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Miles & Mountains
Bridging The Gap with Liv Peters
Meet bull rider Liv Peters. Born and raised in Canada, Liv shares her journey of modeling and competing alongside the boys in the dirt. Embracing extreme experiences, Liv is determined to pursue her dreams and live life to the fullest, doing whatever it takes to fulfill her desires and bridge the gaps in her life.
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Liv Peters, how are you?
Speaker 2:Good, how are you?
Speaker 1:I'm doing alright. I appreciate you being here. I'm surprised you're here because of what you do, not because of you-know-who. I have to shout her out, elaine, you know, you're the first that she twisted. She twisted my arm. You're the first to have you on my podcast, no one else. And I've had a few of her herds on right before I even knew that they were on the herds. But the moment she got you in her herd she's like shout out. And then she shot me out and did her little you know know, smiley face at the bottom, like we always do, because I do that to her, she does that to me. But then she's like, hey, I just shot you out because I want you, I want this girl on the podcast, all right, all right. So you're kind of on the podcast because of her, but you're kind of not. But you're on the podcast in my eyes because you're a badass bull rider.
Speaker 2:Well, I'm honored. Thank you so much, either way.
Speaker 1:All right, because I said that. I mean, how many females do you see riding bulls this day and age? I know there are a few more than, let's say, five years ago.
Speaker 2:We're getting a bit more females, especially over the past. I want to say like, yeah, three to five years, um, I do practice with a couple girls. They're pretty cool, um, either than that it's like maybe five or six that I compete against every like couple weeks or whatever, but they're all scattered all over the place. There's very few of us, that's for sure.
Speaker 1:Yeah but when they, when, when they do they, they do get recognized, they are honored and they do get a shout out over over the intercom and you guys get standing o's, you know whether you're five years old, whether you're 20, 30. I mean seriously, I've seen a lot of little kids. Little girls go on the junior bowl and I tell you what that junior bowl is 30 times bigger than them and they do it and they kick butt.
Speaker 2:So shout out to them you know so.
Speaker 1:So you're a badass, but I I mean, is there something that you don't do? Because I was looking you up right and seeing what you do. You play hockey, right, you weld. I mean not too too many ladies weld, I mean agriculture, ladies do right, correct, yeah, bull. And then you model yeah, is that true? Yeah, yeah. How do you make time? How do you make time for everything? A good, calendar.
Speaker 2:That's pretty well. I just got to schedule everything I don't know. Yeah, social life doesn't exist too much, but I make time.
Speaker 1:Okay, what do you make time most for?
Speaker 2:riding 100% riding. Okay, that's like where my thought is 100% of the time.
Speaker 2:All day, every day, I'm just thinking about when I can get on next, when my next practice is, when my next rodeo is yeah, anything that I do sound like a bull rider yeah, I've always I love when I get, I always ask to get recordings of when I ride, because after I ride I will sit there until my next ride re-watching my last ride, pratiquing things and trying to get better, and then I'll record the next ride and I'll do the same thing and I'll keep retreating and like it's all I think about man, okay, and how long you've been bull riding? Probably at this kind of pace, about a year now. Um, yeah, a year and a half. I just kind of got into it.
Speaker 1:I was yeah what were you doing before? Were you doing any other sports sport in the world or no?
Speaker 2:yeah, so I rode horses when I was a kid. My grandma had three of them, so that's kind of what I grew up on until I was like 13, 14, and then I just kind of dropped out of that I don't know and then picked up dirt biking not too long after that and, um, yeah, I stuck to that. That was actually what I was do. My plan for my life was dirt biking and I ended up getting into a pretty gnarly accident and, yeah, I paralyzed the last side of my body from the waist down. So after I was all recovered and stuff, I just I couldn't get back on. Well, I did, just not to the level I did. So I kind of put that on the hold up. And then I had a buddy reach out to me for bull riding and then I just showed up a bunch and just kept going back. And here we are.
Speaker 1:One extreme sport to the next. Yeah, yeah, motor animal, so bull riding. Why bull riding after motorized sport?
Speaker 2:I worked on a dairy farm. Actually, this is kind of how I started was dairy farming and we would jump on the dairy cows and we'd ride them up the pens and we'd see how long we can get. And yeah, I had a lot of fun with that. And then that's when I had a friend reach out to me and they're like, hey, bull riding, you should do this. And I sucked at it the first, like two, three times I got on a bull. I was off in like three seconds, but oh God, I loved it so much I just I couldn't stop thinking about it after that well, seeing your practice, you last longer than most males that I've seen and that I follow.
