 A really cool thing happens when you have a connection with your horse. You will breathe and sink and your horse can actually hear your heartbeat. Feeling is everything. A horse feels you, a horse reads you without saying a word. Hello, I'm Chris Cox and I'm a professional horseman and educator and the founder of Lead Changes. When I was 18 months old, my dad packed us up and moved to Australia and settled on an island. We didn't have any vehicles on the ranch, we had one tractor and that was it. So horses were a form of transportation, but also, you know, they were my friends. The relationships that I built those horses and the connection that changed my life. Now with Lead Changes, I want to give back. Lead Changes is a camp for youth from 1117. We bring them to the mountains of Wyoming and give them lots of lessons through the horse. They go clean pens, they feed their horses, they water their horses. Learning how to care for an animal, we teach them work ethic, respect, and team building with that process. People should be around the horses because they make you feel so special and they'll just make you feel like you. People in my school asked me, so what are you doing this summer? I'm like, I'm going out to my camp, do you want to come? I started riding and being around horses when I was two. Camp has helped me build myself confidence by riding because now I know what I'm doing. I know how to take care of a horse properly. Just in one year she was here last year, just the progression and the changes that I've seen, unbelievable. She's coming in smiling, coming in confident. And this year I matched her up with a horse that had more forward motion because she was riding better. Her personality was engaging. She's developed a connection to that mare and it's a perfect fit. Did you have a horse for the day? I have a picture of my dad in the honor horse when I was really little to come here knowing that he knows that I love horses and then being on a horse with him for the first time that made it real special. So I lost my dad when I was little. The first year I was here, Chris said that if we don't have a dad he could be our dad and I thought that was really cool because nobody's ever said that. You hold this rain and keep her nose this way. Phoenix was really looking for somebody to help her. I want to give back to children that haven't had the raising, the environment, the circumstances that I had. Horses fill that gap and they let the walls down on these young people and they allow you through the horse to connect to them. Horses give these children an understanding of confidence, leadership, and it empowers them. When you're riding you can just feel everything in their body and you can feel every single movement, every single breath and when you feel that you feel like you're connected in a way. Our relationship is built with the horse and the human. It's about two heartbeats coming together as one. Human and that horse are so in sync and so rhythmic. Freedom and the peace that I feel about the horse is second to none.