Let’s get something straight...

You don’t need more groundwork techniques, months of "desensitization," or a trainer to "get the buck out."

What you need is a clear, grounded way to start your colt that preserves his FEEL from day one.

You need to shift the way you prepare your nervous system, refine your timing and clarify your communication before the first ride ever happens.

When you know what to do, when to do it, and why it works — you stop guessing, your feel sharpens, and your colt stays soft, thinking and progressing FAST.

1. Your Nervous System Needs To Be Grounded AF.

Your NS determines how safe your colt feels with you and how much try, softness and responsiveness he can offer without bracing.

Young horses don’t have the capacity to lead themselves through fear, pressure, or uncertainty. When they can’t find regulation in YOU, they default to their instincts.

This is why things feel unpredictable the moment pressure shows up.

When you learn how to intentionally ground your nervous system, your colt naturally softens into your leadership - without dulling, shutting down or overwhelming his NS.

You won't need most colt starting tactics when your horse trusts your energy. This is where we ground it.

THIS is where true FEEL begins.

2. Refine your communication in a way they feel heard.

Your success in starting your colt comes from consistent, clear communication — not mechanical steps, not random tricks, not running them until they quit...

This is why you’re not feeling the connection you know is possible — it’s because you're not communicating in the language your cot's NS understands:

ENERGY. TIMING. FEEL.

When you learn how to communicate this way, every interaction is wiring in softness instead of unknowingly building in brace.

This is what creates real trust. The kind that compounds into a horse who wants to learn from you.

3. Forget everything you’ve been taught about desensitizing your colt to make him safe.

Flagging, tarping, and endlessly “moving his feet” isn’t building confidence — it’s teaching him to suppress his instincts instead of how to process them.

That’s why you still don’t feel confident getting on.

Your colt doesn’t need more exposure. He needs to learn how to think through pressure — not escape it.

This is the breakthrough that changes everything.

You’ll watch your colt progress faster. Learn quicker. Soften to pressure instead of brace against it.

While everyone else keeps forcing, fixing, and patching holes later — you’ll be building confidence right from the start.

🐴 Say Hello to a NEW ERA of Colt Starting:

→ Where your colt becomes:

• Soft
• Responsive
• Grounded
• Athletic and feely under pressure

→ And where you become:

• Calm under pressure
• Clear in your timing
• Grounded in your body
• Confident in your decisions
• Proud of the performance horse you started yourself

This is the kind of horse people notice.

This is the kind of colt that gets you noticed.

This is the kind of foundation that sets you up for high-performing disciplines like barrels, roping, ranch work—or anything you want to do next.

PHASE 1: Energetic Attunement

Here we bring a new level of AWARENESS & energetic ATTUNEMENT to your horsemanship. This is about YOU becoming present within your own NS & the tools to stay grounded in any given situation.

When you learn how to clearly communicate in a way that builds TRUST w/ every interaction, your horse actually feels heard. When you master the invisible language of energy, you create an instant connection with your colt that will last a lifetime.

In this phase, you learn how to ground & attune your energy in a way that makes your horse WANT to follow your lead.

THIS is about NS regulation. THIS is about emotional mastery. THIS is about becoming the woman who can lead her colt to a thinking & regulated state of being — no matter the temperament… or situation.

This phase is what allows performance pressure to be added later without losing softness.

Phase 2: Groundwork That Creates Rideability

Through clear direction and action-focused video training, you’ll learn signature groundwork method that focuses on building a soft, confident, rideable horse — from day one. This is about turning connection into clear, consistent communication in the round pen.

This is where most people overdo it… or skip the steps entirely… leaving holes that show up later. Here you will teach your colt to ground himself, not circle to tire himself out. Not desensitizing that shuts him down, not fancy "tricks" that don’t carry over.

This is how you make your colt rideable before you ever get on. This is how you build YOUR confidence before you ever get on.

THIS is the difference between a calm, safe, predictable first ride & one that ends in a wreck. THIS is the difference between a horse who can think through pressure vs. one that blows up. THIS is the difference between a horse who can stay in their body while learning new things vs. one that dissociates. This is the difference between you trusting your training vs. creating resistance.

Phase 3: The First Ride Sequence

This is where everything you’ve built comes together to create a predictable, calm & confident first ride that will set the tone for the rest of your horse's lifetime. So much of a successful first ride comes from removing emotional charge & treating it like the next step in the sequence.

Ever wonder why my first rides look so light, soft & responsive?
It’s because of THIS. My NS is grounded, my colt is prepared to expect it, & I trust the strategy. I trust he’s ready & I carry that trust into my first ride.

Here you get the first ride sequence which completely dissolves any fear as to when or how you would make a successful first ride.

In this phase, you learn strategically everything that goes into the first ride — how to prevent sticky feet, blowups or bucks & ensure a confident, forward-moving colt. This is where the fear loses its grip on you — because you’re empowered with a plan & process you trust.

Phase 4: Refinement, Installing Buttons, & Finishing

By now you’ve built a colt who is grounded, thinking, & progressing quickly. Now we refine that communication and begin to shape it into FEEL-based performance.

