The Agility Challenge Podcast With Daisy Peel
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The Agility Challenge Podcast With Daisy Peel

Daisy Peel

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Episodes
25
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Weekly
~every 7 days
Avg Length
9m
Per episode
Latest
Feb 11, 2026
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About the Show

Are you struggling with confidence on the agility course? Do you let negative self-talk and doubts hold back your training and handling? Do you feel overwhelmed by the challenges that current trends in dog agility courses present to you? In this podcast, Daisy Peel discusses everything you need to know about the mental side of the sport of dog agility!

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25 episodes — long track record

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Active Since
Nov 09, 2023
Consistency
58%
Format
Episodic
Hosting
rss.buzzsprout.com

Recent Episodes

Would you let your Valentine SHOCK you?!?

Feb 11, 2026 5m

Here's a bit of dark humor for Valentine's Day that has to do with dog training...sort of...mostly it's just a fun thought experiment!

Recast: The Controversy of Agility: Training Methods, Politics, and High-Level Performance (From Daisy's guest appearance on The Doggie Stoic Podcast)

Jan 08, 2026 1h 7m

In this episode, I join Andrew on The Doggy Stoic podcast to talk about high-level agility competition, the Kynology Agency-Accountability Framework, and why I'm open about using complete training…

Heart Health and Christmas Wishes

Dec 24, 2025 7m

What does Christmas Eve have to do with Heart Health? What does dog agility have to do with heart health? Some thoughts from Daisy Peel during this holiday season.

Agility Challenge Tip #20 – Practice Alone

May 13, 2024 6m

Holding ourselves accountable to stay sharp, to stay focused, and to stay in the sweet spot at the edge of our abilities when we're alone is important – it's not what happens in class each week,…

Agility Challenge Tip #19 – Don’t do ‘drills’ – instead, play small, addicting games

May 06, 2024 6m

As a dog trainer and handler, you're not only a student (of the game, of your instructor, etc.), but you're also a coach for your dog. And, good coaches, whether it's to your dog or to your own…

Agility Challenge Tip #18 – Choose 5 minutes a day instead of an hour a week

Apr 29, 2024 7m

In this Agility Challenge Tip, learn why practice "snacks" are better than practice "binges", what days of the week you should practice, and what it means to be ruthless about noticing and fixing…

Agility Challenge Tip #17 – Embrace Struggle

Apr 22, 2024 14m

Many might ask why in the world would somebody continue to put themselves in the face of feeling frustrated, why would anybody want to struggle? In this episode, Daisy discusses why struggle is not…

Agility Challenge Tip #16 – Each day, try to build one perfect chunk

Apr 15, 2024 8m

What's the difference between activity and actual accomplishment? And, how do we go about making sure that we don't fall in to the trap of mistaking one for the other? Check out this Agility…

Agility Challenge Tip #15: Break everything in to chunks

Apr 08, 2024 9m

In this Agility Challenge Tip, I'll speak on the topic of how to break down what might seem like an insurmountable list of training tasks in to chunks, in order to attain REAL agility mastery. Never…

Agility Challenge Tip #14: Take Off Your Watch

Apr 01, 2024 5m

Why you should take off your watch and avoid looking at the clock when you train. And how to define when and how a training session SHOULD end, instead of defining it in terms of minutes and seconds…

Agility Challenge Tip #13: Find The Sweet Spot

Mar 25, 2024 17m

Is your training actually productive? Do you enjoy it? Or do you view it as drudgery, something to be suffered through? In this Challenge Tip, I'll dive in to how you can really get to the 'sweet…

Agility Challenge Tip 12: Five ways to pick a high-quality teacher or coach

Mar 18, 2024 10m

Teaching, just like anything else, is a skill that must be developed. GOOD teachers are those who have practiced good teaching skills. There are a lot of instructors out there in our sport who have…

Agility Challenge Tip 11: Don’t Fall for the Prodigy Myth

Mar 11, 2024 5m

It's so often that we think of talent as something that we're born with, like the color of our hair, or the color of our eyes. We assume that the surest sign of talent is early,  instant, effortless…

Agility Challenge Tip #10: Honor The Hard Skills

Mar 04, 2024 9m

We've been talking about hard skills and soft skills as though they're entirely separate, but in reality, most talents are not exclusively one or the other. They're some combination of the two. You…

Agility Challenge Tip #9 – To build soft skills, play like a skateboarder

Feb 26, 2024 11m

To build soft skills you should behave less like a careful carpenter and more like a skateboarder in a skateboard park: aggressive, curious, and experimental, always seeking new ways to challenge…

Agility Challenge Tip #8 – Work Like A Careful Carpenter

Feb 19, 2024 6m

To develop reliable hard skills, you have to connect the right wires in your brain. You want to be careful, slow, and highly aware of errors. You want to work like a careful carpenter. Dig more in to…

Agility Challenge Tip #7: Figure out if it’s a hard or soft skill

Feb 12, 2024 11m

The first step toward building a skill is to figure out exactly what type of skill you're building. Every skill falls into one of two categories: hard skills and soft skills. This tip comes from…

Agility Challenge Tip #6: Choose Spartan Over Luxurious

Feb 05, 2024 5m

It's tempting to think that if we don't have the latest and greatest this or that, we'll never be successful. If we don't have the latest and greatest dog toy, how will our dog ever be as motivated…

Agility Challenge Tip #5 – Be Willing To Be Foolish

Jan 29, 2024 9m

Top performers are willing to fail, and they’re willing to do so repeatedly in the name of improvement. So, how do you ensure that you’re always comfortable looking silly, or foolish, or stupid? How…

Agility Challenge Tip #4 – Steal Without Apology

Jan 22, 2024 8m

The idea that talented handlers get their skill by following their “natural instincts” is baloney. This is good news for all of us – there is no “natural instinct” for dog agility. ALL improvement is…

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