The Rodeo Star (Encore)

Whose Amazing Life?

Wondery

Stories For Kids, Imagined Life, Kids & Family

4.4 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 25 July 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Summary

You come from a family of rodeo champions, and all you want to do is follow in their footsteps. But ya'll, could it be possible... that there's a whole other type of spotlight calling your name?

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0:00.0	Wondry Plus subscribers can listen to Who's Amazing Life early and ad-free right now.
0:05.7	Join Wondry Plus in the Wondry app or Wondry Kids Plus on Apple Podcasts.
0:14.4	From Wondry, I'm Jasmine Romero, and this is Who's Amazing Life.
0:24.3	You've heard of people who changed the course of history, but before they made their mark on the world,
0:29.3	they were people like you and me, still figuring out what they wanted to do with their lives.
0:34.6	On this episode, you will be that person everyone knows. You might be a musician,
0:40.3	or an athlete, a scientist, or a painter. You may know what the person accomplished later in life,
0:49.3	but now you can experience everything they faced along the way. From challenges and heartbreak to triumphs and excitement,
0:57.9	all the moments that built this person into someone who would change the world.
1:02.7	There will be clues, so pay attention.
1:05.3	But only at the end will you find out who you are.
1:09.9	So sit back and imagine your amazing life as the rodeo star.
1:19.6	Imagine. You're 11 years old, and today is your first rodeo competition. You're waiting with your dad at the
1:29.7	starting gate on the back of one of his cattle roping horses. Old Pelican. Dad, I'm scared. Old Pelican
1:36.8	is a great horse, but he's not a barrel racer. Sorry, Pelican. I'm just really nervous. You go over the plan to take your mind off the butterflies
1:46.2	in your stomach. You're going to race your horse in a clover leaf shape, carefully navigating around
1:52.3	the barrels sprinkled around the arena. And if that wasn't hard enough, you have to be fast.
1:58.2	Whoever finishes the fastest wins the whole thing.
2:02.1	Your dad, Pat's old Pelican, you've seen me compete plenty of times.
2:06.9	You were in the crowd when your siblings were in your boots.
2:10.1	Literally, in Alice's case, I think those are hand-me-downs.
2:13.2	They went out there and lived up to the family name.
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