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Carrying On: New Year Reflections, Community, and Courage

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 Carrying On: New Year Reflections, Community, and Courage As 2025 comes to a close, Mary and Leah settle into a heartfelt, wide-ranging New Year’s Eve conversation about what it really means to carry on. From quiet family traditions and dive-bar burgers to the realities of agriculture, social media algorithms, and the courage it takes to speak hard truths, this episode is a reminder that most of life happens in the ordinary moments—and that those moments matter. Together, they reflect on how a year can feel both painfully long and impossibly fast, why New Year’s resolutions don’t always serve us, and how shifting our focus toward goodness, community, and accountability can shape a healthier year ahead. The conversation also explores the weight women often carry, the power of vulnerability, and why asking questions - rather than passing judgment - can change everything. This episode is honest, thoughtful, sometimes funny, and deeply grounded in lived experience from rural America. It’s an invitation to slow down, pay attention, and enter 2026 with grit, grace, and intention. In This Episode, We Talk About: What New Year’s Eve really looks like for most Americans Why quiet traditions and family time still matter Letting go of traditional New Year’s resolutions in favor of vision, intention, and focusing on the good How social media algorithms reward outrage—and how to take back control of what we consume The danger of comparison culture, especially for women Alcohol, accountability, and the responsibility we have to keep each other safe Vulnerability, wellness, and why sharing hard stories can save lives Women’s tendency to put themselves last—and why that has to change The realities of farming and ranching that most people never see Judgment within agriculture—and why curiosity is more productive than criticism Bridging rural and urban divides through storytelling and conversation Leah’s upcoming speaking engagements and her hopes for women in agriculture The importance of community problem-solving and civic engagement Why being bold, even when it’s uncomfortable, is part of being a good citizen Memorable Themes: “Carry on” as an act of resilience Choosing goodness over negativity The power of showing up honestly Community over algorithms Curiosity instead of judgment Shared humanity, even when our lives look different Where to Find Us: Facebook: Grit and Grace in the Heartland – Women in Agriculture Website coming soon Final Thought: As Mary and Leah remind us, people are people, no matter where we live or what we do. As we step into 2026, may we look out for one another, ask better questions, stay connected to our communities, and move forward with both grit and grace. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend, and help us continue telling the stories of women in agriculture. 00:00 Mary and I'm Leah and welcome to Grit and Grace in the Heartland. Hello, Leah. How are you? good afternoon. Happy almost new year. Yeah. Happy New Year's Eve. I can't believe it is the end of 2025, the year that is felt fast and slow, like a miserably long dentist appointment all at the same time. Uh huh. Yes. That's a very good way of describing it. 00:30 it's really remarkable because it's actually beginning the same way that it ended and it began as it began also because this weather we've had in Nebraska went in the same with this mild dry weather. So it's not really very remarkable. And yet I think about last January and the blissful ignorance going into a new year and then it wasn't even one month in and things just started going bonkers. 00:58 you know, in every direction, especially for those of us who with the government or in a nonprofit or something like that. Yeah. Yeah. And I don't think I said anything in the first two episodes recorded that we've recorded so far. I am in Minnesota and it is uh gently snow flurrying out there. It's really beautiful. Like a beautiful New Year's Eve of my childhood. Always was, it seems. Yes. So what are you guys doing this evening for fun? 01:28 Not a lot of excitement going on around here. New Year's Eve is typically pretty quiet for us. Of course, our eldest teenager has her set of fun plans. We're hanging out at home. We are playing in a bowl game today, I guess, for Nebraska. And our 10-year-old asked for waffles. And I thought that was really sweet because that is actually what my mom tended to fix for us on New Year's Eve, waffles or pancakes. 01:57 And so that's what we're doing for New Year's Eve tonight and probably play some card games or something with her and call it an early night. I learned that the New Year comes in whether I'm awake to see it turn or not. I'm not staying up till midnight. Rarely do. Sometimes I, you know, get curious about the events in the big city and I love good music. So I would try 02:23 I loved Dick Clark. I ...
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