001 Shawn Flarida & Andrea Fappani
Along For The Ride with Andrea Fappani
Jim Essick
5 • 635 Ratings
🗓️ 16 August 2019
⏱️ 80 minutes
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Summary
Along For The Ride With Andrea Fappani are conversations in excellence. Andrea Fappani - National Reining Horse Association “NRHA” 5.7 Million Dollar Rider was born and raised in Italy and followed his dream of moving to the USA and becoming one of the all-time leading trainers in the Performance Horse industry. His focus, drive and passion for excellence not only made him the youngest NRHA million Dollar Rider, along the way he has been recognized for his ability to teach and advocate exceptional horsemanship. Andrea has understood from a young age the excellence comes from hard work, focus and a plan that leads you to your ultimate goal. In the journey of becoming one of the NRHA’s leading trainers Andrea recognizes the importance of teamwork, mentors and a strong support program. This podcast is an opportunity for Andrea to share conversation with those mentors, competitors, breeders, owners, ferriers, veterinarians, judges, trainers, non-pro’s, and people that have provided the support to the Fappani Performance Horse program over the years. Mostly Andrea is interested in listening and learning how others approach excellence and mastery in whatever that interest, business or passion is, so join us in “Along For The Ride With Andrea Fappani”
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Long for the Ride with Andrea Fapani. |
| 0:13.0 | I'm Andrea and I've got Jim Essek here with me. |
| 0:17.0 | Jim and his wife, Cam, have been behind Fapani Performance Horses pretty much the whole time since I started it. |
| 0:23.3 | They promoted my image, they've taken care of my advertisement. |
| 0:27.1 | And more than anything, they've given me all the ideas, if not most, of what I've done in the years with DVDs, instructions, promotions. |
| 0:35.3 | Pretty not much, you name it, Jim and Kemp, have been really not the |
| 0:38.1 | face, but what's behind Pony Performance Horses and Andrea F. Pony. So I couldn't be happy to |
| 0:42.6 | have him here with me. He's producing the show, basically helping me, you know, shine the light |
| 0:47.5 | on these different people that we're going to be interviewing. We're going to concentrate on |
| 0:52.0 | the performance aspect of the industry, and it's not going to be just the reigning horse industry. |
| 0:56.8 | It's going to be pretty much performance horses. |
| 0:58.9 | I don't think that you can really categorize raining in its own window. |
| 1:03.2 | I think that you can consider raining cowhors, you name it, cutting all to be performance events. |
| 1:09.6 | I think that you need to have the same qualities to be excellent at any of the disciplines. |
| 1:15.0 | I think you need to be a great horseman and so many other things. |
| 1:18.3 | And that's why I started this podcast. |
| 1:20.3 | I wanted to bring the attention to the people that really make this sport so great. |
| 1:26.2 | It's not just us as trainers or showmen. There's going to be a lot of |
| 1:29.6 | people that we're going to talk to. There's going to be owners. There's going to be non-professionals. |
| 1:34.1 | And also people that don't even ride, maybe horseshoers, veterinarians. There's just so many people |
| 1:39.6 | that affect what we do every day. A lot of times you don't hear about them. You can read magazine or |
| 1:45.7 | listen to interviews from the horse shows and everybody shines the light on the performance and who's |
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