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025 | Tapping into Your Strengths and Story with Natalie Kovarik & Tara Vander Dussen

  • Emily Reuschel
  • Jan 5, 2023
  • 3 min read

Gather in Growth Podcast episode #001

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Today I’m joined by Natalie Kovarik and Tara Vander Dussen of Elevate Ag. Last summer I attended Natalie’s Rural Rooted retreat and Tara was one of the coaches during the weekend. Both of these women have been influential throughout my entrepreneurial journey. Our conversation tells the story of how they got to where they’re at today and some tips and lessons learned along the way.


In this episode about tapping into your strengths and story, we cover:

  • How to get started sharing online and the way it can evolve over the years

  • An insider perspective of running a partnership owned online business

  • Outsourcing in both your business and personal life

  • Utilizing your unique strengths to grow a business

  • Navigating changes in Instagram and social sharing

  • Traveling and combating guilt as a mom and professional


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More about Natalie & Tara:

Natalie Kovarik is the co-host of the popular podcast Discover Ag as well as the co-founder of Elevate Ag – an online course and community providing producers with the tools they need to successfully advocate and share online. She and her husband live in Central Nebraska where they own and operate Kovarik Cattle Co, a cow calf operation with a growing registered herd. For the past 2 years Natalie has been sharing her ranching and familying story online to showcase the beauty behind the western lifestyle as well as foster a community who supports and trusts in Agriculture as much as she does.


Tara Vander Dussen is a New Mexico native, 5th generation dairy farmer, an environmental scientist, and mom of two girls. Daniel, her husband, manages all day-to-day on his family dairy farm while Tara has her own career as an environmental consultant, speaker, online agriculture advocate and podcaster. Tara has had the opportunity to speak at national and global conferences about dairy sustainability including at the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization Committee on World Food Security and the Forbes AgTech Summit. Tara is also the Co-Founder of Elevate Ag, an online course to provide farmers and ranchers with the tools they need to successfully share their ag story and grow their businesses, and the Co-Founder of Discover Ag, a docuseries and podcast that shares relevant and captivating conversations in agriculture so people can better understand the food system and connect with the hands that feed us.


More about the Gather in Growth podcast: 

Gather in Growth is more than a podcast—it’s a sanctuary for women coming home to themselves and each other. A sacred space to expand horizons, reignite our power, and live unapologetically as our fullest, most authentic selves.


Hosted by Emily Reuschel, this is a gathering place for the doers, dreamers, and seekers who crave connection, purpose, and meaningful impact. Through raw conversations and soul-deep reflections, we’ll embrace curiosity, step to the edges of our comfort zones, and defy expectations.


Picture this: women gathered around a fire, sharing stories with open hearts—connecting, healing, and evolving together. That’s the spirit of Gather in Growth. This is our space to awaken and embody the lives we’ve been yearning for—lives rooted in alignment, guided by intuition, and built with intention.


If you’re ready to move beyond limits and labels, cultivate deep inner trust, and courageously embrace the magic of who you are, then welcome home. Together, let’s Gather in Growth.


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