JodiSpeaksLIFE: Speaker, Career Success Coach, Podcaster
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The Thriving Equine Professional | Career Connections, Equine Industry Resources, Career Advice Make Connections & Grow Your Career with Clarity and Confidence Wondering how to make the connections you need to find a job in the equine industry?! Not sure how to find the support you need to land that dream job that will grow you and inspire you?! I am so excited you’re here! This podcast will help you build your career confidence, grow professional connections and inspire you to continue pursuing your role as a thriving equine industry leader! Greetings friends! I’m Jodi, equine industry speaker and coach. My h...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jodi Lynch-Findley makes equine careers legible by tracing the qualifications, connections, and unexpected roles behind each guest's working life.
The Thriving Equine Professional turns equine work into concrete career maps through Jodi Lynch-Findley's guest-led conversations. She repeatedly asks how people entered the field, what training or licenses mattered, and which professional connections changed their direction.
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Equine experience becomes a practical lesson in mission-driven career building.
Lauren Reischer's story makes this episode a useful study in how equine experience can carry into nonprofit work, athletic opportunity for people with disabilities, and the steady relationship-building that keeps a mission moving.
Internships, mentors, and a widening network shape a practical equine career story.
Anissa's path is told through internships, mentors, and a network that kept opening the next door, which gives the episode a grounded look at how an equine career can actually take shape.
A plainspoken career story about turning equine experience and contacts into momentum.
Jodi Lynch-Findley and Clara Quaid keep this focused on practical choices: picking summer work with purpose, learning through veterinary, breeding, and foaling work, and treating people skills as part of the trade.
A career-forward look at equine law, burnout, and how a niche practice took shape.
The episode treats equine law less like a legal seminar and more like a career story, following Corinne Mitchell from burnout at a large firm to a federal clerkship and then to a smaller boutique practice where equine law became its own division.
A career pivot story about fit, timing, and the people who spot your next move.
Hannah Crandall's story is a straightforward career-pivot profile, built around finding a better fit through communication work, networking, and timing.
A warm career talk that makes internships feel like real turning points.
Ryan Springer and Jodi Lynch-Findley present internships as a practical way to learn what matters and build relationships that last. He traces that idea through an early internship with his dad, a mentor connection with Dr.
A grounded career story that turns one professor's path into practical guidance for early-career equine professionals.
The episode tracks Dr. Melissa Syard-Altman from a horse-crazy start in Tennessee to her role at Asbury University in Kentucky, and it keeps that path feeling lived-in rather than polished into myth.
A grounded career story from intern to CEO, with the whole hospital in view.
Dr. Debra Spike Pierce's path from intern at Root & Riddle to CEO gives the conversation a clean arc, and Jodi Lynch-Findley keeps it pointed toward what younger listeners can actually use.
Journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte interviews researchers and authors on women, money, bias, and burnout.
Isabel Berwick and FT colleagues dissect CEO loneliness, burnout and workplace power shifts.
Jodi Lynch-Findley, founder of Jodi Speaks Life and host of The Thriving Equine Professional, uses this monthly check-in to talk about “comparison-itis” after a difficult August and a return to teaching ag sales.
Hannah Crandall, a 2021 Texas A&M graduate in ag communications and journalism, explains how a high school interest in yearbook, photography, and creative writing turned into marketing work in the equine and rodeo world.
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Corinne Mitchell, a Belleville, Illinois attorney at Claiborne and Wagner, explains how she built an equine law division while still riding and showing horses.
Desiree Heath-Mills, a Cowgirl 30 Under 30 honoree from Arlington, Texas, traces her path from El Paso and Del Rio to Texas A&M and APHA.
Lauren Reischer's career story starts at Brown and broadens into nonprofit equine work.
Thriving Equine Professional episode with host Jodi Lynch-Findley challenges the cultural glorification of busyness and offers practical strategies for true productivity.
Denise Alvarez says her path to Storm Lily Marketing began with quarter horses, 4-H, and a childhood that did not point toward a formal equine career.
Ryan Springer, a research coordinator with Kentucky Equine Research in Ocala, Florida, traces a path from Tarleton State University rodeo and team roping to a PhD in animal and natural resource science.
Kogi Long comes in through Pat Trowbridge's introduction, and the episode follows how her Equine Affair work grew from programming and Fantasia into vice president duties.
Ariel Trinder describes a Disney internship in which 600 applicants were narrowed to 4, then explains how that experience led to horse work, a full-time role, and a later move back into the equine industry.
Anissa Montplaisir traces her path from a horse-obsessed kid in Fargo, North Dakota, to executive director of Amplify Horse Racing in Lexington, Kentucky.
Jodi Lynch-Findley uses a solo July episode of The Thriving Equine Professional to argue that community is the answer to burnout, fatigue, and the "human energy crisis." She grounds that idea in her own path through FFA, college at Western Kentucky University, and groups like the Intercollegiate Horse Show Association, Ag Women Connect, and a "wine and prayer group." The episode centers on three actions: be curious, be intentional, and be grateful and giving, with repeated emphasis on mentorship, championing younger people, and building real-life fellowship.
Jodi Lynch-Findley introduces Danielle Ammitt as an equine industry consultant, coach, insurance agent, Mustang advocate, and director of operations with the Mustang Heritage Foundation.
Jodi Lynch-Findley welcomes Sarah Brazier back for a vet med career conversation.
Jodi Lynch-Findley talks with Diego Almeida about a farrier career that reaches well beyond the barn aisle.
Solo episode addressing critical skills gap in higher education.
Stop competing for who's more exhausted. Here's what actually matters in your career.
Jodi Lynch-Findley interviews Megan Smith, a career professional who challenges the 'vet school or nothing' narrative limiting young equine enthusiasts.
Jodi Lynch-Findley welcomes Clara Quade, a young equine professional who graduated just four short years ago and is still making a name for herself in the industry.
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Jodi Lynch-Findley uses episode 53 of The Thriving Equine Professional to argue that authenticity is a career skill, not a personality trait, and she says it makes people “credible.” She names three ingredients for authenticity—self-awareness, mindfulness, and self-acceptance—and connects them to DISC, CliftonStrengths, and a personal “champion team.” The episode also links authenticity to her own move from a corporate role to Jodi Speaks Life, where she says inspiration means loving others and fulfillment means serving others.
Chrissy's career path does not get packaged as a neat, straight-line success story.
Carly Myers starts outside the usual Western or agriculture path.
The host tells Thrivers to buckle up as Cassie Younginer brings a lively career conversation from North Carolina into the show's equine-professional world.
Stephanie Smith, a 2023 University of Kentucky Equine Science and Management graduate, talks about moving from Virginia to Kentucky and then to Oklahoma for her first year in extension work.
Maria brings finance into the barn.
Jordan Parker, a DVM-PhD candidate at the University of Georgia, traces a path from Marietta, Georgia, to the Comparative Biomedical Sciences program in Large Animal Medicine and Surgery.
wealth of knowledge about the business and how to get from point A to point B and how things are done
Host Jodi Lynch-Findley challenges the cultural celebration of extreme independence, arguing that vulnerability and asking for help are strengths, not weaknesses.