Speaker 1:So, hey, more power to you, and that's awesome. That's awesome and it's true too. I'm not, I'm not joking, it's true. What's? What was the worst thing about starting bull riding, was it? You know, being female hanging with the guys, what?
Speaker 2:Honestly not knowing anybody Like you'd think it would be almost being a female in this male-dominated sport. But a lot of the people that I've met along the way, majority of them being guys, they have been so extremely supportive and, yeah, they're just, it's just a big family and it was just a matter of me meeting everybody and, you know, kind of expanding my friendship circle a little bit. So, going into it, it it was kind of sucky because everyone had help on the shoots and they had their designated people to pull their rope and spot them and I didn't really have that and it was just kind of only me at the time, but I don't know, met a lot of good people and changed a bit now yeah, that's, that's awesome because you know, you never know some people will be like oh yeah, I wasn't supportive at all, but it seems like the rodeo world is supportive of females in a male dominant sport they are.
Speaker 2:They, honestly, are you get? You get a couple of them that that either aren't too happy about it or don't believe it or just really question my sanity. But other than that, everyone yeah everyone's been fairly supportive.
Speaker 1:Yeah those are probably the same people that think bullfighting like the bfo yeah, the non-traditional bullfighting isn't real rodeo sport, you know, and shouldn't be. So those are those old timers I feel so well. Congrats. I'm glad they're supportive. I'm glad you're in it, glad to see you lasting longer than most males that I've. That I follow, so congrats thank you elaine, did she send you patches? Yet?
Speaker 2:I think she sent them. They're on their way. I'm not overly sure, though. Yeah, I'm getting them put on my my team jerseys and my gear bag and my vest, so we'll be repping her brand, yeah, okay.
Speaker 1:When she approached you and she wanted you part of the herd. What did that mean to you?
Speaker 2:Honestly, she approached you and she wanted you part of the herd. What did that mean to you? Honestly, it meant a lot and it was purely because of the fact of what her company does and how our goals align. It's a very god-based brand organization, whatever you want to say, and when she had told me that, I was like, oh my god, no way. Like we got to talking and it was just kind of I don't know. We had a same common interest with that and it was. She was so easy to talk to, our goals aligned. I was like this is gonna work. Yeah nice.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right. So you said you're from canada. How is the bull riding up there? I know a lot of bull riders up there. They're pretty good, but how is it in your eyes? Especially the practice pen? How are those guys practicing there? Honestly, it depends where you go.
Speaker 2:Yeah, it's pretty legit. I will say it depends where you go, though I've been to a few spots where it's iffy, got we got some pretty good riders. I will say, yeah, shout out to those guys because they're, they're amazing. Um, yeah, it depends where you go. Honestly, I feel like it's the same in the states too. You get the places that are a bit iffy and you get the ones that are the old end, all but, but yeah, yeah, going through winter as well.
Speaker 2:Yeah, yeah, we practice all through winter and it's kind of the off season, so it's pretty well, just practice, but I don't know about that If you weren't bull riding, what would you be doing in the rodeo world? Probably thinking about bull riding. Yeah, that's all I don't know. I'd just be thinking about bull riding. Yeah, that's all I don't know. I'd just be thinking about bull riding.
Speaker 1:You sound just like one of the guys, yeah.
Speaker 2:I don't know. It'd have to be something with bulls or steers, probably steer wrestling, still thinking about bull riding. That's about it. Maybe Bronx, that'd be cool.
Speaker 1:A lot of guys say, you know, uh, it wouldn't be stir wrestling because it takes a certain person you know to do that. But uh, roping, they're always talking about roping. This is like for real, all right. Well, that's, that's lame. Yeah, hey, breakaway is good, I like that, but that's, you know, female female drill, but it breakaways Great. I mean you blink, it's done. You know almost spirit wrestling these days too.
Speaker 2:It's crazy, oh yeah.
Speaker 1:What did? What did mom and dad think and feel when they heard you're riding bulls?
