 Today I have Jack here. I suck as I'm going to do Facebook live now. Something he thought he would never ever do. We're going to get into some things today. We're going to give you some updates on the fair. We're also going to talk a little bit about our YouTube channel and what's been going on there. Then we are going to talk about a common theme that we see was just about everything. We've been doing some group coaching and it's all about taking the time it takes. So we're going to get into that as well. So I hope you stick around and we'll delve into some of these topics. I think to start with I'm going to take you to Jack here and in his inaugural Facebook live. Hi Karen, Karen Jones is on. So we've been working hard and the YouTube channel is growing and in the beginning we weren't putting all of our focus on the YouTube channel because we had so many things going on with affairs and our courses and things. And then recently we hit our thousand subscriber mark and now the YouTube channel is really growing. So I think we got 200 subs in a few days which was crazy for us. It was a little bit of subs here, a little bit of subs there. In the beginning it was like we worked really hard. We do a video and get maybe one or two subs. Yeah. We're talking to make a video, not even filming the video, just editing videos can take easily a few hours. It depends on what we're doing. And she's also got me editing videos too so I think that's a good, I don't know. So this horse guy is now going to be a tech savvy guy? Yeah, apparently. Yeah, apparently. In the beginning we were trying to fight Facebook and technology and then we realized something we can communicate with many more like-minded people like ourselves. Yeah. Which is so cool. The community part is so neat because we're in an age where we can spread the message about good quality horse care across the globe and reach people that we never would have imagined we could reach. Exactly. And on our YouTube channel it's not just us, it's interviews with top equine professionals, interviews, it's other training, instructional videos, you name it. So we've got it on our YouTube channel and we don't want the YouTube show. It's Art of the Horsemen YouTube show. And the reason we added show is so people realize it's not just us, it's other presenters. It's other presenters. Which I'm sure you appreciate. And going to the fact that the YouTube channel is growing so slowly, it's kind of like horses and the horsemanship and how that all works. And it's like you start out slow with your horses and it feels like you're not getting very far. And there's a learning curve. And there's a huge learning curve, yeah. And you're kind of like experimenting and you're doing things and you're trying things out and you're not sure if it's going to work. And then you're frustrated. And you get frustrated, yeah. At times, right? And then at times you're like, yeah, something happened that was exciting, you got a lot done. Right. But then you hit a point where it's like a snow wall. And it starts small, right? And you're just like rolling from the Midwest, United States here, so we deal with snow. So we get the snowball thing. But you start with a small snowball and as you roll it in the snow, it gets bigger and bigger and bigger and it grows more and more and more. And it's almost like this exponential increase in what is what's happening. And this is with our horses, it happens. And apparently it happens on YouTube as well. Yeah, you gain momentum and also we live in a time where when we don't understand something, we can look it up. The information's at our fingertips now. So that is another advantage to technology. So if you have issues with horses, you can come to the YouTube channel. There's horses. There's other people's work. Are the horsemen online fair? But the point is that if we ran into hiccups, which we ran into thousands of hiccups, we could look it up. So there really isn't excuses anymore for not being able to get something done or figuring something out. And I keep hearing people say, I don't know how you do this. I'm not techie. And I keep saying, Paula's not techie either or wasn't techie. But she was willing to learn. She's willing to take the time to take that it would take to learn how to do this. So that's cool. So anyway, it's been important. So yeah, and speaking of that. So right now we live in an age where everything's at our fingertips, right? And leave a comment if you can hear just because I had somebody say the audio is malfunctioning on his end. So I hope you can all hear us. But everything's instant and horses are an instant, right? Horses require a lot of time. And initially, things do move slowly because there's a relationship that needs to be formed. There's a partnership that needs to grow. And you need to allow the time to have that opportunity for that to flourish and to grow. And then once you have that relationship and you have that partnership, taking it somewhere is really easy. It's so much easier. So I'm hoping that Diana can hear. Thank you, Diana. And then welcome to Rachel and Charles. Hello, and not forcing a relationship. So when people think training their horse, I'm going to go train my horse. I'm going to be repetitive and I'm going to be consistent and have a regimen. And is that a relationship or is that just your ideas forced on the horse? And so the relationship takes time and then you start to trust. And there might be some leadership aspects and some response aspects for the horse response to us. But like you said, once we have that foundation, that relationship established, now our horse believes us to go into the next unknown situation. So I can't possibly train a horse for every situation it's going to