Cowgirls Over Coffee

This week, Thea sits down with Kelly and Audrey for an unscripted conversation about what happens when driven women lose the plot on their health and fitness priorities. This isn't a conversation about macros, meal plans, or ten step routines. It's a conversation for the those of us that know exactly what we should be doing and still can't seem to do it. If you're the entrepreneur who categorizes...

This week, Thea sits down with Audrey for a mid-process check-in on what "locking in" actually looks like when you're committed to doing it differently this time. This is the unglamorous, honest conversation about what happens when high-achieving women try to expand their lives without repeating the patterns that led to burnout in the first place. We end up in the middle of a frank discussion with...

There's a difference between trying hard and training hard. One is an inevitable path to burn out while the other creates the capacity to sustain the life it feels like many people tell you to stop wanting. This week, it's just Thea on the other end of the line here to convince you that it's truly okay to want the high-effort life. After speaking at the Boss Mares Lead the Herd Workshop in Fort Wo...

There's a difference between knowing what you're capable of and having the guts to act like you know it. Between cataloging your receipts and speaking your truth without apology. Between being right and being heard. This week, we sit down with Janel Dreisbach (honorary COO of Cowgirls Over Coffee, systems strategist, and resident hermit) to dissect audacity: what it costs us when we lack it, what...

There's a difference between running hard enough to stay afloat and actually creating sustainable progress. This week, we sit down with the incomparable Kelly Kline of Western Workouts to talk about the moment you stop outrunning your own life, the practice of active surrender, and why micromanaging your process might be the most liberating thing you'll do this year. Kelly returns to Cowgirls Over...

This week, Thea and Meg sit down for a raw, winding conversation about what it means to enter a new year not with optimization in mind, but with intentionality, margin, and the audacity to savor the actual living. As Cowgirls Over Coffee returns for 2026, Thea Larsen reflects on five years of marination on building, learning, and finally understanding what it means to operate from a place of depth...

There's the version of yourself you've been told to be and then there's the one who shows up when the recording keeps going because the conversation is too good to stop. This week, Thea, Audrey, and Lana couldn't stop yapping, and what unfolds is a raw examination of the work that doesn't show up in your business plans: discernment, friendship dynamics, and the discipline of knowing which race you...

There's a particular exhaustion that comes from living half-invested in your own life, when you're saying yes to everyone else's timeline while your own dreams accumulate dust. This week, we're pulling up a chair to the table we've been setting for five years, laying out every strategic detail, hard-won insight, and unfiltered observation about what it actually takes to build a life that doesn't r...

You can take the girl off of the ranch, but you can’t take the cow trails out of her metaphors. When Lindsay shared that the first time her son stepped onto a sidewalk he called it a “cow trail for people,” we knew we were in for a good one. This episode isn’t about slowing down or speeding up, but finding your footing when everything familiar shifts. From feed store counters to city sirens, we’re...

As September closes, forget lukewarm goals because this conversation is about striking the match yourself. Kelly of Western Workouts joins us for a conversation about the kind of fire fueled by self-belief, reckless confidence, and a refusal to waste energy on what doesn’t matter. This episode began, as many of our best ones do, with a yap-and-cheer session that turned into a bonfire of ideas. We...

There’s the kind of work that looks good in a highlight reel, and then there’s the kind that smells like bleach in July, stretches four feet from tip to tip, and requires the audacity to keep going when it would be easier to quit. This week we sit down with Cassie Everson of Wanderlust Skulls to talk about the ditch, the mountaintop, and the discipline of making art that endures. Artist and entrep...

Fall is here and we’re not tiptoeing into it. Today we talk about going all in without burning out, rebuilding stamina after a slow season, and choosing sustainable momentum over shiny sprints. In this conversation, we welcome back my dear friend Audrey Hall, a creative, builder, and wholehearted go-for-it gal who knows what it takes to strategically ramp back up. Together, we unpack what “locking...