Speaker 2:Um, I didn't tell them, like I didn't, I didn't tell them until like after the little clinic I went to and they found out either when I was there or after. They were so mad they they were. They did not like that at all. Um, and I showed them videos. I probably shouldn't have done that because it was. I was kind of just getting into it at that time and like I shouldn't have showed him that I was going right under the bulls getting trampled. It was, it was not good. They're a little more supportive now because they've seen my progress, but neither of them have been to any event. So yeah, they're not too happy about it, but they try their best to put on a smile for me.
Speaker 2:When do you think they'll go to an event? I don't know. I hope soon. I always talk to them about it. I always let them know when they say soon. So hopefully this soon.
Speaker 1:Yeah, and you're associated in what, what card?
Speaker 2:Yeah, IPRA and Ram Rodeo for this for this year okay, and they haven't gone to one no, my mom came after one of them okay, just to see the aftermath, to see if some yeah, meet some of the people. Yeah, she wanted to meet my sponsor and I was like come out to one. She missed my ride by like five minutes. I was so mad.
Speaker 1:Okay, so basically she's trying to see if you messed up, if you needed help. Okay, well, you can tell them that you get them for free. Just come and see me more often.
Speaker 2:Pretty well Right.
Speaker 1:All right, you ever think about traveling down South, south of the border?
Speaker 2:I have. Yeah, I really want to go down South. I just, yeah, I'm trying to make my way. I'm trying, yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah To, to live, yeah, or just to travel to and from rodeos.
Speaker 2:My end goal is to live down there. I feel like I just resemble with the people, but I want to travel for a little bit and kind of chase rodeo. I'm hoping to make my way out to the States next summer and do some stateside circuits, but I'm trying. So hopefully next year fingers fingers crossed I can make my way okay, and how often does your region have rodeos, is it?
Speaker 1:I mean, now it's rodeo season here. I'm pretty sure it's rodeo season up there, right, how? How often is it? Every region wise?
Speaker 2:every weekend every weekend and then we practice once a week about yeah, um, and then obviously like the out of rodeo practice stuff like working out and stuff.
Speaker 1:But yeah, it's pretty well, just every weekend for rodeo with everything you do, how do you have time to travel?
Speaker 2:Rodeo is my travel, so I kind of map it out with places I want to see and I just try and maneuver it so it's on the way, or on my way back there or something.
Speaker 1:It's your favorite venue up there so far.
Speaker 2:So far, I don't know. I think I can't remember too many of the rodeos at the after parties it would have had to be the Ram Rodeo. The Ram Rodeos are probably my favorite when it comes to like the whole hanging out aspect and everything, and then rawhide. I just like their stock because I'm doing the junior division with that one, so it's it's a bit more suitable stock for me this year, um.
Speaker 1:So yeah, probably I would think that you know your ultimate goal because you're Canadian and everything would be the Calgary.
Speaker 2:Calgary Stampede. I want to make it the Calgary Stampede or Cheyenne. I want to go under those Cheyenne lights.
Speaker 1:Really Well. Pendleton has no lights, so that's also a good one. You can be on the grass.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, so traveling, what's your food intake like? Do you just go to random gas stations? Do you eat McDonald's?
Speaker 2:Do you eat all that?
Speaker 1:junk food.
Speaker 2:I kind of eat like a kid. I say I eat like a kid but I have to keep up a certain amount with the anticipate. What is it the level that I do? So as much as I do go to the gas station and I'm slamming back my Red Bulls and you know eating my not good stuff I'll. I have to sit down and get my protein in. Every day sucks. But I'll wash her down with a Red Bull and a Monster.
Speaker 1:Okay, regular Red Bull, or do you get those flavored Red Bulls?
Speaker 2:Oh, all of them. I don't care what it is, I'll be shooting down like four of them before I ride.
Speaker 1:Alright, alright. Besides Red Bull, what's your go-to on the road? What is the must-have snack for you on the road?
Speaker 2:Oh God, I have to say Red Bull, like I don't really snack Red Bull and Lunchables actually. Like everybody will tell you that you'll never see me at a rodeo without a Red Bull and a Lunchable and I'll be sitting there in the tent with my Red Bull and Lunchable, no care in the world.
Speaker 1:What Lunchable Any of them.
Speaker 2:I don't care what it is, just love Lunchables.
Speaker 1:Yeah, the fake meat and the crackers, one the small ones, or you get the big ones.
Speaker 2:The adult ones, Like you know, the grown-up ones. I have to be a little grown-up here.
Speaker 1:Are they for grown-ups or just big kids? I think for big kids.
