Best Chris Frangou Podcasts (2025)

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There’s No Running From It: Dan and Kate's Story 1:18:14

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Calgarians Dan Pubben and Kate Tuff join Kelsie to talk about their life since Dan was diagnosed with ALS in the fall of 2024 at 42 years old, about navigating this disease with their two young children, about how we respond when bad things happen and about the reality of living in the hopefully many years between diagnosis and -- what remains an i…

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What Are We Going To Do With It? 49:37

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Heather Lucier, who lost her daughter, Jessie, to ALS in 2019, joins Kelsie for three years after they last spoke to talk about caregiving, advocacy and what we do with our grief. Compass for Caregivers Compass for the ALS Caregiver Donate to the ALS Society of Alberta Support the showBy Kelsie Snow

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From the Archives: Jessie's Story 1:33:57

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In March 2018, Jessie Ravnsborg was diagnosed with ALS. She was just 35 years old. She died just before her 37th birthday. In today's episode, our second about Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), you’ll meet Jessie through her mom, Heather Lucier. This is a story about choosing joy, about wringing out all the good from life that you can for as long…

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Present Tense 49:27

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Kelsie is back with her first episode in more than a year to talk about navigating this new life since losing Chris. Donate to ALS Research through the ALS Society of Alberta. Support the showBy Kelsie Snow

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The Doing is Done 44:29

1+ y ago44:29

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Kelsie checks in almost six months after losing Chris to share how she's been doing, what the doing of death has looked like , where she's at now that the doing is done and what's next for Sorry, I'm Sad. Support Sorry, I'm Sad on Patreon: www.patreon.com/kelsiesnow Share your own stories of grief, loss and the importance of hope with Kelsie by ema…

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Into the Void 40:52

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On Chris and Kelsie's 16th wedding anniversary, almost three months after Chris' death, Kelsie talks about life without her husband and best friend. Support the showBy Kelsie Snow

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The Sound of Silence 57:48

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Kelsie shares updates on Chris' health, what his two-week stay in the ICU in December cost him in terms of function and independence, how the Snow family is adapting to life in the last six months and why Chris is not joining her for this episode. Support the showBy Kelsie Snow

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Losing the Easy: Chris & Kelsie on Chris' October Health Crisis 1:11:57

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In October Chris' disease reached a tipping point and sent the Snow family into a months-long free fall. Now, more than four months since things started spiralling out of control, Chris and Kelsie sit down to talk about what happened in October, about losses of function that started to turn the tide of how their family works and about the trauma of…

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What Remains 21:22

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Kelsie is back with an update on the Snow family and to read her most recent blog post, which can be found on her website, www.kelsiesnowwrites.com. Support the showBy Kelsie Snow

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An Update From Kelsie 9:40

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After a tough fall season for Chris' health, Kelsie offers short update on how the Snows are doing and when Sorry, I'm Sad will be back with new episodes. Support the showBy Kelsie Snow

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Chris & Kelsie: The Loneliness of Longterm Illness 1:14:00

2+ y ago1:14:00

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In the Season Three opener, Chris and Kelsie talk about the loneliness of longterm illness, about the difficulty of watching your person grieve losses and grapple with profound sadness, about feeling isolated and alone in rooms full of people or even next to the person you love most, and about how to let people know you see their struggle and that …

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Q&A: Chris and Kelsie Answer Your Questions 1:06:44

3y ago1:06:44

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In this season two finale, Chris and Kelsie answer questions submitted by followers on Twitter and Instagram about life, marriage, illness and work three years removed from Chris' ALS diagnosis. Support the showBy Kelsie Snow

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Living Impossible: Steve Gleason on Radical Acceptance & Life with ALS 1:07:55

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Steve Gleason, the former NFL safety who has been living with ALS for 11 years and been totally paralyzed for eight of those, joins Kelsie and Chris for a conversation about how he and his family are flourishing in a life most people would find impossible thanks to radical acceptance, deep compassion for themselves and each other and abiding love. …

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Not According to Plan: Nicole Briscoe on Infertility and Miscarriage 1:25:22

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Photos of ESPN SportsCenter anchor Nicole Briscoe’s family look like a dream life, but infertility and the isolation and shame it causes are an all-too-common nightmare. Nicole and her husband, professional race-car driver Ryan Briscoe, worked for 10 years to make their picture-perfect family. The end result was two beautiful little girls. The path…

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What if it All Works Out: One Year Later with Sandra Abrevaya 1:38:35

3y ago1:38:35

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One year after her first appearance on Sorry, I'm Sad, Sandra Abrevaya joins Kelsie to talk about her life over the last 12 months, their friendship and their husband's shared illnesses. Sandra cofounded I Am ALS and Synapticure with her husband, Brian, after he was diagnosed with ALS about five years ago. More than an interview, this is a conversa…

