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  • Being super type A and organized is NOT required so don’t worry! Debbie Gress is a Field Meal pro! She is an athletic trainer, runs their family beef market and serves field meals like a pro!

    Here’s 5 steps to help you make field meals easier:

    1 Print out your calendar and write everything out

    2 Plan out what is for dinner (Need some idea’s? Debbie’s got you covered, send me an email and I’ll forward it along)

    3 Make a shopping list

    4 Cook, deliver and eat!

    5 Reflect, write down on the Calander what worked well and what you would change.

    Do you want some of Debbie’s recipes? She sent me a message or email at [email protected] and I will forward you Debbie’s recipes.

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    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/vintagebeeffarms

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/vintagebeeffarms

    Website: https://www.gressfarms.com/

  • Emmy was stranded on a mountain island with her dairy herd, but there are hundreds of people so much worse off.

    They need our help. Please join me in giving money, food, feed, fencing supplies, hay, etc to the relief efforts of Hurricane Helene.

    If you are able to donate Hay, Feed, Water, or pasture space please see the link HERE: https://ncdisaster.ces.ncsu.edu/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFswzxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHbZwNqJ64mLezx4NnEre4dzY3yMlW8a5TcWaBFj4vGdXbbM-wCvY9qTfnA_aem_ZsHd4x-iCH_8x2yTMLzk6g

    Learn more information: https://www.michiganfarmnews.com/hurricane-helene-aftermath-mi-young-farmers-offer-help?fbclid=IwY2xjawFswXZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUpwMOcKyKFt-kbZx6SKII8vrFY5-W1SxGniVGPuD2TlbJsELsUdkr7xoQ_aem_SWwYNzmcU_hSuJJlNgGCHw

    If you can give money please see some links below:

    Volunteer helicopter fleet fuel Go Fund Me: https://www.gofundme.com/f/fuel-helicopters-to-save-nc-mountain-communities?qid=0f1f44e4697b71a8654a402e98f02b76

    Southern Patriot Farms: https://www.facebook.com/SouthernPatriotFarms

    Mountain Mule Packer Ranch: https://www.facebook.com/mountainmulepackersranch

    Funny farm tn: https://www.facebook.com/funnyfarmtn

    East_tn_farmher: https://www.tiktok.com/@east_tn_farmher?lang=en

    Creekside Family Farms: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100093406516285

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  • Over 100 people dead, and over 600 still missing, dozens of farms whipped off the map. $2.5 Billion in Ag losses in one county is Georgia alone.

    They need our help. Please join me in giving money, food, feed, fencing supplies, hay, etc to the relief efforts of Hurricane Helene.

    Find out where to help HERE: https://ncdisaster.ces.ncsu.edu/?fbclid=IwY2xjawFswzxleHRuA2FlbQIxMAABHbZwNqJ64mLezx4NnEre4dzY3yMlW8a5TcWaBFj4vGdXbbM-wCvY9qTfnA_aem_ZsHd4x-iCH_8x2yTMLzk6g

    Learn more information: https://www.michiganfarmnews.com/hurricane-helene-aftermath-mi-young-farmers-offer-help?fbclid=IwY2xjawFswXZleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHUpwMOcKyKFt-kbZx6SKII8vrFY5-W1SxGniVGPuD2TlbJsELsUdkr7xoQ_aem_SWwYNzmcU_hSuJJlNgGCHw

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  • Motivation follows action. This is my new mantra, in other words, don’t wait until you feel motivated to do stuff, do something and it will help you to get moving.

    I just turned 30! MY 20’s were an absolutely wild ride and I learned so much about myself that I have completely changed the way I think, feel and act. Shocker I know! I was diagnosed with ADHD and I have learned how to manage it in a way that works for me. This has allowed self-acceptance in a way I didn’t think was possible. I learned it all in therapy. . . and on ADHD Tiktok.

    3 Things That Help Harness ADHD

    1 Know what you need

    2 Know how to launch yourself into the land of productivity

    3 Set yourself up for success

    Thanks for listening!

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  • Duh, farming involves physical labor, but is it a total body workout? No! The thing about exercise is that if you are really strong in some areas and really weak in other areas it can led to major issues with pain and soreness. It can also increase your likelihood of injury and slow down the healing process.

    Today, I have a few questions that can help you to identify what you should do to take care of your body.

    Occupation:

    Description:

    Physical Expectations:

    What muscles will be used?

    Where will you be sore?

    What stretches will help?

    What exercises will help strengthen those areas?

    What exercises will help you balance those areas?

    Thanks for listening!

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  • Making good decisions that improve your mental health can be difficult when you are in the thick of it. What do you actually do to help yourself feel fewer symptoms of depression or anxiety?

    In today's episode we create a plan for those days when we are feeling depressed, anxious, overstimulated, angry, bored with the monotony of life, annoyance, grief etc.

    Not that doing one of these things can make all of your issues disappear, but they can help you to feel better, lessen the severity of your symptoms and help you to have a better day. This list of activities will improve your mental health and most importantly eliminate the decision fatigue surrounding what to do on the day when your mental health isn't so great.

    Connect with the inspiration for this episode on Tiktok https://www.tiktok.com/@sharon.a.life?lang=en

    Thanks for listening!

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  • I'm back from a very long maternity leave. In this episode I talk about grief, losing half my grandparents in the same month and my birth story.

    Thanks for listening!

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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?

    Download the Farm Stress Bundle here: https://www.throwingwrenchesmendingfences.com/

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    Website: https://emilyreuschel.com/

    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

    Download the Farm Stress Bundle here: https://www.throwingwrenchesmendingfences.com/

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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

    Download the Farm Stress Bundle here: https://www.throwingwrenchesmendingfences.com/

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    Connect with ChopLocal

    Sell with ChopLocal and Learn More: https://sell.choplocal.com/

    Website: https://choplocal.com/

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/choplocalmeat

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/choplocal/

  • #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

    Download the Farm Stress Bundle here: https://www.throwingwrenchesmendingfences.com/

    If 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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    Website https://www.micultivatebalance.com/

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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/

    If 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.

    Connect with Sarah Zastrow

    Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/2295514594092240

    Instagram https://www.instagram.com/throwingwrenchesmendingfences/

    Website https://www.micultivatebalance.com/

    Pinterest Page: https://www.pinterest.com/micultivatebalance/

    YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMVcExxS1xgVghkfXQ7e

    Tiktok: https://vm.tiktok.com/ZMevsHpyW/