ReWilding our Horses, Rewilding our Souls with Kelly Wendorf of the EQUUS

Oct 22, 2025

Kelly Wendorf, founder and CEO of EQUUS, shares her journey from a corporate job to facilitating healing through horses. She discusses her formative experiences in Ethiopia and with Indigenous mentors, which shaped her approach to leadership. Wendorf emphasizes the importance of moving beyond the illusion of separation from nature, using horses as mirrors for self-discovery and authenticity. She reveals how immersive horse experiences can transform corporate culture and foster genuine connection and power-with leadership.

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INSIGHT

Lostness Is Cultural, Not Personal

Kelly Wendorf frames 'lostness' as a cultural disconnection from the web of life that must be healed, not just intellectually known.
Rewilding ourselves and animals restores embodied belonging and opens paths for transformation.

ANECDOTE

Childhood Bond With Kabata Shaped Lifework

Seven-year-old Kelly bonded deeply with Kabata in Ethiopia and kept his embodied sense of presence into adulthood.
That early relationship shaped Kelly's lifelong yearning for connection and resistance to cultural domestication.

ANECDOTE

Uncle Bob, The Billabong, And The Brumbies

Uncle Bob, an Aboriginal elder, took Kelly to a billabong where wild brumbies arrived and taught her: 'When you're lost, you go back to where the lostness started.'
That event redirected her toward horses as the place of return and healing.

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How do we heal ourselves from the 'lost-ness' that afflicts our culture? How do we move on from the strange—and wholly untrue— belief our culture holds that we are separate from the natural world, that our cycles of exploitation, extraction, destruction, pollution are the way the world is, that this is the natural order and there's nothing we can do to change it, individually or collectively?

Knowing that our sense of separation is an illusion is one thing, but genuinely feeling it deep in the marrow of our bones is quite another. Which is where this week's guest comes in. Kelly Wendorf is an executive and personal coach, spiritual mentor, disruptor, and socially responsible entrepreneur. As you'll hear, her book 'Flying Lead Change: 56 million years of Wisdom for living and leading' offers a unique answer to these questions. Kelly is founder and CEO of EQUUS whose central question is, 'What are you Yearning for?' and whose central offer is: 'We create conditions for your transformation'.
As the name suggests, she and her team do this, by engaging the generous spirits of a herd of horses as mirrors to the people who come to EQUUS for coaching - and, although this is often not why they think they're coming, for healing. Kelly's childhood experience with a whole-hearted man in Ethiopia, and later, with one of the First Nations people in Australia, taught her a way of listening, of being fully present, fully in her heart mind and body mind, in the present moment, and this is what she helps others to find with the help of the horses who often just don't engage if we're not congruent, not present, not fully embodied.

She has been called a ‘corporate shaman’ and a ‘CEO whisperer’, but as we crash through the boundaries of the Great Transformation, it seems to me that Kelly's work opens doors for us all. We may not have access to a herd of free-living, re-wilding horses, but even reading about the experiences of her clients can melt some of the concrete around our hearts. And with this, we can always step outside, stand still, let the living world teach us.

So this was a deeply moving read, and a fascinating conversation, at the end of which, Kelly offered our community coupons for two of her forthcoming online courses - the first 'Breaking the Loop, Transforming Habits that hold you back' is on Saturday 1st November at 10-11:30 am Mountain Time and she's offered 50% off that one. The second is nearly a year from now: How to lead a Transformative Life' takes place over two Saturdays, for two hours each at 10am - 12 noon Mountain Time and this one has a base cost of $457, but Kelly is offering it to our Accidental Gods community for free. So please do go and check out the show notes for the links and the coupon codes.

Links

EQUUS Inspired website https://www.equusinspired.com/
Kelly's Book: https://www.equusinspired.com/flc

COURSES

2025 - BREAKING THE LOOP: Transforming Habits that hold you back
Saturday 1st November 10-11:30am Mountain Time
Coupon for 50% off - EQUUS50KW (full cost $97 - 50% =$48.50)

2026 How to Lead a Transformative Life
September 26th, 2026 | 10:00am-12:00pm MT
October 3rd, 2026 | 10:00am-12:00pm MT

COUPON for 100% off - EQUUS100KW (original cost $457 - coupon cost = Free )

Podcasts mentioned:
#297 Charlie Bennet https://accidentalgods.life/otterly-amazing-common-sense-farming-can-feed-us-all-with-charlie-bennett/
#288 Abel Pearson https://accidentalgods.life/farm-as-church-land-as-lover-community-farming-and-food-with-abel-pearson-of-glasbren/
#273 Daniel Firth Griffith Kin Centric ReWilding https://accidentalgods.life/farm-as-church-land-as-lover-community-farming-and-food-with-abel-pearson-of-glasbren/

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