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Natalie Kovarik--Entrepreneur, Influencer, Advocate and Co-Host of Discover Ag podcast
In this episode we are joined by Natalie Kovarik, one of the ag industry’s foremost entrepreneurs, influencers and advocates. As co-host of the Discover Ag podcast, Natalie has an online presence that numbers in the hundreds of thousands, and she does most of it from her family’s ranch on the edge of the Nebraska Sandhills.
Welcome to 93, the podcast where we talk about Nebraska, its communities, its number one industry agriculture, and the people who make it happen. I'm Mark Falton, your host for today's episode, brought to you by Nebraska's law firm, Rimble Montkey. This is a pretty special episode. I'm pretty excited about it as we are joined by one of the ag industry's foremost entrepreneurs, influencers, and advocates. She has an online presence that numbers literally in the hundreds of thousands, and she does most of it from her family's ranch in the Nebraska sand hills. One of my daughters who does social media digital marketing for Oklahoma State University and its ag college said, You know what, Dad? She's pretty cool. I can't believe you get to chat with her. Well, now we all get to chat with her. Welcome to Nighty Three the Podcast, Natalie Kavarik. Welcome.
SPEAKER_02:Thank you so much. I'm so honored to be here. Tell your daughter, thank you too. I appreciate that.
SPEAKER_00:She follows you from Oklahoma State, as do others, I'm sure.
SPEAKER_02:So fun.
SPEAKER_00:So give our listeners your background.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so I'm actually a transplant, so I hope I don't get kicked off the Nebraska podcast.
SPEAKER_00:Not at all.
SPEAKER_02:Okay, perfect. So I grew up actually in southwest Montana, very, very beautiful part of the state. I grew up in agriculture there. I was raised on a registered herpert operation, if anyone is super familiar with the industry. Um, and you know, I loved my childhood. I loved growing up on a ranch, especially looking back now, right? Hindsight 2020. But I did not plan to stay in agriculture. I got my degree outside of it. I was living in a bigger city in Montana, um, working in the healthcare field. I got my degree in pharmacy. So I was practicing as a full-time pharmacist, lived near our family ranch, spent a ton of time on it. But um, you know, my income wasn't right from it. I wasn't living physically on it, and I wasn't um just in the day-to-day that I am now. And that obviously changed when I met and married my husband, who is a Nebraska boy, and that's kind of what brought me down this way.
SPEAKER_00:Is it true you met him at a bowl sale?
SPEAKER_02:It is. It is the most country love story, but he was up at our uh our family ranch looking at uh bulls and um left with a wife. That's the running joke. He came for a bowl and left with a wife.
SPEAKER_00:No, crazy things happened at some of those sales, so that's one of the more positive ones that uh I've heard of. So congratulations to you. So your uh your fa your Nebraska ranch, where is it located?
SPEAKER_02:We are in the central part of the state. Um, so it's funny. My husband always jokes that not only are we in the cent, you know, central middle of Nebraska, but we are in the middle of the world. He thinks the community we ranch outside of is just, you know, the cherry on top. So yeah, we're in central Nebraska. We border the Nebraska Sand Hills, so very beautiful part of the country that I really love to show off on social media. It's kind of one of my favorite things is to showcase Nebraska in a way that most people don't typically think of it because our summer pasture is some gorgeous, gorgeous country.
SPEAKER_00:So we're gonna do this podcast until we hit all 93 counties. So one thing we ask our guests, what uh license plate prefix do you have?
SPEAKER_02:We are 47.
SPEAKER_00:That's a new one for us. So that uh another one we get to check, check the box on.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, we're good old Valley County.
