Kelli & Cindy Cruciotti: ...what it's like to work as a mother/daughter team

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 11 March 2022

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Cindy and Kelli Cruciotti are a mother daughter team behind Serenity Farm. Cindy has been named best equitation trainer at the Capital Challenge horse show and at the Pennsylvania National horse show after her student took the top honors of the coveted 2015 Pessoa medal finals.

Kelli is an emerging star in the world of equestrian show jumping. As a young professional at the age of 24, she is one of the youngest competitors to win some of the most prestigious awards and classes within the world of American showjumping.

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0:00.0	Okay. Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens. And I'm Jan Black.
0:05.9	We are very proud that Nobody Told Me is a media partner with the 2020 Palm Beach Masters Series,
0:12.0	which is equestrian sport at its finest. The Palm Beach Masters series features the world's best
0:17.4	show jumping riders and horses competing in three world class events, the World
0:22.3	Cup, Nations Cup, and Palm Beach Open. Show jumping is an intense, exciting sport, spotlighting the
0:29.0	incredible partnership between riders and their horses. And as a media partner with the 2020
0:33.7	Palm Beach Master's series, we're talking with some of the riders who have trained for years
0:38.0	to compete at this level. We want to know more about what motivates them and how they've dealt
0:42.6	with disappointments and success. They've learned a lot of lessons which can benefit all of us
0:47.4	whether or not we ride. And joining us on this episode is Rising Star Kelly Cruciatti,
0:52.3	who's on a quest for an Olympic gold medal this year and her mom, Cindy Cruciatti, who's on a quest for an Olympic gold medal this year,
0:55.5	and her mom, Cindy Cruciatti, who's an accomplished rider herself, in addition to being Kelly's
1:00.8	trainer. Kelly and Cindy, thank you so much for joining us. Hi, thank you so much for having us.
1:06.0	We're happy to be here. Tell us about how you started riding horses. Cindy, you're the mom. You
1:11.8	started out first. Take the question first. My parents knew from the very beginning that I loved
1:20.5	horses when they walked in and I was four years old and I was trying to ride the television set.
1:24.8	So they had, we weren't horse people from the beginning and they tried to persuade me to
1:32.0	do other things.
1:32.8	But by the time I was 12 and 13, they realized that they had something they had to pursue.
1:38.8	So I started riding when I was 15 and taking lessons.
1:42.8	And all I wanted to do was be at the barn. And it just went
1:45.8	from there. I had some great mentors and people that really helped me along in my career. And I
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