Latest Horsenews Podcast Episodes
Season Finale: On the Fence with Jec and Maddy
Best Horse Practices Podcast - April 04, 2024 18:50 - 21 minutesWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 27 of Season 4. In it, Jec and I have a fun On the Fence conversation in which we talk some abou...
Buck the Trend, Wyoming Clinician Sara Lowe
Best Horse Practices Podcast - March 08, 2024 16:13 - 32 minutesWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 26 of Season 4. In it, I interview Sara Lowe, a horsewoman and police detective from Wyoming. Sh...
Daniel Dauphin, Buck the Trend Mental Health Forum
Best Horse Practices Podcast - March 05, 2024 18:07 - 28 minutesWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 25 of Season 4. In it, Daniel Dauphin is back, not to talk about bits and horse mouth anatomy bu...
Buck the Trend Therapists, KD Bryant and Joseph Prekup
Best Horse Practices Podcast - March 04, 2024 16:39 - 27 minutesWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 24 of Season 4. In it, I interview KD Bryant and Joseph Prekup, the two therapists who anchored ...
Dan Flitner - Buck the Trend Mental Health Forum
Best Horse Practices Podcast - February 28, 2024 16:26 - 31 minutesWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 23 of Season 4. In it, I interview Dan Flitner in one of several new episodes about Buck the Tr...
Katrin Silva and Jec Ballou talk books
Best Horse Practices Podcast - February 27, 2024 23:08 - 26 minutesWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 22 of Season 4. In it, Jec interviews Katrin Silva for a Coaches’ Corner. It’s always fun when ...
Ben Longwell: Meanings of partnership
Best Horse Practices Podcast - February 12, 2024 16:39 - 35 minutesOur show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work done. We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is...
Julie Goodnight
Best Horse Practices Podcast - February 08, 2024 17:02 - 28 minutesWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 20 of Season 4. In it, Jec interviews Julie Goodnight. I feel like this interview has been a lo...
Coaches' Corner with Bit Expert Daniel Dauphin
Best Horse Practices Podcast - February 01, 2024 16:46 - 31 minutesWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 19 of Season 4. In it, Jec interviews Daniel Dauphin, an accomplished horseman from Louisiana an...
On the Fence: Looking Ahead and Looking Back
Best Horse Practices Podcast - January 23, 2024 21:23 - 21 minutesWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 18 of Season 4 and it’s an On the Fence episode in which Jec and I talk about some upcoming goal...
Jenn Currie: Brain Centered Horsemanship
Best Horse Practices Podcast - January 17, 2024 01:35 - 29 minutesWe love to hear from listeners and contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 17 of Season 4 and in it, Jec interviews author, teacher, and horsewoman Jenn Currie. She offers ...
Mary Ann Simonds - Horses and Humans
Best Horse Practices Podcast - January 13, 2024 18:00 - 38 minutesOur show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work done. We love to hear from listeners, we think this might ...
Medicine Horse, Evidence-Based Therapy with Horses
Best Horse Practices Podcast - December 15, 2023 14:26 - 31 minutesOur show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work done. We love to hear from listeners and contacting us is...
A Note about the Pause
Best Horse Practices Podcast - December 05, 2023 14:21 - 6 minutesWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 14 of Season 4 and it’s a short one. Why? To be blunt and to speak in general terms, I’d say life and death are having their ways with us. I’m sorry to let you kno...
On the Fence: State of Our Horse Worlds
Best Horse Practices Podcast - November 07, 2023 21:39 - 24 minutesWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 13 of Season 4 in which Jec and I have an On the Fence segment. We are returning to a little theme that has been running through our shows, in which we ask the que...
Wendy Murdoch, No Stirrup November, Plus Colt Starting
Best Horse Practices Podcast - November 02, 2023 21:22 - 37 minutesWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 12 of Season 4 in which Jec interviews Wendy Murdoch, creator of the Murdoch Method and author of several books. Check out her online Whole Rider course here. ...
Dr. Doug Thal and the Equine Vet Crisis
Best Horse Practices Podcast - October 16, 2023 21:12 - 36 minutesWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 11 of Season 4 and in it, Jec interviews Dr. Doug Thal, owner of Thal Equine, a veterinary practice and Santa Fe, New Mexico. Doug was tapped to present a great top...