encounter. Right. But I can hopefully have a relationship in which my horse. And something that I always love that you've said is you say, I don't train my horses. We have life experiences together. And I think that's something that is so important when you're working with your horses to realize that you're creating these life experiences. You're creating scenarios and situations that can lead you to a path of wonderful life experiences or not so wonderful life experiences. And that reminds me of like the gal that was, she had a really nervous horse. We just had a coach in college. She had a really nervous horse that was very distracted, upset, horse that's very new to her. She hasn't had the horse for a long. And she's like, I don't even know where to start. What am I supposed to do with this? And our answer was take it slow, right? Go into the horse's paddock and just be a horse with them is what Jackson said. What would other horses do with that horse? Yeah, live with, go live with your horse. And you'd be surprised. But do you have the time that takes to do that? That's important. Right. You might think, well, I've got an hour. I need to get to the barn. I want to work on cantering. So I'm going to get on my horse and you're going to do all these things. And you're forcing it. Stop doing that because it's really not helping the horse any. You might just be doing it for yourself, but that's not what a relationship's about. So take that horse and do a count, but take time. And most questions that we get from people is it comes back to where you're ready. Did you take enough time or did you get it over your head, which is a similar thing? Because now you're doing something prematurely you're not ready to do. You didn't take the time that it took. And so now you got it over your head and now you're nervous. Your horse is nervous. And now that is part of your experience together. So it is really about experiences and making those experiences positive. It took me a long time to get to that point. But I mean, even training horses, I'll get training horses and I'll take things pretty slow and I'll tell people. I'll say, yeah, I observed your horse. I put your horse in my round pen and I went and worked with other horses. And I walked back and forth and watched your horse. I observed how your horse did and then I slowly went into the round pen, worked with it a little bit and left and go and went and grew them. And so that this isn't this bombardment of you need to do and leading them around by their head and tying them up and riding them. And I don't know when you really think about it from the horse's perspective, you know, how much say do they have, right? So yeah, and that's so important when you talked about observing your horse because I think how often do we go to our horses and ask them, what are you interested in doing today? What are the things that are important to you? And those are things that if you're in any relationship, it's a give and take, right? I do what Jack wants to do some of the times. And he does some things that I'd like to do, right? I don't know. And then there's times when we do things together and they're things that I enjoy. So so you need to ask your horse and you need to find the things that are are interesting and exciting for your horse and you need to do those, even if they don't maybe fit your plans exactly because it's again, like that snowball we talked about with our YouTube channel, the same thing with your horse. Exactly. If you get that core snowball going, it just builds and it becomes so amazing after that. And yeah, definitely. So and then accepting what are we really ready to do? You know, so I've got an instructor, let's say, and they want me to jump. And I have a show that I need to get to in three months. And all of a sudden we start putting these deadlines on and your priorities change. And you might find that it goes from a relationship to this sort of a human goal based to where all of a sudden I've got these benchmarks I need to get to. But what about your horse? Yeah. And so all of a sudden, you know, people have horses that go lame because their horse is tense and nervous and it's hard. They're hard on themselves physically and mentally. Yeah. And people have bad experiences. People go to shows, they start they fall off at a show. Yeah. Yeah, I was as recently at a conference and there was a vet talking about lameness and she didn't have time to get into this. But it's something that I think comes up with lameness so much is when you're working with a horse that's not emotionally in a state that is relaxed, interested, engaged in what you're doing, you're going to see a lot more in lamenesses in behaviors that you don't want because of the horse's emotional state. And I think people don't necessarily realize that when they set these deadlines and their horse is not emotionally prepared and you start stacking the pressure on and you create a more nervous, more tense, maybe slightly defensive horse, you will start seeing repercussions within the horse's body because the mind and body are so connected. They are. The body follows that mind. It does. And so, I mean, but that's that's a hard thing to convince people to do is slow down, but look what horses do with each other. They have all the time in the world with each other. And then all of a sudden we come into their environments and we have all these expectations. And so it's it's it's also it just can't be forced either. So in the in the beginning, things can take to be a little bit hard and you need to go go to go get lessons or go YouTube or go to the fair or whatever and get started on a path, but get started. Yeah, get started and get rolling and things will start to develop and progress and build. Yeah, and