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Barrel Horse Trainer, Rider Coach, Clinician, and Founder of Outside The Turn University— Horse Training Memberships/Mentorship.

2025 Training Rates:
Foundation Building/tuning/starting on the barrels:
$1350

06/17/2026

Training horses is really about teaching ourselves to be consistent.

We talk a lot about getting a horse broke, getting one soft, getting one confident, getting one ready. But so much of that starts with whether or not we can show up the same way, with the same timing, the same patience, and the same standard, long enough for the horse to believe us.

Horses and people both build habits over time. The horse is learning, but so are we. We are building our timing, our feel, our discipline, our emotional control, and our ability to stay clear when things don’t go perfectly.

A lot of times, the problem is not that the horse wasn’t ready. It is that we didn’t prepare ourselves well enough to prepare the horse.

So stay consistent. Keep showing up. Give the habit time to become real — in you and in the horse.

Winning Wednesday.Sometimes winning doesn’t look like doing the hardest thing the hardest way.Sometimes winning is knowi...
06/17/2026

Winning Wednesday.

Sometimes winning doesn’t look like doing the hardest thing the hardest way.

Sometimes winning is knowing what you’re good at, knowing where you’re not built the same as someone else, and setting yourself up so you can keep doing the work well.

If you’re saddling and re-saddling a c**t over and over, and you’re a girl trying to get through a whole day of horses, maybe the win is using a saddle that lets you wash, rinse, repeat without wearing yourself out before the horse even learns the lesson.

That’s not cheating. That’s playing to your strengths.

We all have things that come naturally to us, and we all have things that take a little more strategy. The trick is being honest enough to know the difference.

Winning isn’t always about muscling through. A lot of the time, it’s about being smart enough to build a system that lets you stay consistent.

And apparently, one of my next systems needs to include an intern.

Shared housing available. Bonus points if they come with an LQ trailer. Kidding. Kind of. 🤣
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Training Tip TuesdayOne thing I hear a lot is people describing horses as stubborn, quirky, bad-minded, having a bad att...
06/17/2026

Training Tip Tuesday

One thing I hear a lot is people describing horses as stubborn, quirky, bad-minded, having a bad attitude, or just being difficult.

But the more horses I work with, the more I believe those words usually say more about the person than they do about the horse.

A horse can only be a horse. They are not stubborn just for the sake of being stubborn. They are not waking up in the morning planning how to make our ride harder.

Most of the time, when we call one stubborn, what we really mean is, “I don’t know how to clearly communicate what I want this horse’s feet to do.”

That may sound a little uncomfortable, but it is also really freeing. Because if the problem is not that the horse is bad, then we have a place to start. We can get better. We can improve our timing. We can learn how to connect our reins, our seat, our legs, and our feel to the horse’s feet.

A horse is either doing what it thinks we are asking, or doing what it believes it needs to do to survive the moment. That is it.

So before we label the horse, we need to ask better questions.

Does the horse understand what I’m asking?
Am I asking in a way that makes sense to him?
Are my hands connected to his feet?
Is my timing clear?
Have I prepared him well enough for what I’m asking him to do?

When we stop labeling the horse and start taking responsibility for the communication, everything changes.

The horse was never trying to be difficult.

He was just waiting for us to get clearer.

Somewhere along the way, we made horse goals ridiculous, by pretending there is only one “right” kind of goal.In some ci...
06/16/2026

Somewhere along the way, we made horse goals ridiculous, by pretending there is only one “right” kind of goal.

In some circles, it’s the one big winning horse. In others, it’s the bridle horse. In barrel racing, it can start to feel like if your goal isn’t a 1D horse, then somehow you’re not as serious, not as talented, or not as worthy.

And honestly? That’s ridiculous.

For some people, making a bridle horse is a beautiful goal. For some people, winning at a high level is the dream. For some people, competing is the thing that lights them up, and I love that.

But for most people who own horses, the goal is much simpler than that. They want a horse that is soft, thoughtful, safe, enjoyable, and easy enough to ride that they can actually have fun.

That is not a lesser goal.

If your goal is to get on and feel safe, that counts. If your goal is to enjoy your horse without fear, that counts. If your goal is to trail ride, lope circles, go to a jackpot, win a check, build confidence, make progress, or just have a horse you look forward to riding, that counts too.