September invites fresh structure and, if we’re not careful, fresh burnout. In this conversation, licensed professional counselor and Enneagram coach Becky Lauridsen reframes self-care as protection (not pampering) and opens the door to brain health with neurofeedback. From postpartum anxiety and over-functioning to rodeo performance and concussion recovery, we explore how to build capacity on pur...

September has a way of sneaking up on us. The commitments start rolling in, the days get shorter, and suddenly the pressure to “get it together” hits full force. In this “season-two” kickoff of Cowgirls Over Coffee , Thea and her dear friend Meg share how one simple conversation shifted their entire perspective on the September spiral, and why the reset you need may not actually start with another...

This week Thea is joined by longtime friend and former western wedding photographer Lyndsey Garber for a reflective conversation about capacity, season of life shifts, and the slow, steady work of staying faithful in the little things. Together, they talk through the emotional complexity of leaving something that’s still working, what it feels like to carry a big vision when there’s no margin left...

Sure you can handle it all, but where is taking you? In this deeply personal, wildly validating summer conversation, Thea sits down with longtime friend and Cowgirls Over Coffee original Audrey Hall to unpack a question many of us are circling: What happens when your capability becomes your identity … and your margin disappears? This is an episode for the woman who’s built a life she’s proud of an...

What happens when you pair a visionary with a finisher, and give them a platform to celebrate the real women shaping western life and style? This week Thea sits down with Ali Dee and Nicole James, the co-founders of Western Life & Style, for a conversation rooted in real-life entrepreneurship, deep collaboration, and the kind of bold vision that grows when women stop waiting for permission. Fr...

What if summer wasn’t something that just happened to you, but something you created on purpose? In this episode, I sit down with Cowgirls Over Coffee’s own Lana Wilkes for a real-deal conversation about what it actually takes to create a summer that feels restorative, anchored, and worth remembering. NOT another one that races by in a blur of chaos, laundry, and vague "maybe we'll do that someday...

If you’ve ever looked up in late July and realized summer flew by before you even caught your breath, this episode is for you. In this solo episode, I’m pulling back the curtain on my personal summer strategy and showing you exactly how I’m prepping for a season of presence and restoration without letting the whole thing unravel into pure mayhem. You’ll hear the exact process I’m using this week t...

This week, I’m joined by my good friend and western lifestyle photographer, Brooke Juma Ehlers, for a conversation that hits home in all the right places. We talk about what it really takes to build a business alongside your life without losing yourself in the process. If you’ve ever felt like your ambition and your exhaustion are in a standoff, this episode is for you. We chat about: The mindset...

May doesn’t come with twinkle lights, gifts, or permission to reset and yet it’s one of the most intense months on the calendar. In this unfiltered episode, I sit down with Meg to talk how we’re navigating this high-pressure month when you’re running a business, raising a family, and trying to stay sane in the middle of wind, branding season, and end-of-school-year chaos. We chat candidly about ho...

There’s a very specific kind of exhaustion that hits when you're holding it all together on the outside… but inside, you're at your limit. You’re still getting the things done, still showing up, still checking the boxes,  but it feels like you’re losing your grip on your own margin, your own pace, your own presence. So, if you’ve ever felt like you’re holding it all together by sheer force of...

Why is it that even when we know what we should do … when we have the plans, the goals, and even the desire, that we still don’t follow through? In this honest conversation, Thea Larsen sits down with her good friend and wellness expert Kelly Altschwager of Western Workouts to unpack the layers behind discipline, consistency, and what actually holds women back in the messy middle of growth, ambiti...

What does it really take to write, design, publish, and sell your own cookbook … while raising babies, running a ranch, and building a business from scratch? In this conversation, Thea Larsen sits down with her longtime friend and fellow ranch wife Meghan Gates to talk about the journey behind Foundations of Beef , the cookbook that went from idea to full-scale hardcover bestseller. From learning...

⚠️ Content Warning: This episode includes discussions of cyberstalking, grooming, legal system failure, and trauma - particularly involving minors. Listener discretion is advised, especially around children. In this powerful and courageous episode, Thea Larsen and Lana Wilkes sit down with Cathy Holman, also known as Prairie Wife , to unpack a reality that one rural family was quietly living throu...