be OK with not, you know, not having a precise timeline. Right. Let things take a natural evolution. And you'll be a lot more satisfied with how things go. And you're going to get to where you wanted to get to in the and faster anyway. Definitely. Yeah, definitely. And what about our new fair? Yeah, so we are working on the 2020 fair coming coming up soon. And we're actually we're getting contacted by a lot of people that we'd like to present. So that's real. So we're becoming more and more known. And it's really exciting. So we've had people from all over contact us and say, how can we how can I get involved with this fair? Yeah, how can I be a part? Exactly. And we have a surprise instructor that's going to be training and just firming up the details with her. Right. But she's somebody that we had batch listened to. She had an audio series that we completely wore the CDs out because we listened to it all the time. You can wear a CD out. While we scratched them up, it was in our truck and we're first people. Yeah, as we would go. Yeah, as we go and teach clinics or go to shows and stuff, they would get scratched up. We really looked up to her a lot. And I would say she was a huge influence on our philosophy. And, you know, listening to the audio series. Yeah, I never really I never imagined that we would have an event and have a possibility of having an event. Yes. Yes. And it's pretty cool. She's a pretty cool person, I think. Yeah. Yeah. So we're really excited about that. We're going to hopefully be announcing that in the next month or so. Right. Right. And then what about the adoption and that situation? Oh, yeah. So then we're also looking at now we've given the fair to I need to tally it up quite quite a lot of horse rescues just as a resource for them so that they're able to go themselves, you know, the owners of the rescues train themselves, but they can also have some of their staff and employees go and go through the trainings and see what's out there so that it improves their horsemanship because it's really hard. I'm sure for these people that have rescues to break away, get to a clinic, go to a horse expo and they need the education just like the rest of us. So so we've donated the fair to them, but we also we want to know like how we could help even or we were wondering how we could help even more. And what we are going to be doing for the 2020 fairs, we're actually going to be donating maybe some 50 percent of our proceeds or profit from the fair to back to back to a horse. Right. Exactly. And we're looking for suggestions as to what what rescues what rescues and we've had people email us ideas, but we'd like to have more ideas and passes to be be able to get some video footage, hear their story. Yeah. And what are they going through and what would help? And and we all need to hopefully get back to the horse. Right. Yeah, because that's that's why we're here right now. Right. Because of horses and it's it. So anyway, that's what we would really like to do. And we feel we wanted to make a difference. Yeah. And we're hoping this makes a difference. So so if you know of any horse rescues that you think would be great. Right. Let them know. Right. Tell them they can get in contact with us. With the art of the horsemen, right? The horsemen and then and they can just message our Facebook page. That's just fine. And then we'll have them submit some video. Tell us a little bit about their story so we can get a good feel for what their needs are and what their organization is about and then go from there. Exactly. Right. Yeah. So I think that's that's everything. Yeah, I think that pretty much pretty much sums it up. And I appreciate the community. The community in our Facebook group is growing. I'm seeing so much amazing interaction. I have not jumped in there in a long time because I've just been so busy with other things. Yes. But it's so nice to see all of the positive interactions. Great comments, people helping one another out, people sharing their stories. So we really appreciate the community. And if you're not in the because of the horse horse fair Facebook group, look it up, come join in and join the discussion because there's some some good stuff going on. There's great stuff going on there. And I talk to people every day who are seeing everything and seeing all of our work and we're getting great feedback. But we would we would definitely appreciate your feedback as well. And even when it comes to videos, our YouTube channel, do you have ideas for presenters that you would like us to contact? I mean, I think I think we've contacted every horse professional in the world. And I was kidding, but we've contacted a lot of people. But there's always great ideas that come up. And, you know, I got a call yesterday from a person, very interesting man. It'd be great to have more more feedback from you all in regards to presenters. And if you think yeah, or if you know if there's because even if we can't get them for the twenty twenty event, there's always future events. There is going to be an annual thing. So and farriers, that's yeah, you name it. Yeah, good, good natural that's farriers, Feldenkrais workers. We've got a gal that might be joining in in the next fair. That's that yoga for riders. Definitely all of these all of these pieces that play a really important role in in horses and horseback riding. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, we'd like to hear your your feedback. So anyway, we appreciate you all. Thank you very much. I'm sure we're going to be hopping on here more more often again. So you're you might get to, I don't know, see us a little bit more. And yeah, she roped me into doing a Facebook live. So yeah, all right, all right. Bye, everyone.