Ever wondered how the symphony of life finds harmony when passions collide? Take a seat with us as the singing vet, Dr. Ross Henderson, tunes into the melody of life where the chords of veterinary care, family, and music interweave. His story is not just about the limelight but the gentle glow of fulfillment found in the slow burn of chasing diverse dreams.
This episode is an open invitation to explore the beauty of a life that embraces every passion with open arms and an open heart. Join us for an enriching foray into the life of a man who listens to the rhythm of his soul's calling and dances to it - scrubs, guitar, family, and all.
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Ever wondered how the symphony of life finds harmony when passions collide? Take a seat with us as the singing vet, Dr. Ross Henderson, tunes into the melody of life where the chords of veterinary care, family, and music interweave. His story is not just about the limelight but the gentle glow of fulfillment found in the slow burn of chasing diverse dreams.
This episode is an open invitation to explore the beauty of a life that embraces every passion with open arms and an open heart. Join us for an enriching foray into the life of a man who listens to the rhythm of his soul's calling and dances to it - scrubs, guitar, family, and all.
If you liked today's show, I would greatly appreciate if you liked and subscribe to the show on your favorite listening platform.
You can also support the podcast for as little as $3 / month to help cover the tech and time costs. The link to Support The Show is just above this paragraph.
I appreciate you listening so much and I can't wait to have you back!
You can find me on Instagram @farmtoheartsara
and follow the farm @sweetfreedomfarmco
If today's episode touched you in any way, I would love to hear about it! Write a review or send me an email at sweetfreedomfarmco@gmail.com
Alright, you guys. I am so excited for today's episode. I got to interview a wonderful friend of our family, Dr Ross Henderson. Some of you might know him as the singing vet. He had an Animal Planet TV show called Hanging with the Henderson that he starred in with his family. But we know him just as Ross or Dr Ross, and he is just a wonderful guy. He is the true example of being a multi-passionate entrepreneur and the struggles that come with balancing parenthood and all of the other parts of your life that you love and just kind of not trying not to lose yourself along the way. So this is a very candid and just open conversation between two friends and I hope that it touches you and is just a reminder that you are allowed to love many different things in your life and you can branch out and be multi-passionate and just express yourself in many different ways. So I hope you enjoy it and let's get started.
Speaker 1:Welcome to the Farm to Heart Podcast, a podcast for heart-centered entrepreneurs and dreamers alike, seeking to plant their seeds and grow a life of alignment, purpose and their own version of joy-filled success. I'm Sarah Rutter, a former award-winning bakery owner, turned mama, animal rescuer and multi-passionate entrepreneur with a desire to help others ignite their dreams and create a life they love without the burnout. So whether you're seeking guidance on personal growth, launching or growing your current business, or simply looking for inspiration to ignite your entrepreneurial spirit, this podcast will be your loyal companion. So join me as we plant the seeds of your dreams, nurture their growth and cultivate a life of purpose, abundance and fulfillment. So saddle up and let's go. Hello, hello, Mr Ross, how are you doing?
Speaker 2:I'm doing well. How are you?
Speaker 1:I'm doing great. Thank you for being here and being on my podcast and helping me out with all the technology issues that we had going on.
Speaker 2:Thank you for having me in virtual reality.
Speaker 1:It's fun and different to be on this side of a conversation with you, because I feel like usually, well, pretty much the only time that we talk in person is at one of your shows, which is usually pretty brief, or when we're at the vet hospital, which is usually not for anything good. So it's nice to just be having a casual, good conversation with you.
Speaker 2:I was just going to say, obviously I've known you and your family for a while and I was kind of I was super excited that you were like, oh, yeah, I got a podcast. I was like when can I be on it? And you're like I've never had a guest before and I was like this sounds amazing. But tell me, well, yeah, just give me a rundown of your podcast for two seconds and then, yeah, I'll like.
