Shelby Dennis
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575 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard 4 Jun
Shelby Dennis’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Hi everyone and welcome back to the Making Milestones podcast.
Today we have a very special guest on the podcast, Alexa Linton, who is a fellow Pacific Northwester here in British Columbia, the best province in the world.
True that.
No biases.
So hello, thanks for coming on.
Do you want to introduce yourself for people who might not be familiar with you and your work?
Yeah, I think this area attracts a lot of people that like similar things.
yeah and i'm happy to be here i'm so excited to have you on like i think there's a really good conversation to be had especially since you work on both horses and humans because i think the physical expectations that we have for horses and humans and what we drill into people's heads as normal expectations are often so far from that like
with people one of the first thing that comes to mind is this idea that you always have to get back on the horse when you fall off otherwise the horse might learn to get away with it and i remember having that drilled into my head as a child when i fell off and i was actually hurt and i know a lot of people who still subscribe to that mentality and they're just like even when they're
legitimately hurt they get back on the horse and it just creates such a bad precedent so i guess a question i would have for you is if you work on people i'm assuming you probably work on a fair portion of horse people and do you do you find that they have physical issues
Oh, like too many to count.
Wow.
pretty hardcore in that way because it's it happens like we do kind of the same thing to humans as we do to the horses and then there's this mindset too where a lot of people are like oh like having pain is basically part of being an equestrian totally that's just it is what it is and
I think the sad part is like, there's a lot of young people who like at the time, like, and like, I did this a lot, especially while scalloping racehorses, like I would ride through injuries, partly because like I needed to make a living and be able to afford to survive, which is one of the things that I think we can get into a little bit too, especially once we start talking about the horse aspect where I think a lot of the ethical problems that we run into are,
there's a whole lot of pressure on professionals to just push through their own injuries, but also like problems that the horses are experiencing because they're worried about paying rent.
And that's in part why I've like, I've stepped back from having so much of my income be in relation to
having to pander and cater to clients because a lot of people are willing to fire you and find a new trainer if you don't do what they want and they will be able to find a trainer that will push their horse through stuff um so you often have to pick between your physical health and and your mental or your mental well-being because you could damage your physical health by riding through injuries
but then doing so impacts your mental wellbeing.
And then when you're also pushing horses through things that you shouldn't, it also impacts the mental component and it puts you at higher risk of physical problems because every single injury that I have had from horses pretty much has come from me pushing them in situations where
I should have taken a step back.
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