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#36 The Importance of Marketing in the Equestrian Industry with founder and CEO of Entrigue Consulting, Kelly Artz

#36 The Importance of Marketing in the Equestrian Industry with founder and CEO of Entrigue Consulting, Kelly Artz

82m 53s

Kelly Artz is the founder and CEO of Entrigue Consulting. An avid eventer turned FEI dressage rider, with a knack for marketing and branding, her connections in American Thoroughbred Horse Racing, Dressage, and Eventing led her to help equestrian brands and professional riders across horse sports strategize their digital identity.

Kelly has represented many Olympians and top riders and has collaborated with some of the largest organizations in equestrian sports including the Kentucky Derby, Breeder's Cup, Adequan Global Dressage Festival, and Longines Global Champions Tour.

In this episode, we discuss the importance of marketing in the success of the equestrian...

#35 Understanding Intrinsic Motivation for Movement with Kathy Sierra

#35 Understanding Intrinsic Motivation for Movement with Kathy Sierra

122m 18s

Kathy Sierra is the creator/curator of Intrinzen and the Pain Science Workshop, and she’s well known on Instagram as PantherFlows. Kathy has ten years working in human sports medicine as a training director in Los Angeles. She then went back to school for computer science, working after as a game developer and software architect. Kathy eventually worked in Hollywood and taught “interaction design for intrinsic motivation” at UCLA Entertainment Studies and Universal Studio, and went on to create an educational book series in technology that sold over 2 million copies.

Horses have been a lifelong passion, but not her profession....

#34 Positive Reinforcement Training with Adele Shaw of The Willing Equine

#34 Positive Reinforcement Training with Adele Shaw of The Willing Equine

76m 22s

Adele Shaw is a Certified Horse Behaviour Consultant, an endorsed trainer with the World Bitless Association, as well as an internationally recognized mentor and trainer focused on creating a positive relationship between horse and human through science-based training and care practices. This holistic approach examines the horse’s environment, lifestyle, and physical and mental soundness to ensure that the horses are not simply surviving, but truly thriving in their life and relationship with their human caretakers.

While training with positive reinforcement is fairly mainstream in a lot of areas of the animal training world, it's still in its infancy in the...

#33 The Importance of Your Environment for Success with Jessica Parr

#33 The Importance of Your Environment for Success with Jessica Parr

64m 12s

Jessica Parr is a horse trainer turned human coach. As the owner of Springen Equestrian, Jessica is a freelance trainer and offers a variety of options for lessons, training & competitions. Her team actively competes on the Silver Series West Circuit and attends select A Circuit shows.

Nowadays, you can find Jessica coaching as many humans out of the saddle as she coaches in the saddle. She combines the knowledge and experience she’s gained as an equestrian coach to help others in business and in life.

In this episode we discuss the importance of your equestrian environment for your personal...

#32 The Key to Harmony and Bonding with Your Horse with Linda Tellington-Jones

#32 The Key to Harmony and Bonding with Your Horse with Linda Tellington-Jones

34m 45s

Linda Tellington-Jones is a true icon in the horse world. With her innovative method, the Tellington TTouch method, she has helped countless horse owners to establish a deeper connection with their beloved four-legged friends.

In this episode, Linda shares her unique insights and experiences of how the Tellington TTouch Method can successfully enhance the connection between humans and animals. She shares how these gentle touches and movements can help build trust, relaxation, and harmony between horse and rider.

#31 The Importance of Saddle Fit with Holly Barnett of August Equine

#31 The Importance of Saddle Fit with Holly Barnett of August Equine

75m 25s

Holly Barnett is the founder and CEO of August Equine. August Equine takes a whole horse approach to saddle fit, combining the knowledge of saddle fit with anatomy, conformation, biomechanics, and the nervous system.

For over 20 years Holly has studied and transformed equestrian partnerships of all levels and disciplines. She specializes in dressage, eventing, and jumping as well as western and endurance riding. Holly’s innate ability to both spot and resolve performance blocks, as well as temper the nervous system, harness the foundations of movement, and optimize the fit of equipment, enables clients to create quantum leaps in their...

#30 Breaking Barriers in the Sport of Polo with Agustin Arellano

#30 Breaking Barriers in the Sport of Polo with Agustin Arellano

41m 51s

Agustin Arellano is a professional American polo player, eco-entrepreneur, and model.

Agustin is also the newly appointed operations manager at Rinehart Polo, where he further assists with the organization’s goals to create a holistic future for the sport. Both Agustin and Rinehart Polo are dedicated to the long-term betterment of the sport of polo by focusing on polo education, sponsoring youth polo programs, and most importantly, making polo more inclusive, while improving equine welfare.

When he is not on the field practicing or playing polo, Agustin is tirelessly working on his co-founded companies, the Project Pampa and The Range, which...

#29 Making Your Equestrian Entrepreneurship Dreams a Reality with Christa Myers

#29 Making Your Equestrian Entrepreneurship Dreams a Reality with Christa Myers

65m 6s

Christa Myers is the woman behind the Equestrian Bookkeeper and the Equestrian Entrepreneur. Christa grew up as most of us horse-loving kids do, which is filling their days with barn time but not fully living out their dreams due to financial limitations.

In 2020, Christa began to build out the idea of combining her love for horses, passion for continuous improvement, and knowledge of business and financial operations to create her own business, which launched January 1, 2021. Through this, she realized that what is common sense to her in business and finances was not common sense to everyone else....

#28 Finding Success In and Out of the Saddle with Ingrid Klimke

#28 Finding Success In and Out of the Saddle with Ingrid Klimke

65m 32s

Ingrid Klimke is considerably one of the most successful riders worldwide. A multi Olympic medalist, and a successful competitor in multiple disciplines, including Dressage, eventing, and show jumping.

On this episode, we discuss everything from bringing along successful horses, to balancing training regimes and horse welfare, setting goals, staying present and mindful as a rider and trusting your own intuition, and so much more.

#27 A holistic approach to wellness for equestrians with Ifa Simmonds

#27 A holistic approach to wellness for equestrians with Ifa Simmonds

77m 6s

Ifa Simmonds is a certified fitness professional with over a decade of experience working with, coaching, and instructing people over their fitness hurdles and towards their goals. Ifa has spent 6 years now helping equestrians with their riding fitness challenges in areas related to stability, suppleness, strength, and stamina.

Realizing that many equestrian clients have prior injuries, imbalances, overuse strains, and have fallen off without proper recovery, which are all issues that continue to affect their riding and competitive confidence, Ifa developed a systemized approach to their fitness training that allowed them to make the most progress. This program strengthens...