Flying Blind Podcast

In this week’s episode of Flying Blind Ben sits down with podcaster, punter and proud parent, Blair ‘Gibbo’ Gibson, for a yarn. Recorded back at Sandstone Point on the morning of Alpha Fest, Gibbo runs us through a bit of everything from passionfruit farming and saving lives through to building a life that is centred around gratitude, family, mateship and just trying to be a bit better every week....

In this weeks episode of Flying Blind, Ben and Amy sit down and catch up on what’s been happening. Ames has been hiking mountains, cooking calamari and wrangling kids while Benny has been on the road again delivering 22 different sessions from Adelaide to Port Augusta and everywhere in between! They then dive into why every year we find ourselves saying that every year feels like it is going by qu...

Mitch Watt has a big love for living life, having a crack and chasing goals!   Only hours after landing back home from his latest FIFO swing in the mines, Mitch jumped in the ute and headed down to Robe in South Australia to catch up for a yarn while Benny was there a couple of weeks ago.   From 13 years old, Mitch has had his eyes firmly set on becoming a commercial pilot and...

In this weeks episode of Flying Blind, Ben & Ames find a minute to sit down while they were on the road last week in the South East of SA. Benny was meant to be doing this roadshow with Mike but when Mike had to pull out last minute due to being unwell, Ben and Ames had to wing it to make it work.  They recap some of the highlights from the week, the people they met, including the one and...

In this week’s episode of Flying Blind, Benny catches up with one of his great mates Ian ‘Lummy’ Lumb from On Track Meals. This one has plenty of There are plenty of tales in this one from guiding a blind bloke across the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea, falling in love with the girl behind the bar and building an Aussie Owned, Aussie made food business that is changing the game when it comes to...

Benny & Ames are back from the first ever Alpha Fest – The Mateship Muster held at Sandstone Point in Queensland! They sit down to recap an epic couple of days that was absolutely stacked from the minute they touched down to the time they boarded the plane 48 hours later to head home.  Benny had to wrangle a surprise goanna on stage, was in charge of shooting guineapigs (toy ones) in...

In this week’s episode of Flying Blind, Benny packs the recording gear on his latest trip to Mildura in Victoria’s North West for a speaking tour with his great mate Mike ‘Legless’ Rolls. Together Mike and Ben form the duo ‘Legless & Blind’ on stage and have travelled the country together delivering a whole range of sessions over the past 10 years.   While they were in Mildura,...

Imagine living life to the fullest, getting married, growing your own business, starting a family and the next thing you know, you’re getting diagnosed with Stage 4 lung cancer.   This was the sudden reality that Lisa Briggs faced 12 years ago. At the time she had a toddler, a 4 month old, her own business and a whole life ahead of her, yet no one could even guarantee her tomorrow. ...

Todays episode is a big shout out to the Mum's in honour of Mothers Day but also to one special Father, Ben's Dad Tim. Happy 60th birthday to the man who fostered Ben's "give anything a go" attitude by simply saying to him, in the early days of losing his sight, "All those things you love to do, we'll find another way to do it". And so they did. Ben gives us an insight in to how, with the un-waive...

There aren’t too many guest episodes that leave you pretty much speechless in the first few seconds of their story however this weeks episode is the exception!  Ash Kasi was left on the door step of an orphanage in Sri Lanka at 3 day’s old, was adopted 6 weeks later to an Australian migrant family and from there takes us through the rollercoas...

Helicopters, barra fishing, swimming holes, pubs and an awesome crew of mates was the recipe for success last week.   Recorded live from the Sand Palms Roadhouse in the NT at the end of one of the alltime great weeks! 8 blokes who have become great mates through podcasting have spent the week with Finniss River Helicopters to showcase what the NT h...

We are big believers that there is no such thing as a silly question in life and in this weeks episode Ben and Ames get to answering a heap of questions that you’ve hit us with! Since we kicked Flying Blind off we have been overwhelmed by all of your support already and appreciate everyone getting around it, rating, reviewing and sharing with your mates. In and amongst all of the support has been...

Benny has spent all of 3 nights at home since he and Ames last sat down in the shed to catch up. In this weeks episode of Flying Blind Ben recounts a powerful program of work across the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia, getting back in the car to drive back over the SA border for Easter less than 12 hours after getting home, topped off by an absolute ripper of a trip to Tasmania! A...

In this weeks episode of Flying Blind, Benny sits down with one of his good mates, Liam ‘Shooter’ Williamson, the morning after a ripper night at Lainey Wilson’s Melbourne concert. Shooter is a carpenter and co-host of The Dusty Boots Podcast, which is fitting considering the boys may have been a little dusty during this recording. This is the first time that Shooter has been on the rece...

Ames sits down with Benny for this episode to chat about what he's had and got going on this month including the Two Flogs Golf Day and the upcoming regional speaking tour on the Eyre Peninsular. They also throw in a few stories about a cruise they once went on, how they met plus a quick chat about the best birthday present Ben has ever recieved. Enjoy the chat and remember to get your hands on Bo...

When Ben was up north for the recent Two Flogs golf day, before they hit the golf course, he jumped into the Two Flogs studio with great mate and co host, Andrew ‘Buster’ Kirby for a yarn. There is plenty in this one as they cover everything from local sport, family, burgers and stand up comedy through to mental health, agoraphobia, online hate and unpacking the 3 differen...

We went, we skied and we conquered 456km’s from Murray Bridge to Renmark in South Australia over 3 days as part of Ski For Life 2026! Daniel is new to Ben’s Ski For Life team this year, so the two of them sit down after the dust has settled to crack a couple of cans and recap what was an epic event, running through their highlights and the impact t...

We switch things up in this weeks episode of Flying Blind, taking the opportunity to sit down in a boxing ring in Gulgong NSW of all places. With brothers Brad and Nat, we recap a mammoth community effort post completing a 24 hour boxing challenge for mental health! These two brothers are a couple of down to earth country blokes and they take a look back on growing up in the country, taking over t...

On this weeks episode of Flying Blind, we rip into our first guest yarn with a great mate and host of the Alpha Blokes Podcast. Tom Dahl catches up with Benny when he was down in Melbourne at the end of last year. When Tommy was growing up, podcasts didn't exist so having "podcast host" as a career aspiration was impossible. This wild ride from working in the mines to hosting one of the country’s...

Welcome to the debut episode of Flying Blind, a podcast for all of us out there winging our way through life. In this introductory episode, you learn about your host, Ben Pettingill, a blind professional speaker and Dad, who lost his eyesight overnight at age 16 to a rare genetic syndrome. Ben also introduces you to his wife Amy who will make regular appearances on this weekly podcast but will mos...