SPEAKER_00:So what's I know there isn't an average day for you. You're very, very busy, but what's an average day to the extent one exists look like for you?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, I think it's always such a fun question when I get this because it is great to bring people into you know the day to day on a ranch or farm. Um and I always actually span out a little bit because as you said, we don't really have typical day-to-days that um even flow, you know, from like a Monday to a Tuesday. But if you go out big picture, ranching very much so seasonally can flow, um, which is what I actually love. One of the things I love about our industry is that I have the excitement. We, you know, we're doing something different all the time, every single day, but there is rhythm and flow and purpose year to year. You can kind of expect the same thing. So seasonally, summer usually looks the same where we're more our cattle out at pasture, we're rotating them, we're out on horseback a lot. So um that is usually summer. Uh, we're getting ready to calve right now, um, May. So that will kind of kick off summer. We'll have um babies running around here pretty soon. You then you transition into fall, which is a little bit more of cattle on corn stalks. Um, we're managing um the cattle out there. Then you get into the winter when we're actually kind of feeding them, and then you kind of start the cycle over again. So day to day, I mean, obviously, first and foremost, you're just kind of caring for animals, but it there really is no typical day on the ranch that like repeats itself, but seasonally we very much so do.
SPEAKER_00:So a pharmacy degree that tells me you're pretty darn smart. Uh anything you learned in that in getting that degree that you apply today, whether it be on the ranch or with respect to uh the other entrepreneurial activities you have?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so I actually still fill in. We have we ranch outside of a town about 2,000. Um, and we're we're not remote as I know a lot of um Nebraska communities to be remote, but we are you know far enough that I feel like we're kind of a self-sustaining. We have a lot of things in it for a town of 2,000 that just back home in Montana, a town of town 2,000 would not have. Uh, we have our own critical access hospital here, and there's actually two outpatient pharmacies. So I actually maintain my license and I fill in. They all the pharmacies in town know that they can call me if they need relief or you know, someone's sick or vacation. So it's kind of fun that I still implement my um degree and do work off the ranch um here and then. Um, but as far as going to what I take pharmacy to like when it, you know, came to building everything I've built online or what I use my today today on the ranch, um, I would say oddly enough, there's a little bit of crossover, especially when it comes to like social media and our podcast, Discover Ag. Um, we are reading through a lot of articles over there and we're talking about, you know, some more in-depth conversations when it comes to agriculture from a consumer perspective. And big things right now in that are, you know, glyphosate. They are um dyes, food dyes. They're things that oddly enough, like kind of bleed over into you know, the medical health pharmaceutical world. And so I think, you know, just being able to kind of read science jargon and think about um, I guess, consumer aspects of things. That's another big thing I've taken into it with our podcast is being able to take something very industry, you know, niche specific, where that was pharmacy and medicine before, and kind of relay that to the, you know, the mom or dad picking up the medicine. Um, but now I kind of relay, you know, on farm, ranch, agriculture topics uh to the person in the grocery store, the person shopping. So I think there's a little bit of like communication there that has actually um, oddly enough, prepared me for what I'm doing today.
SPEAKER_00:You're really hard to keep up with. You seem to be everywhere online and then some. What where's that work ethic come from?
SPEAKER_02:Oh gosh, you know, I think some of us just love to, we're just built into our bones that we just um love to work, I guess. But I do feel very blessed that everything I've done, I am very passionate about. And I think people that are lucky enough to be able to create a profession out of their passion can kind of understand how work doesn't necessarily feel like work and sometimes you can get carried away with work. So um I love that. I also love who I work with. I mean, my podcast co-host is one of my best friends, so it's absolute joy to be able to do everything I do with her. Um, and I oddly enough, that you know, there are some marriages that say they would never want to work with their spouse, but it is one of my biggest blessings that I get to spend so much time with my husband and work with him. So I think I have pretty good co-workers, and then I think I'm just really passionate about what um I do, even though it is doing a lot.
SPEAKER_00:So you got to give the history how you got into this, right? So you you grew up on a ranch in Montana, you meet uh the love of your life, you moved to Nebraska, you're a pharmacist, and all of a sudden you're everywhere online and promoting the industry of agriculture and being an influencer. How how did it happen?
