Brigid Tebaldi
Episode 399
28 SEP 2026
This guest comes to us from the horse world. She started riding when she was five years old and went on to be a professional horse trainer and 3 Day Event rider. Along the way she trained and taught lessons for about 15 years. She stepped away from the professional circuit when she started having kids but does still have horses. Meanwhile, she is a board-certified health coach specializing in Spiritual Somatic Rewiring – a signature framework that combines nervous system repair, subconscious belief work, and the truth of scripture to create permanent transformation at the root level.
Notable guest quotes:
“I was born and raised cradle Catholic, but it was very much just the like, go to CCD… go to Sunday Mass, say a prayer before dinner and Our Father before bed and that was about it.”
“There wasn’t much in terms of a relationship with God or relationship with Jesus … so I started looking for that relationship elsewhere and, live in a very Protestant town, started going to a Presbyterian youth group with a lot of my friends, and realized, ‘These people love Jesus,’ and so, started leaning more towards that sort of thinking.”
“I never fully stepped away from the faith; thanks be to God. I think there was always the Holy Spirit, like kind of my guardian angel keeping me there.”
“I was a girl who really fell victim to the culture of ‘you have to look a certain way; you have to dress a certain way… your body has to be a certain way’.”
“I remember being so obsessed with sticking under it was around like 1500 calories or so as a teenager playing varsity soccer and riding horses multiple times a week, 1500 calories a day, and I was tracking every single activity, literally. I remember painting my dad’s shed and I tracked that as like a caloric burning activity.”
“I had my Bible and I just flipped randomly to a page, and I forget what the exact verse was but it was… so convincing that it was like… I can’t live like this; like, this is ridiculous. My life from the outside looks great but I’m miserable.”
“I was getting to the point… in my horse career where … I was getting to the upper levels and in order to be there I needed to be strong, and not just physically strong but mentally strong. And I knew if I was out on a cross-country course and I’m thinking about how hungry I am that’s not a good place to be because you need to be super focused.”
“God did so much work on my heart where He was basically like this isn’t how I want you to live… I didn’t create you to be miserable all the time and to be hungry and to be tired and to just feel so blah all the time.”
“It really led me to a deeper relationship with God because I was like, ‘I don’t want to do this. I don’t want to do this. I like having my control, but this is me having to release that control and trust that You actually do know what you’re doing’.”
“I played varsity soccer, which took up a lot of time. But … either before school or after school and practice I would always go to the barn, and I would always want to ride my horse.”
“God gave me the perfect horse for what I needed and so we made it to states a few times. I ended up getting into Pony Club while I was still playing soccer.”
“In eventing you have to wear certain safety things, one of which is an arm band… and in my arm band my mom actually put a rosary in it and I rode with that rosary in there… for ten years or so.”
“I need to bring scripture into everything and our faith into everything because that is everything… what is the point of all this if it’s not to get to heaven?”
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