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What to do when conversations get tough
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor Farmers are no strangers to difficult conversations, both online and off, with consumers, customers, suppliers, employees and family business members....
How to respond to questions you don’t want to answer
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor If there’s one thing as certain as Mother Nature is uncertain, it’s that farmers are asked difficult and challenging questions daily. North American...
The power of curiosity
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor Curiosity is one of those enduring human traits stemming from our prehistoric survival skills. Evolutionarily speaking, being inquisitive helped...
An interview with Pamela Kolochuk, CEO of Peak of the Market Ltd.
Welcome to Influence-Her MWAF's new blog series about women who have achieved success in their careers in the agriculture and food sector. We hope the interviews with these women will offer insight...
Amplify and exemplify
A guest blog by Angela Lovell In her excellent blog post today in celebration of International Women’s Day, April Stewart emphasizes how we all need to participate in helping women amplify...
Why and how to amplify women’s voices
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor I can bet that several (if not all) of you reading this have experienced being cut-off, spoken over or interrupted to have someone “mansplain”...
How the Curse of Knowledge is Hurting Your Ag Conversations – And How to Beat It
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor You don’t know what you don’t know, right? Case in point: a few years ago I read an article about a farmer’s experience speaking to a group of...
A Life in Parallel
A guest blog by Angela Lovell When you are a couple running a busy farm alone, while also raising four young children, there isn’t a lot of time left over to pursue other passions or hobbies in your...
Every Conversation Has A Purpose – What’s Yours?
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor We all have multiple conversations every day, both online and off. Conversations with family, friends, neighbours, colleagues, and complete...
Want your ag messages to resonate? Try doing this.
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor Do you get frustrated when consumers don’t ‘get’ what you do? Does it make you feel annoyed, astounded, incredulous, speechless? There are...
5 Ways to Grow Great Conversations
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor “In a dialogue nobody is trying to win. Everybody wins if anybody wins.” – author Maria Popova To have true dialogue, that is “an exchange of...
How – and why – to create teachable moments
By April M. Stewart, Special MWAF Contributor You can probably remember at least one “a-ha” moment in your life. A moment when something suddenly just clicked. That feeling of impact when you...
