What's Happening This Week in Doodle Land (And Why Your Doodle Isn't Broken)

You are not the only one. And nothing is wrong with your Doodle. 

🐾 This week we're in the middle of the complimentary 5-Day Doodle Parent Challenge, and Corinne is pulling back the curtain. She's sharing what's already clicking for hundreds of Doodle parents, the one belief quietly breaking the most Doodle parents she works with, and what to do if you want to catch the replays before they close. 

In this short mid-week episode: 

🐾 What we covered Days 1 to 3 and the lightbulb moments landing in real time 

🐾 The "right tip" trap and why it's keeping your Doodle stuck 

🐾 What's coming for Day 4, Day 5, and beyond 

🐾 How to access the complimentary replays through April 29th 

Whether you joined the challenge live, missed a day, or are just hearing about it now, you can still jump in and catch every session in the replay portal. 

Replays (complimentary through 4/29): https://thedoodlepro.com/challenge

Zoomies to Zen waitlist/cart: thedoodlepro.com/zoomiestozen

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™.

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Transcript

[00:00:00] Hey, doodle Pro Nation. Welcome back to the Doodle Pro Podcast. I'm Corinne Gearhart, and if you're catching this episode, the day it dropped, I'm recording from one of the busiest, most rewarding weeks of my year. We are smack in the middle of the five day doodle parent challenge, and I just wanted to pop on, give you a peek behind the curtain, share what's already shifting for hundreds of doodle parents this week, and most importantly.

Make sure you know how to jump in if you didn't catch it live. Quick note, replays are still open. I'll tell you exactly where to find them in just a minute. So today is short and punchy. Three things. One, what we've covered so far this week and the light bulb moments that are landing two, the one belief that's quietly breaking the most doodle parents I work with.

And what we're replacing it with. Three, what's coming next and how to get the replays [00:01:00] before they close on April 29th. Let's jump in. Monday, day one was called Why Doodles are different, and I'll tell you, this always surprises people. This one because Doodle parents come in expecting me to say their dog has like.

A wiring difference, and that's not the conversation we had. The conversation we had is that doodles are a population selected for human social motivation. They were bred for partnership, not just those adorable coats. So when force fear, intimidation, or balanced methods get used on a doodle, they backfire harder than they would on many other dogs.

Not because doodles are like fragile because the engine you're trying to drive is the relationship. Tuesday, day two was the trust fund puppy. If you've heard episode 93, you've gotten a taste of this concept, [00:02:00] but day two, we went deeper.

We learned how so many of our doodles become little nepo dogs. The world just rolls out a red carpet in front of them, treats appear, walks appear.

The door just opens without them needing to do anything. And our doodles need jobs. Our trust fund puppies are essentially unemployed. Yesterday, day three was the one that I knew would ruffle some feathers. Why puppy classes aren't enough. And I want to be very clear, because I've already gotten messages about this puppy class is chapter one. It's not the whole book. We are not throwing puppy classes under the bus. We're saying that one six week class at eight weeks old was never designed.

To carry a doodle through adolescence recall under distraction, polite greetings, [00:03:00] settling at home, and the full arc of growing up Today. Day four, we're talking about the missing training system, which is the part that nobody warned you about, and tomorrow day five, we're talking about what happens next.

Here's what I kept hearing in the comments and dms this week. Oh my gosh. This is the first time somebody explained to me why my doodle is the way they are. Or I've been beating myself up for two years and I didn't have to be, or I thought I was the only one whose doodle did this. You are not the only one and nothing is wrong with your doodle.

Okay, here's the part I want you to really listen to. The belief that is breaking the most doodle parents that I work with. Is if I just had the right training tip, my doodle would stop doing this. The right training tip for jumping the right tip for barking at the door, the right training tip [00:04:00] for the doodle who listens beautifully in the kitchen and then becomes a different dog the second the leash comes out.

And I get it. I have ADHD myself. I love a quick and short training tip. A 32nd hack a reel that solves the problem I have in three steps. But here's what I've worked with. Learning with doodles over 50,000 hours working with them and from surveying over 200 doodle parents about their actual struggles.

The top three issues by a mile are jumping, barking, and listens until it gets exciting problem and not one of those is just a training tip problem, they're a system problem. A doodle who jumps doesn't need a correction. They need a whole system that teaches them what to do instead, in the actual moment with an actual person at the door in their actual house, a doodle who barks at the doorbell doesn't need a no.

They need [00:05:00] a alternate behavior that's been practiced enough times. It's actually the easier choice for their brain. A doodle who listens beautifully at home and falls apart on a walk doesn't have a stubborn streak. They have a generalization gap, and that gap is closable, not with just one training tip.

That's exactly what we're building inside the challenge this week. Not just tips a foundation, the five pillars I teach inside Zumi to Zen, which we'll talk about next week. So here's where we go from here. Tomorrow, day five is what happens next. The episode of the Challenge where I lay out the full path.

If you've been resonating with everything this week, that's the one to be there live for if you can. 2:00 PM Eastern Time, noon Mountain, all streaming live. The link is in the replay portal and in the Facebook group. After day five wraps tomorrow, the doors to Zumi Zen Open for our spring cohort. The cart opens [00:06:00] Friday, April 24th and closes the following Wednesday, April 29th at midnight.

If you've ever wondered what the next step is after our challenges. This is it. We start May 1st, next Friday with the kickoff call and the first lesson, motivation drops Saturday May 2nd. I'll talk more about that on Tuesday. But for today, here's what I want you to do. If you haven't caught the challenge live.

Or you missed a day, or you wanna rewatch something that landed. The replays are free and open through midnight April 29th. You can find them by joining the doodle pro.com/challenge. I'll put the link in the show notes.

Honestly, even if you only have time to watch one day. Watch day one, why doodles are different. That episode reframes everything. That's it for this week's quick check-in. I'll be back on Tuesday with a full bonus episode, and then we will have Dr. [00:07:00] Adam Chrisman, the famous vet on Thursday. I'll see a lot of you tomorrow live for day five, and if this episode resonated, can you do me one tiny favor?

Just send it to a doodle parent who needs to hear it. The ones who think they're alone, the ones who think they failed puppy class, the ones who their dog listens until it gets exciting, they're the ones who need it most. Thanks for being here. Doodle pronation. As always, this is the place where we celebrate how doodles are different wonderfully.

So I'll see you tomorrow.