Featured Press & Podcasts
The Zoe Report
Santa Fe Is The Underrated Wellness Destination That’s A Must-Visit This Summer
By Erin Lukas June 3, 2025
Thunder Bear Yates, a member of the nearby Tesuque and Namble Pueblos, and the cultural educator for EQUUS shared how the horse acts as a wisdom companion, specifically their ability to pick up on and react to the energy around them. (Herd Encounter with Thunder Bear Yates.)
The New York Times
Can We Learn Anything From Horses?
By Caity Weaver March 19, 2021
EQUUS offers life-changing “attunement” through the medium of horses. But how? “…gleaning from the horse Raven not only “what she wants you to know about her” but also “what she tells you about yourself.”
Vogue
How Equine Therapy Can Help Us Face Our Fears
By Marcia Desanctis December 2, 2020
If the horses possess an ability to reflect only what is true, then my truth is that fear is not a force holding me back. “There are other things that they reflected back to you,” Wendorf writes in an email. “Those are for you to continue to discover.”
Forbes
A Look At EQUUS, An Equine Program That’ll Change Your Life
By Christina Liao October 31, 2018
The ultimate goal is for clients “to gain the insights they are wanting for themselves. The EQUUS Experience creates awareness and opens the door to choice, and hence new directions forward.” Be prepared to go in as one person and leave feeling anew.
The Wall Street Journal
Will ‘Horse Therapy’ Make You Better At Your Job?
By Kate Donnelly December 4, 2018
These days, the herd animals are being tapped to facilitate communication, nourish creativity, build teamwork and even inspire leadership—without the saddle.
Kindred Magazine
Finding A Bridge To Indigenous Wisdom And Worldview
By Lisa Reagan March 20, 2021
The United Nation’s report on mass extinction rates warned in 2019 that technology will not save us. Our only hope, states the report, is that humans shift their consciousness from a Western, Dominator Culture Worldview to a Nature-Connected Indigenous Worldview.
Podcasts & Interviews
Making Meaning
Why We're Still Chasing Enlightenment and Missing the Point
Listen in on the Making Meaning Podcast with Kelly as she chats with host Reese Brown of the Cohere Collective. They discuss the freedom of nature and its interconnectedness with spiritual presence, the difference between embracing the spiritual journey and using it as another avenue for shame and entitlement, and the self knowledge we obtain through maintaining curiosity.
Men Alive
Why Humanity’s Future May Depend on Our Connection to Our 56-Million-Year-Old Elders
Whatever your political beliefs or where you live in the world, if you’re willing to open your eyes, heart and mind, you know that humanity is not doing well. In this conversation, Kelly speaks with Men Alive’s Dr. Jed Diamond about how the wisdom of horses can inspire change.
Coaches Rising
What Horses can Teach Us About Leading & Coaching
What would happen if we chose leaders who were more like horse leaders? What can the animal kingdom teach us about living together in a healthy system? In this conversation Kelly and the host explore what needs to change in our leadership model, how horses lead, how to attune to horse consciousness and how this can help us help our clients.
Sounds True: Insights At The Edge
By Tami Simon October 6, 2020
In this podcast, Kelly joins Tami Simon to talk about her new book, Flying Lead Change: 56 Million Years of Wisdom for Leading and Living, and the unique evolutionary relationship between human beings and horses.
The Potent Podcast
Returning Back to Your Most Authentic Self
On today’s episode of Potent, Kelly joins host Steven as they talk about rewilding, authenticity, and integrating nature-based experiences for personal and professional development, along with the challenges of finding belonging beyond societal labels, specifically presence, and self-awareness.
Coacharya
Wonder Woman Wednesday
We have a lot to learn from animals - says Kelly. This episode focuses on how Kelly’slife's work can show us what we can learn from horses about leadership. Kelly sits down for a chat about her work with horses, her journey to coaching and her upcoming book, Flying Lead Change (out October 2020).
MoxieCast
By Dr. Mandy Lehto April 28th, 2020
Today’s guest says a leader is someone entrusted with holding the heart of an endeavor or a family. It’s someone who inspires us “to hold each other well.” (I mean, how beautiful is that?)
Intimacy with the World
By Durita Holm January 14, 2020
How to live deliberately! The fieldguide to being human, with author and coach Kelly Wendorf.
Coaches Rising
What Horses Can Teach Us About Leadership
This desire for meaning at work invites the idea of bringing spiritual practice into the workplace, to enable a greater sense of meaning and purpose. People inherently want to see their work as sacred.
msn Travel
Santa Fe, New Mexico Travel Guide: A Soulful Journey of Self-Love & Wellness in The Land of Enchantment
By Christina-Lauren Pollack November 4, 2024
This encounter taught me that honoring vulnerability is a source of strength and that true courage lies in expressing our deeper selves. (Herd Encounter with Thunder Bear Yates.)
Journey on with Warwick Schiller
Kelly Wendorf joins Warwick Schiller on this pivotal epidoe of the Journey on Poscast. They discuss Kelly’s unique upbringing, how horses have inspired her and how it led to the creation of EQUUS, our leadership development organization that uniquely combines neuroscience, systems theory, contemplative wisdom, attachment theory, somatic processes, indigenous knowledge, and nature-based intelligence in its coaching and experiential leadership development approach.
In Stride
Kelly Wendorf: Listening, Leading, and the Lessons Horses Teach Us
In this episode of “In Stride,” Kelly joins host Sinead Maynard or a thoughtful conversation about leadership, listening, and the deep wisdom horses offer us when we choose to truly connect.This episode explores, how Indigenous and spiritual traditions shaped Kelly’s philosophy, The story behind the creation of EQUUS and its mission, why real leadership means leading from behind, and what horses can teach us about presence, humility, and relationship.