10/07/2026
Someone asked me today, “𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝘁?”
And funny enough, I don’t think “𝗛𝗼𝘄“ is really the question.
The better question is…
“𝗪𝗵𝘆 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝘁?”
Because the “how” isn’t always pretty. 😂
The how is early mornings and late nights. It’s feeding, watering, cleaning, teaching lessons, scheduling vets and farriers, ordering hay, dragging arenas, fixing whatever broke that day and taking the damn trash out.
The how is putting everyone else’s horses, needs, schedules and dreams ahead of your own sometimes.
The how is finally getting to my own horses after 8pm, when the clients are gone, lessons are finished and the ranch is quiet. When I’m exhausted and they’re getting whatever I have left in the tank.
𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝘄𝗵𝘆?
The why is easy.
The why is watching a kid who once said “I can’t” eventually say “𝘄𝗮𝘁𝗰𝗵 𝗺𝗲.”
It’s watching them learn that I’m not tough on them because I expect perfection. I’m tough on them because I know what they’re capable of and because someday I won’t be standing in the middle of the arena telling them to try again.
It’s the quiet rides at 9pm when the whole ranch has finally gone still.
It’s looking around at something that was once just an idea in my head and realizing 𝗵𝗼𝗹𝘆 Cow… 𝘄𝗲 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀.
Owning a business can be lonely. Leadership carries a weight that I don’t think people fully understand until they’ve carried it themselves. Because no matter how bad my day is, the horses still deserve a good one. My clients still deserve me to show up. The kids still deserve someone invested in them.
𝗠𝘆 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘆 𝗱𝗼𝗲𝘀𝗻’𝘁 𝗴𝗲𝘁 𝘁𝗼 𝗯𝗲𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆𝗯𝗼𝗱𝘆 𝗲𝗹𝘀𝗲’𝘀 𝗯𝗮𝗱 𝗱𝗮𝘆.
There are days I’m tired. Days I’m pi**ed off. Days I’m sad. Days I question myself. And plenty of days when my own horses, my own goals and me come dead last.
But there has never been a day where I’ve forgotten 𝘄𝗵𝘆.
I’m not building a business just to say I own one.
I’m building horses. I’m building riders. I’m building confident little humans who know how to work, how to lose, how to win, how to take correction, how to get back on and how to keep going when something gets hard.
And somewhere in between all of that, I’m still building myself too.
So when someone asks me “𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗼 𝘆𝗼𝘂 𝗱𝗼 𝗶𝘁?”
Some days? I genuinely have no idea. 😂
𝗕𝘂𝘁 𝗜 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗲𝘅𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗹𝘆 𝘄𝗵𝘆 𝗜 𝗱𝗼. 🫶🏻
(Borrowed)
