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If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd. I’d love to say a huge thank you to our new Patreon subscriber Angie Wentrup, thank you so much Angie for joining the patreon community to keep the podcast rolling along. I’d also like to thank Karen Laude for her one off Paypal contribution. If you would also like to do a one-off payment you are very welcome to, just get in contact via my website or social media and let you know how to go about it. In this episode I speak with Martin Contreras, Martin trains in liberty and works with horse owners to build a strong foundation for working with horses and really honing your intuitive skills to build the foundations and levels of communication needed to strengthen the bond with your horse. Martin is a great trainer in his own right and also keeps up his own training, he is currently working under Steph Vincent to develop his in-hand work. I was lucky enough to attend one of Martin’s clinics in Brisbane about 5 years ago with my mare Gypsy. He works in such a gentle and intuitive way with horses and it is a true partnership and 2-way communication. In this conversation we talk about many things, one of them being what the word liberty really means and I’m so glad we did as it is something that I feel has been a little misused in the horse world. To be at liberty a horse is not just free of tack. I will read you the dictionary definition of liberty so you have something to ponder while listening to Martin’s story. It means the quality or state of being free. The power to do as one pleases. Freedom from physical restraint. Freedom from arbitrary or despotic control, despot means a ruler with absolute power and authority. The positive enjoyment of various privileges. The power of choice. So while you ponder that, sit back and enjoy this conversation. To connect with Martin please click on the links belowFacebookhttps://www.facebook.com/MartinContrerasHorseTrainingatLiberty/ Instagramhttps://instagram.com/martin_contreras_horsemanship?igshid=1blrtdrmm7kgh For clinics, in-person or online Lessons, contact Martin via social media or at horsetrainingatliberty@gmail.com.
If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd. I’d like to give a shout out to 2 new patreon subscribers Kerrie Ellery and Lisa Mills, thank you both so much for taking action and supporting me in this podcast. In this episode I spoke with Franklin Levinson. It’s a real privilege to speak with someone who has given so much to the gentle training of horses for so many years. Franklin as a boy found himself always seeking peace due to loudness in his life. This is how he came to connect with horses so well. He saw in them what he was looking for himself. He does not believe in bad horses, he also believes horses are always right. Franklin says horses when they react to something are in a state of fear, not disrespect, and you can be a great horseperson when you are able to realise that the horse is simply a peace seeker. So instead of punishing a horse or correcting a horse what you can do is lead the horse to a place within themselves of safety and peace. This is a beautiful conversation with a beautiful man and I hope you get as much out of it as I did. To connect with Franklin follow the links belowWebsite http://www.acourseinhorse.com/index.phpFacebook https://www.facebook.com/franklin.levinson
If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd. In this episode I speak with Emily Frost who has a business called Kiros Way where she teaches people to re-wild themselves with horses. Emily co-creates with unbridled horses and helps you to remember what it’s like to be free, both you and your horse. She teaches you to communicate in a language beyond words, while exploring different shades and expressions of spirit. I found speaking with Emily that the simple act of her telling me her story brought my own childhood memories and dreams to the surface and it really helped me to remember that my current goals with my horses are not aligned with my childhood dreams. So for me this was quite profound. I’ve always believed in the power of storytelling to make positive change in the world and this time, I was blessed enough that it happened for me too. Emily is a beautiful story teller and I hope you are transported to your childhood horse dreams as well and we can all being our re-wilding together. To connect with Emily please use the links below.Website https://www.kirosway.com/Facebook https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1198128642Instagram https://www.instagram.com/kirosway/YouTube https://www.youtube.com/user/GALLOPSwithTHEwind
