tend to get lost in the weeds because there is no much to the day-to-day grind. In this weeks’ episode, we talk about how to gain perspective and simultaneously remember that “this is what it’s all about”, and it will drag on and fly by all at the same time. Harvest is like a time warp, but here’s how to zoom out and keep perspective.
Gaining perspective helps us to re-frame and lower our stress level because it helps us to separate the emotion from the facts. We get stressed when we feel like we cannot meet the demands based on the resources we have. Those resources can be time, money, manpower, knowledge, weather condition, energy, etc. When we can take a step back and look at the task at hand and use the following ways to gain perspective then we can lower the stress hormones in our body.
5 Ways to keep perspective this fall harvest season
Divide short term from long term stress Keep a countdown Remember this is what it’s all about-mantra Journal-write a letter to yourself from the future Connect with others off of the farm -social media, rain days, phone calls, going up to another truck when you are waiting in line at the elevator, etc.Download the Farm Stress Bundle here: https://www.throwingwrenchesmendingfences.com/
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#54 National Farm Safety Week Checklist and Discussion
Last week I was teaching a group of farm kits and Ag Tech Students First Aid and CPR. We got into some great discussions about emergency situations and scenarios. This combined with the fact that this is National Farm Safety week (shouldn’t every week be National Farm Safety Week?) inspired me to put together both a checklist for this upcoming fall harvest and a few discussion points regarding farm safety both on and off the roadways.
Most common on farm accidents
Rollover or other vehicle accidents Fire Trauma Falls Mental health emergencyDownload the checklist here: https://www.throwingwrenchesmendingfences.com/
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#53 A is for Amanda, B is for Beef, C is for Children’s Books with Amanda Radke
Amanda Radke is a children’s book author, beef producer, foster parent and multi-pationate entrepreneur. Her publishing company works with different ag organizations to help tell their story. From beef to peanuts she likes to tell the story of the farmer to help children understand their food comes from.
She also travels the country to speak to different groups to help promote and advocate for agriculture. The Radke Report is a weekly blog post where she posts about issues in agriculture, politics, and consumer conversations.
Topics Covered:
Why are agriculture accurate children’s books are so important
How to talk to different groups about agriculture
How to get ideas about writing children’s books
How to use agriculture in a positive way
How ag producers come together against vegan rights activists
How being on the farm or ranch is healing
Why we became foster parents and how that led to adoption
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#52 Prepare, Power Hour and Persevere Through Season Change
Going back to work was a shitshow. I had 17 Weeks off. It was glorious. However, going back was rough to say the least. I didn’t have the right tools, the right keys, the right classrooms and no matter what I did each day it became more and more evident that I was losing my marbles. Stack that on top of the 4 month sleep regression, waking up every 2 hours and sending my kid to daycare for the first time. . . .all I have to say is season change is hard.
Whether you are canning a million things a day, going back to work or school or heading into fall harvest transitioning from one routine to the next is tough. This includes both actual seasons of the year and season of life. In this week’s episode we talk about the 3 P’s of Season Change and how they can help ease these transitions.
Prepare-meal prep, look ahead, paying bills ahead, buy in bulk, stock up the freezer, etc. Power Hour -These are all the things you have been putting off, make the phone calls, clean the weird nook and cranny, run the errands, etc. Do the things you have been putting off. Persevere- Find new routines, lean into a busier time, journal out your frustrations and struggles and make sure to give yourself grace every step of the wayIf you enjoyed this episode, take a screenshot, post to Facebook or Instagram and tag me! And don’t forget to subscribe, rate and review the podcast to let us know your key takeaways.
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