In this episode, Dan Aberhart sits down with Corliss Rassyle to talk about real leadership, personal responsibility, and what it means to lead your life from the inside out. Corliss shares her journey from the farm through success, loss, and rebuilding with purpose.
Content note: This episode includes open conversation about mental health, burnout, and identity in agricultural leadership. If you are struggling, please reach out. Farm Stress Line: 1-866-327-6701. Talk Suicide Canada: 1-833-456-4566. In the U.S.: 988.
Corliss Rassyle is the founder of Lead Conference Canada. She spent years building a life in agricultural leadership before she had the breakdown that made her question what leadership actually meant.
This episode is a conversation about the moment when the person running things has to stop and ask whether the thing they have built is actually serving them. Corliss does not have a tidy answer. She has the questions she learned to sit with.
What's Inside
- What Corliss Rassyle's breakdown in agricultural leadership looked like and what she did next
- The difference between performing leadership and practicing it
- Why the leaders who are most in control are often the most at risk
- What Lead Conference Canada was built to address and how it came out of her own experience
- The question she asks every agricultural leader she works with now
Related Episodes
- You Are Not Your Tractor -- Corliss Rassyle on vulnerability, identity, and what the land does not owe you (GTF Productions, June 2026)
- What the Farm Asked of Andy Junkin -- succession, identity, and what farming costs a son
Timestamps
00:00 Welcome and episode introduction
01:07 Introducing Corliss Rassyle
03:15 Growing up on the farm
05:00 Building a business and finding purpose
09:32 The hero’s journey and hard seasons
13:02 Losing everything and rebuilding
17:00 Where real change begins
18:18 Vision, purpose, and leading your life
21:36 Becoming who you need to be
24:02 Learning to value the journey
27:17 Call to LEAD and leadership without titles
32:00 What changes after doing the work
33:13 Convergence Conference and what’s possible
39:04 Final reflections and where to connect
Guest
Corliss Rassyle
International Speaker, Author, Coach, and Founder of Corliss Co.
Website: https://www.corliss.ca
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