Content note: This episode includes open conversation about mental health, burnout, and identity in agricultural leadership. If you are struggling, please reach out. Farm Stress Line: 1-866-327-6701. Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566. In the U.S.: 988.

Corliss Rassyle is the founder of Lead Conference Canada. She spent years building a life in agricultural leadership before she had the breakdown that made her question what leadership actually meant.

This episode is a conversation about the moment when the person running things has to stop and ask whether the thing they have built is actually serving them. Corliss does not have a tidy answer. She has the questions she learned to sit with.

What's Inside

- What Corliss Rassyle's breakdown in agricultural leadership looked like and what she did next

- The difference between performing leadership and practicing it

- Why the leaders who are most in control are often the most at risk

- What Lead Conference Canada was built to address and how it came out of her own experience

- The question she asks every agricultural leader she works with now

Related Episodes

- You Are Not Your Tractor -- Corliss Rassyle on vulnerability, identity, and what the land does not owe you (GTF Productions, June 2026)

- What the Farm Asked of Andy Junkin -- succession, identity, and what farming costs a son

Timestamps

00:00 Welcome and episode introduction

Guest

Corliss Rassyle

Website: https://www.corliss.ca

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