I Want to Train With You This Spring

You have been trying to figure this out. The YouTube videos. The puppy class. Standing in the park calling their name while they ran toward another dog. Calling them in from the backyard while they barked at the fence. Apologizing to guests at the door. Googling at eleven o'clock at night.

You have been doing this mostly alone. Without a system that was built for your specific dog. Without a community of people who understand what you are dealing with.

That changes this week.

The Doodle Parent Challenge starts April 20th, 2026. The pre-party is tomorrow. And in this episode, Corinne Gearhart, M.A., FFCP gives you everything you need to know before we begin.

IN THIS EPISODE:

Who this challenge is for. Corinne speaks directly to several different Doodle parents — the families who have been managing the same behaviors for years, the teenage Doodle parents whose dog changed at fourteen months, the brand new puppy parents who want to start right, and the Doodle parents in British Columbia, England, Spain, New Zealand, the Netherlands, and everywhere else in this global community.

The Pre-Party Kickoff — Friday April 17th at 7pm Mountain Time. What it is, why attendance matters for the giveaway, what to expect, and what to do if your time zone makes the live call difficult. The replay is in your portal.

What challenge week actually looks like, day by day. Day 1 through Day 5. What each lesson covers, why the sequence matters, what you will actually practice, and how much time it takes each day.

Why Corinne chose Doodles on purpose when most trainers are glad someone else handles them. The trainer friend who told her she was glad Corinne works with Doodles so she does not have to. What 50,000 hours of breed-specific experience means for the families in this challenge.

The global community. Doodle parents from 25+ US states, Canada, the UK, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and beyond are registered for this challenge. Doodle love is global. So are Doodle challenges. So is this community. The replay is all yours until April 29th however you join.

The personal invitation. This is the episode where Corinne says directly: I want to train with you this spring. Not with a hypothetical Doodle in a perfect setup. With yours. The one at the fence. The one at the park. The one you love completely and also find genuinely exhausting sometimes.

WHAT YOU WILL WALK AWAY WITH:

Everything you need to know before the pre-party tomorrow night and the challenge this Sunday. Clear logistics. A warm welcome. And the genuine sense that someone who chose these dogs on purpose is ready to work with yours.

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:

Pre-Party Kickoff — Friday April 17th, 7pm Mountain / 9pm Eastern: thedoodlepro.com/challenge 

Free Doodle Parent Challenge — starts April 20, 2026: thedoodlepro.com/challenge 

Free portal for registered participants: doodlechallenge.membership.io 

VIP Pass (90 days replay + workbook, through April 21st): thedoodlepro.thrivecart.com/doodle-parent-challenge--vip-pass/ 

Trust Fund Puppy Quiz: thedoodlepro.com/trustfundpuppy 

Your Doodle's Daily Schedule Blueprint: thedoodlepro.com/doodleblueprint 

Listen on all apps: thedoodlepro.com/listen

Corinne Gearhart is the founder of The Doodle Pro®, a science-based training platform helping Doodle parents raise calmer, well-mannered dogs using positive reinforcement. She is the host of The Doodle Pro® Podcast and author of Your Doodle’s Daily Schedule Blueprint™.

📘 Get the Doodle Schedule Blueprint:
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Transcript

[00:00:00] I wanna be honest with you about something. I've been doing this work for a long time, and the part that never gets old, not once in 50,000 hours of working with Doodle families is what happens when a doodle parent finally gets a system that was actually built for their dog. There is a moment. It's different for everyone.

For some families, it's the first time they call their dog in from the backyard and they actually come. For some, it's the first door greeting that doesn't end in chaos. For some, it's just standing in the kitchen with their doodle calm beside them and realizing, oh, this is what I wanted. That moment is why I do this work and this week.

I wanna give it to you. I'm Corinne Gearhart, founder of the Doodle Pro and your host. This is episode 96 of the Doodle Pro Podcast, and I [00:01:00] want to train with you this spring. Over the past two weeks, we've talked about a lot of things. On this podcast, podcast, we've talked about the study that went viral and what it actually found.

We talked about the trust fund, puppy idea, the pattern behind the chaos, and the one structural shift, this starts to change it. We talked about why the tips and the videos and the puppy class and that expensive trainer didn't transfer to real life, and we talked about what five days can actually do for a doodle parent who's already tried a lot.

If you've been listening, you've done something important, you've started to understand your dog differently. You know that your doodle is not the problem, that the behavior is a pattern, that the pattern responds to the right approach, that you have not been failing, you've been under supported. [00:02:00] That understanding is the foundation of everything that comes next.

This week, we build on it together. I wanna speak directly to a few different people. If you've been dealing with this for years, three years, eight years, you've tried so many things that hope feels dangerous. You've gotten good at managing the chaos. No company. Can someone say, no company. You've stopped dreaming about what things could be like because hoping costs something you've already spent a lot this week is for you.

Not because five days fixes fi. Not because five days fixes eight years, five days shows you that five days. Show you that eight years is fixable.[00:03:00]

Not because five days fixes eight years because five days shows you that eight years is fixable and that changes everything else. If your doodles a teenager right now, you brought home this teddy bear puppy who is perfect or close to perfect, and somewhere around like 14 months, everything got harder, and you could not explain why the things that worked stopped working, the dog you thought you knew started behaving like a stranger.

