Growing up on a farm meant early responsibility: driving tractors, milking cows, managing 4-H projects where you tracked costs and profits. That hands-on work taught financial discipline before most kids learned to count money.
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What was it like growing up on a farm, and, and how did those years shape the way that you think about money today? Growing up on the farm was a, you know, really it was a blessing because I got to be there with all my siblings. And, you know, we always had something to do. We were never looking for something to do. We were told what to do, come to think of it. And, uh, so it was great. I learned, you know, things that— skills that are still used today. It's like I learned to drive well before it was illegal. You learned how to work, and yet you did it as a unit. Learned lots of great things about how you could make a difference by just, you know, showing up and doing something consistently. Milk that cow in the morning. It was like something you got disciplined to do. And then when it came to the money side of it, of course, when you're really young, you don't think much of it. And as you get a little older and you go, okay, you know, you start participating in some things. You got your own calf or you got your own herd. All of a sudden you start to see because, hmm, I was blessed to be in 4-H in the day, and so you had to keep track of, you know, how is that project going, how much does it cost you, you know. So that was a good eye-opener, and you started to realize how much goes in turning a profit.
