In this episode Nikki and Nadine have a great chat with friend and trainer, Dan Northrup, of Northrup Quarter Horses. Nikki and Nadine wanted to bring you a well rounded conversation about selecting a trainer, sending your horse to a trainer and what ideal communication looks like throughout the process and knew that Dan's diverse experience as both a client and trainer would be a great fit! Dan shares his experience as a client and also some great tips if you are looking to send a horse to a trainer sometime in the future. 

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We have a unique episode for you today where we reshare a great conversation about tack & equipment we had the privilege of facilitating on Clubhouse with Matt Mills! Matt Mills is a professional reining trainer in rider who aligns perfectly with the values of Informed Equestrian through our desire to share knowledge and create a supportive and inclusive community where there are no stupid questions! Matt is consistently ranked on the NRHA Top Twenty Professionals Riders list and has NRHA lifetime earnings of over $1,000,000.00. He is regularly a finalist at major NRHA events and has received several titles including NRHA Intermediate Open Futurity Reserve Champion as well as multiple titles at the National Reining Breeders Classic (NRBC). He has also earned several large futurity and derby titles including RMRHA Summer Slide, High Roller Reining Classic, SWRHA Futurity and NRHA Cowtown Classic. In addition to his youth, skill and natural riding ability, he is well known for his professionalism, showmanship, and charismatic personality. 

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In today's episode Nikki and Nadine speak with Dr. Chris White about the sensitive, but extremely important, topic of veterinarian mental and emotional health and how you as a client can help ease the stress on a system in crisis. Dr White speaks candidly about the struggles professionals in the veterinarian field face and the toll it takes on their mental and emotional health. He shares the story of Not One More Vet and highlights ways in which we can be better clients for our vets to help prevent the loss of more professionals due to suicide or leaving the profession for something less taxing. 

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• https://www.nomv.org/about/story/ 

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Our guest today is Sport and Exercise Psychology Coach, Annika McGivern. Annika is an Equine Canada Competition Coach with a BA in Psychology and MSc in Sport and Exercise Psychology. She works with people to help them reach their goals and gets them training and competing with confidence, her work focuses on optimizing the ability to use your mind as a resource.

*TRIGGER WARNING* Contains Sensitive and Mature content. 

In this episode Nikki and Nadine dive into a very large and important conversation around ethics in the horse industry from teaching to training after coming across a blog post that resorts to shaming and shocking its readers. The hosts discuss a variety of topics regarding ethics in the equestrian world, but above all hope to spread the message of kindness for both humans and horses. 

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This episode is filled with passion and energy as  Nikki and Nadine discuss relational horsemanship with Josh Nichol. The interview may just be there best episode yet, jam packed with tips all while encouraging people to understand that they can follow a relational path with their horses and still do hard things. 

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On this episode we discuss how getting honest with ourselves can expose our need to assess our values and if our words and actions are lining up with them. We work to make the conversation as tangible as possible so you leave the conversation feeling inspired to do the work for both you and your horses. We end the episode with a special announcement AND a special guest, so make sure you listen all the way to the end!

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