Mandy Retzlaff is a farmer, an author and a horsewoman. She was born in Ghana, grew up in South Africa and Zimbabwe but these days, lives on the coast of Mozambique in a town called Vilankulos, running a horse safari business on the white sandy beaches there. I rode with Mandy and her husband Pat during my year of the Shit Sandwich when I took a break from reality and went for a gallop in Africa instead. I often tell my audiences that when life is really putting the boot in, RUN, run from those problems at least for a while. I racked off to Africa for a month and that’s how I met the delightful Mandy and her horses. Pat and Mandy have the most epic life story which you can read in 104 Horses: A Memoir of Farm and Family, Africa and Exile. The stables were too noisy so Mandy has kindly schlepped up the road to the guest house to record this podcast interview.