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Hard Ground
by Josh and Steph Borowski
Hard Ground is a podcast for farmers and rural operators willing to have the difficult conversations around succession, production, politics, all of it. Join us as we pursue honesty and find the common ground we can all stand on.
Episodes
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Stop Gathering, Start Fighting: What Men Actually Need with Coach Sam Falsafi
What are you escaping, and what is it costing you? Content Warning: This episode discusses mental health struggles, isolation, and suicide. Some topics may be distressing for listeners. If you or someone you know is struggling or in immediate danger, please contact your local emergency services…
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How This Family Built a $70M Business Without Falling Apart
What does it take to build a $70 million family business without destroying the family behind it? James and Emma Salerno from Ringers Western sit down with Hard Ground to unpack the principles that helped their family build one of Australia’s best-known rural clothing brands while staying united...
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Fat Farmers: The Rural Health Movement Saving Lives
Why are so many rural Australians putting their own health last, and what actually gets them to finally make a change? In this episode, we sit down with Richard Sheppy to unpack how Fat Farmers and Active Farmers are changing rural health, fitness and mental wellbeing across Australian farming...
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How to Pass Down the Farm Without Dividing the Family
How do you pass down a family farm, business, property or inheritance without tearing the family apart? In this episode of Hard Ground, Josh and Steph sit down with Karen Gale, founder of Forever Told, Australia’s first intentional ethical will service, to explore one of the most overlooked parts...
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The Boy Crisis Nobody Wants to Talk About
Why are so many men and boys struggling with purpose, identity, relationships, fatherlessness, mental health, and belonging? In this episode, we explore what happens when boys grow up without strong male role models, when healthy masculinity is treated as something dangerous, and when men feel...
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Why Men Don’t Ask for Help And What Actually Works
Why do so many men struggle in silence, and why do some traditional approaches to men’s mental health fail to reach the blokes who need support most? In this episode of Hard Ground, Mary O’Brien, founder of Are You Bogged Mate?, joins rural shearer and sheep farmer Tom to unpack the reality of...
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How to Pass On the Family Farm Without Starting a Feud
Passing on a family farm should protect the legacy, not destroy the family. But when rising land values, sibling buyouts, retirement security, old promises, and unclear expectations collide, farm succession planning can quickly become a costly family dispute. In this episode of Hard Ground…
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Farm Succession: Keep the Farm and the Family Together
Farm succession planning is not simply about deciding who receives the land. It is about protecting the family farm, preserving relationships, managing debt, creating opportunities for every child, and helping the next generation build a future of their own. In this episode of Hard Ground,...
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Why Farmers Stay Silent About Suicidal Thoughts
Why do so many farmers stay silent when they are struggling with depression, hopelessness, or suicidal thoughts? In this episode of Hard Ground, we examine the hidden mental health crisis affecting farmers, rural men, agricultural families, and multigenerational family farms. Farm succession is…
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Relying on One Income Nearly Broke Us: Here’s What Changed
What would happen to your family’s income if illness, injury, or an unexpected crisis stopped you from working tomorrow?After being diagnosed with stage four endometriosis, Amy faced emergency surgery, weeks away from her literacy clinic, a major medical bill, and the frightening realization that...
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The Hard Conversation That Could Save Your Family Farm with Katie Godden
Family farm succession is not just about land, money, wills, or who gets what. It is about communication, trust, family dynamics, hard conversations, emotional safety, and whether the people around the table feel heard. In this episode of Hard Ground, we sit down with Katie Godden to talk about…
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The Farm Succession Mistake That Can Destroy Families with Theresa Dowling
Farm succession can either protect your family legacy or tear it apart. In this episode, succession lawyer Theresa Dowling explains what really happens when farming families avoid the hard conversations about ownership, inheritance, wills, unpaid labour, in-laws, family trusts, debt, retirement,...
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How to Start the Farm Succession Talk Without a Fight
Farm succession planning can feel impossible when family conflict, old wounds, fear, resentment, and unspoken expectations are sitting under the surface. In this conversation, Josh and Steph talk honestly about what happens when the family farm, marriage, parenting, in-laws, succession planners,...
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The Farm Succession Talk Your Family Keeps Avoiding with Jess Cavanagh
Farm succession planning is one of the hardest conversations a farming family will ever have — but avoiding it can cost more than money. It can cost relationships, clarity, trust, and the future of the family farm. In this episode of Hard Ground, Jess Cavanagh from Proactive Succession joins the...
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When Farmers Hit Breaking Point, Mates Show Up
Mick is an accomplished poet, author and song writer. He writes for and has been published many times in National magazines including R M Williams “Outback” magazine. He frequently presents his poetry on ABC radio. His poem “Mates at the gate” has been picked up by Country singer, Ashley Cook and...
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Part 2: The Jackson Brothers' Farm: A Testament to Faith and Family Unity
Matt and Brad are brothers who farm in North West NSW with their brother Phil and father Peter. They run a YouTube channel “The Jackson Brothers” where they showcase day to day farming life as well as some earthmoving content with two D11 bulldozers. They recently worked through the hard task of...
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Part 1: The Jackson Brothers' Farm: A Testament to Faith and Family Unity
Matt and Brad are brothers who farm in North West NSW with their brother Phil and father Peter. They run a YouTube channel “The Jackson Brothers” where they showcase day to day farming life as well as some earthmoving content with two D11 bulldozers. They recently worked through the hard task of...
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Farm Safety Isn’t Paperwork; It’s Life or Death with Bec Fing
Rebecca Fing is the Founder and Managing Director of House Paddock Training and Consulting, based in Goondiwindi. A wife, mum, country girl and self-described "susie-homemaker-wanna-be-gardener," Bec has spent nearly two decades helping businesses and individuals better manage their people,...
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Master Class: The Budget Changes Every Farm Family Needs to Understand
The proposed Australian budget tax changes have left many farmers, landholders, and rural families asking the same question: what does this mean for our farm, our trust, our capital gains tax, and our succession plan? In this discussion, accountant George Morrice from Prime Partners Accounting...
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The Critical Red Flag That Often Goes Unnoticed in Farming Families with Emma Wallace
When farming gets tough - financially, personally or strategically - the Rural Financial Counselling Service Northern Region is there to help producers work through what comes next. From drought and debt to succession planning and big business decisions, we walk alongside farmers and fishers with...
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The Silent Risk That Can Destroy a Family Farm with George Morice
Farm succession planning is one of the hardest conversations a farming family can have — but avoiding it can cost far more than money. In this episode, accountant George Morris unpacks why family farms fall apart when succession, inheritance, ownership, debt, and family expectations are left...
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Farm Succession Is Breaking Families… Here’s Why with Ben Law
1. Ben’s podcast link https://thefinancialbloke.com.au/podcast/ 2. Link for roadmap workshop https://agricoach.com.au/takeaction-2/ — Ben works with ambitious multigenerational farming families across Australia to make sure they don’t lose the farm or each other, when succession comes around.…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Hard Ground is a podcast for farmers and rural operators willing to have the difficult conversations around succession, production, politics, all of it. Join us as we pursue honesty and find the common ground we can all stand on.
HOSTED BY
Josh and Steph Borowski
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Hard Ground is a podcast for farmers and rural operators willing to have the difficult conversations around succession, production, politics, all of it. Join us as we pursue honesty and find the common ground we can all stand on.
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