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Where We Go From Here: ICU Doctor Darren Markland on Weathering the Pandemic 1:02:46

3y ago1:02:46

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The pandemic that never ends is still disrupting our daily lives and killing many, many people no matter how tired of it we are. Darren Markland is an ICU doctor at the Royal Alexandra Hospital in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and has been in the trenches since the pandemic started. His twitter account, @drdagly, has swelled to more than 55,000 follow…

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Aftershocks: The Fallout of a Stroke at 34 Years Old 1:19:14

3y ago1:19:14

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Four years removed from her stroke, Kelsie and Chris talk about how it happened, the physical healing required in the weeks and months after her six-day hospital stay in 2018 and the emotional healing that they realize is still unresolved. Support the showBy Kelsie Snow

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Today I Choose Joy: Jessie's Life & Death with ALS 1:32:22

3+ y ago1:32:22

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In March 2018, Jessie Ravnsborg was diagnosed with ALS. She was just 35 years old. She died just before her 37th birthday. In today's episode, our second about Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID), you’ll meet Jessie through her mom, Heather Lucier. This is a story about choosing joy, about wringing out all the good from life that you can for as long…

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A Good Death: Ryan Leslie on His Mom’s Use of Medical Assistance in Dying 1:03:05

3+ y ago1:03:05

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Over the course of the next two episodes you’ll hear two very different stories about two very different lives. 70-year-old Laurel and 36-year-old Jessie had no connection in life, but they both had progressive, incurable diseases that steadily robbed them of independence and quality of life. They both also lived in Calgary, and that meant they had…

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A New Normal: The Gill's Story, Part Two 1:34:02

3+ y ago1:34:02

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In 2018, Dr. Richi Gill and his wife Raman were living the life they had worked so far for -- after the gruelling years of starting a family during Richi's surgical residency, the Gills were back in their hometown of Calgary surrounded by their friends and family and Richi was living out his dream as a successful bariatric surgeon. Their three chil…

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A New Normal: Richi & Raman Gill on Loving a Life They Never Imagined 1:18:36

3+ y ago1:18:36

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By 2018, Dr. Richi Gill and his wife Raman were living the life they had worked so far for -- after the gruelling years of starting a family during Richi's surgical residency, the Gills were back in their hometown of Calgary surrounded by their friends and family and Richi was living out his dream as a successful bariatric surgeon. Their three chil…

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I Never Got to Hold Her: Honoring Aria, Born Sleeping 59:55

3+ y ago59:55

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In 2017 Jeff and Jill Quigley had two little boys and were excited to add a third child to their family, but at Jill's 18-week ultrasound everything came undone. Baby Aria had cardiomyopathy -- a heart incompatible with life. For the first time in their marriage, Jeff and Jill had to navigate grief together, and they had to help their 4- and 6-year…

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The Stories We Share: Nicky Elson on Her Mother's Death 1:15:43

3+ y ago1:15:43

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On a sunny day in August 2005, Nicky Elson, along with her parents and a friend, decided to float down the Bow River, a quintessential summertime activity for Calgarians and one that changed the Elson family forever. Nicky and Kelsie talk about the trauma of that day and about the grief and heartache that followed. Trigger warning: this episode con…

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In Sickness: Navigating Illness in Marriage 1:33:46

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On their 14th wedding anniversary, Chris and Kelsie talk about how Chris' ALS has impacted their marriage, how they communicate, how they parent, as well as the different ways they process and deal with their sadness and grief. Support the showBy Kelsie Snow

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Sheldon Kennedy on Sexual Abuse, Healing and Affecting Change 1:35:21

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When Sheldon Kennedy was just 14 years old his hockey coach began sexually abusing him. Terrified, ashamed and certain nobody would be believe him, Sheldon kept the abuse a secret. It continued for five years. Years later, as an adult by then years removed from the actual abuse but still reeling and utterly broken from it, Sheldon finally opened up…

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For the Love of Food: Julie Van Rosendaal on Cooking, Connection & Self Kindness 1:29:01

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Cookbook author, journalist and radio personality Julie Van Rosendaal, founder of the wildly popular food blog Dinner With Julie, joins Kelsie for a conversation about how food impacts our relationships with others and with ourselves. Julie shares her experience growing up, as she puts it, a size that was not socially acceptable and speaks about he…

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A Life Worth Living: Drew Robinson's Second Chance 1:58:05

3+ y ago1:58:05

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Meet Drew Robinson, a 29-year-old who lives in his hometown of Las Vegas, Nevada, loves his dogs, has an infectious smile and was drafted out of high school in the fourth round by Major League Baseball’s Texas Rangers. Drew spent more than a decade playing professional baseball, including about a year total in the big leagues. His first hit in the …