This week's for you. Day one is going to explain exactly what happened and why it's completely normal and completely navigable. If you just got your doodle fresh, little eight week older home, maybe a couple weeks in the biting, the energy, the late night Google surges, you are not behind. You're early, and the families who [00:04:00] start right have it easier.

If you just got your doodle fresh, little eight to 12 weeks, maybe just a week home, the biting and the energy and the accidents, and 11 o'clock Google searches and you're not behind, you're early, and the families who start right. Don't have easier doodles, they have less patterns to undo. This week is for you.

This is the manual that could have come with your dog. This is the manual that should have come with your dog, and if you're from somewhere far away from me.

And if you're joining us from somewhere far from me, from British Columbia, or England or Spain or the Netherlands [00:05:00] or New Zealand or South Australia or anywhere else, that's not Colorado, USA, I'm so happy that you've registered and the replay is all yours. It's in your portal, and it's there until April 29th.

You belong in this community.

You belong in this community. You being in this community from across the world means something to me. Welcome to Doodle Nation. Doodle Love is global. Doodle challenges are global. So is this community. I had some big smiles when I saw some of the cities that registered. This week is for you too. Tomorrow night is our pre-party kickoff, Friday, April 17th, 7:00 PM Mountain Time, 9:00 PM Eastern.

This is a live Zoom call, [00:06:00] about 30 minutes where we'll officially meet each other. I'll walk you through exactly what the week is going to look like and we celebrate the fact. That you showed up. There's also giveaway Doodle merch, and a signed copy of my book, your Doodles Daily Schedule Blueprint.

Attendance at the pre-party is required to be entered for the giveaway, so if you've registered and you haven't yet blocked out tomorrow night, now's the moment. If you're in a time zone where 7:00 PM Mountain time is not feasible, I see you British Columbia. I see you England. I definitely see you, Spain and New Zealand.

The challenge lessons are available in replay immediately after each live session. The pre-party replay will also be in your portal, but if you can make the live call. I really do wanna see you there. There's something about the energy of that first night that sets the tone for the whole week. It's worth showing up if you [00:07:00] can.

It's worth showing up for the link to register, if you haven't yet, is@thedoodlepro.com slash challenge. If you're already registered, the link is on its way and you'll find it.

Here's what challenge week looks like. We start Monday, April 20th, day one is why doodles are wired differently, and what that wiring means and why that wiring means you need a different approach than what you would use with any other dog. This is the aha moment that reframes everything. Most doodle parents tell me day one alone was worth the week.

Day two is the trust fund puppy. We name the pattern, you take the quiz and we install the first piece of a. We install the first piece of the system that starts to change it. This is where you get your [00:08:00] first real win. Day three is why puppy class and YouTube videos and generic programs didn't transfer to real life and what transfer actually requires.

Day four is the missing system, what it looks like, what it builds, and why your doodle is ready for it. Day five is what happens next, and that is where I want to work with you specifically in Zoomies To Zen. Each day is a live Zoom lesson, 20 to 30 minutes, followed by practice on your own time. That takes about five to 10 minutes.

Theit. The replay will be in your portal right after each live session available to all registered participants until April 29th. You'll also have a VIP option available through April to available through April 24th,[00:09:00]

available to all registered participants until April 29th. You'll also have a VIP option. If you're gonna be super busy or want to revisit, that will be available through April 21st if you want. 90 days of replay access and the workbook, but that's not a requirement. The free challenge is real and complete on its own.

This week was built to work. I wanna tell you something I've already told you on this podcast this week because. It's worth saying again. A trainer friend of mine told me she was glad I work with doodles so she doesn't have to, and I understand that these dogs are a lot, they're fast and social, little anxious, opinionated, and they'll find every gap in a system that was not built specifically for them.

Training doodles requires a level of specificity and patience that not every trainer [00:10:00] wants to sign up for. I chose them on purpose, not in spite of all that because of it, because when you get it right with a doodle, when the system is actually built for their brain and the relationship is built on trust, and the doodle parent finally understands what their dog needs, what you get is extraordinary.

A doodle who's engaged and responsive and genuinely joyful in working with you. A doodle parent who stops dreading walks and starts enjoying them, a relationship. That's actually what both of you wanted when you brought this dog home. That's what I've spent 50,000 hours building this system for, not for the easy dogs.

For these dogs, for every doodle nerd who found this podcast and kept coming back because something in them knew there had to be a better way. And this week I wanna work with yours. You've been [00:11:00] trying to figure this out. You've watched the videos, you did the class, you stood in the park calling your doodles name while they ran towards the other dog and wondered.

What is the point? You've called them in from the backyard more times than you can count. You've apologized to guests for the greeting at the door. You have Googled at 11 o'clock at night. You've been doing this mostly alone without a system that was built for your specific dog without a community of people who understand exactly what you're dealing with.

That changes this week. The pre-party is tomorrow night, April 17th, 7:00 PM Mountain Time. The challenge starts on Monday, whether you are in Colorado or British Columbia or Birmingham or Madrid. Whether you are four weeks in or eight years in, whether you're doodles spent, puppy class behind a barrier, [00:12:00] or forgot everything at the park, this week was built for you.

The doodle pro.com/challenge. I can't wait to see you tomorrow night where we celebrate how doodles are different wonderfully, so.