As you will all be aware there is a movement finally getting the air time it deserves, it’s the #blacklivesmatter movement and it’s important to take a moment to talk about it. As a white woman I have stayed quiet for some time as it is so difficult to know what to say. I want to speak up and out for black lives in both the US and Australia, but I don’t want to say the wrong thing or disrespect anyone. So I’ve donated to gofundme legal accounts for 3 Indigenous court cases looking to find answers to black deaths in custody. I post a lot on my personal social media pages and always speak up to those who post racist comments or get in on the all lives matter argument. I’ve since reached out to African American people in the horse world but they seem to be inundated at the moment and I don’t get any replies. I will keep trying, this does not have a time limit. If you know of any people of colour working with horses in any way please let me know. Usually I only interview people working in gentle and ethical ways with horses but I believe that there is racism in the horse world and it runs deep and that people of colour are not given the opportunities that we as white people have been given. They may not even know that our way exists. I also believe that in order to make change in the world we need to invite everyone in, especially those who are in the minority in the horse world. We can’t make change by excluding people because we see pain in the eyes of their horse or because we don’t like the way that they train. We make change by inviting those people in and with love and respect, hearing their story and introducing them to the possibilities. So if you know of anyone who would like to be heard and tell their story here on the podcast then please get in touch with me. You will notice in the intro of this podcast I do an acknowledgement of country. This is one way that I show respect at all times to the first Australian’s and their culture and people. I wanted to do it from the outset of my podcast but didn’t know exactly how to do it respectfully, so I waited until I interviewed Dr Tauri Simone and asked her advice. I do the acknowledgment of country as it is an aboriginal Australian creation that they use and have shared with us as white Australian’s, I believe that when you are given a gift of the culture of your land, the least you can do it use it with respect. I don’t make huge changes or do it my way. I show it the respect it deserves and deliver it in the way they have done for thousands of years. I searched for a long time when I started this podcast for indigenous horse trainers and found absolutely no one. In 2018 NAIDOC week which is an acronym for National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee the theme was Because of her we can. This is where I saw the work of Dr Tauri Simone where she researched the influence of aboriginal women on the Australian pastoral industry. It took me weeks to find a contact for her as she is not on social media, I had to go through her university website then finally found her on linkedin. She then months later when she logged onto LinkedIn agreed to an interview and we arranged a time. It was always tricky as she lives on a station in Western Australia and may or may not have internet coverage on any given day or may be out bush working. But we got there eventually. I wanted to replay this interview once again as it is the one I am most proud of, in all the interviews I have done being able to bring the culture of the land I live on to the world makes me very proud. It is also important to hear what first Australian women endured when colonisation occurred. Tauri and I talked off mic about how she kept the interview and the story positive but the research and interviews and accounts she read during her research were heart breaking and she almost gave up so many times as the pain was so strong for what her ancestors endured at the hands of white man. So as you listen to this please know that while things are better for aboriginals today, they’re not that much better really and slavery and the stolen generation are the grandparents of young adult first Australians today. They carry a lot of trauma and some still have no idea where their family is. On a positive note in the podcast you can imagine what kind of women they were and how on earth they were able to ride horses at night to round up cattle who were on a blind run. It’s an amazing story on every level and I thank you for taking the time to listen to this episode. I’d also ask that this is the episode to share with friends, share the story of horse Australia was built and the extraordinary skill of these indigenous women. May we all come together and look back on this time as the moment we remember that the world truly changed to a kinder place and a safer place for all people of colour. If you'd like to support this podcast you can by going to www.patreon.com/comealongforhteridepodcast where you can become a subscriber and help me to keep this podcast going. © Copyrighted
I’d first like to take a moment to thank everyone who responded to my last podcast episode. I honestly though it may well be time to turn to something new and give this up. I was very pleasantly surprised to see the response. Thus I am still here and will be coming to you weekly once again. I’d truly appreciate it if you can go to www.patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and become a supporter like these amazing peopleSigne of HorsesRachel Beddingfield from Connection TrainingLouise EhrichLiz EhrichLauren ArcayJessica VoellerFiona WagstaffElisa MansfieldEiddwen SkellonBelinda DawsBelinda AnnePeter Papp This weeks episode was recorded in October 2019 and was a part of Anna Blake’s Australian Tour where I hosted Anna here in South East Qld. This was the evening of day 1 of the clinic. I love doing solo interviews but I really love a live audience where everyone can be involved and great questions are asked, which is what happened here. So being October 2019 this was way before covid so groups of as many people as you like were allowed, it’s hard to remember that kind of time but it happened! I really loved the group that came along to this clinic. It was a place of such great conversation and learning and I’m so glad to be able to share this podcast with you today. If you’d like to learn more about Anna Blake you may want to listen to the first interview I did with her back in episode 22 of the podcast. To connect with Anna you can follow any of these linksIf you'd like to buy Anna's books then you can go to book depository here.To read Anna's blog, organise a session with her or see where her next workshop is you can go to her blog website.She also has an author website here. To connect with Petep Papp from peter and the Herd you can do so here.FacebookInstagram
