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The Rural Woman PodcastA Look Back: Inspiring Stories from Rural Women Part 16Join us again for another special episode as we celebrate 5 years of The Rural Woman Podcast!! We are taking a look back and revisiting some of the stories that have been shared on The Rural Woman Podcast. In these throwback episodes, we will be highlighting these incredible, resilient women in agriculture. On this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Michelle Johnsrude, Anna Bowen, Rechelle Day, Laura Jane B, Laurel Ysebaert, Kylie Gray-Eilers, Janis Harris, Melody Garner-Skiba, Noel Cole and Lauren Van Ewyk.For full show notes, including links mentioned in the show, hea...
2025-02-2137 minThe Rural Woman PodcastFarming Realities: Beyond the Instagram Filter with Laurel YsebaertOn this week's episode of The Rural Woman Podcast™, you'll meet Laurel Ysebaert.Laurel Ysebaert is a first-generation cattle rancher living in Southern Ontario with her husband and two children. She is passionate about using her platform to advocate for agriculture, mental health, and social justice. She operates her farm store, The Mercantile, at Ysebaert Acres on her ranch and online. She is also a photographer and host and creator of The Chore Beer Chats Podcast.. . .DISCUSSIONS THIS WEEK:[09:45] Exploring Different Career Paths to Landing into Farming[18:36] Upfront Costs an...
2023-10-2749 min
Chore Beer ChatsS1E11: IT'S JUST THREE COWS: THE YSEBAERT ACRES ORIGIN STORY // WITH THE RANCH HAND, ANDY YSEBAERTIn this season-one finale episode, we take a deeper-dive into the Ysebaert Acres origin story.
Put up the for-sale sign, we're broke.
Risk-taking + the legacy we hope to leave. Jumping off the cliff together. Fifth gear or dead. The Rip Wheeler mentality. Just a couple of dreamers.
Andy recaps and critiques Season One of the Chore Beer Chats podcast.
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2023-04-1048 minChore Beer ChatsS1E10: LIVE LAUGH LOVE + LABIA TATTOOS // WITH KEL SWAYZEKelly AKA Lazy Margaret Swayze AKA my on-call tattoo artist spends her Super Bowl Sunday with me in the Mercantile. Go sports!
That one time my dog died so I got a tattoo. The way my direction went from super-meaningful to pew-pew chicken REAL quick. Kelly admits I’m her favourite client.
One minute you’re asking for an infinity symbol, the next you’re getting a neck tat.
What Kelly did before she started drawing on people for a living. Traditional tattooing and what it means to her. Sailor Jerry? You mean Sailor...
2023-04-031h 14Chore Beer ChatsS1E9: SHOULD'VE BEEN A COWBOY // WITH GRAMPA SHANEA Chore-Beer Chatline-led episode with *THE* Grampa Shane.
The ultimate origin story. The honour and ultimate joy of raising the legend of Laurel.
The horse that ate hotdogs. The Ontario Steer Assistance Program. Did Timmy ever get out of that well? Howdy Doody, spaghetti westerns + more baby boomer energy.
Tim Horton's chicken noodle soup from Listowel, Ontario and other deep-rooted childhood trauma. I'll never be good enough for the WNBA (thanks, dad). The iconic Britney Spears ice-skating performance of 1999 that I have *zero* recollection of.
Cowboy shit.
The developed rese...
2023-03-2759 minChore Beer ChatsS1E8: DON'T POKE THE BEAR, THIS BEAR BITES + OTHER LIFE LESSONS FROM LAUREL // SOLOIn the second solo episode of the season (and a *v* vulnerable one at that), I'm sharing hard lessons I've learned recently among other things:
Sleeping when I’m dead. Decaf coffee + new rituals. Don’t wear sherpa in a hay barn. Time alone does NOT heal all.
How I got the confidence to do whatever the fuck I want. Learning to get out of my own way.
~~iF yOu cAn DrEaM iT yOu cAn dO iT~~~* and more bad advice.
Reevaluating relationships, cutting out toxic...
2023-03-2034 minChore Beer ChatsS1E7: HOW TO BECOME A FLOWER FARMER IN 2.5 SECONDS // WITH ASHLEY VAIL OF VAIL FAMILY FARM"I grew flowers, therefore I am a flower farmer". The reward of starting something from seed, in both the literal and metaphorical sense.
Giving great advice but never taking it for ourselves. Showing up on social media as a business - authentically and sustainably. Learning to measure success + growth outside of money + followers.
NOBODY KNOWS WHAT THE ALGORITHM WANTS and anyone who says they do is a liar.
Being stupid + crazy, and other telltale benchmarks of success. Dopamine hits. Useless farm animals. The trash-can chick. A penis with feathers. Heart cartwheels.
Far...
