Are you doing all the things—rotating pastures, planting cover crops, attending workshops, watching YouTube—and still not seeing the progress you hoped for?

In this episode, we continue the theme from Episode 16 and explore a powerful truth: you can’t thrive as a land steward if you’re not part of your own management plan.

Whether you’re a new steward overwhelmed by advice or a seasoned one stuck in the same cycles, this conversation is an invitation to come back to yourself. Your values. Your goals. Your reality.

I share personal stories of burnout, disassociation, and even the hard decision to end a marriage—all rooted in the journey of aligning my life and land management with who I truly am.

Tune in to reclaim your power, your vision, and your rightful place at the center of your stewardship.

🔗 Let’s connect:
If this resonates, and you’re feeling scattered, burned out, or unsure of your next step—I’d love to chat.

📢 If this episode gave you something to think about, share it with a fellow rancher or land steward who could use this insight! Take a screenshot, post it to your IG stories, and tag me @ThrivingLandSteward so I can reshare.

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🌿 Grab my free guide: 5 Essential Actions for Thriving Land Stewardship
🌱 Take the Ecosystem Quiz: Find out how well you can read your land
📚 Explore Self-Study Courses: Learn at your own pace!

• Reading Your Land for Profit, Resilience, and Regeneration
• Homestead, Farm, and Ranch Planning

📧 Connect with Christine on Instagram
📅 Schedule a Call with Christine: Get personalized guidance for your land.

Let's make regenerative ranching and farming more intentional, profitable, and fulfilling. I’d love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode—DM me on Instagram or schedule a call to chat about it!

Connect with Christine Martin:
Website: https://thrivinglandsteward.com
Email: info@thrivinglandsteward.com

If you’re drawn to regenerative agriculture, it’s likely because you want more than better soil—you’re here to heal the land, nourish your community, and build a meaningful life. But what happens when your old habits, mindsets, and stress patterns follow you onto the land?

In this deeply personal episode, Christine Martin shares the biggest lesson from over a decade of land stewardship: you can’t grow thriving roots in fractured soil—and you can’t build a thriving operation from a fractured sense of self.

We often focus on grazing plans, soil health, and inputs, but leave out the most powerful leverage point in our system: ourselves.

You'll hear:

• Why burnout, over-efforting, and “tool-in-the-shed” thinking are signs of deeper disconnection
• How unresolved grief, urgency, and outdated beliefs sabotage land plans
• The hidden human weak link in many regenerative systems—and how to address it
• Why true regenerative stewardship starts with healing your own relationship to time, money, and control

Whether you're new to land stewardship or ten years in, this episode is a compassionate reminder that stewardship is sacred—and that presence matters more than perfection.

“The land doesn’t just need your plans. It needs your presence.”

📢 If this episode gave you something to think about, share it with a fellow rancher or land steward who could use this insight! Take a screenshot, post it to your IG stories, and tag me @ThrivingLandSteward so I can reshare.

🎧 Subscribe & Review: Love the podcast? Leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify—it helps me bring you more content to support your ranching journey!

Your land is speaking. Are you listening? 🎙

🌿 Grab my free guide: 5 Essential Actions for Thriving Land Stewardship
🌱 Take the Ecosystem Quiz: Find out how well you can read your land
📚 Explore Self-Study Courses: Learn at your own pace!

• Reading Your Land for Profit, Resilience, and Regeneration
• Homestead, Farm, and Ranch Planning

📧 Connect with Christine on Instagram
📅 Schedule a Call with Christine: Get personalized guidance for your land.

Let's make regenerative ranching and farming more intentional, profitable, and fulfilling. I’d love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode—DM me on Instagram or schedule a call to chat about it!

Connect with Christine Martin:
Website: https://thrivinglandsteward.com
Email: info@thrivinglandsteward.com

Episode 2 of the “Why You’re Not Thriving (Yet!)” Series

Are you spending your time, money, or energy fixing the same problems over and over—feeding hay every winter, spraying weeds, or investing in equipment you rarely use?