Speaker 2:I'd like to say it's for big kids, because that's basically what I am at this point.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right. Well, you said you worked on a cow farm, right?
Speaker 2:Yeah.
Speaker 1:Yeah, yeah. Did you ever get your taste in peanut butter jelly sandwiches?
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's another on the road rodeo snack. We'll bring a bag of peanut butter and jelly sandwiches.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I'd be eating out, walking through the dairy farm.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, Love PB&Js.
Speaker 1:So one of the staple questions that I'm not bringing back, but it's been, you know, not being said that much or asked is uh, how do you uh prepare peanut butter jelly sandwich?
Speaker 2:oh, all right, you got your bread. You slap your peanut butter on it, you slap the jelly on it, you slap some bread. Sometimes you do a little double deck reaction and you put another slab on. Oh yeah, then you cut them up into squares and you make like eight of them and then you stuff it in a bag as many as you can, and that's like breakfast, lunch and dinner at rodeos.
Speaker 1:Yeah, that's the first I've heard and people are going to be like what. She's bringing it to another level. Double decker squares Alright, just 50-, 50 on the spread.
Speaker 2:Add to you, gotta butter up a little bit sometimes, like you put a bit more peanut butter, sometimes you put a bit more jelly, so like it's different each time you grab your little square out of the bag like.
Speaker 1:I like what you're putting. Okay, all right, is it? Is it just a regular store-bought jelly, or is it mom and pop?
Speaker 2:Oh, it's the homemade stuff. Unfortunately, my parents don't make it, but the little Amish down the road do. So the Amish ladies hook me up good.
Speaker 1:Ah, good, all right. So so a lot of guys in the rodeo scene. Right, they, they're really picky on their music. You'd be crazy to know. You are adrenaline junkies. Right, you like your music, but the music it does not match their attitude in the dirt. Right, they listen to T-Swizzle. They listen to Katy Perry. When you're traveling and you're you, I know you have traveling buddies, correct?
Speaker 2:yeah, oh yeah go to music?
Speaker 1:do you listen to hardcore rock and roll country? Do you listen to katie perry, like most guys do that I've talked to on the podcast yeah, it's pretty well all of the above right there.
Speaker 2:It's like rock and roll, straight old country music and then katie perry t swift we're listening to last friday night and and all that jazz. I love it, but we're we're usually blasting kid rock. Kid rock is a big one and then we'll like settle it down with some george straight or something.
Speaker 1:But yeah, so what's the the ratio, male to female ratio on uh, your traveling buddies I got one friend that's a steer rider.
Speaker 2:Her name's monsay. She's pretty cool, she. She comes with me, she's my travel buddy, the rest I. Oh my god, it's brutal because I'll be stuck in a car or truck with like five guys for at least six hours and it's it's hell on earth. Oh my god. No one wants to be stuck in a moving car with those guys for five hours. God, they're children, so they're children, but like what?
Speaker 1:what makes them so annoying? Besides that comment, they will.
Speaker 2:Okay. They will like put their foot in your ear and they'll be pulling your hair, or they'll throw stuff at you, or they'll fart and roll up all the windows and lock the windows, or they'll roll all the windows down and then my hair is going everywhere. And then they'll sit there and smoke cigarettes and they'll like hot box it and I'm making them roll down the window. Bunch of roughies like God.
Speaker 1:And you're not a roughie.
Speaker 2:Well, I am, but I was going to ask.
Speaker 1:I was going to ask it or just mention hey, you don't fart, Come on now.
Speaker 2:You don't play the games back.
Speaker 1:I know you do, oh, okay, if you're not doing all the above, the what we talked about, everything. When you have downtime, what's your favorite thing to do Besides, think of rodeo and bulls.
Speaker 2:don't give me that yeah, besides thinking of bull riding, um, I'm usually just kind of playing guitar outside. I'll always just pick up my guitar and I'll bring my notepad out and I'm just right in a way. I'll sit there for hours when I have time and I just kind of get lost in it.
Speaker 1:Favorite bull rider right now.
Speaker 2:JB Mooney. Obviously Forever and always.
Speaker 1:Forever and always. But he's a coach now. He's a coach. He was a bull rider before.
Speaker 2:His legend is still a legend. True, true, but come on now, no one else probably t parker, maybe maybe, I don't know so guitar self-taught yeah or you're, yeah, self-taught.
