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BY SCOTT TEIGEN

Looking Back &

Moving Forward:

A Chat with Neil Pye

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t’s late August at the Parelli Corporate Oice (which you will ind, nearly unedited, later in this
in Pagosa Springs, Colorado, and Neil Pye is article), and I wanted to hear how it ended.

re-settling into his old upstairs oice after There’s a reason Neil has become one of the most

spending the early part of the year in Florida visible public igures throughout the Parelli com-
with Pat and Linda. The oice is fairly sparse munity: the man knows how to tell a story. If you’ve

at the moment – a handsome, dark hardwood attended a Parelli event at any point over the past “

desk, a swivel chair, a iling cabinet, and a small, 20-odd years, you probably know his face. If you’ve
cushy dog bed for Bohdi, the delightful Cavapoochon listened to a Parelli Podcast or Audio CD lately, you

he and his wife, Sue Shoemark, bring with them ev- recognize his voice. And with his shiny new title as

erywhere. What is noticeably missing is a chair for Instructor Emeritus and Global Ambassador, Neil is
your humble interviewer. For a moment, I consider going to continue to be visible all over the world, just

sitting on the loor, but before I can bring up this in a slightly diferent capacity.

ludicrous suggestion, Neil has already nabbed an
oice chair from an empty editing suite in the Media

Department.

It’s a good thing, too; when we scheduled the inter-
view, I igured it would last “about 15 minutes, give

or take.” Well, 80 minutes later, my stomach was

begging me to take my stupid lunch break already,
but Neil was in the middle of a brilliant story about

Pat Parelli driving his team through Death Valley

There’s a reason Neil has become

one of the most visible public

igures throughout the Parelli

community: the man knows how

to tell a story.

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