Hunger Over Everything: Brian Coleman's Road Back to the World Championship

Before the accident, Brian Coleman was already a legend.

Nine world titles.

Forty years behind the lines.

A client roster that reads like a Forbes list.

But on an ordinary spring morning in 2022, a runaway pair of draft horses put him in a ditch with a broken neck, three shattered vertebrae, a collapsed lung, and eight weeks until the Calgary Stampede.

What happened next is the part nobody outside the draft horse world knows and it's the part that defines everything.

In this episode, nine-time World Champion Six-Horse Hitch driver Brian Coleman sits down with host Dr. Chad Hewlett to walk through the accident, the recovery, and the championship win that followed, unpacking along the way what four decades at the highest level of horsemanship actually teaches a person about foundation, engagement, and the kind of hunger that a body cast can't touch.

Listen For:

:00 What does it sound like when a nine-time World Champion admits he took his horses for granted?

6:20 Why does foundational skill create clients even when those clients can't explain why they trust you?

8:19 What is engagement, and why does every high-performing team horse or human rise or fall on it?

14:32 Why can't you use fatigue to teach anything, and what happens when you try?

27:23 When your mind finally knows your body can do it, what actually changes?

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