SPEAKER_02:It was so accidental I couldn't even have properly prepared for it if I if I had tried. Um I actually have a couple keynotes. I do some professional speaking and I talk a little bit about that, about how it was so accidental that I never, you know, if you had told me 10, 15 years ago I'd be on stage talking about some of the things I do, or if I would have a social platform sharing about some of the things I do, I just never truly would have believed it because I really did love pharmacy so much. And I do, I still love the days I fill in, are very fun for me. I, when I moved down here to Nebraska, again, moving to a smaller community, there was not a current pharmacy position open. And my husband and I just knew that we didn't want part of our family story to be me having to do, you know, a three-hour commute to be a full-time pharmacist. So what I ended up deciding to do now that I, you know, technically didn't have a job, I was unemployed unemployment.
SPEAKER_00:Well, you had a lot of jobs, just yeah.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah. Um, I launched the direct-to-consumer beef business and I used social media to market that. So that was really my first introduction. I mean, I had had social media from obviously a personal standpoint. I am a millennial, so I kind of grew up with it in college, not in my high school by any means, but um, you know, social media was a part of my college journey. And so I was familiar with it, but I not from a business aspect, obviously not from you know an educational, marketing, communications college background at all. I just knew that if we were going to get strangers to buy our beef from us online, we would have to have, you know, a social present and we would have to, you know, relate to our consumers and share our story and get them, you know, to know the family behind the food they were buying. And so I used social media to do that. But I always say very, very quickly on, I realized that there was so much more to social media than using it to sell beef. And I think I did that for two years. But the entire time that I was in that direct-to-consumer beef business, I kept seeing just all these opportunities of other ways I could share and other things I could do with social media to market. And so finally, after two years, I decided to step away from the direct-to-consumer beef business and kind of go all in on what I'm doing now, which is more of like, you know, the family sharing and the advocating for the industry and the professional speaking and the podcast and all of that. So it all started accidentally with the direct consumer beef business.
SPEAKER_00:So you I believe you spoke, you were one of the speakers at South by Southwest, correct?
SPEAKER_02:Yes, that was so wild. It was so fun.
SPEAKER_00:Yeah. How much traveling do you do in order for the various speaking engagements and the other things that you do?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, so I have, you know, I would say dabbled my toes into the professional speaking within the last year. Um and so, you know, traveling hasn't always been a part of my social media journey for a long time. I just shared from our ranch and was able to do everything from here, which is what makes social media so super cool. But I'm kind of an adventurous heart. So when I decided that I did want to lean into speaking and knew travel would be a part of it, um, it actually kind of fills me, you know, fills my cup. I enjoy going out, seeing different areas, um, countries, you know, different areas across the nation. I love, especially love getting to meet other people in agriculture. It is such a diverse community. And the way people are, you know, ranching and farming in upstate New York is so different than the way we do it here in Nebraska, so different than the way they do it in Texas and Montana. And so it's really fun to be able to learn. Honestly, half the time I feel like I'm going to conferences and I'm speaking, but I'm also learning so much. And so um I do travel, you know, my husband is very, very supportive. I could not do it without him. And so we just kind of sit down and I will go through, you know, these are the opportunities, what works for how busy the ranch is, and you know, how personally busy we are, and we just kind of plan it from there, but I definitely couldn't do it without him.
SPEAKER_00:There's not a major airport near your ranch. So where do you normally fly out of?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, I love to fly out of Grand Island. It is a tiny little airport. You only have to get there, you know, half an hour, 45 minutes before, depending on if you check or not. And um, it is definitely my pace. I can hold my own when I am in the city for sure, but I love rural living and um I love the tiny little, the smaller the better for an airport.
SPEAKER_00:So yeah, I think they have a direct flight to either Houston or Dallas, don't they?
SPEAKER_02:They hub out at they hub out at Dallas, yep. So I'm usually always connecting. I know the Dallas O port extremely well now. Ask me a terminal, I could probably tell you which food is in which terminal.