Speaker 1:Yeah, sure. So the Farm to Heart podcast I decided to start because I just felt like I had a lot of stories to tell that were relatable with other multi-passionate entrepreneurs and just multi-passionate people in general as far as burnout and completely pivoting, and I know that there are so many other people out there that have stories similar to mine or that people can learn from and relate to and be encouraged by and stuff. So that is my goal for the Farm to Heart podcast is just to be a place of growth and encouragement and for people to know that they're not alone when it comes to trying to navigate this world with dreams on our hearts and businesses that we want to build and lives that we want to be living and just all of it kind of combined into one.
Speaker 2:That's the best and it's just so so relatable for me, for sure, for sure. Excellent, yeah, I mean, just as you were talking I was like, okay, yeah, multi-passions. You mentioned a word of the burnout that I mean. That I mean, even just when I was solely being a vet and not being involved with being an owner, with the vet practice, there was some serious feathering of that experience and then also switching gears, obviously the show, and then just yeah, all of those things super, super relatable for sure, for sure.
Speaker 1:And now you were also a dad. Do you want to tell us a little bit more about that?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I'm a twin. So, yes, I have two boys that are two years old. They're twins, obviously. I think that's really the only way that you can have two at the same time. But yeah, I know, I think in a lot of ways I was just talking to my cousin who lives in the UK. I feel like I've kind of time traveled the last two years like through a wormhole. It's hard to think of specific events and or what's happened, or like I you know the last podcast I was in felt like it was a few months ago, but I think it's been a year and a half now. So that does not make sense in my brain. So kids have a very unique ability of making time travel happen, which is crazy. But yeah, I was just talking about like right now it's like 80% just work, business owner, and then 20%, which is not like, which feels like 100% is the boys, you know, and then trying to have a healthy marriage and not get divorced, all that fun stuff, which is awesome and we're doing really good, by the way.
Speaker 1:And when you look back on your life now, do you think your love of music came first or your love of animals came first? Did you always know that you wanted to be a vet?
Speaker 2:Honestly, I think it was probably music. I remember watching a recital of my oldest brother. He, yeah, he had a recital, and then we ended up watching the video, the home video, you know there were the big cameras that you decide would come out and we were playing it. And he was playing America the Beautiful on piano and I was watching that. I think it was. I think it was in first, halfway through first grade or something like that, and I went over to the piano and I was like started playing on the piano and my mom was like that actually sounds really close to what, like Kyle just did his recital and so she got me into music, like piano lessons really. And then, and then by my second grade talent show, I played the whole song and, yeah, it was pretty cool, like we got a standing ovation. I was like what the heck you know?
Speaker 2:so it was kind of like a. I realized that I was into music way more than all of my friends were.
Speaker 1:That's awesome. So you were just basically born with a natural gift and love for music.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I think the like most of my music is by ear and I think that it's cool to see, hindsight, that that was kind of always there, you know, on a way.
Speaker 1:Do you remember like a specific moment of wanting to do music as a career or as a full-time job or anything?
Speaker 2:I think the only time I even considered like, oh, you could do this full time and was I was. I was watching and Jack Johnson is what got me to start playing acoustic guitar. I was like, oh, he's got a tailor, I want to get a tailor guitar. And I learned his songs and then I started singing and I was on. I remember very vividly, so dad's just be aware out there I remember very vividly sitting out on our back porch on the swing and I was like dad, look, I'm listening to this Jack Johnson sign.
Speaker 2:It was like one of the first time I tried singing and my dad's like I wouldn't, I wouldn't do that, and I was like God, yeah, so, but anyways, the point being was Jack Johnson was like inspiring. It's like, oh my gosh, like this guy gets to like he was playing ping pong before shows, Like dude, that would be so cool. And then I remember getting my first Apple computer that had GarageBand and then I started recording, just like different instruments, and I remember getting a keyboard and I was like, oh my gosh, this is the most fun thing ever. So in undergrad by this time now I'm transitioning into undergrad and I was recording rap songs with my friends, which I actually have.
Speaker 1:Rap songs. How about I not heard these? You never play them at the Buffalo Rose. You need to bring those suckers back.
