Country Tough with Brandy Von Holten

Welcome to Country Tough with Brandy Von Holten.  Today's guest is Kody Hanner!  If one day we find out that we are related, it would explain a lot.  We look a like, have a lot of the same values, and found each other at a homeschool expo.  I love her business and she loves mine!  She has written an elaborate homeschool curriculum for homesteaders!  It is K-12 and is nothing shy of being called a one stop shop and a masterpiec...

Welcome to Country Tough with Brandy Von Holten!  You are about to meet one of my MOST people on this planet!  Taressa Rankin!!!  She is such a wonderful trainer, mom, wife, and friend!  She is a horse trainer, homeschooler, and homesteader.  This podcast is the first but not the last.  If you would like to find Taressa, check her out on Facebook at Taressa Rankin Horsemanship, LLC.  To find more information about Von Holten Rand o...

Welcome to Country Tough with Brandy Von Holten!  Today's guest is Diana Thebo- Markworth!   She has been a familiar face at Von Holten Ranch throughout the years.  From clinics, to judging, to competing, to getting married....when there's a horse involved, Diana's favorite mount is a MUSTANG.  Diana is a gift to every mustang she comes across.  Just a friend in general to the breed.  Diana works to ensure that all o...

Welcome back to Country Tough with Brandy Von Holten.  Today's guest is Logan Schrag, a Kansas cowboy that owns Diamond Springs Ranch.  His facility offers guided trail rides, a massive treehouse that is more like a beautiful apartment for the weekend, an event venue, and something he calls the "Cowboy Experience".  No horse, no problem.  Logan Schrag and Michael W. Green also do business consulting.  Check him out w...

Welcome back to Big Boss Mare with Brandy Von Holten!  OMG, you are going to love today's guest, Liz Dingus!  You will join me in rooting for her.  2021 was extremely rough on a lot of people, but it was over the top hard on Liz and her family.  In 2021, she lost her mother-in-law, father-in-law, her mother, and her 21 year old son (her 5th child out of 8).  Liz talks about this experience and how she found herself at 51 going...

Welcome back to Big Boss Mare with Brandy Von Holten!  Let's meet Tony & Merry Kroeger with Heartland Eq Stables located in Sedalia, Missouri.  Before the stables, they dove into a business called The Weed Zapper.  This dynamic duo also pastor a church together where they have done everything from "preach, teach, and play bass" for over 30 years.  
The world really is such a small place.  Locally I was electe...

Welcome back to Big Boss mare with Brandy Von Holten!  Today's guests are a horsemanship instruction duo named Tony & Jenny Vaught!  They are a dynamic duo that has been helping horses, mules, and riders reach their next level.  This is a homeschooling, ministry, karate, and amazing horsemanship married couple.  They now live in Florida but frequent the Midwest to share their teachings.  Tony & Jenny are clinicians tha...

Welcome to Big Boss Mare with Brandy Von Holten!  Tina Dulaban is our guest today!  She is the Vice Chair for the Central Region for the Missouri Women in Agriculture.  MO Women in Ag put on a yearly conference called the Women in Ag Conference.  The conference started in 2001 and has been going strong ever since.  The event is in September and on a Monday-Tuesday-and Wednesday.  Weekends are extremely difficult to work around so t...

Welcome back to Big Boss Mare with Brandy Von Holten!  Meet DVM Greg Houtsma with the Warrensburg Animal Hospital located in Warrensburg, Missouri.  Born in Canada, but settled in Missouri, DVM Greg Houtsma is a highly respected vet in the Midwest.  He emphasizes in equine reproduction, lameness, and dentistry.  He has helped us at Von Holten Ranch with equine dentistry, lameness, eye injuries, and everything in between.  You will ...

Welcome back to Big Boss Mare with Brandy Von Holten!  We have two guests today, Russ and Dina Brown, the owners of R Bar B in Topeka, Kansas!  Their store is family owned with their three sons also working for the business.  They sell saddles, tack, clothing, cowboy hats, trailers, bits, and everything in between!  R Bar B is also hosts all sorts of clinicians and events in their outdoor arena.  Russ and Dina also specialize in sa...

Welcome back to Big Boss Mare with Brandy Von Holten!  Today's guest is Mark Kestner.  Our businesses parallel from close to the same start date and roughly the same industry.  Mark has a company that is divided into three categories:  rental RV, RV park, and now a crappie fishing guide service.  You will love his down to Earth business plan and his willingness to venture out to live the life he actually wants to live.  Check ...

Welcome to Big Boss Mare with Brandy Von Holten!  Today's guest is Alaina Cross!  She is one amazing cowgirl!  I have known her since she was a youth Extreme Cowboy Association competitor.  Alaina starts colts and has even trained mustangs!  Her uplifting zest for life will have you waiting for her next word.  Just a kind soul and an even more amazing mom, wife, and cowgirl.  Alaina took a spill on a horse and went to the hosp...

Welcome to Big Boss Mare with Brandy Von Holten.  Today we have Karen Cummings as our valued guest.  She has been in my life before Von Holten Ranch.  Karen is now a massage therapist and a Country Tough Trail Versatility competitor.  I do not have a lot of friends that stick around for the different chapters of my life; Karen has been around for almost 20 years.  If you ever need a massage therapist that can get the job done and y...

Welcome to Big Boss Mare with Brandy Von Holten.  It is my pleasure to introduce Abigail Hoffman.  Abigail is the owner of Tailwind Horsemanship, LLC and is a graduate of Clinton Anderson's Clinician Academy.  Abigail is a Clinton Anderson Ambassador.  Iowa is where she currently presides, but the world has no limits for this professional cowgirl.  In this podcast you will get to meet Abigail and see what lead her to where she...

Welcome back to Big Boss Mare with Brandy Von Holten!  Today is a first-generation cowgirl that is blazing the way for her mother and niece to join in the passion of being top performing cowgirls!  You will love the freedom and dedication of horsewoman, Shayla Shipley!  I first met Shayla at a clinic where she was a way more advanced competitor that I am and I WAS TEACHING THE CLINIC!  Shayla is helping develop her niece, Carissa, ...

Welcome back to Big Boss Mare with Brandy Von Holten!  Today’s guest is international clinician and world champion horseman, Lee Hart!  He is my trainer and is the longest returning clinician at Von Holten Ranch.  Lee has a staggering list of accomplishments including WRCA World Champion Bronc Rider to WRCA Top Hand to the American Royal Colt Starting Champion to the EXCA World Pro Champion and EXCA World Futurity Champion.  Lee Ha...

Welcome back to Big Boss Mare with Brandy Von Holten!  Today we have the pleasure of interviewing two cowgirls from West Virginia!  Mary White, 84, and Alicia Stickel, 61, drove separately from West Virginia to attend a Big Boss Mare Production called Chix in the Sticks!  Mary drove herself and set her trailer up herself!  With owning a trail riding facility, it was refreshing to see an older cowgirl out there COWGIRLING!!!  Mary h...