Stable Connections the Podcast
By Shonna Berk
Stable connections is my quest in flipping the conversation to focus more on the things we have in common as individuals, as well as a community. This podcast offers a space for personal perspective and creates room for both the speaker and the listener to share, learn, and process together.
Each person featured is asked "What is something you'd like to see evolve or change within the community and how can you help create that change. Stay tuned!
Stable Connections the PodcastMay 20, 2024
Episode 130: Erin Gilmore
Erin Gilmore talks to us about her horse journey in Oakland, her start in equestrian media at 21 years old, how she got into photography, and how she has been able to build a team of photospheres for eventing shows.
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Episode 129: Mia Brown
Mia Brown talks to us about her journey with falling in love with eventing, some body dysmorphia she experienced at a young age, landing at Chocolate Horse farm, and her opinions about Safe Sport.
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Episode 128: Lizzy Martini
Lizzy talks to us about what brought her first to San Francisco and now to Sonoma County, her journey back into the horse world and leasing horses versus buying, and what she’s doing with Fresh Sonoma offering Fodder to locals in the area.
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Episode 127: Hannah Beebe
Hannah Beebe chats with us about how and why she started her photography business, moving her family to Auburn, California and managing her daughters food allergies.
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Episode 126: Giana Chilcott
Giana talks to us about her extensive showing career starting on the East Coast, a horrific experience where she ran away for a bit and got out of the horse world, a failed suicide attempt where she feels horses saved her, and what she’s doing now with “Be The Change in Mental Health”.
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Episode 125: Kelly Robinson
Kelly Robinson talks to us about getting a bachelors in Psychology, a masters in Counseling, doing her thesis on Equine Related Therapy and how now she finds herself as an independent Saddle Fitter.
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Episode 124: Jordan Sullivan
Jordan Sullivan talks to us about being born and raised in a small town, how she’s preparing to leave to farrier school in Missouri and what she expects from it.
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Episode 123: Marisha Chilcott
Marisha Chilcott talks to us about how one plane ride pivoted her trajectory where she now runs “Be The Change in Mental Health”, a non-profit organization making Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy and Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation assessable to the public.
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Episode 122: Mary McCormick
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Episode 121: Marissa Nielsen
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Episode 120: Premier Equine Center
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Episode 119: Brittany Massey
Brittany Massey talks to us about being super driven to learn everything “horse” starting around 12 years old, why she started her training program out of necessity and what happen right when she leased her first barn that changed her entire trajectory.
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Episode 118: Ondine Rangel
Ondine Rangel talks to us about moving to multiple countries in her up bringing, how she’s always had a strong connection to animals, and how socializing and learning “people skills” didn’t get introduced to her until her early 20s.
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Episode 117: Nia Tahani
Nia Tahani talks to us about early memories of standing out, how she made her way to Oakland, California from the East Coast, and her journey with vintage jewelry.
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Episode 116: Marie-Charlotte Guion-Bluechley “MC”
Marie-Charlotte Guion-Bluechley “MC” talks to us about being born and raised on a 200+ acre farm in Sonoma County, what her riding struggles are, why she’s more focused on Dressage than archery now.
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Episode 115: Camille Kusin
Camille Kusin talks to us about living in Germany for a decade, her experience with learning the language, why she came back to the USA and what her Dressage training program in Penngrove, California offers now.
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Episode 114: Doctor Katie Prince
Doctor Katie Prince talks to us about growing up being the only girl in a house with 8 siblings, working up until having her C section, going back to work 4 days after having her daughter, and what running her vet practice in Sonoma County has been like.
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Episode 113: Shannon Leveroni
Shannon Leveroni chats with us about her experience with burnout, losing her house in the 2017 fires and evacuating multiple barns, and the bodywork she offers including Acuscope and Myopulse.
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Episode 112: Mike Hayward
Mike Hayward talks to us about coming to the US from England when he got a job with the Ringling brothers circus doing Footwork for elephants, as well as training both elephants and chimps, and what running his farrier business is like now.
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Episode 111: Maddy Kent
Maddy Kent chats with us about her five horses and what she’s working towards with each one and what building her program has been like.
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Episode 110: Maya Stessin
Maya Stessin talks to us about what the reining shows were like, her experience on the East Coast and in Texas, what brought her back to the west coast and her recent big life change.
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Episode 109: Shannon Ray Riley
Shannon Ray Riley chats with us about how horses helped her heal through family trauma, how she found a horse community who better suited her gentle ways, and her journey with Ayurveda.
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https://www.instagram.com/shannonrayriley/
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Episode 108: Terry Church
Terry Church talks to us about her experience going to Germany, her journey with Tom Dorrance, and some insight on land management.
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Episode 107: Blackhound Equestrian
Morgan Caplane and Kate Jutagir talk to us about Blackhound Equestrian, what they have to offer and how their diverse backgrounds compliment each other so well.
