Born in Oxford, Ohio into a multi-generational rodeo family.  Much of my family was involved in rodeo, in one way or another, but I knew my real passion lay else where.  However, I must credit my personal success in High School and amateur Rodeo, for stamping my ticket out of Ohio and setting me on my journey westward.  

I’ve cowboyed in nearly every state in the mid-west, several in the south and now California.  I have enjoyed an equally diverse journey in my pursuit of horsemanship.  Always being willing to work hard has allowed me opportunities to learn from lots of good horseman, good cowboys and hundreds of different horses.  I have never really “picked a lane”.  Instead, I’ve made it my life’s mission just to become a quality horseman.  To me, that means being knowledgable in every area from whole horse health and mental/emotional regulation to an ever expanding tool box of training methods.  A horseman can only be made by the unrelenting study of the horse.  That is exactly what I intend to do.

I’ve been a full time cowboy, along side my husband Wacey, for the past 19 years.  We moved from Montana to California in 2019 and established X Bar 7 Livestock and Equine Services.  Our focus was to offer people a full service training facility where we address everything from feet and diet to posture and pain.   I simply refused to train or ride horses in the currently acceptable format of training in spite of pain and dysfunction.  Now my life is a beautifully manifested hybrid.  Wacey and I manage the East Bay Division of 5 Dot Land and Livestock and this location makes me easily accessible to most of California and western Nevada.