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Meet The Moms
Back at the Trailer is a rodeo-parent podcast built around the conversations we're already having—sitting in lawn chairs at the trailer after the rodeo, recapping the day, talking about our kids, our horses, the highs, the hard parts, and everything that comes with raising competitive kids in the rodeo world.
No experts. No perfect answers. Just two rodeo moms with different perspectives pulling up a chair and talking about it.
The Hosts
Toni Simon
The mom with a camera in one hand and probably a spreadsheet in the other.
Toni is our producer and professional overthinker, and the kind of person who somehow turns “I have an idea” into an entirely new project. Most weekends you'll find her somewhere around a rodeo or jackpot arena—usually cheering from the fence, behind a camera, or back at the trailer talking about everything that happened that day.
Rodeo became a huge part of her life through her family. While she didn't grow up competing herself, she's spent years learning the sport from the parent side of the arena while raising a son who has grown up horseback, roping and loves to compete. That gives her a little different perspective: she's not afraid to ask questions, question the way things have always been done, or admit when she has absolutely no idea what's going on.
Lisa Medlin
The mom who's been on both sides of the arena.
Lisa is a wife, mom of two, rodeo competitor, and the voice of experience sitting in the other lawn chair. Rodeo isn't something she learned when her kids started competing—it's something she's been part of most of her life.
She grew up competing and continued rodeoing through college, so now, as a rodeo mom herself, she's getting to experience the sport from a completely different side of the arena. She's gone from being the kid making the run to being the mom watching her own kids make theirs—and she knows firsthand that those can feel like two very different jobs. She brings a practical point of view, and the experience to back it up.
She's competitive, grounded, and always willing to say what she's thinking.
Why Back at the Trailer?
Because some of the best conversations happen after the rodeo is over.
Back at the trailer is where we recap the runs, talk about what went right, what went wrong, what our kids are going through—and usually wander into about twelve other topics along the way.
Eventually, we figured if we’re already having these conversations, maybe other rodeo parents are having them too.
So we did the obvious—we hit record. And Back at the Trailer was born.
Pull up a chair. There’s always room for one more.