In this episode of Stories Across the Table, Bridget Cook-Burch and Steve Ramona welcome Jason Palmer, professional horseman, coach, and author of The Finish Line, a man who found his way back to himself through the one relationship that never required him to be anything other than who he was.

At ten years old, Jason survived a life-threatening chainsaw accident that left him disfigured and, in the years that followed, a target for relentless bullying. His parents, watching him withdraw from the world, introduced him to competing on horses. What he discovered in that arena changed everything. Horses never judged him. They looked straight through to who he was, and in that space of unconditional acceptance, Jason found he could not only compete but win. Eventually the bullying stopped, because the same people who once mocked him needed him to do what he did best.

He went on to ride as a jockey from age fourteen, training and racing some of the fastest horses in the country alongside legendary figures in the industry, before retiring at twenty-four and eventually finding his next calling in the reining horse world. Over a career spanning decades, Jason estimates he has ridden more than thirty thousand horses, each one teaching him something about trust, patience, and the art of rebuilding a broken spirit.

His book, written with Bridget Cook-Burch and Hannah Lyon, reached someone he had never met just two weeks after it launched. That story, told here for the first time, is reason enough to listen.

Pull up a chair for a conversation about finding your footing in a world that knocked you down, and the extraordinary things that happen when you choose to keep going.

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