SPEAKER_00:Let's talk about the Discover Ag podcast. Uh FeedSpot named it as one of the top-ranked egg podcasts in the nation, if not world. How did it come about and what's the goal?
SPEAKER_02:Again, very accidental. If there is something about my personality, it is that I love to jump in feet first. I will have an idea, and one hour after that, I will be working on it. So I'm kind of a build your ship at seagal. I don't get too caught up in the details, I don't get too caught up in the big picture. I just love to figure it out as I go. So my business partner, Tara, is a dairy farmer down in New Mexico.
SPEAKER_00:How did you guys meet, by the way?
SPEAKER_02:Yep. So she also shared online. And we, you know, not to say we were the first one sharing online because by no means were we, but we were sharing at a time when it did feel like a smaller group in agriculture was sharing. And then you go even further and you be, you know, a female that's sharing about production agriculture. And so we just connected kind of naturally, being again two voices in agriculture that were females and moms and just had a lot in common. So we were friends on social media for a long time, and then we ended up meeting in person, and it was very evident after we met in person that we just had a lot of alignment for things we wanted to do and um worked the same. We just it it just you could tell there's like a natural spark there of like I, if I was gonna do something bigger in business, I wanted to do it with her. And so we ended up launching a business together, and through that, the podcast kind of came about organically. Um, and it was a fun little discovery. You know, I always consume podcasts, I think they're such a wonderful gift. Um, it's so cool that you can I always find myself listening to an episode of, you know, two people and thinking, gosh, I can't believe I'm in on this conversation. I get to hear these two people talking about something. And so I think it's super cool for our generation and um society that we have access to, you know, so many, so many different conversations going around and and um think tanks essentially. And so I had consumed podcasts for a long time, but never dreamt of having one. And so when we launched Discover Ag, we were kind of like, well, we'll just, you know, see how this goes and maybe we'll take summers off or do seasons, you know, like I don't know, podcast for a couple months and rest and and then come back. And I don't think I think we've taken off, you know, two this Christmas was one of the first holidays we've ever taken off. And so for two years now, we have just um shown up very religiously. We love it every Monday. We're out in our podcast studios recording, and so it is um honestly my favorite way I show up online right now is through our podcast.
SPEAKER_00:And you do some interesting topics, you tie ag into pop culture, I mean RFK, I mean, all these things are going on in our nation. Somehow you're able to find a way to tie all those together and to present and to advocate on behalf of the ag industry.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, thank you. It's super rewarding and fun. I love that every single week we I show up and we talk about something that I did not know about before. So I am, I guess I'm kind of a little bit of a lifelong learner. And so I love that, you know, we're researching these different topics and and I'm learning along with, you know, everyone tuning in. But yeah, that's one of the beautiful things about our podcast. It's not really a podcast where Tara and I sit down and you know talk about us or our lives or anything going on personally. It's almost a news podcast where, as you mentioned, we every week we take the five top trending, whether it's you know, mainstream news and so it's like articles, um, more traditional media, you know, things in newspaper or print, um, or you know, a viral reel or a podcast clip or something. So a little bit newer form of media, and we take the five most, you know, viral ones, whatever's popping off, whatever our disco community sends us, and we talk about them and we cover them. And we love, as you said, to meld agriculture and pop culture. So we really look for those, you know, um articles that are featuring food and farming and the Western culture in a more, you know, relevant kind of um mainstream way. So we're not, you know, giving like commodity prices or or talking about really things that are integral or um, you know, farming 101 or anything like that is very much so um a place to come for the news, like just to stay up to date on what is going on in the world of food and and farming and agriculture. And it is very much so through our millennial kind of female pop culture um tone.
SPEAKER_00:If I'm not mistaken, Discover Ag had a TV or television series. Can you tell our listeners about that? What was the goal? What was the goal?
