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Welcome to the Olivia Towers Podcast! This podcast brings you the whole package as I speak about many areas of my own personal journey and much more. We cover different topics ranging from interviews with top equestrian athletes where we hear their highs and lows and how they navigated them. Advice on building a resilient mindset in all areas of life. Practical tips to help you with your riding and journey in the equestrian world and also my own personal ”storytime” where I share honest and raw experiences from my own life and how I have overcome certain hurdles.
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Send us a text In this episode, we chat with the wonderful Jessica Gale. We touch on so many important topics a few being - the relationship between mother and daughter in a competitive atmosphere. Our views on mental health and how to find a balance between acknowledging your emotions and also moving past the storm. We also talk about her exciting new podcast and E-book! Enjoy
Send us a text In our final episode of the series around improving your horse's paces, we look at the canter. I chat about how to help your horse improve their canter in the ridden work and hopefully, you can pick up a few useful tips. Enjoy and make sure to share on social media when you are listening along!
Send us a text In our next episode of 'Take the rein with Towers' we talk about the trot. The trot is the easiest pace to 'change' and gets more expression in but of course, with everything, this takes knowledge and patience. In this podcast, I share the knowledge I have picked up on my journey so it can hopefully help you on yours. Enjoy and don't forget to share when you are listening through social media. Thank you
Send us a text In our next episode of 'Take the rein with Towers' we talk all about the walk! I give you some personal examples of how I have helped my horses with their walk, some exercises, and explanations behind them. Enjoy and please do share this podcast when you are listening to it.
Send us a text I've decided to release the training podcasts onto my main channel so everyone can enjoy them and learn from them. In this episode, I talk you through having your horse 'in front of the leg' which is so fundamental to riding your horse. We talk about what it is, some hurdles we may face when trying to achieve it and useful exercises to try with your horses. I also give a few examples from my personal experiences. Enjoy and thank you for supporting the podcasts.
Send us a text In this podcast, I update you on the huge shift in perspective I have had around training and working with horses. I have been challenging the path I was on and seeking a new one. I hope by sharing this journey I can encourage and help anyone else who faces similar struggles and questions. I don't have the answers yet but I can share the journey. Let me know what you think through social media, it means a lot.
Send us a text In this episode, we chat to Harrison Ashton all about his journey with horses and social media. He explains how he started his equestrian business of selling horses, the things he has learned from working with horses, and the reason he wanted to start on social media. Enjoy and make sure to tag us when you are listening
Send us a text In our first podcast of 2022, I decided to do a storytime about an amazing life lesson I have been going through. In the past, I've been all about achieving and doing more but after a few burnouts and struggling to feel like I had a direction I took a step back. I explain how I got to the conclusion in the title and also how much of a positive impact it has had on my relationship with the horses. Enjoy!
Send us a text In this episode of Tackroom Tales with Towers I chat with the charming Jessica Dunn. We talk about how we share similar struggles with obsessing over very small details in our riding, she explains how she can also be very hard on herself and how she overcomes this, making one very scary but incredible choice to move to Germany to ride and how it shaped her as a rider and much more! Enjoy and as always if you are listening to this on Apple Podcast please do leave a review....
Send us a text In this episode, we talk about a topic that has been a personal struggle for me but also been an incredible learning curve and recently bought so much joy and improvement to my riding. We talk through why I struggled to have my mum coaching me for so many years and then how I overcame this and now have a thriving working relationship with her. As always I would love to know what you think so please share this podcast and review it at apple podcasts.
Send us a text In this episode, we chat with the wonderful Maeve Sheridan MCSP all about rider's positions. Maeve is a specialist Physiotherapist for horse riders and runs online exercise programmes with a resistance Bungi to improve riders performance. This topic is one which I am fascinated with as I am always looking to improve myself for my horses. Maeve has so much knowledge and advice on helping riders and I have been doing her pre-riding warm-up for a while now and really f...
Send us a text In this episode, we chat with the amazing Lara Butler who is an International Grand Prix dressage rider, was reserve for the 2016 Rio Olympics, Europeans 2017 and World Equestrian games 2018. We chatted about loads of topics from competing to becoming a new mum and juggling this alongside being a professional rider. Enjoy!
Send us a text In this episode, I bring you a nugget of wisdom from our latest exclusive podcast "Take the rein with Towers" all around ways to improve your horse's walk. To get your hands on the full version follow the link below. *Please note you need to create an account before entering your email and payment otherwise you will get an 'invalid email' message pop up* https://patron.podbean.com/Oliviatowers
Send us a text In this episode, we chat to the lovely Henry Boswell all about his journey in the equestrian world. We talk about the hurdles he has had to overcome around the pressures of selling horses and his choice to step away from that area. We also talk about the shock from coming out of young riders into the senior world of dressage. So much packed into this one! Enjoy
Send us a text In this episode, I chat with my wonderful friend and up-and-coming professional Dressage rider Robbie Mcneill. We talk about his choice to move from Northern Ireland to pursue his dream of riding full time. He walks us through his time at Talland, backing horses in Germany for one of the most well-known yards there and becoming a head rider on the yard he is currently at. He explains his excitement at his first international and so much more. Enjoy and let us know w...
Send us a text In this episode of Talk it out with Towers & Lyle, we have 3 amazing stories. First up is advice when entering the equestrian industry as a working pupil/groom. We share some of the biggest mishaps we had working on the yard in our younger years! We then lead into a big one talking all about buying horses from auctions and worrying if it was a mistake or not. Abi and I both have very different experiences from Auctions so we cover lots of ground. We finish up ch...
Send us a text In this episode, I bring you a nugget of wisdom from our latest exclusive podcast "Take the rein with Towers" all around how to get your horse onto the bit and then into an outline. This is about how to go from having your horse connected to moulding that connection into a Dressage outline. In the full version, I explain the difference to "on the bit" and having a horse in an outline. Also exercises to achieve this and tips to help you. To get your hands ...
Send us a text In this episode, we chat with the Legend Garth Hughes all around his career as a professional Dressage rider. We talk about his experience of younger people coming into the industry and how at the age of 30 he hadn't competed at advanced level. We also talk over training horses and he gives so great insight. Enjoy!
Send us a text In this episode, we are joined by our first show jumper on the podcast, the amazing Olli Fletcher. At just 18 years old Olli has already racked up an impressive medal collection competing for Great Britain. We chat about many different things, from competing to training his horses and much more. Enjoy!
Send us a text In today's episode of Talk it out with Towers & Lyle we dive into 3 incredible stories sent in by you guys! First up we get a question about starting competing and making friends in the equestrian world so we talk about our younger years of making friends and the different options you have. We then lead into a big topic around someone who lost the ride of some horses and then also lost her job, this, in turn, knocked her confidence as a rider. We talk about how ...
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