Speaker 2:Yeah, I was, I'd have to, I'd have to make sure there's. You know, everyone was over 18, I think. So anyways, yeah, it was like that's super fun. Honestly, learning how to do music production and write songs was super fun. And then I, I got over, you know, this idea that maybe if I just like anything else, like singing, wasn't like a natural thing. But then I was like, okay, if I just do this over and over, maybe I can at least pass. You know, become passable, you know so.
Speaker 1:Well, I feel like you have done more than just become passable for your music and we have thoroughly enjoyed listening to you over the years. So thank you for well. Thanks for switching from rap music to what you do now, but also we need to bring the rap music back. So when, at what point do you remember kind of switching gears towards be wanting to become a vet?
Speaker 2:Yeah, so I think the vet thing was more just always this like baseline level based on exposure and then also based on my dad being my hero. You know, like I think I would go to the office and I would when I was small. I would be stapling papers together until I stapled through my thumb and then he had to surgically remove staple in his office.
Speaker 1:But and that was the moment you were like yes, this is awesome, this is what I want to do.
Speaker 2:So I just realized I just clicked record on the video but we have the audio. So far. That's totally fine, that's okay Anyways, but I stapled through my finger and then just hanging out with my dad and then growing up with animals, and then there, yeah, there's a video that actually the Dodo shared ages ago where they were they help. Yeah, I have a video of me going to, I think, kindergarten or first grade and I was just like I'm going to be a vet someday, like my dad, you know. So that was that was super cool.
Speaker 1:Oh, that's awesome. I'll need to look for that yeah, no for sure. Well, that's awesome, and so you're obviously a vet now, but you're also a musician. How have the two blended? Have they blended? Well, let's back up first. So you had a video maybe a couple of videos go viral of you singing to the some dogs at your guys's vet hospital, and what was that like? What was that like to get like? Were you used to all of that attention or what? How did that all come about?
Speaker 2:Yeah. So I think the cool thing is is, with the family practice, being able to like have my guitar there. I think earlier earlier, maybe a year or two, I can't, I don't know the exact date but there was like a. There was like a video contest with a bank and a local bank of Colorado, with first bank, and it was like, hey, local business, let's do this video. We're going to do a $20,000 grant, you know, and I told my brother Ryan, I was like dude, like we could totally do this, like I bet you we could win this, you know. And so I, I came up with this original song and made a video, music video, with all of us running around and saying how we'd use all the money and stuff, and we ended up winning. That it was. It was pretty awesome. It was like it was like TV is like a lotto check. They came with a giant check for 20.
Speaker 2:Oh, that's awesome yeah, First banks like forever. My favorite bank because of that.
Speaker 2:Anyways, but it was just part of the thing that, like my guitar, was there the idea that I think all of those things were kind of somewhere back in the, in the register, I guess. And then I was just. This was when I was starting to play more like brewery gigs and stuff like that. Anyway, that was always something that I would do, whether it was home or even when I was in Scotland in vet school. So my guitar was at work and I was just playing for a dog that was a little anxious, and then our manager filmed it and posted it, and then my wife and I went up to the like ski resort area with some friends while all that was blowing up and kind of ruined our date weekend, because I was like this is insane. Like she's like, okay, get off your phone. I was like I've never seen anything like this in my whole life, you know. And then I was getting calls and it was pretty crazy. So no, I hadn't experienced anything like that, but it was really fun. But yeah, it was crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I remember actually seeing the video on like I think it was like the today show, I don't know one of the morning talk shows, and then when they actually said like he was a vet, that you were a vet in Colorado, and then my parents were like, oh yeah, that's where we take the cats and it's like oh so it was like we all put it together and it's just like it was really so. I like didn't even know that you guys were there until that video came out, and then here you are.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that is so crazy. I think it is crazy. It was really fun for our clients to be honest. Yeah, I was on Kyle Clark like next or whatever, I think. I think he was like the Colorado guy.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and then lots of little like radio calls. And then when the Dodo did a montage, because I started posting more videos after that the Dodo did something, and then that's when it went from like a different level, you know. And then because after that then it was like TV production companies were like, hey, you work with your family, like this is crazy. We should definitely like you guys should have a TV show, and I'm like that sounds fun too. So it was really fun, really cool yeah.
