Episode 141 - You are not your Bank Balance

For many of us, our self-confidence and sense of self often go up and down with the seasons. We feel good about ourselves when times are good, and we are intently hard on ourselves - even thinking we are failing - when the season, conditions, or markets are bad.

Before Christmas, we felt a shock in the sheep-meat market that significantly impacted meat producers at that time. In many areas of our country, we see farming families navigating extended flood events or to the other extent, extended dries.

In this episode I invite Farm Owners Academy Director, Tracy Secombe, to join me and explore this issue. We consider how - as a farm business owners, we can overcome such issues and rise above them.

Ladies & gentlemen, we are not our bank account balance!

We are so much more than ‘just farmers’ and ‘just farmer’s wives’. We are leaders of families and great businesses. We are citizens in communities and valued friends to so many. We are good, hard-working, dependable, capable humans doing very good work and making very real differences in many ways.

As we explore this important topic, I invite you to take the opportunity to take ownership of YOUR IDENTITY. You have the opportunity to change your personal story and realise that farming is what you do, NOT who you are.

In the episode, Tracy shares some tips on how to expand our identity. She recommends including ALL the important roles we play and how to find a greater sense of balance between them. Furthermore, she shares how to shift our sense of self from ‘what we do’ to ‘who we are’.

Tracy also helps us understand how we can best navigate those moments in life when our identity needs to shift from; an active farmer into retirement; from technical farmer to farm business owner; from ‘farmers wife’ to ‘partner in a successful family business’ and from; career person to being a Mum & Dad for the first time.

Changing our story and embracing practices that support a stronger sense of self and a well-rounded IDENTITY is fundamental in the pursuit of growth and expansion in any area of life.

Elite athletes, musicians, artists, and professionals all have a coach for this. You can listen to a great example of this on Ben Crowe’s podcast, Car Chats with Crowey, where he interviewed the Australian Rugby Captain, Michael Hooper. Good enough for them, equally important for us.

Thank you Tracy for your time and for your incredible insights on such an important topic during this time.

Hutch & the Farm Owners Academy Team
 
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