That Western Life

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.

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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 competition best. Join hosts Katie & Rachel as they chat with Sarah about how taking care of yourself both physically and nutritionally, can give you the competitive advantage that you need to reach that next level in the arena with your horse!

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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!

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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 trips, mules, Bishop Mule Days and of course the importance of conservation of the back country that all packers take extremely seriously! Anna is a 2021 recipient of the COWGIRL Magazine 30 Under 30 award and we are excited to have her on the show!

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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 father and those roots were the world of rodeo. Three pageants later and she was named the 2016 Miss Rodeo Arkansas, the Rising Star at her next pageant - the subsequent Miss Rodeo America Pageant, her rodeo queen fashion was featured in Vogue, and then she made the Season 19 cast of NBC's The Voice on Team Gwen Stefani!

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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 rodeo that she decided to upgrade from running her roper horses in barrel racing to a bred-to-run quarter horse cross as barrel racing was her only option as a woman in prorodeo. Her current mount, Charm, is a half-sister to Hailey Kinsel's great mare Sister, and is setting the way for Carly's success in the rodeo arena. But potentially even more exciting is the addition of breakaway roping to prorodeo's across the country!

Carly dives deep into ranching, rodeo, her breeding program and bloodlines, being a television host for RIDE-TV and her involvement in the hunting industry and politics.

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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, also include their own unique outdoor activities like zip lining, cattle drives, fly fishing, and more!

Check out www.DudeRanch.org to find out more about the Dude Ranchers' Association!

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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 The American so we also capitalized on the opportunity to ask her all the questions regarding to one of the larges weekends in rodeo. We chatted about exemptions, the bull riding change up, and Hunter's tie-down horse spooking for $1.1 million.

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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 the perfect horse, Stevie, and this dynamic duo has placed TOP 5 in the NRCHA world for two years running. A cattle industry professional by trade with 5 Rivers Cattle Feeding, LLC, Kim is knowledgable and well spoken about all aspects of the cattle and equestrian worlds.

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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 reach out for help!

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