Ep. 1.3 Chris & Jenn Talk Farmer/Non-Farmer
“People who don’t farm don’t realize how much it really governs what you can and can not do with the construct of your lives. Unless you’ve got the systems in place to manage that stuff.”—Chris Sargent
When I had the idea to start this podcast, my husband Chris Sargent was fully on board and very supportive of my goal to share the stories of first-generation and other farmers making the conscious choice to make livestock farming a serious part of their lives. After a few interviews and a question I posed in our CTF Facebook group (“As a farmer what do you wish someone had told you?”, he realized he’d wished the question had been “As a farmer’s spouse, what do you wish someone had told you?”. That prompted this conversation around what happens when one partner wants to farm and the other is not a farmer.
Some resources mentioned in this episode:
Books:
Daring Greatly by Brene Brown
Crucial Conversations by Kerry Patterson and others
Just Listen by Mark Goulston
Other Useful links:
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