Someone just emailed this to me, and I’m genuinely moved to tears. I haven’t taught a live cattle marketing school in 13 years, and it’s been many years since I corresponded with Red. I’m so blessed to have had the privilege of teaching and working with so many outstanding, salt of the earth folks like Red Miller, and to see the long-term cascading effects as I sit here in my proverbial motor coach down by the creek, getting ready to go volunteer teach English as a Second Language to kindergartners tomorrow morning, is just amazing and fills me with awe and gratitude. It seems like a lifetime ago, and also just yesterday. Kim hasn’t aged a day- still a beauty. You can see why ol’ bachelor cowboy Red started courting the pretty pharma sales rep when she drove into the feedyard.
The Divine Providence is always at work. Red had literally thrown my advertisement flier for my cattle marketing school in the trash, but something (or Someone) moved him to dig it out and call me. And yes, I absolutely told inquiring cattlemen that they were sitting on a goldmine, but were too blinded by their own incompetence to see it, and that I could permanently fix that in two days. Like Red, many men came in skepticism and even anger at my brutal honesty, planning on arguing, laughing or heckling. And as with Red, I never gave anyone the chance to fight – just shut up and take notes. For those cowboys it was like drinking cold, pure water from the open spillways of the Hoover Dam. And it is a testament to their goodness and humility that so many received instruction from a girl who looked like the assistant hotel receptionist, not a cattle marketing expert.
The selfsame curriculum that Red attended and radically changed his and Kim’s life is still available on DVD. I recorded the DVD in a professional TV studio in March of ARSH 2011, almost fifteen years ago, and it includes modules on hyperinflation, barter, and the critical necessity of eliminating debt and decoupling from the debt-banking system. “Prescient” doesn’t quite do it justice.
Email [email protected] with “Cattle DVD” in the subject line for ordering instructions. The cost is $600 inside the continental United States, $750 outside. I think Red would say that the price is probably “undervalued”. 😅
God bless you Red & Kim, JC & Emma, Annalisa and Hadley. 🙏🏻