Stockmanship for The Mind
Welcome to Stockmanship for The Mind. A podcast hosted by The State of Mind Consultancy, primarily aimed at farmers, rural professionals and all countryside folk (although you might also like it if you’re town/city based too!) I’m sharing a completely new, and radical understanding of the mind, known as the 3 Principles (more on what they are later…) alternatively known as The Inside Out Understanding. I’m sharing where our experience comes from, I mean, really comes from. It looks like its coming from life, right? Relationships, work, friends, family… Here’s the thing, its coming from inside you. Yes thats right, that feeling you’re having right now, its from inside you. How does that relate to rural life and farming? Well, it relates to staff, family, your husband/wife/wife/partner, how you handle pressure. It’s just that in farming, our state of mind, and the results of that, are more obvious because there’s a ton of pressure, a million things to do and there’s nowhere to hide. And the best news… all you have to do is listen! As best you can, listen with nothing on your mind. Don’t take notes, just let it soak in and see what new and fresh thinking occurs to you.
Episodes
When we're in a low mood, our thinking tends to become clouded, our perspective narrows, and we’re more likely to make decisions we later regret. So how do we get into a better headspace more of the time?
Do we need to change our mood? How? And if our feelings aren't the problem, what is? Is it the frustrating people around us? The demands of running a farm and managing staff? The endless things on our to-do list, the pressur...
James Turner from Farming For Good and Chris Evans, a beef and sheep farmer, join me for a conversation about the importance of community — and how having a space where you can ask anything, even if you think it might be a silly question, can open the door to new ideas.
We’ve all been there.
The jobs that haven’t been done. The things that should have been done yesterday. The person who hasn’t done what they said they would do. And that growing feeling that if I don’t get annoyed about this, nothing is going to get done!
On a farm, this can escalate pretty quickly.
What if one change in mindset could transform your whole farm? 🌱
In this episode, Duncan Bennett — farmer and member of the groundbreaking Upper Onny Farmers Group — shares the story of a mindset shift that happened almost overnight.
And the results?
🌱 Healthier soil 🦋 More wildlife 🚜 A different approach to farming �...
“They’re driving me insane!” - New Podcast Episode from Stockmanship for the Mind
Sometimes other people can really hack us off.
And in farming, where you often live and work alongside the same people day in, day out, disagreements can turn into feuds — and it can be incredibly hard to move past.
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Cath Landles, Community and Landscape Officer for the Shropshire Hills National Landscape, joins us to share the inspiring story of working with the Upper Onny Farmers Group.
Cath talks about helping farmers to look at their own farms with fresh eyes — and what happened when they did. As they began to see their land differently, they discovered new opportunities, grew in confi...
Have you ever felt that you don't fit in? That it's just too hard to try something new? Have you ever worried what people think of you?
These are some of the things that Gareth, as a gay new entrant to farming, has grappled with over the last few years.
Now a herdsperson at the Harper Adams future farm, working for Shropshire Rural Support and also being the adoptive Dad to two boys, his story is inspiring on so many levels.
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We all know that life feels better in a good headspace right? So what do we do when we find ourselves in a bad mood, everything looks hard and we feel rubbish?
Its kind of tempting to think that something about our life or ourselves needs to change in order for us to feel better. How many of us have made big decisions from that place of ‘I just can’t ta...
Have you heard the phrase 'It's OK to not be OK?' What does that even mean? How is it possible to have peace of mind when everything is going wrong and it feels like we're going to implode/explode!? When we've got the toxins of anxiety coursing through our veins, when we're drowning in remorse or shame, when we're grieving?
How do we embrace those difficult times? Even when we didn't choose them? How do we have that experienc...
Have you ever noticed how easy it is to get caught up in the stories we tell ourselves?
For many of us, there's a quiet narrative running in the background of our mind:
"Am I good enough?" "What do people think of me?" "Why does this always seem to happen to me?"
When life is going smoothly, we may barely notice these stories. But when we're faced with challenges—grief, illness, the end of a relationship, or simply a difficul...
Emma Jones is, above all, a Cheshire dairy farmer. Working on her family farm, she experiences first-hand both the rewards and the realities of modern farming, giving her a deep understanding of the challenges faced by rural communities.
On this episode we have a lovely chat about how life works, the power of listening and the immense value of all of our lived experience.
On this episode we welcome Joe Evans, Deputy President of the CLA (Country Land and Business Association). We have a great chat about communicating in family business - the highs and lows!
Joe grew up on his family farm in Herefordshire and spent much of the first decade of his career working for HSBC Group in Asia.
In 2012 he and his wife Keeley returned 'home' where he took over the day to day running of Whitbourne estate f...
I recently went to the funeral of a truly amazing guy - Lionel Hill. He had everything you could want from life, a lovely wife, great family, a beautiful farm, a string of successful businesses, he even took over from Prince Charles (as he was then) as national president of the Young Farmers Clubs. He had friends all over the country.
He was a great bloke, always with a cheeky grin, a joke and laugh and his motto (which I learned a...
On this episode of Stockmanship for the Mind I have a great discussion with Claire Smith and Roy Jackson, Rural Partners in WR Partners accountancy firm, which is based in Shropshire, Wales and Cheshire. Claire and Roy are both from farming backgrounds and have a combined experience of a...
We all know that difficult topics can make for difficult conversations... how do we make that easier? How do we make sure that we give ourselves the best chance of a productive chat, where everyone feels better and you can actually resolve an issue... or at least make some headway?
When's the best time to tackle something tricky? Is it when we feel like our blood is boiling and we can't rest until we sort something (or somebody!) o...
Feeling under pressure? Does it look like life is throwing ALOT at you? I hear you!
What can we do about this? Nobody wants to feel stressed all the time but sometimes it kind of looks like that's the only real response to a situation. Is there anything we can see about this with fresh eyes?
In this episode I have a lovely chat with Jo Blackburn from Shropshire Rural Support about all manner of things rural and how it affects our headspace.
We all know that life feels waaaay better in a good headspace. Do we get a good headspace as a result of life going well, achieving our goals and having less problems to contend with? Maybe.
What if it works the other way around?
Come along to the podcast to hear more.
We all have issues that go round our head, things that we worry about or ideals that we feel we need to live up to. Sometimes, it feels if we were to let that go, we would be being irresponsible or not doing our best.
When we've seen something a certain way for a long time, it feels crazy to us that there is an entirely new perspective available to us - to us, it just seems 'that's the way it is.'
When we get fresh thin...
There are basic principles behind life, when we begin to understand them everything makes more sense.
The Three Principles, also known as the Inside-O...
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