Episode 116: Nancy Casey on self publishing

In this episode, Rachel sits down with McKenzi Stone, a young HR consultant in eastern Colorado. Her consulting role is in Human Resources but her heart is for people and rural places and that's what really made this visit super enjoyable. Kenzi is the conversation you just might need after the last two weeks. Find her at McKenzi Stone, HR Consultant or McKenzi and Co. This episode is brought to you by the generous support of Iliff Custom Cabinetry. Find Adam Rose on The Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/icucab/. If you see Adam, please let him know you heard about him here.Check our our cows on the Anywhere Cam site at https://anywhere.cam/. Scroll down to the Hereford cows and tada!

In this episode, Rachel and Dan Gates sit down once again to talk about why Colorado's 83 to protect hunting and fishing doesn't matter today. That's right. It doesn't matter today, but within our kids' generation, it will. Vote, man. Find Dan and more information at savethehuntcolorado.com and you can find the Through the Gates podcast wherever you're listening.This episode is brought to you by the generous support of Iliff Custom Cabinetry. Find Adam Rose on The Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/icucab/. If you see Adam, please let him know you heard about him here.Check our our cows on the Anywhere Cam site at https://anywhere.cam/. Scroll down to the Hereford cows and tada!

In this episode, Rachel is joined by Leslie Gifford of Western Ag Network. Leslie will be on her own episode soon because she thrills me all the time with her stories and love of history and her heart for little girls, broncs, and old houses. You guys are going to love her.Our guest this week is Shane Hanchey, now officially 18x National Finals Rodeo Qualifier in the tie-down roping. We talk about having the horse of the year, getting ready for his big roping, the NFR, and a food truck that brings crawfish and boiled shrimp to the people! I'm a fan, man.This episode is brought to you by the generous support of Iliff Custom Cabinetry. Find Adam Rose on The Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/icucab/. If you see Adam, please let him know you heard about him here.Check our our cows on the Anywhere Cam site at https://anywhere.cam/. Scroll down to the Hereford cows and tada!

In this episode, Rachel visits with Congressman Gabe Evans from Fort Lupton, Colo. Evans is running to retain his seat against Democrat challenger Manny Rutinel, who has a long anti-ag and anti-oil and gas agenda. This is a big problem for the constituents within CD-8 in Colorado, one of the largest ag and energy producing Congressional districts in the country. This episode is brought to you by the generous support of Iliff Custom Cabinetry. Find Adam Rose on The Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/icucab/. If you see Adam, please let him know you heard about him here.Check our our cows on the Anywhere Cam site at https://anywhere.cam/. Scroll down to the Hereford cows and tada!

In this episode, Rachel visits with with editor and author Nancy Casey. Casey edits Buck Sawyer and is hopefully encouraging him to finish HEX 2 because I'm anxious to read it. This is the insider guide to writing and self publishing, especially in the agriculture/rural space so many of us are in. You can find and follow Nancy at planetnancy.net.This episode is brought to you by the generous support of Iliff Custom Cabinetry. Find Adam Rose on The Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/icucab/. If you see Adam, please let him know you heard about him here.Check our our cows on the Anywhere Cam site at https://anywhere.cam/. Scroll down to the Hereford cows and tada!

In this episode, Rachel visits with Mace Thornton. He was one of the first policy guys I met when I was a whippersnapper on the Colorado Farm Bureau Young Farmers and Ranchers Committee a million years ago. He had a novel on his bucket list and now he's working on number three. You know I LOVE a good rural story with some history. His check all the boxes. Find and follow along at macethornton.com.This episode is brought to you by the generous support of Iliff Custom Cabinetry. Find Adam Rose on The Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/icucab/. If you see Adam, please let him know you heard about him here.Check our our cows on the Anywhere Cam site at https://anywhere.cam/. Scroll down to the Hereford cows and tada!

In this episode, Rachel visits with Kari Hume about her battle with an energy company. She's our very own Erin Brockovich.From humefarmstead.com:In 2024, Tallgrass Energy built the Logan Compressor Station just 951 feet from our front door — more than 400 feet closer than the distance the company reported to federal regulators. This compressor station sits over the bi-directional natural gas transporting Rockies Express Pipeline, called "REX”. It went in following a zoning change, without a local building permit and without the kind of public notice a project of this size would typically require.Since then, we've lived with near-constant noise, low-frequency vibration we can feel inside our home and shop, and intermittent sulfur-like and chemical odors. The dispute has since grown to include the nearby Trailblazer Pipeline, which runs through our pasture roughly 800 feet from our home. That pipeline has carried natural gas across our land for over 40 years under a 1981 right-of-way agreement — but Tallgrass has converted it to carry carbon dioxide (CO2), a use that legal analysis confirms was never authorized under that agreement.Our children can no longer play outside without experiencing sounds, vibrations, airborne toxins, concerning odors, and a large aesthetic eyesore. Our fabrication business requires welding and plasma cutting, both open-flame activities in the presence of unannounced, pungent natural gas releases. Though these activities are inside our shop, air quality experts confirm that VOCs actually accumulate inside buildings and residences near facilities with emissions. We’ve spent nearly two years trying to resolve this privately and in good faith. That didn't work. We've now filed suit — Hume, Brady et al v. Tallgrass Energy et al, Logan County District Court, case number 2026CV030052This episode is brought to you by the generous support of Iliff Custom Cabinetry. Find Adam Rose on The Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/icucab/. If you see Adam, please let him know you heard about him here.Check our our cows on the Anywhere Cam site at https://anywhere.cam/. Scroll down to the Hereford cows and tada!

In this episode, Rachel visits with editor Nancy Casey about self publishing. This is an absolute insider look into writing, editing, and publishing. This episode is brought to you by the generous support of Adam Rose at Iliff Custom Cabinetry. Find him at www.iliffcustomcabinetry.com or on The Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/icucab/. If you see Adam, please let him know you heard about him here.Check our our cows on the Anywhere Cam site at https://anywhere.cam/. Scroll down to the Hereford cows and tada!Find Nancy Casey at https://planetnancy.net/. I have a copy of her memoir. Send me a text at 970-768-0024 if you would like it. I'll mail it to you as soon as I read it!

In this episode, Rachel visits with former state senator Greg Brophy, her favorite watermelon grower. Brophy says renewable energy projects on private property can be a total win for ag producers akin to a dang lottery ticket. Here's his take.This episode is brought to you by the generous support of Adam Rose at Iliff Custom Cabinetry. Find him at www.iliffcustomcabinetry.com or on The Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/icucab/. If you see Adam, please let him know you heard about him here.Check our our cows on the Anywhere Cam site at https://anywhere.cam/. Scroll down to the Hereford cows and tada!

In this episode, Rachel visits with Dick Wadhams, who I aspire to be as smart as. He's a political powerhouse who has forgotten more about Colorado politics than I have ever known. I'm a total fan.This episode is brought to you by the generous support of Adam Rose at Iliff Custom Cabinetry. Find him at www.iliffcustomcabinetry.com or on The Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/icucab/. If you see Adam, please let him know you heard about him here.Check our our cows on the Anywhere Cam site at https://anywhere.cam/. Scroll down to the Hereford cows and tada!