Can Your Worst Challenge Make You a Better Dog Trainer? #50

Shaped by Dog with Susan Garrett

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Kids & Family, Pets & Animals, Education

4.8 • 679 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2020

⏱️ 19 minutes

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Summary

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When I was 12 years old, I experienced the most humiliating event of my young life with a doctor who was trying to be helpful. That event changed who I was and how I processed information and led me to become the dog trainer that I am today. What if the things that we look at as our greatest challenges are actually our biggest blessings? And how could that help our dogs?

In the episode you'll hear:

• About my family and my introduction to riding a bike.
• Why my brothers talked about my determination as if I were an alien.
• My love of Nancy Drew books as a child.
• How an ophthalmologist changed my young life forever.
• Why I thought I was weird and how I just tried to figure things out.
• My experience at University in an English course and why I stopped reading.
• The years I spent with undiagnosed dyslexia and how that shaped me.
• What I want you to know about answers existing.
• About not giving anyone the power to make you feel less than.
• How there are dogs out there who need us.

Resources:

• Blog Post: "Each of us is Somebody's Weirdo" - https://susangarrettdogagility.com/2009/12/each-of-us-is-somebodys-weirdo/
• Book: Shaping Success by Susan Garrett - https://dogsthat.com/product/shaping-success-2/

Transcript

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0:00.0	When I was 12 years old, I experienced the most humiliating event of my then young life at the
0:18.2	hands of a doctor who was actually trying to be helpful. That event
0:24.3	changed who I was, that event changed how I process information, and that event led me to
0:31.6	become the dog trainer that I am today. Hi, I'm Susan Garrett and welcome to Shape by Dog.
0:37.2	Before we dig into today's episode,
0:40.4	I'd like to share with you some love because there's some of you who keep giving me reinforcement,
0:48.3	particularly those of you on YouTube. I see some of you consistently leaving me a comment, giving me feedback on what you
0:56.4	thought of that episode and that is not going unnoticed. So, I want to give a shout out to
1:00.2	Nancy Hooper and Carolyn Miller and Cherokee Keknell. I don't know if I got your name right,
1:05.0	Sherry, and many others of you who are leaving comments and smashing the like button.
1:10.3	So before we go any further, if you are watching this on YouTube, and smashing the like button. So, before we go any further,
1:11.3	if you are watching this on YouTube, please hit that like button because the way the interweb
1:17.3	works is that YouTube looks at how many likes these podcasts gets. And that's who they decide
1:23.9	should we share these with more dog owners or dog lovers? So far, we're trending in
1:28.9	at about 3% of the people who watch hit the like button. I'd like to get that up to 30%.
1:34.6	So if you're watching this on YouTube, please hit that like button. If you're watching this
1:38.8	over or listening to it as a podcast, please share it like Jay's neighbor did. I'm just going to read this.
1:46.8	This just came in this week. This is from Jay. He wrote this on YouTube. Hi, I'm a new subscriber.
1:51.8	I love your approach and I love your podcasts. Yesterday, a neighbor told me about you and I've
1:56.7	been watching your videos ever since. Thanks, Jay. Changing the questions we ask ourselves,
2:01.4	not only is great for dogs and great for working with our dogs, but for the rest of our lives.
2:07.2	Great relationship advice in general and well-timed for me. Thank you, Susan. Thank you, Jay.
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