Hello everybody and welcome back to my podcast, Esme's Country Life. In today's episode, we're going to be talking about growing up in the equestrian world, but with non-equestrian parents. And let me tell you, I have some stories for you today. But before we begin, I just want to say a huge thank you to the sponsor of the podcast, Red Post. Red Post is in a questionerun

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Okay.

Anyway, let's get in to today's podcast episode because, yes, as I said before, I've got some

tales for you because I feel like growing up in the horse worlds but with non-equestrian parents

is a very unique experience

because, yeah, often I find a lot of my friends that are horsey, they at least had like a

horsey parents, often a horsey mum, and they're the reason that they got into horse riding,

because there's not many parents that are non-horsy that go, you know what, let's pick one of the most

expensive and dangerous sports for my child to do. Woo! So anyway, if you didn't know, long story

short, gone into horse riding because I lived in the middle of nowhere and the local riding school

would ride past our house and from a very young age. I would ask for lessons

and finally my parents gave in. And I also rode one of the first horses the road was at a friend's

fifth birthday party. But anyway, so yes, I was a riding school kid and actually a lot of this

mini pod episode, oh yeah, this is also a midweek mini pod episode. So it's a little bit shorter.

These come out every Wednesday and then we have the feature length ones on a Saturday.

But I thought, because recently I did an episode and it was all about like growing up in a

riding school.

But I have some funny.

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