2023-03-1354 minChore Beer ChatsS1E6: BEEFEATER, BIEBER AND BUGGY RAMS // WITH SANDI BROCK OF SHEEPISHLY METhe Chore Beer mentality. Adult money. Fondly recalling the last time we saw the sun. Sandi says 4-6 bad words. Donkey stalking. Speaking up, or performatism?
EVERYBODY ON THE INTERNET KNOWS BETTER THAN US and other musings about unsolicited cyber-advice. Jessica Brock accidentally becomes my E6 punching bag. Big Aries energy. Feet pics. THOUSANDS OF CHICKENS + the resulting demise of SB the poultry farmer.
Risk-taking. Choosing your 'busy'. Bieber knows best: it's lonely at the top. Becoming friends with yourself. Turning a personal diary-entry vlog into almost 1M subscribers on YouTube, and the double-edged sword...
2023-03-061h 26Chore Beer ChatsS1E5: CAMEL TOE, COSMIC INJUSTICE + NOT GIVING A SHIT // WITH DANI VONSHWEETZ OF NORTH SOUL STUDIOSMimosas. Blue-sky thinking. Organized chaos. The small moments. Chasing what makes us feel fufilled. The experience of being a woman in a male-dominated field. Raising our kids to not be assholes. Dani and I reminisce on our time together at the Academy at the Farm retreat with Jillian Harris, and I talk about the exact moment my brain birthed this podcast.
Dani Vonshweetz is a wife, mom, craftswomen, creativity chaser, and founder + solopreneur of North Soul Studios.
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2023-02-271h 13Chore Beer ChatsS1E4: THE BONUS EPISODE THAT SHOULD NEVER HAVE AIRED // WITH THE RANCH HAND, ANDY YSEBAERTMargot Robbie ruins my marriage. Tim McGraw is too chiseled. Andy plans to play the field as a 60-year old widow. The list of icks. The age-old question: would you love me if I was a worm? A guest-appearance by Joe Rogan. The Chore Beer Chats Podcast was Andy's idea, I look exactly like Jennifer Anniston, and more lies.
This is an episode from the vault - the first recording we ever did for Chore Beer Chats. It was meant only to be a practice run but now I'm sharing it with the internet because it's so r...
2023-02-2027 minChore Beer ChatsS1E3: MEN *COULD NEVER* // SOLOToday's episode of Chore Beer Chats involves a wickedly therapeutic discussion about my personal experience with PPA/PPD and how I navigated my way through the postpartum fog. We talk about intrusive thoughts, the literal SUPER POWER that is being a woman, "doing it all", being a horse girl sans horse, why I don't and won't share my kids on social media, and how I built my successes on top of a foundation of failure. OH YEAH, WE'RE GETTING INTO IT.
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2023-02-201h 19Chore Beer ChatsS1E2: GIRLBOSSING TOO CLOSE TO THE SUN // WITH NICKI STRAUS OF WICK + BEAROn today's episode of Chore Beer Chats, Nicki Straus joins me for a wonderfully chaotic conversation about our Tiktok-diagnosed ADHD, being a bad mom, copy-cat culture in a small town of makers (this one might be about you xo), and the potential problematic chokehold the boss-babe gendered-language has on our elder-millennial generation.
Nicki Straus is an entrepreneur who runs her successful candle-making business, Wick + Bear, out of her home in Camlachie, Ontario.
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2023-02-201h 08Chore Beer ChatsS1E1: INTRO // WELCOME TO THE SHIT SHOWWelcome to the first-ever official episode of Chore Beer Chats!
This intro epi is short + sweet - I'll give you a brief introduction to who I am and a little bit about what you can expect from the podcast over the next 8 weeks. New episodes come out every Monday!
Okay here we go - BUCKLE THE FUCK UP, BABIES. Season one starts now!
For the full show notes, and all links mentioned in the episode: www.ysebaertacres.com/s1e1
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2023-02-2011 min
Chore Beer ChatsTHE TRAILERLaurel Ysebaert has cattle, but she doesn’t take bull - and as a mom, elder millennial and first generation rancher, she has a lot to say. In this podcast, she sits down with cool people doing cool shit, and doesn’t hold anything back. If you’re into authentic discussion, unfiltered honesty and a light dusting of sarcasm + spitfire, then crack one open and join the post-chore party.
SEASON ONE COMING MONDAY FEB 20
2023-02-0400 min
The Fashionable Farmers Podcast004 | Laurel Ysebaert, Ysebaert Acres & Mercantile Welcome to the Fashionable Farmers podcast; where we talk all things agriculture and fashion. Advocating for women in the agriculture industry by sharing stories of both the pretty and gritty components of the ag lifestyle. Hosted by Takaila and Tori Kendall, fifth generation farmers, sisters, and founders of T Lazy T Boutique, we are ready to connect and share the passions within women in ag. Laurel Ysebaert is a mother of two, a wife, and a first-generation cattle rancher on a third-generation family farm in Southwestern Ontario. Alongside her husband and two kids, she started a...
2022-10-1110 min