The Broke Horse moms Podcast
with Angie Trueblood
The Broke Horse Moms Podcast helps parents navigate the confusing, expensive, and often overwhelming world of youth equestrian sports. Whether you’re buying your first pair of paddock boots, figuring out horse shows, managing the costs of riding, or simply wondering if everyone else knows something you don’t, you’re in the right place.
Helping Horse Moms Navigate the Equestrian World
If you haven’t figured it out yet, horseback riding is unlike any other youth sport. It comes with its own language, unwritten rules, endless expenses, and a learning curve that can leave even the most capable moms wondering if everyone else got a handbook they somehow missed.
The Broke Horse Moms Podcast exists because so many of us are figuring this out as we go.
Hosted by Angie Trueblood, a self-proclaimed “OG Broke Horse Mom,” each episode tackles the questions horse moms are actually asking, from horse shows, tack, leasing, and riding apparel to budgeting, barn culture, training, and raising confident young equestrians. Along the way, you’ll hear honest conversations with trainers, veterinarians, industry experts, riders, and fellow horse moms who understand what this life is really like.
Whether your child just started taking riding lessons or you’re hauling to rated horse shows every weekend, you’ll find practical advice, relatable stories, and the reassurance that you don’t have to navigate this equestrian life alone.
Listen to the Latest Episodes
EP 30: Where to Spend and Where to Save on Horse Supplies with Micah Fae Thomas
Six months ago, Micah Fae Thomas walked me, Chloe, and my mother-in-law down the grooming and first aid aisle at Champion Saddlery and started pointing. Get this. You need it. That one you can get at CVS. We left with a much shorter list and a brand-new suspicion of...
Ep 29: The Horse Mom Version of the “Let Them” Mantra
Chloe forgot her course at a local show last year. She had never done that before, and she came out of the ring crushed. She pulled herself together, went back in for her next round, and fell off. In the show ring. She got up, grabbed Phoebe, and walked straight to...
Ep 28: The Horse Family Money Juggle with Grace Speckman
Grace Speckman tracked every dollar of a four-month horse lease and still landed at $14,000. She's a certified financial planner. That number should scare you a little because it scared her too. In this episode, Grace and I get into the costs that sneak up on you...
EP 27: Horse Show Anxiety: How to Support Your Rider Without Adding to It
I think most horse moms would agree that watching our kids ride is sometimes harder than actually being the one on the horse. The jumps get bigger, the shows get more competitive, and meanwhile we’re standing at the rail trying not to visibly panic while our kid seems...
Ep 26: All the Things I Got Wrong About Pony Finals
Pony Finals is nothing like a typical rated show, and I learned that the hard way. I thought we knew horse shows going in. We'd qualified for a national championship, traveled across the state, even made an episode about what first-timers need to know. Then we got to...
Ep 25: Nobody Told Us Our Job Would Keep Changing
We arrived at this season expecting the usual horse mom juggle - shows, lessons, driving, snacks, water bottles. I had no idea that when Chloe got her driver's license, my horse show mom role would change. She drives herself and a friend to the barn most days now. She...
Ep 24: Pony Finals Tips From a Mom Who’s Been There (Three times)
Why do we need an entire episode focused on Pony Finals tips for first-timers, when many of us will never aspire to go to Pony Finals? Because I consider myself a pretty prepared mom, and still, even after reading over the USEF Pony Finals page, I STILL had mom...
EP 23: 10 Questions Every Horse Mom Should Ask (Especially If You’re New to The Sport)
If you're feeling overwhelmed by the horse world, it's likely not because you're asking the wrong questions. Instead, it's likely because you have no idea which questions to ask in the first place. In this episode, I share 10 simple conversation starters that can help...
Ep 22: Who Decides? Navigating the Parent-Trainer Partnership w/Jen and Karen from The Scope Podcast
Who makes the big decisions in a young rider's equestrian journey - the parent, trainer, or rider? Angie sits down with Jen Barker and Karen Tanner from The Scope Podcast to discuss trust, communication, safety, horse show decisions, and the parent-trainer...
Ep 21: How Are We Supposed to Know This? Why Horse Sports Are So Confusing
Why are horse sports so confusing that they often feel like a secret language? In this episode, I explore what I call the "understandability problem" in equestrian sports and why so many new families struggle to learn the rules, culture, and expectations of the horse...
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