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Today I'm talking to Tim, who after working his way through different jobs in the travel industry, took a leap of faith 10 years ago to become a freelance mountain guide. Tim leads groups of either adults or school children in places as diverse
Today I’m talking to Zoë, who flies helicopters that transport people from Aberdeen in Scotland to offshore oil and gas platforms in the North Sea.Before moving over to commercial flying, Zoë was in the military, having trained at the highly-re
Today I’m talking to Victoria Watson, creative producer at Eyebolls, her own animation company in Scotland. Eyebolls creates things like cinema ads and short films using live action (real people) or animation. It sounds like Victoria was hooked
Today I’m talking to Niamh and Mark, who realised a long-held dream when in December 2017 they took over the Pyrenees Cycling Lodge in France, right near the border with Spain.Tucked away in a picturesque village, the lodge has breathtaking vie
Today I’m talking to John Flinders.John is a classically trained pianist who graduated from York University and then the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. He was drawn to the idea of being on stage with other musicians, working tog
Today I'm talking to Rebecca Roger Cruz, a Venezuelan singer, songwriter, and vocal coach. Rebecca lives in France and I saw her perform in December as part of the group Aa'in (Rebecca plus a Venezuelan guitarist and a Colombian musician, who s
Today I’m talking to Stan Medved.Stan has quite an unusual job. He works for a large global company that has its own three business jets to fly the company’s executives around the world. Stan is not only one of the pilots, he's also in charge o
Today I'm talking to Adam Turner. Adam started playing squash when he was six years old and he basically hasn’t stopped since.He was clearly a talented and motivated young player because he reached no. 1 in England for under 13s and then again
I met Orissa in July when I rode a few stages of the Tour de France (which I talk about in the episode Something a Little Different). Orissa was one of the physios looking after us as cyclists and she did that work to take a quick breather from
Scott lives in one of the most stunning parts of the world - Chamonix, France. He works for himself as a physiotherapist and bike fitter and has done some very impressive long-distance, self-supported bike races and solo bike adventures around
Meet Pierre, who talks in this interview about how laughing can be an escape from the difficulties of life and how, as he said, love is joy. Pierre's clown character is Anatol, someone who Pierre says has a big heart. But I think it is Pierre w
I first met a therapeutic clown a couple of years ago and I was captivated as he described what his work was about - walking into a hospital room in clown character, with his heart on his sleeve, and inviting the child in front of him to put as
Tim built the company Innovatise from scratch with his business partner and today the apps the company has developed attract 2.1 million users per month. He started his career with IBM and went on to work for Intel in Silicon Valley. Once back
You might have noticed that there haven't been any new episodes for a while ... I have been distracted in July in the best possible way as I put normal life on hold and cycled seven stages of the 2022 Tour de France with a group of other amateu
Golda Fischer grew up speaking three languages - German, Hungarian and English. She also grew up with a love for the theatre and she has managed to combine both into quite an unusual job. Golda translates the surtitles that enable someone to wa
Emma Bell rose quickly through the ranks during her first career, becoming one of the youngest people to make partner in a law firm in Scotland. She went on to become a judge. On the back of a lightbulb moment, Emma followed her instinct and be
On the heels of my interview with Joe, meet Chlöe.Chlöe and Joe met during their ambulance technician training a year ago.I've asked both of them almost the same questions, because ultimately everyone's take on the same situation is going to be
This was a very special interview for me and it stayed in my mind for several days afterwards. Joe is my nephew. I have photos of him from when he was about five years old. He's now 22 and his job is genuinely to save lives. In the past, I main
I vividly remember my first clarinet lesson with Jean, who was there to help me prepare for a music exam. I felt very self-conscious as I played my exam pieces in front of her, a professional clarinettist, and I was pretty mortified with how I
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