Monty Roberts

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410 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Aug 2026 last heard 7 Aug

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Fresh Air · Remembering ‘The Man Who Listens to Horses’ · 7 Aug 2026 podcast

So, you know, it wasn't like we had um so many at one time.

But it was a very gratifying thing to do.

And there's about forty very positive stories to tell in all of this.

And seven very negative stories to tell, with no grey areas.

And that's just the way it is.

They either it either took or it didn't.

But those odds are incredibly good when you consider kids between eleven and thirteen coming to me already incarcerated in wards of the county, wards of the state type thing.

Did you use any of the principles that you had learned working with hors horses?

When you were working with your children.

I used all the principles, the same principles, it's the same psychology.

Give them a chance to fail.

So they can have that chance to succeed.

When they fail, they're responsible for their own actions.

But when they succeed, they're also responsible for their own actions, and they must get the most positive rewards that you can possibly think of to give them.

Generally love, generally exaltation, um moving upward, giving them advancements, uh, giving them a chance to learn something new when they uh

Achieve something.

Um not too many years ago.

Maybe you could tell me the year 'cause I don't really remember.

You had major back surgery.

I mean your back had basically given out because of all of

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