Growing the Future

Get Your Sh!t Together

Episode Summary

Lacey Owens, author of Get Up and Get Your Sh!t Together, built her personal development framework during a difficult period in her own life and has returned to it repeatedly through hard seasons since. She walks through Focus Five, her system for giving daily attention to the different parts of life that tend to get crowded out by work, and makes the case that agriculture's traditional culture of pushing through exhaustion is a business liability, not a strength. The conversation closes on what it actually looks like to bring coaching and structured self reflection into a farm operation, and why asking for help is not a weakness.

Episode Notes

Lacey Owens built the framework she now teaches on a night when nothing about her life was working. Divorced, working nights to clean houses while taking five university classes online, and raising three kids, she sat down with a scribbler from her kids' school supplies and started writing her way out.

What came out of that notebook became a book, a course, and a coaching practice built specifically for the agricultural community, where the culture still tends to treat exhaustion as a badge of honor. The centerpiece is a framework called Focus Five, five areas of life that need daily attention, not just the one that happens to be loudest that week. Lacey has returned to the same system repeatedly through the hardest parts of her own life, and talks candidly about what it actually takes to keep a business, a marriage, and a family intact at the same time.

What's Inside

• How a notebook grabbed from a school supply bin became the foundation for a book, a course, and a coaching practice
• The Focus Five framework: the five areas of life that need daily attention so one does not quietly take over all the others
• Why farm culture still measures character by how hard you worked instead of how well the business is actually run
• The exercise Lacey calls "Who the Heck Are You Anyways," including writing your own obituary as a way to find out what actually matters
• Why decision fatigue is real, and how a simple morning system frees up energy for the decisions that actually carry weight
• What Lacey tells producers who think asking for coaching or support is a sign of weakness

Buy Lacey’s Journal Here:  https://www.amazon.ca/dp/B09P278358

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Website: https://twitter.com/LaceyRhea

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