The Equestrian Connection

Sarah Louise Lilley is a clinical EFT Practitioner and EFTU Mentor who specializes in helping equestrians overcome their fears and find confidence after traumatic falls. EFT is an evidence-based, trauma-, and polyvagal-informed stress reduction technique which combines modern western psychology and the ancient eastern art of accupressure. And, it’s an easy tool anyone can use to emotionally regula...

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 collabo...

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...

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...

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 combin...

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...

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 en...

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 p...

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...

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...

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...

Shelby Dennis is a horse trainer and Equine Behaviour Consultant based in British Columbia, Canada. She is also the owner of Milestone Equestrian, a training and equine sale business, and the author of her debut book, ‘The Other Side of Horsemanship.’ Apart from her academic education, Shelby also has varied horse experience from the Arabian horse circuit to hunter/jumper, to dressage, to exercisi...

Betsy Vonda is an Equine Postural, Performance, & Behavioural Consultant and Trainer. Although raised with horses her entire life, Betsy went on to pursue a career as a paramedic. However, through her education and work experiences she began to see parallels between troubled people and horses. She learned that people’s actions and behaviors can be heavily influenced by their past experiences, livi...

Alizée Froment is a former international Grand Prix rider turned show performer, now known for her artistic and beautiful performances, bitless riding, and horse-first philosophy. Alizée has six courses with us on the wehorse platform, with everything ranging from bitless riding to liberty training to flying lead changes. On this episode, we chat about having individual programs for each horse, th...

Taryn Young is a USDF bronze and silver medal amateur Dressage competitor, and the woman behind the social media presence, Warmbloods + Wine. Taryn is a Director of Marketing by day, an avid equestrian by nights and weekends, and a 24/7 new mom. One of Taryn’s priorities with her social media has been to showcase the ‘working woman equestrian lifestyle’ – as it is all about balance and realness bu...

Josepha Guillaume is an international horse trainer and instructor, and author of the book Dressage In Hand. Based in Belgium, Josepha comes from a solid classical dressage background, but has been working mostly with injured and traumatized horses for the last 20 years. The art of keeping horses healthy and happy, or bringing them back to health and happiness, no matter what happened to them, has...

Celeste-Leilani Lazaris is the founder of the Balance through Movement Method, a revolutionary equine development method focused on improving performance and preventing lameness. Celeste herself is a biomechanical lameness specialist and an expert in equine movement and muscle development. But more than anything, she says she is a student of the horse. Over the last decade, Celeste has carefully r...

Cathrine Laudrup-Dufour is a Danish dressage rider who is currently ranked 2nd and 3rd in the world, as of July 2022. Cathrine is an olympic athlete, having competed in 2016 at Rio and 2021 at Tokyo, and she won double individual silver as well as helped her team win gold at the 2022 World Dressage Championships in Herning, Denmark. But apart from her career success, Cathrine embodies much of what...

Christian Kroeber is Co-Founder & CEO of wehorse, a brand of welearn GmbH. wehorse is Europe's leading streaming education provider for equestrians, and now has users in over 40 countries around the globe, including an expansion into North America. Born in Germany, Christian has a distinguished background in both entrepreneurship and equestrian sports. Having successfully competed in Dressage and...

Elena Dotoli is an equestrian photographer and video artist. Elena combines equine and creative elements in order to capture the special moments between horses and their riders and owners. On this episode, we discuss things like how she got started with combining horses and photography as her career, what it’s like working within the equestrian industry in a creative way, her advice for photoshoot...

Anna Buffini is a professional dressage rider with accomplishments such as being a 2022 World Cup finalist, a rider on the 2021 Compiègne, Rotterdam & Aachen 5* Nations Cup Teams, the 2016 U25 Champion, and the 2014 US Young Rider Champion. Anna is such an inspiration to many dressage riders, and riders in general, and her joyful and motivating social media content makes her a role model athlete f...

Nikki Porter is an Equestrian Mindset Coach, author, and podcast host. Through her books, podcast, and coaching, Nikki teaches how to grow your mindset to transform you from feeling disconnected, frustrated, and anxious to connected, present, & confident. Nikki’s work is focused on personal growth for horse owners who are invested in strengthening their connection with themselves, their equine par...

Katie Hawkins is the founder of Unbridled Equine, a business focused on the use of integrative modalities to heal horses both physically and emotionally through proven, research based solutions. With 25+ years horse experience, Katie is a certified Animal Acupressure and Massage Therapist with accreditation from Rocky Mountain School of Animal Acupressure and Massage—earning the title of certified...

Madelyn Houser, a.k.a. the Blonde and the Bay, is a USDF Bronze and Silver Medalist and equestrian influencer. Maddie documents her journey with her now retired Dutch Warmblood mare, Leah, and her new quarter horse gelding, Ryder, a former western pleasure horse that she’s been retraining for dressage. Maddie’s instagram @theblondeandthebay_ showcases their training progressions, and her blog, The...

Scott Cieslar has 20+ years experience as a professional nutritionist, receiving an MSc in physiology and nutrition from the University of Guelph. He started working on a PhD, but put his degree on hold to run his company, Mad Barn. Scott has dedicated his life to better understanding the nutritional requirements of horses and helping horse owners put the latest research into practice. In this epi...