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When Things Fall Apart: Chris Jones Talks Shattered Narratives & Hanging On 1:20:25

3+ y ago1:20:25

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Not long after the COVID-19 pandemic began, award-winning journalist and former Esquire magazine staff writer Chris Jones started telling Friday afternoon stories on his Twitter account, @enswelljones. Because of his time profiling celebrities for Esquire and because Jones is the kind of guy who often finds himself in hilariously embarrassing situa…

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Evelyn's Story: Heather Roy on Grief, Gratitude and Every Parent's Worst Nightmare 1:39:59

4y ago1:39:59

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Meet Evelyn Faye Roy, a beautiful little girl from Calgary, Alberta, who loved music and dancing and art and books and Star Wars and her friends and family, whose light was blazingly bright and whose life on earth was heartbreakingly short. Evelyn was 11 years old when she died of neuroblastoma in February 2020. This is a conversation about every p…

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The Losses Pile Up: From Fading Smile to Feeding Tube 1:21:55

4y ago1:21:55

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Imagine realizing one day that foods you love and have always eaten easily are suddenly impossible to swallow. Imagine that a gulp of cold water ends up in your lungs and leaves you gasping for air. And imagine waking up every day for weeks unable to swallow foods you ate the day before. Sorry, I’m Sad is back for Season Two, and in this first epis…

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42 Days to Say Goodbye: Christina Frangou 1:47:50

4y ago1:47:50

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In 2013, Christina Frangou and Spencer MacLean were packing up their life in Calgary, Alberta. Spencer was just finishing up his surgical residency, and the young couple had everything in place to move to California, where Spencer was set to start a fellowship in orthopaedic trauma. The future that stretched out in front of them was exciting and an…

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All the Colors Came Out: Part 2 with Kate Fagan 57:39

4y ago57:39

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Emmy-award winning journalist and New York Times bestselling author Kate Fagan is back for a special bonus episode. Kelsie and Kate continue their conversation about Kate's most recent book, All the Colors Came Out, a memoir about her relationship with her dad, Chris, who died of ALS in 2019. They talk honestly about the heartbreakingly difficult d…

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All the Colors Came Out: Author Kate Fagan on Lessons Her Dad Left Behind 1:22:33

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Emmy-award winning journalist and New York Times best-selling author Kate Fagan joins Kelsie for a two-part series to talk about her latest book, All the Colors Came Out, which chronicles Fagan's relationship with her father, Chris, who died of ALS in 2019. Weaving through lessons her dad imparted on the basketball court during her youth, Fagan wri…

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What We Leave Behind: Melanie Masterson's Life with Terminal Cancer 59:38

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Five years ago, Melanie Masterson was a healthy, fit mom of three little girls. She ran behind her double stroller, did yoga, ate a plant-based diet and, at 39 years old, she was getting ready to rekindle her work as a freelance writer. She found herself feeling increasingly exhausted, but with a 7-, 5- and 2-year-old at home, who wouldn’t be? Then…

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Henry Ellis: Above & Beyond Tasmania 1:10:30

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We're back! Welcome to the highly anticipated first episode of Season 2 of Up and Away, the Australian Aviation Podcast! This week I'm joined by Henry Ellis! Henry operates a seaplane company down at the waterfront in Hobart called Above & Beyond Tasmania, where he offers charters, joy flights, and day trips in his de Havilland Beaver. When Henry i…

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Searching for Hope, They Started a Movement: Sandra Abrevaya 1:40:14

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In 2017, Sandra Abrevaya and Brian Wallach had it all. She was the president of Thrive Chicago, a non-profit in her hometown aimed at bettering the lives of the city's young people, he had his dream job as an Assistant US Attorney, and together they had two beautiful little girls. Then, on the day they brought their second daughter home from the ho…

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How Our Suffering Shapes Us: Ryan Straschnitzki 1:24:46

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When trauma comes at a young age, it doesn’t change us, it shapes us. Ryan Straschnitzki was just 18 years old and on his way to play in a playoff junior hockey game with his team, the Humboldt Broncos, when a semi-truck ran a stop sign and collided with their charter bus on a rural Saskatchewan highway. Sixteen people died in the crash. Thirteen w…

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The Kids Will Be All Right ... Right? 1:12:53

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When Chris was diagnosed with ALS, Kelsie and Chris' biggest concern was for the littlest people in their family. At the time, Cohen and Willa were just 7 and 4, respectively, and people often told Kelsie that the kids would be all right. But how do we make sure of that? How do we help our kids navigate their own grief and loss -- whether it be a l…