Hi everyone. I’m coming into your ears for a different reason today. I usually always keep the narrative positive and dislike and negativity being used around my brand at any time. So I’m way out of my comfort zone here but it’s time to be brave and vulnerable and honest. You see I started this podcast and my business Eden River Equestrian a few years ago now. It had been a dream of mine for a very long time and it took the catalyst of my mother passing away and me doing the eulogy at her funeral for me to truly realise that life is way too short to not live your dreams. So I dived in and began this podcasting journey and it’s been amazing to be able to make such a positive change in the lives of so many horses from all over the world. My passion to build my business was to literally make the world a better pace by selling natural and sustainable products, sourcing products from trusted suppliers and making some myself with the planet that both us and our horses eat from and gain out nutritional needs from, was always in the forefront of my mind. However just like in life, things need to be sustainable in more ways than just the products that I have for sale and for the information given over this podcast. It needs to be sustainable for me, the person who spends my life putting countless hours into these passions. While life had taken a toll on my health last year, and then the breakdown of a relationship meant I had to stop for a few months. This year Eden River Equestrian and this podcast Come Along for the Ride need to be able to sustain me and my son and my horses and animals. Otherwise it needs to all be shut down. Because the truth is, it is not sustainable for me. I make absolutely no profit from these two ventures and I have been putting time and energy into them for over 2 years now. I am not only not profiting, but I am running at massive losses and as you know, this is not sustainable. If you could see the messages I get and the information that I give to people via email and messenger you would easily think I was making a hefty profit, people’s lives have been changed, horses have been saved as their humans finally wake up to another way. The trainers I interview and the sponsors on my podcast all do well financially from this venture and for this I am eternally grateful and very proud of the positive impact I have made. But to go on like this with no profit to myself is just another form of self-harm, and I’m done with this very dark part of my life and story. To continually give to others without receiving in return is no longer what I am willing to endure in any area of my life. So I am here to ask you, what needs to change? What does this podcast have to do, what changes does it have to make for you to give $5 a month? Or even $2 a month. I know by the messages I receive and the amount of continual downloads that the information is valuable. So I am truly asking you what will make the difference for you to go to patreon and give $5 a month. If everyone who listened to this podcast gave $5 a month, I would be having a totally different conversation with you right now. For those who now support me and have done through this whole journey, my truly heartfelt thanks. You are the reason I have been able to come this far and have been able to make a difference. You are my people and I thank you every day. I’d also love to know what Eden River Equestrian can do for you to make the choice to purchase from the website. The amount of people, even friends who ask for advice about feeding and herbs and then make the choice to buy their herbs form somewhere else is quite honestly breathtaking. I’d love to know what you want me to provide for you that you would be willing to purchase? Tell me what your values are, what do you regularly buy that you want me to stock. How can I make this business turn a profit to then be able to make an even bigger change to the lives of horses? You see my dream was so much bigger than a podcast and a website. I truly know how to go about making a global positive change for horses. But to do anything like this takes investment, not just of time but resources. It’s a very vulnerable decision to put this out there and ask these questions and ask for your help and honesty. But it came to the point of do this or disappear. If it is time to shut it down then I will do so quietly and I will do something else. I am a creative person who is able to turn my hand at anything and a new idea will come and I will make it happen as I always do. I will pick myself up and go on, I just can’t go on like this. So please send me and email to info@edenriverequestrian.com or shoot me a dm through my socials and let me know what needs to change and if the changes are possible I promise to make them. Thanks for taking the time to listen to this all the way through. I appreciate it and truly hope to be able to serve you better in the future.