You spend a lot of money on these horses. You spend time, emotion, energy, and effort on them. The least we can do is stop letting other people define what success is supposed to look like for us.

At Outside Attorney, that’s something I want to promote more than anything:

Enjoy your horse.

Have goals. Have standards. Learn more. Get better. But don’t let anyone make you feel like your goal isn’t good enough just because it doesn’t look like theirs.

A safe, soft, enjoyable horse is a worthy goal.

And it’s no one else’s business to tell you otherwise.

So, what are your goals?

06/15/2026

I’m cheering for you. Always.

Monday MotivationSome Mondays don’t feel motivating.Some Mondays feel like you woke up already mad. Mad at your job. Mad...
06/15/2026

Monday Motivation

Some Mondays don’t feel motivating.

Some Mondays feel like you woke up already mad. Mad at your job. Mad at your circumstances. Mad at people who don’t seem to appreciate you. Mad at the life you’re living because somewhere along the way, it started feeling less like a choice and more like something you’re just surviving.

And here’s the thing: anger isn’t always bad. Sometimes anger is just grief with its boots on. Sometimes it’s disappointment that finally found a voice. Sometimes it’s your soul saying, “I cannot keep doing this the same way and pretending I’m fine.”
But anger only helps you if you let it move you forward instead of letting it burn you down.

So today, don’t worry about fixing your whole life before lunch. Don’t worry about loving your job, loving your routine, or suddenly becoming the most positive person in the room. Just pick one thing you can do that gives a little bit of power back to you.

Take the walk. Make the phone call. Update the resume. Set the boundary. Clean the corner. Ride the horse. Say the prayer. Drink the water. Do one dang thing that reminds you you’re not trapped, you’re just in a season that may be asking you to move differently.

You don’t have to love where you are to start changing where you’re going.
And maybe that’s the motivation for this Monday: not fake happiness, not forced gratitude, not pretending everything is fine. Just the quiet decision that your anger doesn’t get to own the whole day.

Use it. Aim it. Let it push you toward something better.

06/12/2026

Miles City, Montana! Come ride with me- for free! Scholarship opportunities are available! Message me with your name and phone number and I’ll get that info sent to the clinic sponsor!

Consistency is one of those things everybody says they want… until it asks them to be patient.Whether we’re talking abou...
06/12/2026

Consistency is one of those things everybody says they want… until it asks them to be patient.

Whether we’re talking about horses or humans, new habits don’t happen overnight. A horse doesn’t learn confidence, softness, rate, or responsibility from one good ride. A rider doesn’t build timing, feel, discipline, emotional control, or muscle memory from one good run. Those things are built in the quiet, repetitive, unglamorous moments where we keep showing up and asking the same question the same way.

And this is where we can get ourselves — and our horses — in trouble.

One run doesn’t go the way we hoped, and suddenly we’re changing bits, changing drills, changing programs, changing everything. But most of the time, the horse didn’t fail because he needed a new bit. He already knows how to run collected little circles — he’s been doing some version of that since he was days old.

More often, the breakdown is in our communication. Our nerves got in the way. Our timing wasn’t good enough. Our muscle memory wasn’t solid enough. We didn’t prepare ourselves well enough to prepare the horse, and then we blamed the horse for not understanding a message we didn’t deliver clearly.

Switching everything every time we get disappointed does not create a better outcome. It creates confusion.

Horses need consistency to understand what we want from their feet, their body, and their mind. They need us to be steady enough that they can start to trust us, trust our feel, and trust that the ask will not change every time we have a bad day or a bad run.

That doesn’t mean we never make adjustments. Good horsemen adjust all the time. But there is a big difference between making a thoughtful adjustment and constantly chasing a quick fix.

The horse is rarely the one who needs us to start over.

Most of the time, he needs us to slow down, get clearer, stay consistent, and give the habit time to become real.

This begs the question: how consistent are you?

06/12/2026

Thoughts from the barn: a horse has to be consistent. That’s how they survive. We don’t have to be and we can come through life mostly unscathed. Doesn’t mean it’s right but we can do it.

Training a horse is about consistency. It’s about training us to be consistent - the more consistent we become the better trained we can get our horses.

Food for thought from today.

There are some scholarships available for the Miles City, MT clinic June 20-21, 2026! Lmk if you want details!
06/11/2026

There are some scholarships available for the Miles City, MT clinic June 20-21, 2026!

Lmk if you want details!

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