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The Bubble Bursts 1:08:05

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When Chris started a phase-three clinical trial for a promising ALS drug, the Snows were hopeful. As the months wore on and Chris' disease didn't seem to be progressing at all, they were thrilled. Each month with no change to Chris' health made the notion that this experimental medicine could stop his ALS in its tracks seem like a real possibility.…

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I Get by With a Little Help From My Friends, Part 2 1:13:00

4+ y ago1:13:00

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In Part 2 of "I Get by With a Little Help My Friends," Kelsie talks to two of her friends who have been with her before, during and since Chris' ALS diagnosis. They talk about the things that have stood out to them in this time, about how they think Kelsie has changed and stayed the same, and how they have navigated their roles as supportive and lo…

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I Get by With a Little Help From My Friends, Part 1 1:19:37

4+ y ago1:19:37

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Grief can be isolating, but it rarely happens in isolation. In this two-episode arc, Kelsie talks to friends who have been there before, during and after Chris' ALS diagnosis. In Part 1, she talks first to Flames Assistant General Manager Craig Conroy, who was hired to the Flames front office the same year as Chris, and next General Manager Brad Tr…

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Season 2 Update! 2:36

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Hey everyone! It's been a while since the Season 1 Finale of Up and Away, so I thought I would take the time to fill you in with what I have been up to, and what you can expect from Season 2! I would love to learn more about you all, so I can keep creating great aviation content that you will love. To do so, I have made a quick little survey. It sh…

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Three Shampoo Bottles 1:13:05

4+ y ago1:13:05

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Immediately after Chris was diagnosed with ALS at 37 years old and given 6-18 months to live, we learned he could join an exciting clinical trial for a drug that would be the only hope of saving his life or, at the very least, extending it. The one thing dampening our hope was the fact that Chris had a 1-in-3 chance of getting a placebo rather than…

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Hope, it Turns Out, is Everything 1:01:40

4+ y ago1:01:40

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We all have a sad story, and in this episode I will start to tell mine. Here's where I tell you what it's like to be told your 37-year-old husband has 6-18 months to live, and what it's like when an experimental drug gives him a chance to rewrite his diagnosis. Support the showBy Kelsie Snow

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Natalie White: RACQ LifeFlight Helicopter Pilot 50:50

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Welcome to Episode 15 of Up and Away, the Australian aviation podcast! This episode is the final episode of Season 1 of the show! It's been an absolute pleasure making this show for you all this year, and I can't wait to get even more Australian aviation content out to you all next year! This episode I'm joined by RACQ LifeFlight helicopter pilot N…

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Steve Visscher & Grant McHerron: Plane Crazy Down Under 1:34:43

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Welcome to Episode 14 of Up and Away, the Australian aviation podcast! This week on the show we are joined by TWO guests! You might already know both of them due to their legendary status producing another Australian aviation Podcast... it's Steve Visscher and Grant McHerron from Plane Crazy Down Under! Steve and Grant started PCDU in 2009 and aire…

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Marija Jovanovich: RAAF Wing Commander, P3 Orion Pilot & Test Pilot 1:06:27

4+ y ago1:06:27

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Welcome to Episode 13 of Up and Away, the Australian aviation podcast! This week it's my absolute pleasure to say we are joined by RAAF Wing Commander Marija Jovanovich! Maz has had a stellar career in the Royal Australian Airforce as a P3 Orion pilot and a test pilot. She is now about to take command of No. 10 Squadron, where her career as a P3 pi…

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Stefan Drury: YouTuber & Private Pilot 59:17

4+ y ago59:17

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Welcome to Episode 12 of Up and Away, the Australian aviation podcast! This week I'm joined by YouTuber and Private Pilot Stefan Drury, aka Stef747! Stef produces some incredible content online covering aviation, travel and technology. We have a chat about how he got inspired to get into aviation, what it's like creating his content, his favourite …

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Kathy Mexted: Author of 'Australian Women Pilots' 54:35

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Welcome to Episode 11 of Up and Away, the Australian aviation Podcast! On this week's show we have author and aviation writer, Kathy Mexted! Kathy has written a brilliant new book entitled 'Australian Women Pilots' that shares the unique stories of 10 women aviators spanning the past century. Some of the stories include early aviation pioneer Nancy…

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Jeremy Sequeira: Flight Test Engineer 1:25:32

4+ y ago1:25:32

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Welcome to Episode 10 of Up and Away, the Australian aviation podcast! On this week's episode I'm joined by flight test engineer Jeremy Sequeira!Jeremy has had a really unique journey through aviation as an engineer and a private pilot. We talk about how he studied a degree in aeronautical engineering at the University of Sydney, to his work as an …