SPEAKER_02:So that is in the behind the scenes something we've been working on for the last couple of years to take off. Um, we're hoping to do another form of it this summer where it's Discover Ag on the Road. And eventually essentially what it is is, you know, the visual component of what we talk about on the podcast. So we would go and discover ag on different operations and uh learn about different um products, how they're grown, interview the people. And so it's a little bit more of that visual component of what we do on the podcast.
SPEAKER_00:So, which one of the two of you is the expert in photography and videography?
SPEAKER_02:Oh, that's so funny. We have very distinct roles. Our personalities are very different, and that's probably why we jive so well. But I am the creative brain. I am the one that's in charge of all of the visuals, and Tara takes car care of all of the back end, you know, the details, the billing, all of the stuff that my brain just cannot um cannot and does not want to do anymore, which is funny coming from a science background. But yeah, no, I I thrive in creativity. I think that's why I actually was drawn to social media in the first place and why I've continued to share it for a long so long is because I do really love the creativity um you can have as an artist on those different mediums.
SPEAKER_00:So we won't uh we won't tell anyone your answer. I'm joking. But uh, do you have a favorite social media platform? Is there one that you just prefer is more usable for you, maybe has more impact?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah, for sure. It's the podcast. You know, I heard a creator say a couple years ago that um podcasting is the one social media form that most people are not trying to um, you know, take breaks from or fast from, or they feel like um, you know, is is cutting into their lives. You know, most people are trying to spend less time on social media, less time scrolling, less time consuming, but not podcasting. It is very much so the one platform that I feel like when it comes to social media, people like it feel like it is always adding value. And um, so I love it for that reason. And then I also love it because, you know, we live in a society where people are just trying to get shorter and shorter. You know, how much can you fit into a tagline, a soundbite, a nine-second reel, you know, of what is it, 140-character Twitter post? And so um I love that on the podcast you get a show up and you get to spend time really talking about things on an in depth, um, whether it's entertaining, um, you know, you're laughing together for a long amount of time or you are learning together. It's more informative. I just love that there is space for holding, you know, actual conversations. Like I feel like it is just maintaining parts of our past that we're kind of losing in our social landscape right now.
SPEAKER_00:So let's look five years down the road. Where do you want to take Discover Ag? Where would you like to see it in five years?
SPEAKER_02:Yep. So it would be just continue to grow the podcast community. You know, when we launched it, we obviously brought a large part of our individual social media followings over to tune in. And so it very much so started as kind of an agriculture-based podcast. And as we have grown, it has been so cool to see who it reaches and where the followers are from and how removed from agriculture they are and how they love to tune in to kind of get our perspective and you know stay connected or even connect to one of their very first you know farms and ranches. And so I would love to continue to grow that so that we are just hitting you know kind of the beating heart of some of these urban cities and places in the US and that people have that tie to food that they they don't normally get. And then it would be to see you know the the TV portion picked up where you are you know catching that on maybe a streaming device or something that again can really have much more reach and expanse than you know Tara and I can do kind of grassroots on our own.
SPEAKER_00:So segue into your family's cattle operation, Kvaric Cattle Company. I think you guys had your second annual bull sale this past January. Given your creativity and all the wonderful skills that you have what what role do you play in the bull sale? What role do you play in the operation at large?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah so I am transitioning a little bit of the time I spend you know creating and marketing around it used to be my you know individual handle uh over for our ranch now. And so I guess you could call me CEO of marketing maybe for Cavor Capital Company Chief Marketing Officer.
SPEAKER_00:Yes.
