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.
Most of us are taught that fulfillment arrives at a milestone: the next title, the next acre, the next target. Corliss Rassyle spent years collecting them. A small-town Saskatchewan farm girl, she built a long career in direct sales and rose to its top ranks, and says she still felt something was missing.
In this conversation with Dan Aberhart, Corliss, now an author, speaker and personal development coach, talks about the quiet work that began after a hard stretch at 40 stripped away the roles she had relied on. She offers a simple place to start: get clear on what you want, connect it to why it matters, and ask who you need to become to live it. It is a calm, practical conversation for anyone in agriculture who carries responsibility and wonders what the next season is for.
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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