The Wild Courage Podcast

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of the Wild Courage Podcast, Jeremy sits down with Stephanie Avent to explore her life journey, from her childhood in New Mexico to her experiences with family dynamics, divorce, and the challenges of adulthood. Stephanie shares her struggles with relationships, the impact of her father's alcoholism, and her journey towards healing and personal growth. The con...

Send us Fan Mail Jeremy and Britton discuss their experience at the pro-am roping event and the growth of Wild Courage. They highlight the importance of creating a space for conversations and cultivating a community that values emotional health. They emphasize the need for vulnerability and permission to share one's story. They also discuss the impact of the Wild Courage message on individual...

Send us Fan Mail Dakota May joins Jeremy in the barn to share his redemption story. Dakota grew up in Nevada racing motocross from an early age. Soon after his racing career ended he found himself trying to find a new identity. Dakota thought the cowboy lifestyle might suit him, having gown up around some ranching and horses it was a seamless transition. He soon found riding ranch bronk's ful...

Send us Fan Mail Milli Collum shares her story of growing up in a large family in Oklahoma and the challenges she faced.  Milli also discusses her early marriage and the difficulties she encountered, including infidelity and manipulation. She shares a powerful moment when she heard God's voice and felt His unconditional love for the first time. Despite her circumstances, Milli embarked on a j...

Send us Fan Mail Lee is as humble as they come and is a man who is always looking to improve as a horseman, husband and human. As you will hear in his story, he has made the difficult task of coming up the ranks of becoming a NRCHA (National Reined Cowhorse Assocation) professional.  Growing up in Australia, Lee learned what hard work was from an early age and while working on a cattle station.  H...

Send us Fan Mail My son Grady and I got to spend the better part of a week with Gabe & Reata Clark and their crew  at the historic OW Ranch in south eastern Montana. Gabe grew up in western Wyoming where he learned what hard work and determination are all about. That approach to life has payed off well for Gabe and about anything he has put his mind to. Gabe is very well know in the cowboy cir...

Send us Fan Mail When I look back on where my journey started it always begins with Jake Hamilton. Jake has been around the world and has seen incredible wonders. He is a husband and father first and leads with great humility. I have learned so much from Jake from a distance, so to get to sit down with him was such an incredible honor for me. To all the dads out there this is a great conversation...

Send us Fan Mail Seth and Jeremy unpack some of the take aways from the Idaho spring retreat.  Seth  explains what happens when we dive into our stories and why the getting the right tools to unpack and what to do with unprocessed pain. Seth is offering a 7 week course on grief recovery and you might be surprised how appilicable it is to much more than just grief due to death. We are also excited...

Send us Fan Mail Matt Zupanick has one incredible story. Growing up in rural Wyoming, Matt shares about his tough childhood, how he  followed his Dad's footsteps in the oil field, made lots of money and how that led him to make many wrong decisions. He found himself addicted to meth and alcohol.  After a series of horrible circumstances, Matt decided that taking his own life was the only way...

Send us Fan Mail Jeremy sat down with Matt Robertson in Elko, NV, during the National Cowboys Poetry Gathering. Matt shares his story of growing up in Wyoming riding broncs. Matt's bronc riding career opened up many doors and eventually led him to training horses. This led him to move to Canada to cowboy and ride broncs and colts. With great vulnerability he shares his story of losing his wif...

Send us Fan Mail Jeremy had the opportunity to visit with Cory on his concert tour while he was performing  in Boise. They talked about his music and  where it comes from. Cory writes songs that articulate things we have probably all felt but didn't know how to say. If you aren't familiar with his music we highly suggest you check him out. https://youtu.be/G0IBAHC8_v8?si=hVe6irFmiP5-jx8P...

Send us Fan Mail Jeremy had the opportunity to sit down again with Buck Brannaman. Buck is a horseman, teacher and father. Buck and Jeremy visit about the Pro-Am, its origins, the plan for partnering with Wild Courage and why it's important. They also go down a list of names that Jeremy came up with and Buck shared a story or two about the folks on the list. They finished up the conversation...

