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S01 E10: Rural Mental Health

2025-06-1835:53


This episode dives into the state of Rural Mental Health—a topic that’s especially relevant as our members wrap up seeding and navigate ongoing economic and political pressures. Our guests bring powerful perspectives on the realities of farming life, the stigma around mental health, and how we can all play a role in supporting our communities.

Your Guests

Lesley Kelly, Founder of Do More Ag, creator of High Heels and Canola Fields

High Heels and Canola Fields is an established brand that continues to grow within the agriculture and farming community. It consists of social media, blogs, podcasts motivational speaking, and much more. The content revolves around food, farming, family, mental health and agriculture trends and topics that impact farmers and the industry. It was created with the purpose of helping the ag industry make positive and everlasting change. Lesley started the blog using her background and experience in branding and communications in hopes to dispel myths and bring consumers and farmers together, by creating informative content, inspiration and a sense of community.

Lesley has expanded the High Heels & Canola Fields brand further, and increased our reach by joining What The Farm podcast, a weekly podcast which explores various topics in food and farming through real life conversations. She is also involved beyond the farm and company by being involved on agriculture boards and associations: Saskatchewan Wheat and Farm and Food Saskatchewan.

Advocating for mental health is near to her heart and in 2018 and 2019, she was part of the #BellLetsTalk campaign and co-founded the Do More Agriculture Foundation whose mission is to break barriers and create a culture where all producers are encouraged, empowered and supported to take care of their mental well-being.

Through photos and words, Lesley is able to bring audiences her heart, passion and livelihood. Her hope is by spreading seeds of love, light and laughter, she can help brighten another's day and lift hearts and spirits in our rural communities and across the agriculture industry.





Shaun Haney – Producer and creator/host of Real Ag Radio

Shaun comes from the agriculture industry as a former producer and has an interesting backstory, to say the least. He used to run Haney Farms seed business, a venerable company established in 1927 and made famous in the Canadian seed industry by his grandfather, Leonard K. Haney.

In the fall of 2008, Shaun Haney decided to do something that no one else was doing: writing about what was happening in agriculture and publishing that content exclusively online. Soon after, he used financial and sports coverage as inspiration, and offered something the agriculture audience had seldom seen before: online video coverage of the issues, topics, and equipment of interest to Canadian agriculture.

In the past 15 years, what started as a blog, a handycam, and a YouTube channel has grown into a legit, multi-media agriculture communications company, with a weekly radio show on Sirius XM, eight different school series, weekly columnists, and cross-Canada events coverage, all delivered with the enthusiasm, energy, and insight the audience has come to expect from RealAgriculture.





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