Quinton Des Fountain

I was born and grew up on a corn farm in central South Africa, the eldest of 3 children and the only son.  My childhood was not exactly glamorous, but relatively carefree.  My passions as a youngster was rugby and horses.  Horses is what ultimately led me to the US after I finished 2 years of National service in the South African Navy as a Navy Diver. Many of my friends found it quite amusing that I chose to be a Navy Diver especially considering that the province I grew up in was completely landlocked and the first time I saw the ocean was when I joined the service.  Swimming was also not exactly my strong point but I figured if I wanted to be a diver that my sinking ability was more important than my swimming ability. My time in the Navy was incredible and I had a blast.

After a brief excursion through the Florida Keys working as a dishwasher, prep cook and Dive Master, I hitchhiked from Key West  to Kalispell, Montana where I first worked as a groom and later as an assistant trainer, before I opened my own horse training business. During my time in Montana I trained anything with hair. Horses, Mules, Donkeys.  Hooves and hair were the only requirement to be accepted into my program.

I left Montana after ten years and since 2000 have been operating a training facility outside of Seattle with my wife Danielle.  We specialize in Arabian show horses, but from time to time I will still get the occasional critter that does not quite fit into the “show horse” program.  I seem to have a weakness for difficult or problem horses.  Its like trying to figure out a puzzle.

Enjoying puzzles is what let me to explore the online marketing world.  At first it did not make any sense to me.  I was trying to do everything at once, youtube videos, ezine articles, blogging, adwords… you name it.  But just like the difficult horses, I started to have much more success slowing down and enjoying the process.

Currently I’m having fun training horses, riding motorcycles, watching the occasional rugby game on TV (if I’m lucky) and building my network marketing company.  I like to share with others what I have learned so far in my journey, and my best advice to anyone is… “”Relax…enjoy the journey”.