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Abbi Ayre

West Coast (NZ) dairy farmer and mental health advocate who, with partner Frikkie Terblanche, won the 2026 West Coast/Top of the South Share Farmer of the Year award.

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Sep 17, 2026

Episode 129 - From burnout to balance

Sep 17 · 45m

8:06

Can you, if you don't mind, step us through a little bit about what happened to you after the birth of Freya?

8:15

So after Freya was born, I came down with a sepsis.

8:19

And in hindsight, probably should have been an ICU.

8:22

But I think we were level three lockdown at that point.

8:27

And so it meant a lot of complicated things in terms of I would end up there and then Freya would have had to be discharged.

8:34

So the nurses and the doctors sort of kept me out of there and then I spent like another four days in hospital.

8:42

My body basically doubled in size from all of the drips and everything that they had going.

10 MINS LATER

19:03

And what a big impact that can have.