Warwick Schiller: The Evolution of Horsemanship

So what sparked your passion for horses and sort of the path that you're on now with horses at this point in your...

Well, that's like 50 years worth of stuff.

You know, I think...

I grew up on a farm and I started riding when I was probably about seven, like Paula said.

And I think initially it's something we did as a family.

I do think that as a teenager, when you're in those weird years right there, I think horses were the, I don't know, horses were probably the one place I could be me.

I didn't have to pretend to be whatever other than what I was sort of thing.

There was that.

And, you know, I think I've, you know, I've always enjoyed doing stuff with horses.

And I think, you know, I think part of it, the bit I just said about, sorry, the bit I said about horses, I mean, at home alone, me and my horse, that could be me.

But then like, as far as like horse shows and stuff like that, it was probably the one place I was one of the cool kids, whereas I wasn't a cool kid at school sort of thing.

So that, I think there's a, you

know,

there's a bit of that there too.

And that's something I've been really aware of the last seven or eight years now is how I think it's really important to understand why you do the things you do, whether you're a CEO or whatever you do, what was it that drove you to do it in the first place? Because in doing that, you might unravel some things you didn't even know were there.

And so I've, you know, obviously I was, I was good with horses and I liked the horses or whatever, but I think there was some, I think there was some other stuff underneath that, that, that kind of you know led my my passion for horses and I you know I think as you do that sort of that inner work stuff I understand why you do the things you do you can keep doing the things you do you just let go of some of the reasons why you got there in the first place I think

It's like having a backpack with some additional baggage that you chose to carry on from, you know, when you were young.

And although you don't need any of those things in the backpack anymore, we all carry our own backpacks.

And it's helpful to know what's in the backpack.

But like you said, letting go and then allowing yourself to be...

in the place that you're in in your journey and accept it for what it is and what its new meaning is to you right here and right now.

Yeah, it's funny you mentioned a backpack.

I was actually in Santa Fe, New Mexico last weekend for a men's retreat.

And that was basically the whole thing about the retreat was we carry these stuff around in our backpack and we want to You don't need it anymore.

You needed it at some point in time and you don't need it anymore.