This week on the Stock Show Sisters podcast, co-host Riki interviews her longtime mentor and work friend Megan Mullins, recounting how they met at ABBA and exploring Megan’s background in 4-H/FFA, showing sheep, pigs, and later heifers after moving from La Porte to Franklin, Texas.

Megan shares her nonlinear career path from Blinn to Sam Houston State, earning a Spanish and secondary education degree, teaching Spanish/ESL for five years, and confidently navigating career pivots through work ethic and adaptability learned in agriculture. She explains joining Monat for community and leadership, addresses misconceptions about network marketing, and describes earning a Miami leadership retreat. Megan also discusses her 22+ year marriage to a high school sweetheart, practical ways to “never stop dating,” priorities for choosing a spouse, balancing ambition with family and sacrifices, lessons from motherhood and becoming a grandmother, and how her family built a Beefmaster show cattle herd from scratch by seeking mentorship.

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This week on the Stock Show Sisters Podcast, co-host Riki interviews Taylor Kelner, founder of Cowgirl Market and Top Hand Media and Director of Communications and Youth Activities for Santa Gertrudis Breeders International, about entrepreneurship rooted in agriculture. They share how they met in a Fort Worth staging line, Taylor’s fifth-generation Arkansas cattle background, and why she chose Oklahoma State for agricultural communications, including saving a year of college via concurrent credits. Taylor describes evolving from early photography to Top Hand Media, running an online boutique, and launching Cowgirl Market in Stillwater in 2023 with 18 vendors to create an NFR-style Western shopping experience that supports small businesses; she later expanded to Texarkana and College Station. She discusses taking leaps of faith, researching and planning before starting, outsourcing, delegation, building teams, balancing a remote full-time role with multiple ventures, and prioritizing supportive relationships.

00:00 Meet Taylor Kelner

01:11 How We Met

04:46 Arkansas Ag Roots

06:07 Choosing Oklahoma State

08:10 Saving on College Credits

11:15 Mentors and Mindset

15:17 From Bedroom to Business

23:23 Leaps of Faith

26:18 Advice for New Founders

31:32 Why Cowgirl Market Exists

34:14 Vendors and Experience

36:42 Expanding to Texarkana

38:37 Why Start Multiple Businesses

39:21 MagnaWave Hustle Story

42:28 Outsourcing and Delegation

45:06 Interns and Building Teams

49:33 Landing the SGBI Role

56:41 Balancing Work and Life

59:19 Engagement and Support

01:02:33 Relationships and Values

01:07:03 Rapid Fire and Wrap Up

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This week on the Stock Show Sisters podcast, co-host Riki interviews Lexi Hunt and Madison Fisher about their backgrounds and advice for women in the stock show industry. Lexi, from Buckeye, Arizona, began with goats then sheep, attended South Plains College, earned an animal science degree at Texas Tech, and judged collegiately; Madison, from Hempstead, Texas, grew up showing Red Angus/Red Brangus, judged at NOC in Oklahoma, earned an agribusiness degree, and will attend Kansas State. They discuss what drew them to judging (proving themselves, teamwork, networking, improving livestock), surprises in college (uneven experience with oral reasons, especially for Texas FFA), misconceptions about the intense time commitment, and the value of public speaking. They cover handling disagreement and disappointment, lessons from coaches (“pressure is a privilege,” competing for teammates), transferable skills (work ethic, humility, time management, decision-making), judging fashion tips, and next steps, including Lexi’s remote work and judging shows and Madison’s pre-law plans.

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