If you would like to become a patron of this podcast and help support all the work I do then please head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast this is where you can subscribe, for as little as $5 a month. $5 a month isn’t much to you, but it means the world to me. I’d love for you to consider it it’s at patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast In this episode I speak with Jane Myers from Equiculture. Jane and her husband Stuart created the Equicentral system of managing horse properties in a sustainable way out of Stuarts constant questing of why things are done a certain way. Why do we have to take the hay out to the horse, why can’t they come in for it? In the coming years they have refined and are continually adding new information to this amazing system. We talk about so many of my favourite topics, soil, regenerative farming methods, manure and dung beetles, mulch and how you too can make a huge difference to your horse property. I’ve been an organic gardener for over 10 years now so I was a kid in a candy store in this conversation but the best part for me was that in the course of this conversation Jane converted my entire mindset from horses are bad for the land and environment to horses are great for the environment, bad management makes them look bad but they are not. I hope you get some great insights and tips from this interview as I did. To connect with Jane please follow any of the links below. Website: www.equiculture.netFacebook: https://www.facebook.com/equicultureJaneMyersTwitter: https://twitter.com/EquicultureJaneInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/horseridersmechanic/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/EquicultureandHorseRidersMechanicPinterest: https://www.pinterest.co.uk/janem5144/Linked in: www.linkedin.com/in/jane-myers-equiculture © TracyMalone
If you would like to become a patron of this podcast and help support all the work I do then please head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast this is where you can subscribe, for as little as $5 a month. $5 a month isn’t much to you, but it means the world to me. I’d love for you to consider it it’s at patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast In this episode I spoke with Warwick Schiller from Warwick Schiller Performance Horsemanship. Most of you may of heard of Warwick and probably follow him on the socials so you will know that he travels the world helping people with training their horses and has a really large following worldwide. He believes you are the perfect person to train your horse. The great part about talking to Warwick for me is that his story reminded me of why I started this podcast and brought me back to my core values as a horse person. I believe that we have such an influence on horses by what we are holding in our bodies and minds and we bring it to them every time we approach or train or ride them. He also reminded me that horses really want one thing only from us and that is our presence. I didn't want to get into training specifics with Warwick as such as he gives you all of this online already. I wanted to know about his personal story on his change in who he is and how he does things. I wanted to see what makes him tick. A heads up, this is the longest podcast I’ve done it’s just over 2 hours. So sit back and enjoy the ride! To connect with Warwick please follow one of the links below. https://videos.warwickschiller.com/ https://www.warwickschiller.com/ https://www.facebook.com/pg/Warwickschillerfanpage https://www.instagram.com/warwickschiller https://www.youtube.com/user/WarwickSchiller
If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd. In this episode I speak with Mary Richards from Enriched Equine. As her business name states, Mary helps horse owners enrich their horses lives through so many varied and interesting techniques. We talk about what enrichment is and how it relates to horses in stalls or stables and also for those on acreage. I must say it was very enriching to have this conversation about enrichment, it really got my mind engaged and thinking about new things. So even just by having this conversation I can feel in myself the positive aspects that it will be able to bring to my horses lives. The wonderful thing about enrichment Mary says, is that it is only limited by your imagination. So sit back and enjoy, and hopefully be engaged and enriched by the wonderful Mary Richards. To show us what you have done to enrich the life of your horse please go to our Facebook page To connect with Mary please follow the links belowWebsite: https://www.enrichedequine.com/Facebook:@theenrichedequine
If you’d like to support the podcast and all the work that I do then you can! Just head on over to patreon.com/comealongfortheridepodcast and sign up. From as little as a cup of coffee a month, you can help me keep this podcast going. There are many tiers that you can choose from and if everyone who listens gave only $5 per month, it would make a massive positive difference to me. There is a tier in there for a small business subscription just like the one Peter Papp took up from Peter and the Herd, this is the one where your business gets a mention each week on the podcast. Peter works with equine behaviour and trauma recovery. Equine communication. Human and horse relationship building. Peter has had communication with my mare Gypsy, who is the mare with me in the podcast picture and he was spot on about everything so I can highly recommend his work personally. Click here to connect with Peter and the Herd. This interview is with Dr Tauri Simone an Aboriginal woman who has spent years writing a thesis on Aboriginal Stockwomen; Their Legacy in the Australian Pastoral Industry. Tauri is not only an incredibly well-educated woman, she is also a stockwoman, who lives in the outback of western Australia on a property that is 1.3 million acres. She musters cattle, no longer on horseback, but she used to. She lives a privileged life compared to the women she writes about. In this interview you will hear how it is for a stockwoman now and how it was for those who came before her. It’s a fascinating story for any horse lover to hear how these women trained and rode horses to round up cattle and jump off their horses and spear tackle cattle! Taurie is a brave woman choosing to tell this story, her legacy is that she is telling the story as something for aboriginal people to be proud of. She leaves out most of the atrocities as the trauma does not need to be opened again, but the story of these unbelievably resilient and capable women, must live on. I believe, this is the type of story that we need to keep telling to begin the healing of colonialism and to move forward as one people. To read Dr Tauri Simone's full paper you can go to this link and download the pdf and have a good read. please have a read, let's all keep these stories that matter circulating so they can't be lost.
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