Speaker 1:Okay, what favorite band out out now or star?
Speaker 2:favorite star. I've been jamming to gavin adcock recently, yeah okay, what genre? That's country, country. Yeah, it's a bit newer country, but if we're bringing it back a bit, it's always tim mcgraw or george straight okay, about to say, because that new country it's not even country anymore, not really.
Speaker 1:People think Morgan Whalen's the GOAT and I'm like are you kidding me?
Speaker 2:What the heck? He's not even country. No, he's not, I don't, yeah, no.
Speaker 1:Overplayed. What are your plans for the rest of the year?
Speaker 2:Hopefully to get another couple wins at least with. With Boriden, I want to get a buckle. Um, I'm hoping I can win one before the end of the season. Um, yeah, so that's kind of my main goal right now. And, yeah, I'm hoping I can pick up with Maude Lynn. So my actual two goals are to win a buckle and get on a magazine.
Speaker 1:So two goals by the end of the year. Hopefully I can do it now does the modeling agency, just out of curiosity, do they make you sign a waiver saying, hey, if you mess up your face or body, you're no longer a model on this agency?
Speaker 2:thankfully not, but I have messed my body up a lot, to the point where they are like get kind of mad at me because they're sitting there putting makeup all over my scars and stuff.
Speaker 1:It's just a lot of work so what's it going to take for you to pick and choose like what are? Will you ever have that? Would you pick modeling over bull riding?
Speaker 2:oh god, no, I'd pick bull riding over anything like I'd give anything up just to continue bull riding okay, so what does modeling bring to you then?
Speaker 2:if you don't mind me asking I don't know, I love riding trumps everything yeah, everyone kind of has a stigma on it, but I love the atmosphere. We always got good tunes going when we're when we're doing shoots and everyone's laughing away. It's such a carefree zone and I don't know. I love it. I'm always learning new things and keeps me up to date on the fashion, I guess okay, I got you, I got you all right.
Speaker 1:You're gonna. Are you going to get insurance, just in case? Yeah, you should. You should get insurance just in case that modeling agency, you know, wants you to continue, you know, working for them yeah, yeah what's your goal for next year, or how does it look next year, or have you even looked that far?
Speaker 2:I have looked that far. So my goal for next year is to make it to the states. I really want to compete with the elite lady bull riders or any female league that's around um, there's one in alberta, I know, there's a couple down in the states. So, honestly, wherever I can go for women's bull riding, and I really just want to take my travels, and I've kind of taken over ontario now so I want to push it and do that year by year.
Speaker 1:Listen, listen, that confidence. I've that confidence. I've already taken over Ontario. Here I come States. I got it. That's awesome.
Speaker 2:Your ultimate goal? Whether it's modeling and everything else you do, I don't know my ultimate goal just to honestly be remembered. Like everything that I'm doing, I just I love it so much, and I want people to remember kind of where it started and how far it can go. And, yeah, my ultimate goal, though end up under the Cheyenne lights. That's where I want to compete. So everything's revolved around bull riding. It always is, yeah.
Speaker 1:Okay, all right. What would you tell all the little girls looking up to you and other females in the bull riding? What would you tell them who are thinking and talking about getting into this sport? What would you tell?
Speaker 2:them. Do it. Do it you. You're gonna get hurt, you're gonna, you're gonna have falls, but do it because you'll have the most fun you ever will have and, honestly, you'll regret it if you don't do it. Yeah, it'll change your life for the better and you'll meet amazing people along the way nice, nice, so live.
Speaker 1:I appreciate your time. I appreciate you just basically showing us guys that, hey, girls have that, that feeling too. You know that adrenaline junkie, that rush, that, that, that, like you know, like I say and others that I've said on the podcast balls to the wall mentality attitude. You know about bull riding and nothing else. It's cool to know that females in this sport are bringing it to. I appreciate your time. I appreciate what you stand for. I am glad Elaine twisted my arm, gave me a shout out, and I'm glad you're also part of her herd and, honestly, I appreciate the opportunity of you allowing me to interview you. My arm gave me a shout out and I'm glad you're also part of her herd and, honestly, I appreciate the opportunity of you allowing me to interview you.
Speaker 2:So thank you so much live. Oh, thank you. Thank you, I had a lot of fun doing this all right.
Speaker 1:Well, watch out, fans. Live is on the path to the states. Till next time, liv Bye.