SPEAKER_02:Yeah exactly but I love it. I I really enjoy it. You know my husband when we are technically a first generation operation I obviously grew up in it but we are obviously not on my family ranch in Montana and my husband grew up in it but um it was his grandparents who are in production agriculture and um that ranch went to his uncles and cousins. And so my husband very much so grew up a town kid. His dad was an eye doctor and his mom worked in the healthcare field. And so he just grew up in town but he worked on a you know his grandparents ranch in the summer and would go out to it on the weekends. It wasn't very far about 20 minutes from where he lived and so he knew from a very very young age that ranching was what he loved to do. But he didn't always know if it would be a possibility not having you know something to be able to pass it on to him. And so when he graduated he came back and kind of started Cabort Cattle Company which was a cow calf operation um and he always has loved genetics and he's loved the registered side of the industry but just really truly never believed that that would be possible for him to do. And so you know you asked what my bigger role is in the operation I, you know, I'm a fair weather rancher. I love to help my husband during the spring and summer months uh during the winter I'm awfully busy in the house in the office. But you came from Montana you should be used to this I know you would think um so I mean I help out on the ranch I but I am not an integral day-to-day employee I don't have every single day um you know jobs and responsibilities to do but it's very much so a family operation usually the my kids and I are taking along with my husband but I do think one of the bigger roles I've played is just giving my husband support um and courage to kind of grow and expand the ranch in ways he didn't think um so it it was really cool it's very special that we celebrated our second uh bull sale as you mentioned just this past January um because it's I don't um you know I say this uh proudly that um I'm not sure my husband would have ever done it if I hadn't um kind of nudged him and gave him the courage and support to do so. So it's really rewarding to kind of build our ranch together. And I I think that's one of my biggest roles is to just support my husband um in his vision and the in and where he wants to grow and take our ranch.
SPEAKER_00:For those who didn't grow up in Nebraska or the cattle industry it's important to note that I mean bull sales early in the year it's a big deal right you get your set date and nobody better interfere with that. So I'm sure you even had a hard time uh with the second annual trying to find the date that didn't conflict with any of the other big producers out there.
SPEAKER_02:We did and also you know you think about who you want as an auctioneer and who you want as a ringman and some of these different things. And so um yeah we did well I think actually our um the the date of our first sale was different than the date of our second uh sale but now we will be the last Friday in January always we've kind of settled into that date and it works out with you know the people we want involved so now we're committed now now we're on track.
SPEAKER_00:Let the world know that last uh exactly yep right there in January belongs to the Cavarics. So awesome so let's segue a little bit to the industry at large what what do you see as the the biggest challenges facing production agriculture in the US Yeah I mean it's probably an answer you know across the board.
SPEAKER_02:It's not out of the box. I feel like most producers would probably give this same response but um just cost you know margins are so thin in agriculture whether you're a farmer or rancher um I think the farming you know we do very minimal farming we lease kind of some of the farm ground we have out and we maintain a little for ourselves but even then we being in a bringing in a custom crew to chop it. And so you know I'm not super I I just don't stay super up to date on you know what's going on in in the farming um sector but I do know I think that they are slated to have one of their lowest um lowest years yet and um I think that's kind of across the board in the industry you know cattle prices are really great right now and holding well but that doesn't always hold and so I just think you know the capital the how much it costs to operate um with the return that we get um is getting harder and harder I think for operations to just even make ends meet let alone be super profitable.
