Stable State with Nicole Creed

There's a version of this industry that looks effortless from the outside. Ally O'Neill will be the first to tell you it isn't. Ally rides, breeds, coaches, and judges at an EA level, all while working full time. From the outside it looks like she has it all figured out. But this conversation gets into the real side of what building that life actually looks like. We talk about the roll...

Most people who love horses dream about a life built entirely around them. Steph Dunnachie is actually living it. Growing up with non horsey parents in suburban Melbourne, Steph had no connections, no blueprint, and no shortcuts. What she did have was an obsession that never went away and the drive to turn it into something real. Today she runs Lancefield Bloodstock with her partner Mitch from the...

David Shoobridge has spent decades doing something most people only dream about, building a life entirely around the horses he loves. At Salisbury, his property just outside Lancefield in Victoria, David trains, coaches, imports, and breeds at an elite level. He is one of Australia's most respected Grand Prix dressage riders and the kind of person who has built something genuinely his own in a...

In this episode I'm sitting down with Hannah Basetti, founder of Equestrian Trade and Business Australia, creator of the Equine Business Summit, and the woman behind The Riders Pod, an equestrian app she built from scratch and sold to international company Equilab. We get into the reality of building and selling a business, what the equestrian industry gets wrong about community and connection...