Speaker 1:So how long after that video did you guys start filming? Hanging with the Henderson's?
Speaker 2:Oh, that's an interesting timeline I don't know the answer to that, maybe was it 2018 or 19 that we were filming in the back end and then it was I think it was released like six months after that we were filming. So Animal Planet was like, hey, we want to do for sure six episodes and then, once they saw the first three, they're like we want to do 12, like which, again, hindsight was really cool because, like, our show developer was like he's like, hey, getting a pilot's really hard, like if you guys get some, like that's way, that's like unicorn, that doesn't happen very often. And then when they did the 12 episodes, it was like, dude, we got a full two six episodes season without anybody had even seen the first episode or anything you know. So, but timeline, I think it was, it was probably a 10 month or a year and a half, somewhere between 10 months and a year and a half from the first video.
Speaker 2:I'm sure I could find that out, but I don't know it off the top of my head.
Speaker 1:That's okay. What was that experience like for you and for your family to like be filming a show together with that?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Cause you kind of I feel like reality TV shows and shows just get kind of a bad rep for causing problems.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I mean valid, I think for us. We kind of sat down where like, hey, do we want to do this? We had sent the reel, like we did like a Skype interview, and they'd done like kind of like a what is it called? Like a, something real, it's like a fizz reel or I don't know I'm butchering the name and then they're like conferred, they're like okay, we want to do this and we were like all right, rubber hits the road. Do we want to do this? Because it's already hard enough being a veterinarian, right, it's going to take a lot of extra time and it could go bad, you know, like this kid.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:This kid be like I don't know like what if our family falls apart on the show. It is like no one go anywhere near Fox Hollow. They're a disaster. But I think in reality we were all like, hey, if we're going to do this, let's put 100% into it. And honestly, it was really fun.
Speaker 2:I think the most surprising thing was it. I think it was only like two years into being a vet maybe, but it made me fall in love with being a vet because there were so many different incentives to step outside of just the day to day, like runway. That was always in front of you, you know, like I would have fun and you know we'd see certain animals and stuff. But it was like, hey, my degree has so many possibilities that I can stretch outside that I'm qualified for. And then the coolest part, I think, is like we ironically had joked all the time before. We're like, oh, like man, the stuff that goes on in our family, like we should have a TV show, you know, and then it just like showed up in the universe, which is pretty crazy.
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's a very good show. Everyone should go watch it. We all fell in love, with your whole family it was. It's a great show and it was fun to see you guys in action and, yeah, you could tell that you all really love what you're doing.
Speaker 2:So it was cool. Well, it's good to hear yeah. And then, honestly, just to conclude, because I probably get asked once a month or something like hey, what's the deal with the show, is it still going, or whatever? And the short answer is well, this is my speculation, you know, but we had an extension at the very end. They were kind of like you know, a planet had a switch of like top level execs and I think they're CEO or whatever. There was even since emergency vets back in like the early nineties, which Dr Fitzgerald he was a guest on our show and he actually like screened each episode as well, which was super cool.
Speaker 2:But there was like this 20 year phase of like veterinary shows and I feel like we kind of caught the very tail end of it. There's like that vet life. There's Rocky Mountain Vet and those ones had been established, but also there's it's similar. It reminds me of the music industry, like nowadays. It's like 95% of artists that get signed get dropped within like the first year or something like that right, whereas, like Bruce Springsteen had two or three failed albums before his one that blew them up, and similar with like TV shows, unless you're getting like a million plus views or getting like a Michelin accreditation or whatever. Then they're considered like not a quote hit show. So they're all going for the hey, we need to have this immediate hit show vibe and we were like five, six years ago from that show. Our show had great reception and viewership. It just wasn't to the knock it out of the stratosphere. So I think we were getting 600,000 or something per episode views, which is really good, but it's not 1.2 million, which is like what?
