Episode

The Day I Sang to Fifty Horses — And Finally Let the Book Go

Podcast

RESONANCE

Published

Jun 9, 2026

Duration seconds

1229

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Summary

Six years. Three rewrites. A near-collapse with four months of runway left. Today, Michael Trainer reflects on what it actually cost to finish Resonance — and tells the story of a song declared in a leadership training, a chance connection, and fifty horses in Chilean Patagonia that proved something he'd spent years writing about.