In this episode, Christine dives into the concept of the financial weak link—the point of greatest constraint in your operation that’s quietly limiting your ability to get a return on your effort, time, and money. You’ll learn why so many land stewards unknowingly pour resources into the wrong “fix,” and how identifying your real weak link is the first step to thriving on the land and in life.

✨ What you’ll hear:

• Christine’s personal story of switching cattle breeds to relieve a product weak link
• The true cost of symptom-chasing strategies like winter hay feeding and annual weed spraying
• Why buying a tractor might be more about tradition than need
• A clear breakdown of what a financial weak link is—and why it’s not always the root cause
• How the Holistic Management framework brings clarity, not complexity

If you’re ready to stop spinning your wheels and start making decisions that actually move the needle, don’t miss Christine’s upcoming free 3-day masterclass:
Why You're Not Thriving (Yet!): A Masterclass to Help You Stop Spinning Your Wheels and Start Managing with Purpose
📅 April 16–18 — Register here

📢 If this episode gave you something to think about, share it with a fellow rancher or land steward who could use this insight! Take a screenshot, post it to your IG stories, and tag me @ThrivingLandSteward so I can reshare.

🎧 Subscribe & Review: Love the podcast? Leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify—it helps me bring you more content to support your ranching journey!

Your land is speaking. Are you listening? 🎙

🌿 Grab my free guide: 5 Essential Actions for Thriving Land Stewardship
🌱 Take the Ecosystem Quiz: Find out how well you can read your land
📚 Explore Self-Study Courses: Learn at your own pace!

• Reading Your Land for Profit, Resilience, and Regeneration
• Homestead, Farm, and Ranch Planning

📧 Connect with Christine on Instagram
📅 Schedule a Call with Christine: Get personalized guidance for your land.

Let's make regenerative ranching and farming more intentional, profitable, and fulfilling. I’d love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode—DM me on Instagram or schedule a call to chat about it!

Connect with Christine Martin:
Website: https://thrivinglandsteward.com
Email: info@thrivinglandsteward.com

Episode 1 of the Why You're Not Thriving (Yet!)

In this episode, Christine invites you to rethink the way you make decisions on the land by exploring one powerful question:
Are you managing the whole—or just reacting to the parts?

From pulling goat weed by hand to learning from legendary land steward Betsy Ross, Christine shares her own shift from symptom-chasing to systems-thinking. You’ll hear how this mindset shift led her to discover the ripple-effect power of holistic management—and how even well-intended decisions can create unintended consequences, just like what happened when wolves were removed from Yellowstone.

✨ You’ll learn:

• What holism really means in land stewardship
• Why managing for wholes—not parts—creates more aligned, resilient outcomes
• A simple way to think about decision testing (and why it matters)
• Common traps land stewards fall into—and how to avoid them

This episode is the first in a special series leading up to the free 3-day masterclass, Why You're Not Thriving (Yet!): A Masterclass to Help You Stop Spinning Your Wheels and Start Managing with Purpose , happening April 16–18, 2025

If you’re ready to stop spinning your wheels and start managing with clarity, purpose, and alignment, this series (and masterclass) is for you.

👉 Register here: https://thrivinglandsteward.kit.com/17bcc4cea3

📢 If this episode gave you something to think about, share it with a fellow rancher or land steward who could use this insight! Take a screenshot, post it to your IG stories, and tag me @ThrivingLandSteward so I can reshare.

🎧 Subscribe & Review: Love the podcast? Leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify—it helps me bring you more content to support your ranching journey!

🌿 Grab my free guide: 5 Essential Actions for Thriving Land Stewardship
🌱 Take the Ecosystem Quiz: Find out how well you can read your land
📚 Explore Self-Study Courses: Learn at your own pace!

• Reading Your Land for Profit, Resilience, and Regeneration
• Homestead, Farm, and Ranch Planning

📧 Connect with Christine on Instagram
📅 Schedule a Call with Christine: Get personalized guidance for your land.