Coaches' Corner with Amy Skinner: Body Work and other forms of care
Best Horse Practices Podcast - October 06, 2023 15:02 - 25 minutesThis is Episode 10 of Season 4 and in it, Jec holds a Coaches’ Corner with our frequent and friendly guest, Amy Skinner. The two horsewomen discuss body work and as well as other services that can be hired and provided to your horses. What do you think? We’ve had Jim Masterson, founde...
Lee McLean on Wild versus Domestic
Best Horse Practices Podcast - September 28, 2023 19:33 - 29 minutesWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 9 of Season 4 and in it, Jec welcomes back Lee McLean to our show. It’s a great interview in which the two horsewomen discuss observations around domestic versus wi...
On the Fence: Expertise & the Beginner's Mind
Best Horse Practices Podcast - September 15, 2023 02:12 - 24 minutesWe love to hear from listeners and this week would especially love to hear about your horse work journeys, your comfort zones and stretching of them. Contacting us is easy through the contact button on best horse practices dot com. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy o...
Trish Trips - Different Kinds of Horse Work
Best Horse Practices Podcast - August 30, 2023 19:21 - 31 minutesWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 7 of Season 4, and in it, Jec talks with Trish Lemke, a Colorado horsewoman who leads amazing horse-riding trips across the globe and is a certified Equine Interacti...
Kerry O'Brien and the Meeker Mustang Makeover
Best Horse Practices Podcast - August 21, 2023 23:44 - 33 minutesWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 6 of Season 4, and in it, Jec talks with Kerry O’Brien, a Colorado trainer who is competing in the Meeker Mustang Makeover. Kerry has been on the show before in which...
Coaches' Corner with Amy Skinner, plus Mental Health
Best Horse Practices Podcast - August 16, 2023 14:37 - 31 minutesOur show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover skills, strategies, tools, ideas, and insights for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work done. We love to hear from listeners and often incorporate lis...
From Cowboy to Showjumper to Cowboy: Pete Reinholz
Best Horse Practices Podcast - August 09, 2023 21:46 - 21 minutesWe offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate it. This is Episode 4 of Season 4, and in it, I talk with Pete Reinholz. Maybe this is a departure of sorts. Pete does not have a website or a book or anything to sell. He does write ...
Weaning Strategies with Lynn Acton
Best Horse Practices Podcast - August 02, 2023 18:53 - 32 minutesWe love to hear from listeners and often incorporate listener questions or suggestions for topics and guests into our podcast. So, let us hear from you. Contacting us is easy here. We offer these shows for free. If you think it’s worthy of a small contribution, we sure would appreciate i...
On the Fence: Pet Peeves. Plus, Prairie Wind Hat Works
Best Horse Practices Podcast - July 19, 2023 17:37 - 26 minutesThis is Episode 2 of Season 4, and in it, Jec and I reconnect after some time off and have an On the Fence chat in which we talk about some summer projects, those of our listeners, and personal pet peeves, specific to our horse worlds: "analysis paralysis", group rides, not having rider etique...
Tying Trials & Confidence Building with Daniel Dauphin
Best Horse Practices Podcast - July 13, 2023 17:18 - 29 minutesWelcome to Season Four!! of Best Horse Practices with Jec Ballou. Our show is a space for riders and horse owners of all disciplines to learn best practices and to discover ways, skills, strategies, tools, ideas for better connecting with their horses, with all horses and for getting work...
Prelude to Season 4
Best Horse Practices Podcast - June 27, 2023 03:16 - 4 minutesHi there, this is Maddy Butcher, producer of Best Horse Practices with Jec Ballou. We’re taking a little break before launching our fourth season, but we wanted to say "Thank You" to our listeners and to our sponsors. It’s been a great 90-show journey in which we’ve talked about hoove...
Lee McLean on Nurturing Fun, Versatile Horses
Best Horse Practices Podcast - June 08, 2023 15:45 - 30 minutesJec interviews Lee McLean from Alberta Canada. Lee likes to approach horse work with an eye on common sense, pragmatism, and fun. She grew up in a ranching family, but is savvy in side saddle, dressage, and other disciplines. While there was probably no end to topics for Jec and Lee, they picke...
DIY Projects
Best Horse Practices Podcast - May 25, 2023 15:30 - 30 minutesThis is Episode 29 of Season 3 and in it, Jec interviews Donna-Maria Flood of DMventions. Donna Maria has scores of simple fixes and DIY projects for your horse spaces and equipment. Most are inexpensive and don’t require a year-long carpentry apprenticeship. Make it in 10 minutes, for less than...
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