Casey Treloar reports for Seven News Adelaide by day, and breeds and shows dairy cattle in her spare time. In this final episode of Season 2, she sits down with Sav Perera to talk about how cows created her media career.

Casey shares how a quirky Celebrity Milk Off at the Royal Adelaide Show led to work experience, then a job, at Channel 7. She explains why she believes we only put up our own barriers, and how she's pushed through in two male dominated industries.

She also opens up about the moment her family's farm couldn't continue, the live video she filmed in the paddock, and what it taught her about vulnerability. From handling online negativity to finding beauty in the hard moments of farming, Casey is honest about all of it.

Sav and Casey dig into risk, saying yes to opportunity, and the lesson of learning to say no. Casey also shares what she wants to master this year, including how to tell the story of a red cow named Ruffles.

Recorded on Kaurna Land. You're In Charge is brought to you by ThincHer, an initiative of ThincLab at Adelaide University.

Chapters

00:00 Introduction

01:40 Breaking into agriculture and media

02:51 How cows created a media career

04:05 Balancing two passions

04:59 Breaking through male dominated industries

06:27 Schools, pathways and the next generation

09:02 Around the Barn and finding a mentor

10:35 When the family farm couldn't continue

14:26 Handling criticism online

17:30 Why farmers need to share their stories

19:56 The beauty and the hardship

21:02 Risk, opportunity and never settling

24:06 Learning to say no

26:05 Self-care and what cows mean to her

28:21 Why cows

30:35 Innovation, genetics and the future of dairy

33:52 What Casey wants to master this year

36:35 Sav's takeaways and wrap up