Welcome back to The Rural Well! In this episode (Part 2), we get the opportunity to talk more with Brian Reisinger, Author of Land Rich, Cash Poor. For more info on Brian, visit ⁠https://www.brian-reisinger.com/about⁠

To catch up first, here's the link to Part 1

This episode delves into deeper conversation regarding family trauma, so if this is not something you're prepared to participate in, we understand.

We delve into deeper conversations into realizing you have to deal with trauma. We also walk through how to move on from it, realizing you are significant and special and how Brian shares his fear of failure of no making his father proud, led to his father's opportunity to join him (and even take over) at the book signing table. Brian is also vulnerable as he shares his concerns and care over wanting to make things brighter for his child's future.

Todays question: “Think of something you used to love to do, but now you may have outgrown or lost interest in?".

Links and Resources:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.nfmha.ca/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - National Farmer Mental Health Alliance

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.lilaclanemedia.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Lilac Lane Media

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Welcome back to The Rural Well! In this episode, we get the opportunity to talk with Brian Reisinger, Author of Land Rich, Cash Poor among many different other endeavours that Brian pursues. For more info on Brian, visit https://www.brian-reisinger.com/about

Topics in this episode:

• Mourning the loss of livestock as a farmer

• Vulnerability with father
• Generational survival mode
• Dealing with hard times and farm crisis
• Generational weight of hard work required as a farmer
• Pressure to work hard generationally
• Brian’s role is to tell the story, hard fought to get there
• Older farmers, generations tend to still horde things because of history and the reminders of the Great Depression or war rations
• Resilience isn’t just digging your heels in and working harder, it’s more like building a support network, approaching issues realistically, ask for help etc.
• Checking in on folks was more of a “come by and visit”, not a mental health “intervention”
• Brain’s role was “translator” - had to journey off the farm to learn and gain wisdom from a different perspective. Translating back to the farm world

Todays quote: “Agriculture is our wisest pursuit because it will in the end contribute most to real wealth, good morals and happiness.” - Thomas Jefferson

This is why farmers are in Superbowl commercials and permeate so much of our country - this is our identity, cultivating our own food and working the land

Question? Harkening back to the days when the milk man would delivery, If you could get anything delivered to your home still, what would it be?

Links and Resources:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.nfmha.ca/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - National Farmer Mental Health Alliance

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.lilaclanemedia.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Lilac Lane Media

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Welcome back to The Rural Well Podcast! We've reached episode 12. We have the incredible privilege of having Brittany Olson join the podcast today,

Brittany Olson is a fifth generation dairy farmer in north western Wisconsin with her husband Sam and son Titus. Brittany is also a business owner, photographer and blogger.

Show Notes or discussion points:

- Lived in abuse, a broken family relationship as a child

- Miscarriage was the start of the end of my parents marriage

- There is such a thing as "golden uterus syndrome" - tune in for explanation

- Abusive moms don’t deserve the right to still have contact and control their child - this caused unnecessary trauma

- Parents sometimes use their children to hurt the other spouse

- Entered counselling but had to wait a year!

- Had to build boundaries with mom

- later in life, still had to deal with stress and problems, fires, barn rebuilds, birth trauma

- Panic attacks, crushing anxiety are still there

- We need to reorganize our expectations

- Recognize that you are fearfully and wonderfully made and have value from your creator…”God made the moon and the stars and he also decided he needed one of us”

Quote “If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right”

Cheap food does have a cost. Moving away from our farming roots can have negative consequences in our culture.

Question: If you could take on anyones voice, who would that voice be?

Thank you for tuning in!

Links and Resources:

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠http://www.nfmha.ca/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - National Farmer Mental Health Alliance

⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠https://www.lilaclanemedia.com/⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ - Lilac Lane Media

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