This is where you learn how to teach your colt the “fancy” buttons that dramatically add value & get you noticed. This phase is about softening the steering, shaping his body, & sharpening responsiveness. THIS is about refining FEEL, installing buttons, and building a horse that can do anything under saddle — not just “get him started.”

And THEN… to truly “finish” your colt, we take him into the real world. Bc a horse that’s only good at home isn’t finished. Here we teach him how to haul quietly, regulate in new environments, stay thinking & focused in warm-up pens, & stay connected in environments that are loud & chaotic. This is where we introduce real-world pressure specific to your discipline of interest.

This is the phase that separates just another “broke horse” from a soft, thinking, high-value prospect you’re proud to take anywhere — & gets you noticed by people everywhere.

START WITH FEEL IS THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN:

➝ Sitting on the fence thinking “Maybe I just need more experience… maybe I should send him to a trainer…” second-guessing yourself every time things feel sticky…

vs. knowing that you have a proven method, a plan you trust, and the confidence to start your own colt from the ground up.

➝ Watching YouTube videos at night trying to piece together ten different approaches, hoping something clicks…

vs. having a clear, grounded framework that tells you exactly what to do next, why you’re doing it, and how to move forward without guessing.

➝ Relying on flagging, tarping, and “moving his feet” while still not feeling confident about getting on…

vs. building a colt who can actually think through pressure, soften instead of brace, and stay connected to you — because his nervous system trusts your leadership.

➝ Getting a ride on your colt but knowing deep down there are holes you’ll have to fix later…

vs. creating a soft, responsive, rideable colt in a short amount of time without shortcuts, suppression, or future wrecks waiting to happen.

➝ Feeling behind… like other people are more qualified, braver, or “naturally better” at this than you…

vs. realizing confidence isn’t something you earn with years — it’s something you build through regulation, communication, and FEEL.

➝ Knowing what to do in theory, but freezing when it’s time to apply it…

vs. becoming the woman whose presence alone regulates the horse underneath her, because she’s learned to lead from her nervous system, not force.

It’s not enough to know WHAT to do to start a colt.

You need awareness.
You need nervous system regulation.
You need energetic attunement.
You need FEEL 🐎✨

And FEEL isn’t something you can read about and suddenly “have.”

It’s something you build — systematically — until it becomes who you are.

That is true horsemanship.
Not expertise.
Not experience.
Not how long you’ve been riding or what checks you’ve won.

But the embodiment of FEEL.

That is what separates starting "just another broke horse" and fully unlocking the potential of your performance prospect that you are forever proud of.

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I didn’t grow up starting colts.
I didn’t come from a long line of “cowboy trainers.”
And I definitely didn’t build my horsemanship by forcing my way through fear.

What I did do?

I threw out outdated colt-starting tactics and built something entirely new.

A nervous-system-first method that produces calm, confident, athletic colts and radically confident horsewomen.

AND yes —
I still face fear, I still have doubts, but at the end of the day I can honestly say, I keep becoming a better horseman.

How?

Because I don’t train horses from force or fear..
I train from FEEL, regulation, and leadership.

→ It’s why my two-year-olds haul, tie, warm up, and ride through chaos without drama

→ It’s why I get stopped everywhere I go and asked, “Who started that colt?

→ It’s why my horses don’t shut down OR blow up — they stay thinking

→ It’s why my colts progress faster than older, “seasoned” horses

→ It’s why women come into my world scared, unsure, and doubting themselves… and leave grounded, confident, and proud of the horses they’ve created.

I don’t train horses into submission.
I don’t desensitize them into dissociation.
And I don’t believe hiding your fear makes you safer.

I teach women how to lead from their nervous system —
so their horses can trust, follow, and perform without resistance.

My work speaks for itself — in the softness of my colts, the confidence of my students, and the quiet certainty of women who finally know:

“I can do this.”

And if you’re here?
Something tells me you’re ready to know that too.

🐴 WHO START WITH FEEL IS FOR

This program is for the experienced rider who:

• Has ridden her whole life and knows when something feels off
• Is starting (or about to start) a performance prospect
• Wants a soft, fancy, feely colt — not just a quiet one
• Refuses to dull or shut down her horse “to get through it”
• Values feel as much as results
• Wants a clear, grounded system instead of piecing things together
• Plans to compete, haul, and progress her horse long-term
• Wants to be proud of the colt she started herself

🐴 WHO START WITH FEEL IS *NOT* FOR

Start With Feel is intentionally NOT for everyone.

This program is not for you if:

• You’re looking for a quick fix or a checklist to rush through colt starting
• You want to skip groundwork and “just get on” as fast as possible
• You believe more pressure, more desensitizing, or more force is the answer
• You’re unwilling to slow down enough to feel what’s happening underneath you
• You want to outsource your colt to a trainer instead of developing your own leadership
• You’re looking for reassurance rather than responsibility
• You don’t care about long-term soundness, softness, or performance potential
• You’re not willing to become more regulated, present, and precise as a rider

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