Q - Hunting is clearly a main aspect of your life. Every second you get to spend hunting, what does that mean to you?
A - It means I can love my life, appreciate my opportunities, feed my family with food that I know where it comes from and carry forth my heritage and keep my parents and grandparents proud and their legacy alive.
Q - You’re a public speaker, magazine publisher, have started women’s groups, you’re a mom of three boys, an educator, pro staffer, TV host. Where do you get the energy to do everything you do?
A - The energy comes from passion, if you don't have the passion and the heart you will find every excuse to not do something. If you have passion you find every excuse to make it work, you overcome your fears and you just do it. I hated speaking in front of people until a few years ago, now I embrace it and love it full heartedly.
Q - When you take a break from hunting, what is your next most favourite thing to do outdoors and why?
A - Fishing! Fishing and camping and exploring are my activities to do.
Q - You finished the second season of your JUST HUNT TV show and first program of Take Me Hunting recently. Tell us about the experience and what really stood out the most from your perspective?
A - Both were successful. Just Hunt is a program on WILD TV that shows my hunting adventures, my values and me having fun. Take Me Hunting is a program I developed to get women out to learn about hunting and meet others.
Q - Having the opportunity to teach and pass on your passion and inspire others and make a difference in lives, what does that mean to you?
A - This makes me smile more than anything, from Range Day to Take Me Hunting, the more women that get involved in the outdoors the more it will be passed down to our children and the longer our heritage survives.
Q - You inspire people to challenge themselves and go onto to bigger and better things. Is there someone who inspires you each day to do the same?
A - My mom and my dad. Everything I do is for them.
Q - For you, what truly makes a good day of hunting and being outdoors?
A - Memories, the people you are with, the adventures that happen and the smiles that come from that.
Q - You were diagnosed with Graves Disease in 2002. It has not stopped you in any way. What have your learned about yourself while battling this?
A - You only live once, make it count, be proud of who you are and what you do, support others, teach what you know, listen to others' adventures.
Q - You’ve accomplished a lot. What is something else you want to do in the future and why?
A - Finally participate in a fitness competition on stage, if I find the balls to do that.
Photo Credit: Leona MacLean
Photo Credit: Leona MacLean