That Western Life

Today's guest is someone that we have been eagerly awaiting the opportunity to introduce to our listeners and that is someone who is making one of the biggest differences for women in the western industries. If you have listened to any of our episodes or read our blogs, you have heard us talk about the COWGIRL Magazine 30 Under 30 program and today the CEO and Editor of COWGIRL Magazine's Ken Amor...

Black Cowboys of Rodeo is a collection of 100 years of stories, told by these revolutionary Black pioneers themselves and set against the backdrop of Reconstruction, Jim Crow, segregation, the civil rights movement, and eventually the integration of a racially divided country. Keith Ryan Cartwright shares his journey from the PBR to being an author of such a pivotal story that needs telling. Read...

In a sport that focuses so much on supplements, exercises and treatments for our four-legged athletes in both the performance horses and the bucking horses, we are taking a different twist and chatting with Sarah Van Vuren who is the face, voice and fitness expert behind Barrel Racer Fit. Sarah helps her clients have a competitive advantage in and out of the rodeo world in order to be at their com...

From horses to agriculture, non-profits to overcoming extreme odds, Adelle Stewart is a fiercely independent woman who is the executive director for Canada's The Do More Ag Foundation, the author behind "From Nowhere But Down," and the owner of Prime Equine. A unique and inspiring woman with an amazing backstory of overcoming adversity, bad relationships, failures, and cancer! Read more at https:/...

At the young age of 18 years-old, Anna Baglione showed up at Bishop Mules Days in Bishop, California, for a job interview with Rock Creek Pack Station. After a decent amount of her teenage years spent in the back country, she felt called to the mountains and the life of a modern day wild west muleskinner! She was hooked from that moment and takes us through the in's and out's of packing, packing t...

Tori Miller graduated high school at the age of sixteen years old to drive 18 hours east to audition for one of two spots on a University's traveling singing troupe. She not only made the stop, but she traveled the country for four years while getting her English degree. But 120 plus shows a year for that stretch took it's toll and she felt burnt out. "Go back to your roots," advised her step fath...

Carly Twisselman is a native to the central coast of California, where she grew up on her family's generational cattle ranch. Always being a part of rodeo through the roping scene, she took a chance to independently rodeo-ing for the UCLA Bruins while getting a degree in mass communications and aspirations of being an actress!  It wasn't until she decided to step into the professional world of rod...

Could you use a vacation that fits your western lifestyle or even your western history dreams? The Dude Rancher's Association is a trade industry that has been around for nearly 100 years and has been providing destination western ranch vacations for over a hundred years! While they all include horseback riding to some capacity, the 93 ranches over 10 western U.S. states and one Canadian province,...

Janie Johnson may be a face and voice you recognize from the Cowboy Channel's broadcasting team, but she's someone we have mentioned on all three seasons of the show! We break down her career in film, her role as the associate producer of the NFR, getting on camera, and, of course, her professional barrel racing career and horsepower! For this episode, we recorded the day following the RFD-TV's Th...

Kim Rounds knows hard work, in fact, there's many times in life that she's been knocked down and challenged to quit - but that's something she hasn't done! A former show jumper, Kim was hooked on the world of reined cow horse when she watched them film parts of Down the Fence at the Reno Snaffle Bit Futurity. Strategically leveraging hard work and learning fundamentals, she's found herself with th...

Jason Medows is a full-time pharmacist, cattle rancher and family-man, but he also plays host as the creator, producer and voice behind the Ag State of Mind podcast! Focused on not just mental health, the show dives deep into physical and spiritual health as well with Jason as he shares his story of overcoming mental health problems and his journey to helping others know they aren't alone and to r...

Want 20% off Vexil Brand merchandise? Head on over to VexilBrand.com and use the code TWL21 at checkout for 20% off your order! Not sure what to order? Go to www.thatwesternlife.com/vexil to see the That Western Life co-hosts, Katie & Rachel's, top Vexil merchandise picks! Shawn Wiese isn't just a former professional bull rider, he's also a bull riding agent with his XD Sports brand, the owner of...

DOUBLE FEATURE WEEK Join host Katie Schrock as she chats with Canby, Oregon, country music star Olivia Harms about her life on a cow-calf operation, moving to the Cowboy Capitol of Oregon (that's Prineville for the non-Oregonians), commuting with Nashville, her album debuting later this year AND, as if that wasn't enough, all about her time spent internationally playing country music with her lege...

