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How do you chase a dream when you're afraid to start?Champion jockey Eurico Rosa da Silva left home at 13 to ride racehorses and lived alone in a barn. He says your belief has to be bigger than your fear.Eurico is a member of the Canadian Horse Racing Hall of Fame. He won two Queen's Plates and seven Sovereign Awards as Canada's outstanding jockey, and he retired in 2019 with more than 2,900 wins. Since then he has worked as a mind coach and co-founded the Equine Experiential Connection, which pairs retired racehorses with people in Ontario.In this episode, Eurico explains:■ Learning to Be Uncomfortable: Why it comes first when you chase a dream, and what he learned as a scared teenager living on his own.■ Belief Bigger Than Fear: What he means by it, and why he still has fears every day.■ Finding a Niche in Silence: How four years of searching ended on a walk, when a childhood memory of a white horse pointed him to coaching with horses.■ Present and Invisible: The coaching skill he uses with retired racehorses, and why he thinks anyone who wants to lead well needs coaching training.■ A Call to Nathalie: What he said about his English, the answer that gave him confidence, and why he says it all comes down to belief.At the Coach Academy Summit in Toronto on February 1, 2027, Eurico is the All-Star Keynote. Every attendee receives a signed copy of Riding for Freedom.Details are at coachacademy.com/summit.Mentioned in this episode: Riding for Freedom by Eurico Rosa da Silva, and the Equine Experiential Connection (eec.horse), a program run with LongRun Thoroughbred Retirement Society.Connect with Euricohttps://www.linkedin.com/in/eurico-da-silva/Connect with Nathaliehttps://www.linkedin.com/in/nathalieblais/
