She loves the outdoors and essentially lives outside. Meet Winter Thorington who is a senior at Auburn University and is at the Forestry Wildlife Management school. She talks about her education and the way Covid has impacted some of her experiences. As she looked at her education, she needed to decide her direction to be one that would encompass her love to be outside and be able to have access to her horses. We talk about the challenges and the opportunities and even the aspects and considerations of going into a male dominated career. Winter is the only girl in the Forestry program and was the only female in her internship, but she says if you love doing the hard work, then what’s to be intimidated by? If you love it, then you will do it—no problem.Winter tells us about her love of horses starting in childhood and she got hooked from there and never got rid of the bug. The life lessons you can gain from that type of responsibility are priceless. She tells us about the humility that working with a horse can bring when you have to make tough decisions to put your horse over winning a show. The no days off are huge and involves early rise and feeding and checking and training the horse daily. Winter is on an equestrian team at school and we get a little insight into that discipline. Knowing how expensive horses can be and making a living with them is not the easiest life and that helped Winter decide that her career won’t be horses—they remain her hobby.Winter teaches lessons to offset her expenses and you have to work hard to keep it going.Tune in for this fantastic podcast episode!“STOMP” Music is used by permission from the artist Donica Knight Holdman and Jim Huff
Music "STOMP" used by permission of artist Donica Knight Holdman and Jim Huff
