AIRED: October 31, 2022
SPECIAL GUEST: Alan Day
Alan Day has had adventures that most of us only experience while watching Netflix. In his book, Cowboy Up, Alan shares what life was like for he and his two sisters growing up on the Lazy B, a 200,000-acre family cattle ranch in the arid Southwest.
In what he describes as a “hardscrabble childhood”, it was their upbringing that instilled a strong work ethic, values, and principles that would eventually lead each of them to own extraordinary life path.
After graduating from college, Alan went on to successfully manage the Lazy B for 40 years. His sister, Ann Day, dedicated her life to public service in the state of Arizona, serving in the state legislature and local government. The eldest of the three siblings, Sandra Day O’Connor, was the first woman appointed to the United States Supreme Court. Sandra was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom and served on the court for 25 years.
Join us for this very special interview, as Alan recounts his writing of Cowboy Up. Filled with humor and deeply moving timeless truths, this book is one man’s story of ranching and the cowboy life lessons in persistence, innovation, common sense, trust, friendship, and experiences that cross all demographics, lifestyles, and decades of time.
ALAN DAY
Alan Day’s upbringing branded him a cowboy from the day he was born. To this day, he claims that he has soil running through his veins. He was part of the third generation to grow up on the 200,000-acre Lazy B cattle ranch straddling the high deserts of southern Arizona and New Mexico.
The ranching and cowboy lifestyle appealed to him so greatly that after graduating from the University of Arizona, he returned to manage Lazy B for the next 40 years. During his career, he received numerous awards for his dedicated stewardship of the land. In 1989, Alan purchased a cattle ranch in Nebraska and soon after, a ranch in South Dakota. The latter became the first government-sponsored sanctuary for 1500 unadoptable wild horses. Alan is the author of three books.
Alan and his sister Sandra Day O’Connor co-authored LAZY B, about growing up on the family ranch. Alan then went on to write THE HORSE LOVER, about adventures managing and training 1500 wild mustangs, and then COWBOY UP, about life lessons learned on Lazy B. Alan is the co-host of “The Cowboy Up Podcast,” which airs on Apple and Spotify.