Let's make regenerative ranching and farming more intentional, profitable, and fulfilling. I’d love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode—DM me on Instagram or schedule a call to chat about it!

Connect with Christine Martin:
Website: https://thrivinglandsteward.com
Email: info@thrivinglandsteward.com

Spring is here, the pastures are greening up, and you’re eager to get your livestock off hay and onto fresh grass. But before you open that gate—wait.

Grazing too soon is the #1 mistake ranchers make in the spring, and it could cost you all season. If you graze before your pastures are truly ready, you:
❌ Deplete root energy reserves, weakening plant recovery
❌ Reduce total forage production, forcing you to buy more hay later
❌ Decrease drought resilience, leading to pasture decline over time

So how do you know when your land is ready to graze? In this episode, we break down:
✔️ How grasses actually grow & why early grazing weakens them
✔️ What happens below the surface when you graze too soon
✔️ How to determine the right time to graze (without relying on a calendar)

👉 By the end of this episode, you’ll know exactly what to look for to avoid overgrazing this spring—so you can set your pastures up for long-term success.

📢 If this episode gave you something to think about, share it with a fellow rancher or land steward who could use this insight! Take a screenshot, post it to your IG stories, and tag me @ThrivingLandSteward so I can reshare.

🎧 Subscribe & Review: Love the podcast? Leave a quick review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify—it helps me bring you more content to support your ranching journey!

Your land is speaking. Are you listening? 🎙

🌿 Grab my free guide: 5 Essential Actions for Thriving Land Stewardship
🌱 Take the Ecosystem Quiz: Find out how well you can read your land
📚 Explore Self-Study Courses: Learn at your own pace!

• Reading Your Land for Profit, Resilience, and Regeneration
• Homestead, Farm, and Ranch Planning

📧 Connect with Christine on Instagram
📅 Schedule a Call with Christine: Get personalized guidance for your land.

Let's make regenerative ranching and farming more intentional, profitable, and fulfilling. I’d love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode—DM me on Instagram or schedule a call to chat about it!

Connect with Christine Martin:
Website: https://thrivinglandsteward.com
Email: info@thrivinglandsteward.com

🌿💨 Did you hear that? Not just the rain and wind—but the land itself speaking to you. Every bare patch of soil, every rain puddle, every stubborn weed is sending a message. Are you listening?

When I first started my land stewardship journey, I thought I was in control. I had a vision and believed I could shape the land with money, labor, and effort. But nature had other plans. My frustration grew as my investments didn’t yield the expected results—until I realized something critical: I wasn’t managing the land. I was in a relationship with it.

In this episode, we dive into how to read the land by understanding the four fundamental ecosystem functions:
🌱 Water Cycle – How well is your land holding and cycling water?
🌱 Mineral Cycle – Are nutrients flowing effectively through your soil?
🌱 Energy Flow – How much sunlight is being captured and converted into life?
🌱 Biological Communities – Is biodiversity thriving, or are key species missing?

By learning to observe these natural indicators, you can make smarter decisions, reduce costs, and increase productivity—all while working with nature instead of against it.

📍 Want to learn more and how to apply this to your own land? Check out my self-study course Reading Your Land for Profitability, Resilience, and Regeneration

📍 Looking for a deeper planning framework? My Homestead, Farm, and Ranch Planning: Foundations for a Sustainable and Profitable Future course will help you align your land, finances, and vision for a thriving future. DM me "PLAN" for details.

🌾 Profit isn’t about doing more—it’s about doing the right thing.
Let’s dive in and learn how to truly listen to the land. 🎙️✨

🌿 Grab my free guide: 5 Essential Actions for Thriving Land Stewardship
🌱 Take the Ecosystem Quiz: Find out how well you can read your land
📚 Explore Self-Study Courses: Learn at your own pace!

• Reading Your Land for Profit, Resilience, and Regeneration
• Homestead, Farm, and Ranch Planning

📧 Connect with Christine on Instagram
📅 Schedule a Call with Christine: Get personalized guidance for your land.