Speaker 2:Like the Irwin show or some other shows around that time that blew up but, I also have some friends who shortly after in the vet world had their shows, like Dr Evan, anton and similar vibe. So it's just a much harder thing to kind of get established and stay established unless you're already there, which is also very impressive with these other shows that they're still crushing, you know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, well, I think it's amazing. No matter what, and do you feel like like now that you guys aren't filming anymore, has the family dynamic changed at all, or do you think it stayed the same throughout the show and then after filming as well?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I don't even think so. The show is an unscripted like. Unscripted yeah, obviously you can't script like a dog coming in with whatever, but even like the family stuff was like unscripted as well and I feel like it was a pretty good representation of like how we interact. So I feel like we still interact. I think the only difference now is that myself and Ryan being much more in like the managerial and owner role. You know, I think, pros and cons, you know, I think that that's a different level of stress and whatever. But as far as like at work, like I joke with my dad all the time and the staff and you know, and Ryan and I only actually overlapped one day a week, unless we're working Saturdays. But anyways, my dad and I worked two days a week. I kind of get the best because I get my dad two days with my dad and then a day with my brother. So there's no days I'm not with another Hendo, you know.
Speaker 1:Nice, yeah, I know, like working with my family. It was everyone's like, oh, you're working with family, like that has to be hard and it was. We were always just like no, not really, like I think there's there was a lot of pressure behind it, Especially for me being one of the owners, but I don't. I never was like not enjoying it with them. It was just the pressure of like supporting and you know, just family stuff. But it wasn't ever not enjoyable. It was just a different type of environment Fun to be able to spend time together.
Speaker 2:Did you find that with family you in some ways you had more expectation and others you kind of let them like it's fine?
Speaker 1:You know, it's like, it's like both and it's, it's like yeah.
Speaker 2:You're like dude, like you're like your name might as well be on the building, and then on the other side you're like oh, it's just, it's fine. You know you get extra cushion or or sometimes I'm like like I can kind of get away with you know, I don't know, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1:I think, looking back now, like now that I don't own it anymore, there's a lot of things, especially with our employees, that weren't family, and then we, they kind of Like, came into the family in a sort of way, and if they didn't mesh well with the family, it was like it really affected all of us. It didn't affect just like that part of the business. And so because we were such a small, small company and so, but yeah, like my dad was like all in on everything that he did, he was like the Santa and the greeter and he would do wedding deliveries with me. But then at the same time I like wanted my parents to like be retired and enjoy their retirement and not.
Speaker 1:Not be, not be giving their life away to the cupcake shop. So that was a lot of pressure that I put on myself too, of just like making sure that they were taking care of themselves as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, that's huge for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I think what you said. Then I wonder is there like a actual word for non-family member employee? You know just that, just no for sure.
Speaker 2:But no, you, what you just said is like, so true, like it's, and it's kind of a bummer because, right, you, you don't, you won't, you don't want to have like this Circle around of like, oh, you have to jive, well, but I think it becomes obvious and the fact that you said like it can affect. So I think that it's, it's important to create an atmosphere that feels like family, even for people who aren't family, you know, and yeah.
Speaker 2:We're pretty proud, like right now Our staff is probably the best we've ever had Nice and it feels very, very Like natural and fun.
Speaker 1:So Nice, yeah, we got there eventually. I think it took us probably At least two years, if not three years, to find a staff that stuck with us for many years and they became like family and we all got along great and stuff. But we went through our battles for sure, yeah, to find the right people.
Speaker 2:But yeah, that's super cool.
Speaker 1:So now, so you have the vet life, you have the dad life and you have music life. How, how are they all Blending? How do you do it?
Speaker 2:Yeah, no, I'm not doing it all at all, I think I think it's it's the vet life and dad life, or like I would clump dad into family life, right, so husband, dad, just human, but it, that's pretty much all it is. I think I think the capacity to try it, even like social media, is like it's the splinter. I know that. You know it was something that gave me a lot of fulfillment. I'm kind of just lurker status. You know I kind of dissociate and jump on and Sometimes you know it's fun and laugh and other times it's. It's like this dagger of like oh man, this used to give me so much joy to be able to create and not just sit here and you know, Separate my soul from my body and turn into a robot so.