Kadee Coffman Blair grew up on a cattle ranch in California with a passion for rodeo and showing horses. Those passions combined to take her on a ride of a lifetime as she became Miss Clovis Rodeo, Miss Rodeo Salinas and Miss Rodeo California!  Without missing a beat, she finished her education in double time, moved to Texas one decade ago exactly, and then continued to shape the face of rodeo bro...

Welcome to episode 63, which is the unofficial kick off to our THIRD season of the That Western Life podcast! We are talking all things business, entrepreneurship, going back to working on the family ranch, and the new business venture of Mrs. Jessie Jarvis called Of the West! Jessie Jarvis was raised on a ranch in southern Idaho as an only child  allowed her to be involved in all aspects of ranch...

Miss Rodeo America - Where are they now?  Join our field reporters Lisa Lageschaar Lucia and Katy Lucas, the 2017 Miss Rodeo America and 2015 Miss Rodeo Canada respectively, as they interview the 2014 Miss Rodeo Oklahoma and subsequent 2015 Miss Rodeo America Lauren Heaton from her office all the way in the United Kingdom!  Recorded earlier in 2020, these episodes were intended to be launched in c...

ROUND 8 RECAP The year of the breakaway! Markie Hageman, an agricultural communicator and influencer from California, jumps onto the show to talk all things breakaway roping and the first ever National Finals Breakaway Roping! We also give you ALL the event projections after Round 7! You can read more at https://www. ThatWesternLife.com/Podcast/Episode61.

Round 7 continues to ramp up the drama that we all anticipated as we head through the final rounds of the National Finals Rodeo! Join us daily on the podcast as we chat about the workbook and all things rodeo predictions this NFR! This round recap brings a special field reporter for us from Baton Rouge, Louisiana - Miss Kati Jo Barber. Kati Jo has joined us in the past as a co-host, joining us for...

ROUND 6 RECAP Let's be honest, the first five rounds of the Wrangler National Finals Rodeo are always a hoot, but the second five rounds are more dramatic and intense this year than what you could EVER hope for as a content-starved rodeo fan! It's also the time that we can start running our predictor stats and that's something we love to do! You can do this as well if you jump onto our home page a...

ROUND 5 UPDATES All of the news and notes on all things professional rodeo as we hit the halfway point! Katie gives just a quick round up before Round 6 kicks off but expect to hear the whole team over the next four days as we cover all things rodeo! A big thank you to our Round 5 sponsor, Toolin Turquoise Leather, and a big congratulations to Abby Nicole, our winner! Check out the show notes to l...

**ROUND 4 RECAP** We talk prize winners, Instagram Quiz answers, the Wright family, barrel racing, plus two bonus content features: - Co-Host Rachel Owens-Sarno shares a firsthand account of the 2020 National Finals Rodeo. - Barrel Racer Jessie Telford of Caldwell, Idaho, jumps on to share the exact story of how she got called in as the 16th barrel racer when Dona Kay Rule tested positive for her...

It's been a crazy year for pro rodeo and, like most fans, we are so excited that the committees and associations were able to work together to produce the 2020 National Finals Rodeo. With that being said, things look a little bit different! A new state (Texas), a new arena (Globe Life Field, home of the Texas Rangers MLB team), new faces and, as our co-hosts put it, "Some weird numbers" - the 2020...

If you're missing out on what would be the normal time for the Miss Rodeo America pageant, have no fear - co-hosts Katie Schrock and Rachel Owens-Sarno and the rest of the TWL Podcast team recorded a series of podcasts shortly after the 2019 National Finals Rodeo to share with you in honor of the pageant! While the pageant may have been cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, there was no shot we...

She's the 2019 Texas Circuit Champion barrel racer and the 2018 WPRA Resistol Rookie of the Year, a Texas Cowgirl that has won A LOT of money on her special horse, "LenaOnTheRocks" or "Lena." Today's guest is Jimmie Smith whose illustrious rodeo career started long before the 2018 Rookie title… she's a three-time CPRA finalist, was the 2018 Puyallup PRCA Champion and placed third at the Ellensburg...

The impacts of the novel-coronavirus on rodeo committees and communities around the United States has been immense. We sat down at the start of the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic to chat with Lakeside Rodeo of California's committee members about the painful conversation that took place to make the decision to postpone their event until 2021. It's not the first time adversity has his this rodeo committee...