Send us Fan Mail Seth Dahl is a world traveler, husband and father. Seth shares what he has learned about grief. You might be surprised that we all have experienced grief and it comes in many more ways than expected. Seth has done a lot of work in this area and is now helping folks with figuring out the causes and how to heal from unprocessed pain. Seth will be leading us at our Wild Courage sprin...

Send us Fan Mail Josh grew up in a tough way, his dad died when he was a baby and his mom didn't have the tools to cope with her own childhood or pain.  Josh found his escape through music. He has seen the world while playing bass for the band Danzig. Josh experienced all the clichés that come with that lifestyle. He battled with his heron addiction and had years of sobriety before losing it...

Send us Fan Mail Jeremy spend time with Chris Dawson on his recent trip to Texas. Chris is closing in on becoming a two million dollar rider in the NRCHA (National Reined Cowhorse Association).  Chris talks about coming up in the horse training business and what it took to get to the top.  He discusses what he found once he got there. Chris shares with great transparency his journey with his faith...

Send us Fan Mail Jeremy caught up with his friend Randy on his recent trip to Texas to talk about his journey of becoming a very sought after videographer, husband and father. Randy grew up in New Mexico as an avid snowboarder.  Along the way, he found his passion for riding bulls and competed successfully in the PBR (professional bull riders}. Randy courageously shares about losing his best frien...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sat down with professional horseman and multiple world champion, Ben Baldus. Ben's story is somewhat different to the context of a "Wild Courage" podcast.  He is an example of what happens when you make good choices and chase strong leadership throughout your journey instead of money or fame.  We visit about his faith and how his parents played a...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Jeremy and Bryan discuss the progress and goals of Wild Courage. They highlight the importance of brotherhood and community, the impact of the podcast, and the power of retreats. They also share their goal to send men to counseling and their plans for partnering with rehabilitation centers. The episode concludes with expressions of gratitude and acknowledgements t...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Jeremy sits down with EMDR specialist Stephen Ammann.  They discuss his journey of overcoming the stigma of being diagnosed with HIV in the 90's.  They talk through the heartache of a failed Marrige and how Stephen found peace and healing through horses.  They discuss how Stephen and his family ended up settling in Idaho and his current career of offering cou...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, I sit down with Dalton Darnell in Winnemucca, NV.  We talk through his childhood and what it was like growing up in Alabama with divorced parents.  After his high school baseball career was over, he found a replacement for the competitiveness in competition bass fishing.  After college, he tried his hand at becoming a professional angler.  Through the hardships of...

Send us Fan Mail Britton and I discuss why it's important to find someone trustworthy to share our story with. We visit about how telling the wrong person can keep us from trusting someone again especially when being vulnerable is used against us.  Our November retreat is Nov, 3-5 in Idaho if you are interested please email us at  info@thewildcourage.life Britton is a life consulatant and a t...

Send us Fan Mail Scott grew up on a farm in Idaho and quickly decided that wasn't the life for him.  He left home at an early age and worked in Idaho and Montana in his teens before heading to Nevada. The buckaroo lifestyle took ahold, but so did the drinking.  Solitude also found its way to him and Scott found that being  alone was the answer to his anxiety that came from being around people...

Send us Fan Mail Austin started his military career in between his junior and senior year of high school in the army reserve. He worked his way up from the reserves to the 82nd airborne and then on to staff sergeant in the ranger regiment.  After completing 3 tours in the Middle East, he retired from the military, settled with his wife, Chloe in Idaho and has been pursuing the cowboy lifestyle.  S...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Jeremy talks with Greg, his friend for almost 30 years.  Greg has cowboyed in Wyoming, Oregon, Idaho, Montana and Utah.  He is as humble and hard working as they come.  He grew up as one of five kids in Star Valley, Wyoming.  He shares his journey of finding self worth after a failed marriage, overcoming guilt and shame from religious institutions and how he has f...

Send us Fan Mail Mike Evenson and I dive into the our journeys of losing our dads.  We visit about what we have learned about grieving and holding the tension of being honest about our relationship with our fathers and honoring them. Support the show