Best Horse Practices Podcast

Welcome to Best Horse Practices. My name is Maddy Butcher and I produce this podcast. Our show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses, and for getting work done. We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here .  We offer t...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 8 of Season 5 and in it, Jec interviews Cody Harrison , a horseman specializing in classical dressage and based near Denver. Jec and Cody talk specifics on spurs. It's a really interesting conversation and o...

This is Episode 7 of Season 5 and in it, I talk with Daniel Dauphin about bits and the upcoming Best Horse Practices Summit. I met this Louisiana man several years ago when we were considering possible presenters for the Best Horse Practices Summit in Lexington, Kentucky. Since then, he's come on the show several times to talk about a range of horse issues. Learn about his bit course. Visit his we...

Our show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses, and for getting work done.  We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure woul...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy  here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 5 of Season 5 and in it, we welcome back my colleague, Jec Ballou, for her first show of our fifth season. Yay! We've heard from several folks who have suggested discussions on gaited horses and people with...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy  here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. We're dedicating another show to horsey intellectualism. Intellectualism roughly means thinking, studying, and/or discussing complicated ideas without getting emotional. I guess what we do on this show is a sort of low-lev...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy  here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 3 of Season 5 and we're dedicating the next few shows to some horsey intellectualism. I like to look up words, to make sure I'm saying what I mean. Intellectualism roughly means thinking, studying, and/or d...

Our show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses, and for getting work done.  We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure woul...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy  here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 1 of Season 5.  For this show, I'm speaking on behalf or maybe I should say as half. Half of the interview crew for this podcast. Jec and I have had a hiatus and Jec is still doing her thing and enjoying su...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy  here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 27 of Season 4. In it, Jec and I have a fun On the Fence conversation in which we talk some about identity and, mmm, maybe a bit of barn politics and shenanigans that we sometimes see in horse communities....

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy  here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 26 of Season 4. In it, I interview Sara Lowe , a horsewoman and police detective from Wyoming. She's a clinician and colt starter, and she participated in the Buck the Trend mental health forum held last mo...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy  here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 25 of Season 4. In it, Daniel Dauphin is back, not to talk about bits and horse mouth anatomy but to talk about Buck the Trend , the mental health forum held last month. Daniel attended BTT and we have been...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy  here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 24 of Season 4. In it, I interview KD Bryant and Joseph Prekup , the two therapists who anchored the development and facilitation of Buck the Trend , the mental health forum held recently in southwestern Co...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 23 of Season 4. In it, I interview Dan Flitner  in one of several new episodes about Buck the Trend , the mental health forum held recently in southwestern Colorado. Buck the Trend, operated under the auspic...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 22 of Season 4. In it, Jec interviews Katrin Silva for a Coaches' Corner. It's always fun when these two get together because they know so much. A bit humbling sometimes because their depth of knowledge is v...

Our show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work done.  We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy  here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure woul...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 20 of Season 4. In it, Jec interviews Julie Goodnight . I feel like this interview has been a long time coming. Jec has admired Julie for years and it took quite a bit of effort to finally coordinate the onl...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy  here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 19 of Season 4. In it, Jec interviews Daniel Dauphin , an accomplished horseman from Louisiana and someone who is steadily gaining a reputation for being the expert on bits, how they function, as well as ho...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy  here .  We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 18 of Season 4 and it's an On the Fence episode in which Jec and I talk about some upcoming goals as well as potential podcast discussions, like horse rescues and social media concerns. We also enumerate so...

We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy  here.   We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 17 of Season 4 and in it, Jec interviews author, teacher, and horsewoman Jenn Currie . She offers clinics which she calls Brain-Centered Horsemanship and has a book for middle school teachers. She is blendi...

  Our show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work done. We love to hear from listeners, we think this might be an episode that fosters a lot of conversation, and contacting us is easy through the contact button on be...

Our show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work done.  We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here.   We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would...

We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 14 of Season 4 and it's a short one. Why? To be blunt and to speak in general terms, I'd say life and death are having their ways with us.  I'm sorry to let you know that Jec lost her mother last month. As you might imagine, that's been pretty trying for her. I lost my mom...

We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a  small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 13 of Season 4 in which Jec and I have an On the Fence segment.   We are returning to a little theme that has been running through our shows, in which we ask the question (and take stabs at answering it) how are we doing? How is the horse industry doing? How are the train...

We offer these shows for free. If you think it's worthy of a small contribution , we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 12 of Season 4 in which Jec interviews Wendy Murdoch, creator of the Murdoch Method and author of several books . Check out her online Whole Rider course here. Before this marvelous interview, I thought I'd share a few bits on my work with two young horses. It's a departur...