Welcome to Training Thru Trust Headquarters

Imagine Creating the Horse You've Always Dreamed Of.

Create a soft, willing, responsive horse through proven step-by-step training and personal live coaching. From safe family horses to high-level performance horses.

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Welcome to Training Thru Trust

Horsemanship Built on Understanding

Training Thru Trust helps people understand what the horse is thinking, communicate with clarity, and build acceptance of leadership without losing willingness.

The same foundation carries from the first conversation with an untouched colt to a handy, athletic western performance horse—and into every discipline in between.

Whether you're starting your journey, solving challenges, or becoming a trusted horseman or horsewoman, there's a place for you here. We'd be honored to walk that journey with you.

The TTT Foundation

Three Conversations Every Horse Must Understand

These principles remain the foundation whether the goal is safety, confidence, ranch work, trail riding, colt starting, or high-level performance.

1

Acceptance of Leadership

Clear, sensitive communication that establishes and maintains the pecking order while preserving willingness.

2

Handling Fear

Teaching the horse how to think and stay connected through fear rather than merely tolerating frightening objects.

3

Yielding to Restraint Pressure

Helping the horse willingly yield instead of bracing, pulling back, panicking, or running through pressure.

Choose Your Journey

Where Do You Fit Right Now?

Choose the path that matches your calling today—mastering the complete Training Thru Trust journey for your own horses, or preparing to help horses and owners professionally.

Path 1

Master Horsemanship Journey

Lifetime Enrollment — $6,000

The complete path for people who want to become exceptional horsemen and horsewomen with lifetime membership and ongoing personal support.

  • Lifetime Membership
  • Unlimited live coaching
  • Unlimited video coaching
  • Complete Master Horsemanship Journey access
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Path 2

Trainers Journey

Application Based

For people called to go beyond their own horses and develop the horsemanship, judgment, teaching ability, and character to help horses and owners professionally.

  • Application-based professional path
  • Advanced horsemanship development
  • Teaching and coaching development
  • Built for those called to help others
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Not Sure Yet?

Learn More About Training Thru Trust

You do not have to choose a journey today. If you would like to spend some more time getting to know the Training Thru Trust approach first, explore our free trainings, eBook, and YouTube resources at your own pace.

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Real Horses. Real People.

Learning Happens in the Conversation

TTT is built through real horses, real problems, live coaching, camps, ranches, arenas, trails, and the everyday decisions that shape horses and horsemen.

The goal is not to copy Doug. The goal is to learn how to read the horse, make sound decisions, and carry the principles into your own horses, discipline, and life.

The Horses and People Tell the Story

Real Training Thru Trust Journeys

These are not stock images or staged promises. They are people and horses who have grown through the Training Thru Trust process.

Bailey’s Journey

Performance Without Losing Trust

Bailey’s journey shows what can grow when athletic performance, confidence, leadership, and willingness are developed together.

Melissa’s Journey

Growing as a Horsewoman

A story of developing confidence, better judgment, leadership, and the ability to help a horse through the whole process.

Britney's Journey

Building Confidence Through Connection

Britney’s journey shows how true horsemanship begins with understanding, patience, and learning to communicate with a horse in a way that builds trust and confidence.

“The proof of Training Thru Trust is not only in what the horse can do. It is in the understanding, confidence, judgment, and willingness that grow in both horse and person.”
From Doug Mills

A Lifetime of Learning From Horses

Doug began riding as a ranch kid, was chasing cattle through the mountains by age five, and started his first horse at eight. More than fifty years later, he is still training, teaching, questioning, learning, and allowing the horses to sharpen the system.

Training Thru Trust is the result of that lifetime—not a collection of tricks, but an organized way to understand the horse and build safe, willing, and responsive partners.

Your Next Step

Every Horse Has a Story. Every Person Begins Somewhere.

This Headquarters is the front door. Choose the journey that best fits the horseman or horsewoman you are becoming.

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