Let's make regenerative ranching and farming more intentional, profitable, and fulfilling. I’d love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode—DM me on Instagram or schedule a call to chat about it!

Connect with Christine Martin:
Website: https://thrivinglandsteward.com
Email: info@thrivinglandsteward.com

In this episode of Regenerative Agriculture: Thriving as a Modern Rancher, Christine chats with Kelly Sidoryk about her lifelong journey with Holistic Management, from its early days as Holistic Resource Management in the 1980s to its continued impact on her multi-generational ranch today. Kelly shares how her family embraced change, implemented intensive grazing, and prioritized the human element in ranching—an often-overlooked but critical piece of the puzzle.

Together, Christine and Kelly dive into the challenges of succession planning, the evolving understanding of grazing management, and the importance of adaptability in ranching. They discuss the role of paradigms in decision-making, the power of clear communication, and the ongoing journey of learning in agriculture. Whether you're a seasoned rancher or just beginning your land stewardship journey, this episode is packed with insights on how to thrive holistically—financially, ecologically, and personally.

Tune in to learn:
✅ How Kelly’s family transformed their operation with Holistic Management
✅ Why the human side of ranching is just as important as the grazing and finances
✅ Practical insights on grazing planning, stocking rates, and recovery periods
✅ The importance of adaptability, mindset, and communication in succession planning

Plus, Kelly shares details about an upcoming Texas workshop on livestock handling, grazing, and holistic decision-making. Don’t miss this inspiring and wisdom-filled conversation!

👉 Listen now and start thriving in your ranching journey!

Workshop Details: https://www.cattleupstockmanship.com/events/full-circle-ranch-gathering

🌿 Grab my free guide: 5 Essential Actions for Thriving Land Stewardship
🌱 Take the Ecosystem Quiz: Find out how well you can read your land
📚 Explore Self-Study Courses: Learn at your own pace!

• Reading Your Land for Profit, Resilience, and Regeneration
• Homestead, Farm, and Ranch Planning

📧 Connect with Christine on Instagram
📅 Schedule a Call with Christine: Get personalized guidance for your land.

Let's make regenerative ranching and farming more intentional, profitable, and fulfilling. I’d love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode—DM me on Instagram or schedule a call to chat about it!

Connect with Christine Martin:
Website: https://thrivinglandsteward.com
Email: info@thrivinglandsteward.com

What if our relationship with the land isn’t just about productivity—but something sacred? In this episode, we explore the deeper meaning of land stewardship and how shifting from identifying as a farmer, rancher, or homesteader to a land steward transforms not only how we manage the land but how we see ourselves.

I’ll break down why the words we use shape our mindset, how forcing nature to our will creates unintended consequences, and what it means to listen to and work with the land instead of against it. We’ll also dive into the spiritual side of stewardship—caring for the land as an act of devotion, responsibility, and long-term regeneration.

Whether you’re just starting your journey or have been managing land for years, this episode will challenge you to rethink your role and invite you into a deeper connection with the land you care for.

Listen in, and let’s redefine what it truly means to be a land steward.

🔹 What does land stewardship mean to you? Connect with me on Instagram and let’s continue the conversation!

🌿 Grab my free guide: 5 Essential Actions for Thriving Land Stewardship
🌱 Take the Ecosystem Quiz: Find out how well you can read your land
📚 Explore Self-Study Courses: Learn at your own pace!

• Reading Your Land for Profit, Resilience, and Regeneration
• Homestead, Farm, and Ranch Planning

📧 Connect with Christine on Instagram
📅 Schedule a Call with Christine: Get personalized guidance for your land.

Let's make regenerative ranching and farming more intentional, profitable, and fulfilling. I’d love to hear your biggest takeaway from this episode—DM me on Instagram or schedule a call to chat about it!

Connect with Christine Martin:
Website: https://thrivinglandsteward.com
Email: info@thrivinglandsteward.com