Doodle Training Wins: What 3,000 Doodle Parents Changed in 5 Days

More than 3,000 Doodle families jumped into the Fall 2026 Doodle Parent Challenge this week, and some of what happened in those five days is just incredible. 🐾

In this celebration episode, I share the wins straight from the live chat and your messages: a Goldendoodle named Willow who finally clocked out for the night, a sit that held while a FedEx driver walked right by, and the moment a Doodle parent swapped a harsh label for "having a difficult moment."

In this episode: 

🐾 Why a playbook that worked beautifully for your last dog may not fit this one (a mismatch, not a failure) 

🐾 Why turning your back or saying "off" 100 times a day never sticks, and what works instead 

🐾 The three steps from Day 3: name the paycheck, stop the rehearsal, pay the alternative 

🐾 One doable first step for every Doodle parent this week

Zoomies to Zen™ doors are open. We kick off live Friday, September 18 at 2 PM Eastern (noon Mountain), and doors close Wednesday, September 16 at 11:59 PM Eastern. Jump in here: thedoodlepro.com/zoomiestozen

Read the full episode recap: thedoodlepro.com/doodle-training-wins

Wondering if Zoomies to Zen™ is a fit? Email [email protected] with your Doodle's name and the one thing you'd most love to change.

CHAPTERS 

0:00 More than 3,000 Doodle families in 5 days 

0:50 Inside the live chat 

1:12 When the old playbook stops working 

3:05 A new lens changes what comes next 

3:26 Kelly and Willow: the Doodle on patrol 

4:50 Kathy and Lucy Gray: the FedEx test 

5:45 Why it worked 7:00 What Zoomies to Zen™ is (and isn't) 

8:46 Dates, price, and doors close 

9:51 Your one doable first step

The Doodle Pro® Podcast, where we celebrate how Doodles are different, wonderfully so.

Zoomies to Zen™ doors are open. We kick off live Friday, September 18 at 2 PM Eastern (noon Mountain), and doors close Wednesday, September 16 at 11:59 PM Eastern. Jump in here: 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 the bestselling Your Doodle’s Daily Schedule Blueprint™.

📘 Get the Doodle Schedule Blueprint: https://thedoodlepro.com/book

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