Episode 12 - A Conversation with Brittany Olson

Welcome back to The Rural Well Podcast! We've reached episode 12. We have the incredible privilege of having Brittany Olson join the podcast today,

Brittany Olson is a fifth generation dairy farmer in north western Wisconsin with her husband Sam and son Titus. Brittany is also a business owner, photographer and blogger.

Show Notes or discussion points:

- Lived in abuse, a broken family relationship as a child

- Miscarriage was the start of the end of my parents marriage

- There is such a thing as "golden uterus syndrome" - tune in for explanation

- Abusive moms don’t deserve the right to still have contact and control their child - this caused unnecessary trauma

- Parents sometimes use their children to hurt the other spouse

- Entered counselling but had to wait a year!

- Had to build boundaries with mom

- later in life, still had to deal with stress and problems, fires, barn rebuilds, birth trauma

- Panic attacks, crushing anxiety are still there

- We need to reorganize our expectations

- Recognize that you are fearfully and wonderfully made and have value from your creator…”God made the moon and the stars and he also decided he needed one of us”

Quote “If agriculture goes wrong, nothing else will have a chance to go right”

Cheap food does have a cost. Moving away from our farming roots can have negative consequences in our culture.

Question: If you could take on anyones voice, who would that voice be?

Thank you for tuning in!

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