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Episode 106: Joel Stewart
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Episode 105: Dr. Carrie Wicks
Dr. Carrie Wicks talks to us about how relationships with horses have influenced her life and what inspired her to become a psychologist.
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Episode 104: Eva Herman
Eva Herman talks to us about her first anxiety attack and how since then how she has learned tools to get through them, how she handled moving barns and what she’s learned from each trainer she’s been with.
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Episode 103: Liz Mouille
Liz Mouille talks to us about her struggles in school not fitting in but finding horses as her safe place, her battle with addiction, including alcohol and overeating while going to 8 different treatment centers before getting clean, and what she offers with Phab Co.
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Episode 102: Katrina Charmatz
Katrina Charmatz talks to us about how she got started with Rebalance Pilates, a time she dissected a human body, her experience both of her hips resurfaced and what life is like living in siskiyou county mt shasta area.
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https://www.facebook.com/rebalancepilatesstudio
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Episode 101: John Saint Ryan
John Saint Ryan talks to us about some struggles growing up- including leaving school at 15 and how his temper made him lose his best friend but then how he got an opportunity to teach martial arts to the Army, jump starting his acting career, and his experiences with both Ray Hunt and Tom Dorrance.
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Episode 100: Maggie Clancy
Maggie Clancy talks to us about how she came to own the property she does in Sonoma County, what she offers there and how Enbarr, her new app was born.
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Episode 99: Amanda Apesos
Amanda Apesos talks to us about how horses have impacted her life, why she become a chiropractor, her journey with Ben’s Bit Butter and her struggles in 2017 when her and her horse had to evacuate.
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Episode 98: Michelle Scully
Michelle Scully talks to us about why being wide eyed and curious is her favorite thing about herself, her experiences with different clinicians over the years, and how breaking her back shaped who she is now.
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Episode 97: Tina Steward
Tina Steward talks to us about why she chose to become a veterinarian even though she got rejected 4 times from Davis, how she got into doing medical illustrations, and what she’s doing now.
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Episode 96: Simonne Berg
Simonne Berg talks to us about going to the World Cup Finals, becoming a professional two years ago and deep dives into some experiences with loved ones dying over the years.
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Episode 95: Vijoa Lucas
Vijoa walks to us about her long family history of horse trainers and how she went from spending childhood at Anthony Chabot equestrian center to now training and being the concessionaire.
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Episode 94: Rodney Deck
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Episode 93: Hope Hobday Glynn
Hope Hobday Glynn chats with us about why she thinks there is a flawed system, her opinion on needs to change within the industry and if she thinks she’s a better rider or trainer.
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Episode 92: Jamie Shortz
Jamie Shortz talks to us about growing up with a mom as a Dressage trainer, her journey with Chiropractic school, and what it’s been like raising her son, growing her business and being newly married.
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Episode 91: Elena Gaeta
Elena Gaeta talks to us about how she started out in her photography/videography business and her experience posing naked on horseback.
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Episode 90: Toora O'Mahony
Toora Omahony talks to us about why she moved from Oregon to Santa Rosa, California and soon after got an opportunity to work in France, and how she’s taken what she has learned into becoming the eventing trainer she is today.
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Episode 89: Lindsey Close
Lindsey Close talks to us about why she got into equine nutrition, her first OTTB she struggled with, and how she’s been working through some fear after an accident.
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Episode 88: Pippa Callanan
Pippa Callanan talks to us about why she fell in love with dressage, getting really ill at 20 years old which changed her life course from the doctor track to riding and teaching, and how she ended up living in France and working with Philippe Karl.
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Episode 87: Deborah Blum
Deborah Blum opens up about her life experience first in the restaurant industry, then aviation, and how she moved up to Sonoma county, went vegan over night, and is now running Goatlandia.
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Episode 86: Lucretia Daley
Lucretia Daley talks to us about her experience going from being a Lawyer to doing music while working with individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities and now offering bodywork on horses.
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Episode 85: Melissa Kalember
Melissa Kalember talks to us about how she almost became an Equine Vet and why she chose to become a trainer instead, what becoming a Judge was like for her, and her journey with IEA.
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Episode 84: Lorna Goode
Lorna Goode talks to us about going from working for Levi’s to starting Goode Rider, and how she’s dealt with negative online commenters over the years.
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Episode 83: Jessie Garkinkel
Jessie Garfinkel talks to us about growing up with a vet and a trainer as parents, some experiences that led her into her path of offering bodywork on horses, and how being a Christian helped with her anxiety.
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Episode 82: Sean Willer
Sean Willer talks to us about his experience having two strokes at the young age of 36, how it’s effected his life and how first Volunteering and now working at Giant Steps therapeutic riding center has changed his life.
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Episode 81: Ali Telatnik
Ali telatnik talks to us about her experience going from assistant trainer to head trainer with some struggles along the way and why she is selflessly shifting her life to move to Nevada.
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