The Cowboy Up Podcast with Russell True & Steven Clauson from The White Stallion Ranch

Dan Schneider is a former First Team All American baseball player and after his college time at University of Arizona he went on to play professionally for the Braves and the Astros.

After his departure from baseball he needed to take care of his growing family and landed in the casualty insurance business. As luck  would have it he started a relationship with t...

Karin Winegar is a long-time journalist who recently completed a 30 + year labor of love when Horse Lovers – Unpacking The Female Fascination With Horses. Karins work has been featured in the New York Times, Conde Nast and The Western Horseman.

Karins love for animals made her want to be a veterinarian and her love was eventually channeled to the written word. Karin was a reporter for the Minneapolis Sta...

Chris Enss is a New York Times bestselling author who has been writing non-fiction books about women of the Old West for more than thirty years. Chris was a guest at White Stallion Ranch and she took time from her vacation and spent it with Russell and Steven for the Cowboy Up Listeners. 

Chris has authored more than fifty published books on the subject of women in the old west. Chris has been honored wi...

At the C Lazy U Ranch in Granby, Colorado Ami Cullen worked her way up from the most basic position to become the Director of Equine Operations. Ami has performed various services for ranch guests, including leading trail rides on private land and BLM land, teaching and educating guests on the skills necessary to ride horses in the mountains over difficult terrain, educating guests on surrounding wildlife and ranch hi...

Bill Markley is a long-time friend and guest at White Stallion Ranch and a long-time member of Western Writers of America and a current member for the Will Rogers Medallion Awards

One of Bill’s most recent books on the Legendary West Series is Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill Cody: Plainsmen of the Legendary West was wildly successful. Bills love of history and travel were instilled in him as a young bo...

Brian Wong is the owner of a third-generation family farm first established in 1939. Brian in the second youngest of 40 grand children and was willing to stay around to do the hard work and preserve the family legacy.

Today BKW Farms, in Marana, Arizona employs organic farming methods and they grow a Heritage variety of wheat. BKW Farms is a supplier of grains to Arizona breweries, different types of whe...

Greg Laird is a practicing attorney in Tulsa, Oklahoma. He has represented numerous defendants in every stage of death penalty jurisprudence, including two victories at the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals thereby saving his clients from the Oklahoma death chamber. He wrote this book so readers could experience the twists, turns and inner turmoil that comes from representing people on death row.

He is the ...

Alex La Pierre first arrived in southern Arizona to work for the National Park Service. He wanted to focus on the historic preservation and interpretation at Tumacacori National Historic Park. His goal included creating and leveraging nonprofit cross-border work experience in project management and program development. It was then when Alex founded became the director of Borderlandia which has become a bi-national org...

Born & raised in South Dakota, Karlee Petersen has a natural passion for agriculture and the western way of life that’s been instilled from a young age. With appreciation for the sport of rodeo and putting it into play on screen, Karlee has used her skill set learned at school and various roles throughout the industry to capitalize on television production and bring rodeo to the major platform. With education being a ...

On this week’s edition of the Cowboy Up podcast we welcome Jana Earp. Before you ask, the answer is yes… She is part of the famous family from Tombstone, Arizona. A little more than two years ago, Jana took a chance and jumped on social media to share her story from life as a corporate cowgirl to owning her own ranch while pursuing her love for the western lifestyle and the outdoors.

That single decision...

The historic Empire Ranch has been a working cattle ranch for almost 150 years. Its rich history includes successive ownership by two prominent ranching families, two corporations, and finally by the federal government on behalf of the general public.

Originally established in the 1860’s as a homestead ranch of 160 acres with a flat topped four-room adobe ranch house and adjoining adobe-walled corral and...

The Roaming Hillbilly started down the path of hillbilly music a decade ago with high energy, San Francisco Peninsula-based Americana Bluegrass. After teaming up with the Edgewood Mountain Boys, 

Hillbilly (as his friends call him) quickly discovered his new passion that included roaming through the crowd playing music while the band performed on stage. 

On this edition of the Cowboy Up podcast, we introduce TJ Jones, a real-life rodeo announcer with the Tejas rodeo near San Antonio, taxes. TJ’s mom was showing horses while he was growing up and his father was on the Sul Ross State Rodeo in Alpine, Texas so his rodeo roots run deep.

TJ NEVER starts a rodeo without speaking to our Creator who blessed us with the ab...

BaseCamp for Veterans, Inc. ("BCI") was founded by life-long friends Deborah Plum & Theo Windish, who each have experience in both the private and public sectors.

Theo has a degree from Penn State University and is a behavioral analyst and he uses that education and experience to serve some of America’s returned veterans at Basecamp. Theo has spent a significant portion of his professional life connectin...

Bethany Zill is a familiar face at White Stallion Ranch and her love of ranching is obvious in this edition of the Cowboy Up podcast. Bethany grew up on a ranch in North Dakota and is part of a 5^th generation ranch family.

Alan Day was raised at the Lazy B Ranch in Arizona with his sister Sandra who went on the become the first female Supreme Court Justice of the United States Sandra Day O’Con...

Maria Eastman is the founder of Rainhorse Equine Assisted Services right here in Southern Arizona. Rainhorse provides counseling for groups who work with horses who have fallen on hard times.

Maria started her horse journey at the age of six and it was love at first sight! Maria is a certified practitioner of the Masterson Method which is a gentle technique that helps horses release tension and improve t...

Steven Hebrock is a Certified Master Hoof Care Professional and has been actively involved in the technical education of a wide range of subjects at several universities, including the University of Colorado Denver, the University of Akron, and, most recently at The Ohio State University.

At THE Ohio State University Steven taught hoof care and farriery, equine marketing and facilities management along w...

Michelle was a surprise guest at White Stallion Ranch during the pandemic. Hawaii refused her admittance and she told her husband Jeff to handle and make it perfect.

Michelle previously had a television show about luxury travel so jeff knew what he was up against. Michelle is the Director of the Pinal County Economic Development Department and is only 45 minutes from White Stallion Ranch. 

...

As the oldest of 10 children on a farm in Northwest Ohio, David grew up playing and singing gospel, country, and bluegrass. David has a Masters in Theology from Fuller Theological Seminary and earned his Ph.D. from Purdue University in Marriage and Family Therapy.

David recently retired from his 40 year career of providing 'Whole Health' education at various Universities and for the VHA. In addition to p...