Speaker 2:But, and then music. Honestly, I just texted a music friend of mine. He's like, how's the music? You playing music? And I was like I maybe, if I'm lucky, I'll pick my guitar up for 40 minutes, like once a month, unless I Play it. You know a brewery or Buffalo Rose or something which is fun, because that's like okay, it's enough of an incentive. And to Like, okay, something's on the calendar like go, you get to play and hang out and yeah, like literally get to play for people and for three hours, and it's like forces me to get out there and so it's more lately.
Speaker 2:Um, this is I have to be careful saying this because you guys, you guys come a lot and it's like I don't want it to say that I'm not there, but it's like to me I'm like I get to hang out with my buddy, which is my guitars, and like play and mess around with songs and stuff, and so it's like really enjoyable for me to be able to do that. And, uh, I selfishly am kind of like Like, oh, this is like my time that I get for me, you know. Um, so, whereas before it was kind of like I was playing enough and recording and I had my band and stuff and it was like, oh, these performances like they have a function, it's fun and like kind of be outward focus and um, now it's just, it's just like this is like my one-on-one time with my guitar and there's people and sometimes I'll like to Interact, you know, but it's really, really fulfilling in a big way. I wish I could do it more. It's just literally, I don't.
Speaker 2:I don't want to blame, I need to create more time. Is what? Not blame my kids for not having time? I think you know so.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I know, I mean it's Pink coming a parent is like a crazy thing because you it's like you want. You want to give all your time to your kids, but you also like, desperately need your own time. It's a daily battle.
Speaker 2:I feel like yeah, yeah, we're, we're carving out. I mean there's more. I think, honestly, even the last two to three weeks, um, like I was listening to the huberman lab podcast like neuroscientists from stanford he's talked about like alcohol and you know, and like all the caffeine and and all these things, and I was just like man, I'm gonna just cut down and Wake up a little bit early, start exercising, eating better and, uh, already getting some more energy. But like there's, there's areas in the day where you can actually create more time than you think. You know. I think it's just when I'm at work, come home and then the dad shift starts getting him to sleep, and then it's it's saying a good day. They go to bed at 7 30. It's like 7 42. I like walk in a bed, get in my bed and I'm just like Gonna scroll and then watch a movie, and then and then it's 945 and then you fall asleep and then the next day starts. But is I mean it's gotta be similar for you.
Speaker 1:Yeah, definitely. Yeah, like Brett goes to bed around 8 or 8 30, and then Calvin goes to bed around the same time, because he gets up at his to leave for work at 4 am. So, like, after they go to bed, it's my time that I'm always like, all right, I'm gonna do a quick workout, I'm gonna, you know, get some Work done, and then I sit on the couch and I just like totally veg and watch tv and scroll mindlessly. But I and I found that like I just can't make myself feel guilty about that because that is kind of what it just kind of Is what I need at the end of the day. Um, so I try to, I try to wake up earlier and like do the things. I'm definitely more productive in the mornings than I am after everybody goes to bed. But yeah, it's tricky, there's finding that alignment between everything. It's it's a, it's a full-time job.
Speaker 2:Yeah, no for sure. Well, that's amazing and I'm sure you're doing a phenomenal job.
Speaker 1:Well, you as well. So what would you say to somebody who is multi-passionate like yourself and they're just kind of Feeling like they might need to like give something up or that they need to just pick one thing and go with it? What would you say to them as far as, like, not giving up their dreams and their, their passions, and trying to To incorporate all the little things into their life?
Speaker 2:Yeah, I, I would say I feel like this is what I want to hear and or need to hear Is so I'll extend, you know sometimes. But it would be like it's a Everything doesn't have to happen all at once at the same exact time. That's great if you can figure out a way to do that, but for me I think it's kind of like the Ecclesiastes thing, like there's a time for everything. I think right now I was really beating myself up that like the last two years was just like felt like they evaporated and I was like man, these things that I had got so much fulfillment for are on the bench.
