Association. I was always one of those kids who did just about every single contest and ran for every single leadership role. Showmanship was always something my family enjoyed. I was extremely honored to earn the title of Champion Showman in 2013 and my brother was Third Overall Showman in 2014. From a young age, I idolized the successful juniors in the NJAA who served as Miss American Angus and on the NJAA Board of Directors. I still see some of my biggest accomplishments today as serving as Miss American Angus in 2011, and the Leadership Director on the NJAA Board of Directors from 2012-2014. Today I Co- Chair the Miss American Angus contest with Cortney Cates and enjoy playing a small part in the lives of many young women in the Angus breed. Serving as Miss American Angus actually led to an opportunity that I believe influenced much of my path over the last ten years. In 2011, while working the ring as Miss American Angus at the National Western Stock Show, I was asked by the association to conduct an on-camera interview for the Angus Foundation. As a result
truly attribute the success of my business and my life throughout the last 28 years to the support I’ve received from my family and the
southwest Missouri where I grew up on
fondest memories as a kid were at those events and the summers spent preparing for them. For my family, these shows also meant an opportunity to exhibit the cattle that we raised. Over the course of my show career, I only exhibited one heifer that we didn’t raise. One of my family’s biggest accomplishments was raising WCC Frontier Gal 39. The female who started the Frontier Gal family that you see throughout the Angus breed today. She went on to win the National Junior Angus Show and National Western Stock Show. I absolutely loved my time in the National Junior Angus
my family’s Angus and Simmental operation, Wallace Cattle Company. My parents, Ernie and Tammy Wallace, my brother and sister-in- law, Sam and Morgan, and their newborn son Beau, continue to run that operation today. My parents started our family’s operation in 1990 and often talk about how in the early days they barely got by at times. As a kid I never would have known that because my parents afforded my brother and I every opportunity to compete in many show rings across the country. We competed at every National Junior Angus Show during my junior career and some of my
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people in the agriculture industry. While I didn’t always know that I wanted to run my own photo and video business, it was the kindness and knowledge passed to me from many industry greats that allowed me to end up in a lifestyle I only could have dreamed of. From hosting a TV show, to judging livestock in college, and now running my own business, God has led me down a unique path that shaped me into who I am today. My story begins in
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