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Had an amazing time on the Podcast with Adrian Brannan, intelligent and multi talented she is also the Founder of "Make America Cowboy Again".

Adrian Brannan is a Billboard chart-topping singer-songwriter who is equally at home in the branding pen, onstage, or on a bucking horse. Brannan encourages women around the world through her weekly #DearCowgirl letters and through her recently released book, Dear Cowgirl: Letters to Women. Hailing from an off-grid cabin in the mountains, Brannan splits her time between touring, writing, performing, chopping wood, and taking care of her own small bunch of cows.

Growing up in a \\u201cgypsy family,\\u201d Adrian was exposed to the raw beauty of the Scottish highlands and the Nevada sagebrush, the harsh reality of life in a post-iron curtain Ukraine and the adventures of learning French in Switzerland before returning to life in America and falling in love with the west. \\u201cI lived in a 14 ft tipi through middle and high school\\u201d Adrian reflects, \\u201cI was a wild child with un-brushed hair and out of control riding bareback and wishing I had been born a mountain man from the fur trade era. My family not only tolerated, but encouraged my unruly behavior and cultivated my love of the wild places and freedom.\\u201d

Hard work, books, trapping, opera (another tale in and of itself) and barefoot adventures into the hills filled Adrian\\u2019s childhood, and although her family was not always cowboying for a living or based on huge ranches-the love of working horseback learned from her father always stayed with her. \\u201cMy dad and sister were the cowboys. My mom and I were the free spirit-cowboys\\u201d Adrian says with a smile. \\u201cI refused to do things like everyone else. I didn\\u2019t care if I was weird or the odd man out, I loved the old school \\u2013 the different \\u2013 the roads less traveled.\\u201d

When Adrian was 14, her life changed forever with the chance to record an album. An open mic, two newly written songs and a little girl who had been playing a pawn-shop guitar for two weeks suddenly realized her life\\u2019s purpose. With the help of an incredible couple (Mike and Liz Vanderhoof) from Utah who saw the clear potential, Adrian picked up the guitar and welded pen and paper like weapons, moving head-on into the career she knows she was meant to pursue to this day. \\u201cI realized that I had things to say, a [cowboy] culture I longed to protect, and a spirit that had to wander. It was stumbling into perfection, into meaning and into something I\\u2019ve never regretted for a minute. It was like coming home.\\u201d

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