Speaker 2:And then I was like still getting home after the boys were asleep and dinner was in the microwave and it was already cold and I was like I'm also not being like a great dad or whatever. And then our the boys second year old birthday we started to put in this album together and I'm seeing all of these like trips and playtimes and experiences, and I was wrestling and playing and I like it brought a lot of emotion in a positive way. I was like, okay, no, like this has been really great and fulfilling. Like like priority wise, like my family and work like like it wasn't all wrong and it was like my brain was kind of focusing on all those like negative splinter aspects when it was 95% awesome.
Speaker 2:So yeah, to put simply is like I think we have, we have a lot more. It's tempting to feel like we have to rush and push everything together and make it happen all together as fast as possible, but I think the exact opposite sometimes is probably the most healthy and not miss the moments that hey, like I'm going to do small little things and still keep the biggest priorities in first place and then not forget them. It literally took like I saw videos of places that I was like I completely forgot that we went and did that adventure and that was super fun and meaningful.
Speaker 2:It's just like our brains, just like okay, finish today, and then reset doesn't exist anymore, and that's not how life works, you know. So yeah, I think that's probably a version of my answer to that question.
Speaker 1:Nice. That's really ironic that you talk about that slow, like slow growth and slow progress, because that I did a episode right after the new year how I talked about embracing, like growing slowly in my business and then like things that I'm working on, because that social media has a way of like making you feel like you're always behind and so I am trying to like, but if you actually sit back and like, look back a year ago you're like wow, I actually have really grown a lot or done a lot in that year, and so this year I'm just like really embracing, because things that grow slow are always stronger, like trees have
Speaker 1:deeper roots, things in the garden that grow slow, like usually taste better, like it's just. If you think about anything that grows slow, it's better, it lasts longer and it's more sustainable in the long run, and so that's kind of like. What I've been embracing this year too is just not forcing things to happen faster than they're supposed to and just letting kind of God work and myself work in the speed that I need to be going right now.
Speaker 2:I think that's very well said. And yeah, yeah, the slow growth a slow burn doesn't um? Uh, musgraves have a song called slow burn or something I don't know. I don't know Do you know this, the Casey Musgraves, it's like her first debut.
Speaker 1:Oh really, it's really good. Yeah, I don't know, you should write one, though.
Speaker 2:Yeah, called slow burn. It's probably going to be called heartburn. What was?
Speaker 1:the song that you were going to write at the Buffalo Rose. That one night, like sneaking up from behind or what, that sounds right, sneaking up from behind. I'm still waiting for that one to come out.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that's uh. Yeah, that'll have an explicit sticker on the album.
Speaker 1:Is that one of your rap songs that I haven't?
Speaker 2:heard. That's rap songs from 2007,. You know for sure.
Speaker 1:Um but, All right. Well, Mr Ross, what are you working on next? What can people look forward to or where can they find you?
Speaker 2:That's fair for sure, actually, um, I don't know if I'm allowed to say or not, but, um, dog TV. I had done something with him back in the day, but it was reached out, so I'm going to see if I can collaborate. So they've got a YouTube channel, um, and I think they're on cable as well. Uh, it's like a 24 hour TV for dogs, like formulate for dogs. But I'm a, I have some fun. Yeah, I might have some fun collaboration that involves music and like educational stuff. Um, that I'm excited. I actually have an email from them that I haven't opened yet, that I need to look at, but maybe recording some stuff for them. And I was like your timing's perfect, like I've literally been drowning, but now I'm like, oh, I'd love to get just head above water and get back out into the world a little bit. Um, so that sounds fun. Like literally record some songs and do some videos with that. Um, yeah, that's probably the biggest thing.
