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🎙️ Episode 1: Put Down the Whistle
Podcast: Hay There, Coach!
Host: Delena Kay Austin
Length: ~11 min
Type: Free Community Podcast
Welcome to the very first episode of Hay There, Coach! — a warm, down-to-earth space for equine-assisted coaches, practitioners, and heart-led helpers who are looking for encouragement, clarity, and a few barnside reminders that you’ve got this.
In this opening episode, Delena shares why traditional ideas of coaching don’t always apply to what we do — and why we need to stop thinking of ourselves as “the ones with the whistle.” Instead, she invites us to see coaching as facilitation: creating space, supporting the client’s process, and letting the horse lead the way.
This episode is an empowering reminder to step back, let the session unfold, and trust that the most powerful moments come from partnership, not pushing.
Episode 2: Being Before Doing — The Coaching Skill No One Taught You
In this heartfelt and honest episode, Delena shares one of the most important (yet often overlooked) skills in equine-assisted coaching: presence.
Before tools.
Before plans.
Before perfectly-worded questions...
There’s you. Your energy. Your awareness. Your ability to be fully with the client and the horse — not ahead of them, not lost in your own thoughts.
This episode is a barnside reminder that coaching presence is not about performance — it’s about being grounded, emotionally available, and attuned. When we show up scattered, overinvested, or distracted, we not only disrupt the coaching container — we also unintentionally burden our horse partners and create confusion for our clients.