In this episode of Married with Mares, we’re talking about Blue and Smoke - two horses who shaped us, grounded us, and changed the way we understand love, partnership, and loss.

This episode isn’t so much about outcomes or lessons we learned. It’s about who Smoke and Blue were, their untold backgrounds, what they represented in different seasons of our life, and how loving them prepared us for the reality that grief doesn’t end when the chapter closes.

Blue and Smoke are still part of this marriage. Still part of the barn. Still part of us. We’re choosing to “honor” the boys through this conversation.

Welcome to Married with Mares - podcast about horses, marriage, identity, and the beautifully complicated life that exists somewhere between the barn aisle and real life.

In this first episode, Madelyn and Barrett share the story behind the name, the journey that led them here, and a question she gets asked the most: How did this become my life?

This is a candid, reflective introduction to the realities of loving horses, loving people, and learning how to hold space for both. No advice. No how-tos. Just honest conversation about where it started, what changed, and why this podcast exists in the first place.

Because sometimes the most important stories begin with, “So… how did we get here?”