Speaker 2:And then hopefully, you know there, there's been, there's been a few times where like okay, january 1st, I'm going to like just make a post online. And then it was like ad for like the flu. I was like okay, next week. And then it was like okay. And then this week I I kid you not, I was like okay, like I've got some stuff. I actually recorded something. I was like I just need to, or I want to record something. And then it was like oh, I literally a piece of like I was doing a dental and a piece of like tooth calculus went over and into my over my goggles, into my eye and it's still a little red, I don't know if you can see. But um, and I'm just, I just like do everything, everything is like you're like preventing me from jumping back in. You know the deep end, you know, but anyways, it's just you can.
Speaker 1:You can do it. You're doing great, I promise, from an outsider's perspective perspective. You're doing wonderful.
Speaker 2:Oh well, thank you outsider. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1:You're welcome, all right. Well, do you have anything else you want to add? I think that's all, no.
Speaker 2:I selfishly want to know more about your farm, though If you, if you've kind of run through it a million times, um, then you can give me a short version. But, um, yeah, what, what's? Yeah, how, how's the farm situation?
Speaker 1:Yeah, it's good. So we have seven rescue horses right now.
Speaker 1:It's amazing that we do like equine assisted coaching with. So I have a couple there's a couple of therapy groups that come up here and they bring their clients up here and they do sessions with the horses or around the horses and in nature, Um, so it's more like nature based counseling. And then I do one on one equine inspired business coaching with them as well and just kind of get people out of their heads and we brush and pet and walk around with the horses and kind of talk about their business struggles and goals and just kind of hang out in nature and it kind of helps people just get out of their heads and figure out what's really holding them back from their business or what's burning them out and that type of stuff. And then we also are holding some weddings up here and some retreats and workshops and all sorts of stuff.
Speaker 2:So and where's up here.
Speaker 1:Blackhawk, blackhawk, blackhawk. Nice yeah, our cabins.
Speaker 2:Yeah, like right in the or right near Neterland, colorado. Okay yeah, that's super cool Dude.
Speaker 1:Blackhawks yeah, we're right up Golden Gate Canyon.
Speaker 2:Cool, and then remind me the name of it, of your guys' sweet freedom farm. Sweet freedom farms Love it.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:That would be super fun to come up there sometime you should yeah.
Speaker 1:I know we would love to have you come play music or something to it.
Speaker 2:one of our events or something Dude that would be super cool, but it'd be fun to. It is fun playing big outside in nature, you know Just I get to turn my speakers up past, you know, 10%.
Speaker 1:Yeah, let's do it and bring the boys up and back up and you guys, can just hang out too.
Speaker 2:Yeah, that would be super cool, I think. Yeah, that is. I know for a fact that being around, especially horses, unless they're, you know, like little like cheeky horses, but for the most part it's very therapeutic and peaceful to hang out outside with horses and it's like a different version of counseling, you know, which is super cool yeah, and then you also have like a counselor there as well who like group counseling, yep, yeah, so that we work with like other counseling practices but they do like they do the legit counseling with their clients.
Speaker 1:And then my part of it is more just the one-on-one coaching and mentorship with with entrepreneurs, yeah.
Speaker 2:That's so cool, so it's fun.
Speaker 1:We love it.
Speaker 2:Awesome, awesome. Well, and you've obviously got your podcast. Now. What episodes are you on now? What is this?
Speaker 1:Number 10.
Speaker 2:Number 10. Where'd you go? You crushed the. You passed the double digits. Keep going for sure. Yep.
Speaker 1:The slow burn man Number 10.
Speaker 2:That slow burn, heartburn, you know it's like, oh, it's starting to sting.
Speaker 1:I know, yeah, I took the whole month of December off because we I just wanted to be like really present with the holidays and we went on a vacation and so that was nice, and then I was excited to kick back up in January.
Speaker 2:So Perfect, well, super cool. Very, very grateful and happy to have been able to participate, and please give your family all of my love and appreciation, as always, and wish them the best.
Speaker 1:I will, yeah, yeah, we'll come see you play next time you're at the Rose.
Speaker 2:I know I don't have anything on deck. I got a message. Marko again Sounds good.
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