SPEAKER_00:So one buzzword in ag as well as other industries is sustainability. And I have discovered as I ask people what that means to them there's a wide variety of definitions. So if I were to ask you what does sustainability as it relates to ag uh mean to you, what what's your definition?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah so I I could I could talk about this Barbara because I feel like it comes up quite a bit on the podcast just in different topics we we cover. But you know what I'll what I'll say is you're right it is a buzzword and you know um I think it has its pros because I think it helps consumers and those removed from agriculture grasp onto something and understand you know the positive things that agriculture can do for the world and the positive things that the agriculture does do for the world and the environment. And so I love that there's kind of this word, you know, whether it's regenerative or sustainable that there's this bridge that they can kind of understand all the, you know, like I said the positive things that farming and ranching does. But it is kind of a downfall that it isn't really defined and it can mean such different things to people and um you know can one of the things I don't like about it is that if you aren't sustainable then you're unsustainable, right? And so I think there's also some of these maybe preconceived notions or assumptions that come with it. So you know well when I talk about sustainability I always just talk about that you know whatever you call it most farms and ranches across you know the US are implementing sustainable practices they might call it different things and it might look like different things on the different operations because no farm and ranch is the same but it's all about stewarding the land the best the farmer and the rancher can do as well as animal welfare the best they can do. So it's all about maintaining progressing and keeping um for the for the next generation essentially so you have a tremendous presence you're obviously extremely articulate and a great speaker that doesn't just come about right so were you an FFA speech team did you do any of that when you were younger I was not you know I my oldest son partook in FFA and that was kind of my first big exposure to it. I am not entirely sure why growing up that wasn't something that my parents pushed but I you know know this will not come as a shock to someone who enjoys you know the social platform and having um massive reach I guess of of people strangers tuning in but I was a theater kid I've always loved acting there we go that's where it comes from yep yes so I've always loved I even now I love going you know to to big productions and plays and I think there's something really beautiful about theater. So that might be where you know my some of my yapping and and speaking comes from so you we talked a little bit about you being a keynote speaker.
SPEAKER_00:You've been a moderator you've been on panel discussions you've mceed events if folks want to hire you for those services where should they go?
SPEAKER_02:Yeah they can go to my website I do have a website nataliekovoric.com on their links to you know my different social handles my email nataliekovoric at gmail.com um but also social media I feel like social media is such an easy way for people to connect now uh informally too so you can always follow me on my different platforms they're all under my name Natalie Kavorik um Instagram LinkedIn and X so out of all these many many many things that you do and you're really good at what's your sweet spot? What's the place where it's not even work to you it just happens because you're just so gifted in that name in that nature um I would say again I hate to like hound the podcast but uh you know Tara and I one of the things that our discos, which is what our community calls themselves who tune in, uh one of the feedback we constantly hear is how well we kind of banter and flow as co-hosts. Sometimes when you get multiple voices talking it can be chunky or you're not on the same page or it just doesn't you know have the right kind of feel and vibe to it. But Tara and I are almost one person at the end of the day after amount of time we've spent together and all the things we've done. And so I really feel like when I sit down in our podcasting chair every Monday and you know we pull up the topics at hand for that week it is just such a natural and easy flow of conversation to to laugh and and cover you know some lighthearted content but also um get into you know she's very very intelligent and so to get into some of these heavier conversations and you know bigger topics that you know do affect us, you know, policy and different things that want to be implemented across the nation and changes they want to make for farmers and ranchers is really fun. And I feel like I have maybe the most impact um again going back to depth of conversation and length of conversation and who we can get to tune in I do think that I feel the most rewarded about the podcast to you because I think I'm having the most impact there too.
SPEAKER_00:Natalie something we ask all of our guests and you just get one word what one word do you best describes and explains this great place in which you live you're a wife you're a mom you're a rancher and a wildly successful entrepreneur. What's your one word for Nebraska?
SPEAKER_02:You know it's so funny because I did not grow up here but um when I saw that question the first word that pops into my mind was home. So Nebraska is home to me and I feel so blessed. It is a great state and it is filled with really wonderful people and I always joke that for being plopped down you know having to leave the beautiful state of Montana and being plopped down in the middle of nowhere Nebraska I really could not have picked a better state. I um I love I love Nebraskans go big red.
SPEAKER_00:Perfect.
SPEAKER_02:Natalie I'm grateful that you joined us for this episode how about Discover Ag where would folks find that yep so we are on all the different podcast platforms so wherever you tune in to podcasts you can find us the most two common obviously are usual Apple podcasts or Spotify. Our podcast is called Discover Ag. The cover arc is two girls one's holding the chicken one's holding the hot dog and you know we're in denim so when you see that photo you know you have landed at the right place. And that's where you can tune in every single week or a Thursday once a week Thursday podcast.
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