Lisa Wysocky
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Lisa Wysocky is an author, motivational speaker and equine
clinician who was born in Mound, Minnesota
. She spent her early years showing horses on the WSCA horse show circuit and later received a degree in Light Horse Management from the University of Minnesota
. She trained Appaloosa
horses in Western Washington State and had success on the Appaloosa national show circuit.
where she began a career in the music industry, rising to publicist, artist manager and record label executive. A few of the celebrities she worked with include David Allen Coe, Johnny Paycheck
, Tompall Glaser
, and Paul Overstreet
.
. This book won both the Independent Publisher Book Award
and the ForeWord
book award and was featured on Inside Edition
, The Oprah Winfrey Show
, and seen in People magazine
. Front of the Class was later made into an award-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie. Success Within: How to Create the Greatest Moments of Your Life catapulted Wysocky into the speaker circuit where she speaks to businesses and corporations across the United States
. Lisa's book and DVD My Horse, My Partner discuss her natural horse training methods, and Horse Country is a beautiful coffee table book about country music stars and their horses.
for people with disabilities. She trains horses for therapeutic facilities in Tennessee
and is a registered level NARHA (North American Riding for the Handicapped) instructor. She also travels nationwide giving horse clinics and in 2007 was chosen by ARIA (American Riding Instructor's Association) as one of the Top 50 riding instructors in the nation.
Horse
The horse is one of two extant subspecies of Equus ferus, or the wild horse. It is a single-hooved mammal belonging to the taxonomic family Equidae. The horse has evolved over the past 45 to 55 million years from a small multi-toed creature into the large, single-toed animal of today...
clinician who was born in Mound, Minnesota
Mound, Minnesota
Mound is a settlement in Hennepin County, Minnesota, United States. ZIP code: 55364. The population was 9,052 at the 2010 census. Mound is the birthplace of the Tonka truck, named after Lake Minnetonka. Mound is also the birthplace of actor Kevin Sorbo, who portrayed Hercules on the television...
. She spent her early years showing horses on the WSCA horse show circuit and later received a degree in Light Horse Management from the University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, Twin Cities is a public research university located in Minneapolis and St. Paul, Minnesota, United States. It is the oldest and largest part of the University of Minnesota system and has the fourth-largest main campus student body in the United States, with 52,557...
. She trained Appaloosa
Appaloosa
The Appaloosa is a horse breed best known for its colorful leopard-spotted coat pattern. There is a wide range of body types within the breed, stemming from the influence of multiple breeds of horses throughout its history. Each horse's color pattern is genetically the result of various spotting...
horses in Western Washington State and had success on the Appaloosa national show circuit.
Early years
Wysocky moved to Nashville, TennesseeNashville, Tennessee
Nashville is the capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County. It is located on the Cumberland River in Davidson County, in the north-central part of the state. The city is a center for the health care, publishing, banking and transportation industries, and is home...
where she began a career in the music industry, rising to publicist, artist manager and record label executive. A few of the celebrities she worked with include David Allen Coe, Johnny Paycheck
Johnny Paycheck
Johnny Paycheck was the legal name of Donald Eugene Lytle , a country music singer and Grand Ole Opry member most famous for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It"...
, Tompall Glaser
Tompall Glaser
Tompall Glaser is an American country music artist. Active since the 1950s, he has recorded both as a solo artist and with his brothers Chuck and Jim in the trio Tompall & the Glaser Brothers...
, and Paul Overstreet
Paul Overstreet
Paul Lester Overstreet is an American country music singer and songwriter. He recorded 10 studio albums between 1982 and 2005, and charted 16 singles on the Billboard country charts, including two #1 hits...
.
Books
Wysocky's first book was The Power of Horses: True Stories from Country Music Stars. She then co-write the award winning book, Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had with Brad CohenBrad Cohen
Brad Cohen is an American motivational speaker and an award-winning teacher and author who has severe Tourette syndrome . Cohen described his experiences growing up with the condition in his book, Front of the Class: How Tourette Syndrome Made Me the Teacher I Never Had, co-authored with Lisa Wysocky...
. This book won both the Independent Publisher Book Award
Independent Publisher Book Award
The Independent Publisher Book Awards , launched in 1996, are designed to bring increased recognition to titles published by independent authors and publishers...
and the ForeWord
ForeWord (magazine)
ForeWord is a trade journal published six times yearly with the tagline, “Reviews of Good Books Independently Published.” The magazine is distributed primarily to librarians and booksellers to familiarize them with upcoming books from small, independent, and university presses, as well as...
book award and was featured on Inside Edition
Inside Edition
Inside Edition is a thirty-minute American television syndicated news program, first aired on CBS on October 9, 1988. It was originally similar to the programs Hard Copy and A Current Affair, but now more closely resembles a condensed version of breakfast television, exclusively with pre-recorded...
, The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show
The Oprah Winfrey Show is an American syndicated talk show hosted and produced by its namesake Oprah Winfrey. It ran nationally for 25 seasons beginning in 1986, before concluding in 2011. It is the highest-rated talk show in American television history....
, and seen in People magazine
People (magazine)
In 1998, the magazine introduced a version targeted at teens called Teen People. However, on July 27, 2006, the company announced it would shut down publication of Teen People immediately. The last issue to be released was scheduled for September 2006. Subscribers to this magazine received...
. Front of the Class was later made into an award-winning Hallmark Hall of Fame television movie. Success Within: How to Create the Greatest Moments of Your Life catapulted Wysocky into the speaker circuit where she speaks to businesses and corporations across the United States
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
. Lisa's book and DVD My Horse, My Partner discuss her natural horse training methods, and Horse Country is a beautiful coffee table book about country music stars and their horses.
Horses
Wysocky uses adaptations of Success Within to speak to businesses and women's groups. She also speaks to non-profit groups that support therapeutic horseback ridingTherapeutic horseback riding
Therapeutic horseback riding is used to teach riding skills to people with disabilities...
for people with disabilities. She trains horses for therapeutic facilities in Tennessee
Tennessee
Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southeastern United States. It has a population of 6,346,105, making it the nation's 17th-largest state by population, and covers , making it the 36th-largest by total land area...
and is a registered level NARHA (North American Riding for the Handicapped) instructor. She also travels nationwide giving horse clinics and in 2007 was chosen by ARIA (American Riding Instructor's Association) as one of the Top 50 riding instructors in the nation.