Uncovering The Aviation Mindset Podcast

🛫 Mark Evers: Airline Start-up Consultant & Boeing Training Captain🛬   An old friend joins me again today.  I came across Mark for the first time while sitting in the right-hand seat as a First Officer on the Boeing 737 in 2008.  Mark was one of my training captains, and I consider at the top of the tree.  His ability to make me feel comfortable and confident in that high workload role as a...

🛫 Episode 23 With Sarah Furness: Combat Helicopter Pilot & Author 🛬 Sarah Furness, an ex-RAF combat helicopter pilot, mother, author, public speaker, and executive coach, joins me in another fascinating conversation about mindset and human performance. Sarah’s story of going from a teenage dream to one of very few female helicopter pilots to serve in combat is fascinating. After watching Top...

🛫 Episode  22 With Richie Barker, Former Police Inspector 🛬 Another fascinating guest joins me in the latest podcast. Richie, a former police inspector with nearly 30 years of experience in aviation and road policing, is a fabulous storyteller. He shares gripping stories of helicopter and road vehicle pursuits and critical incidents, highlighting the need for risk management, clear communication...

🛫 Episode  21 With Captain Christo Hudson🛬 Christo joins me today for another very open and honest conversation relating to mental health, suicide prevention, and all things to do with self-development. Christo is a very experienced airline and training captain with over twenty years in the industry. His life took a massive U-turn during the COVID pandemic as the world fell at his feet.  As he e...

🛫 Uncovering The Aviation Mindset - Episode  20 With Graham Kelley🛬   My mate Graham joins me today for a very open discussion on anxiety and the tools that we can adopt to help deal with this normal emotion. Graham is a senior lead in the Operations Department of a corporate jet operator.  It is one of the roles in aviation that is critical to the success of an aircraft mission.  Without Graham...

🛫 Uncovering The Aviation Mindset - Episode  19 With Felicity Ashley 🛬 I’m delighted to be welcoming mother of three Felicity as my first non-directly related aviation guest to talk about her experiences of rowing across the Atlantic with her sister and two other mums aboard ‘The Mothership’, only to find that she was carrying stage three cancer at that time. As the podcast centres on unravellin...

🛫 Uncovering The Aviation Mindset - Episode 18 With Matty Wohlers 🛬   Matty Wohlers returns for part two of our conversation in which we discuss the importance of self-awareness, setting goals, and knowing one's limitations. We emphasise the need for resilience, persistence, and discipline in achieving goals and explore the role of leadership in creating a harmonious and productive team environm...

  "The Power of Leadership" 🛫 Uncovering The Aviation Mindset - Episode 17 With Matty Wohlers Today, I launch with my good mate Matty on a journey discussing the importance of self-awareness, mindfulness, and confidence in leadership. Matty was my captain on a 2-month Boeing 767 detachment to Indonesia, flying pilgrims to Saudi Arabia for the annual Hajj celebrations. It was the most wonderful ex...

My mate David Robinson joins me again for the second of this two-parter. Today, we launch with the story of when we found our G650 swarming with an army of prosecutors from the Japanese government following the arrest of Carlos Ghosn on landing in Tokyo. We discuss our experience of being emotionally hijacked by the situation and share our thoughts and feelings during the incident and how we coped...

Summary Today, another fab mate from the US joined me for part one of this fascinating conversation on mindset, confidence, and well-being.   Captain David Robinson and I worked together for Nissan North America on a Gulfstream 650 a few years back, and he is currently flying a Gulfstream 450 for a private owner in the USA. Although David is over ten years younger than me, he seems at least that m...

🛫 Episode 14 with Captain & TRI Mark Blois-Brooke  🛬 My ex-chief Pilot at Tag Aviation, Mark, joins me for another fascinating chat on today’s podcast. Mark has a CV as long as you can imagine, having started flying in the 1970’s.  His first commercial roles were In the corporate/air-taxi environment, flying all types of characters to far-flung places around Europe, some of them highly dodgy...

‘Find Your Passion In Life’   🛫 Uncovering The Aviation Mindset - Episode 13 with Hook Hookassian🛬   Another American buddy joins me for this open chat on life in and out of the flight deck. Hook and I became mates when we flew a Gulfstream 650 together during my secondment to Nissan North America. He is a real giggle, and his laugh is very infectious. I have always admired his zest for life and...

‘The Isolation Of Aviation’   🛫 Uncovering The Aviation Mindset - Episode 12 With CFA & Concierge Bree Sheehan 🛬   Summary My good Ozzie buddy Brie joins me for another fascinating conversation about living a healthy lifestyle in and out of the aviation environment. We explore many topics aside from the potential to feel isolated in our aviation roles as we travel worldwide.  Bree and I beca...

‘The Power of Emotional Intelligence’ 🛫 Uncovering The Aviation Mindset - Episode 11 With Captain Oskar Maliszewski 🛬   Summary Another great aviation friend joins me today in this fascinating conversation. I first met Oskar when I did freelance cover for him on a Gulfstream 650 while he was the Director Of Flight Ops at a private jet operation in Warsaw, Poland. Oskar is another one of those tr...

‘The Secret To Confidence’ 🛫 Uncovering The Aviation Mindset - Episode 10 With Heidi Cole 🛬   Summary The lovely Heidi Cole is back for round 2 of our conversation! In the conversation, we discuss the importance of confidence and authenticity in various aspects of life, including professional settings and personal relationships. We explore the fight or flight response in high-stakes situations a...

Summary I’m joined today by the gorgeous Heidi Cole, Corporate Flight Attendant, Mentor & Coach (www.confidenceintheair.com) Heidi Cole shares her journey from modelling to becoming a TV presenter, a corporate flight attendant and eventually transitioning into coaching and personal development. We discuss the importance of finding confidence and acceptance, especially during challenging times...

Summary Emma, founder of the Wingman Project, returns for part 2 of our conversation, where she shares her ideas on mental wellbeing through her fascinating journey and the importance of compassion and connection. The Wingman Project was born in a desire to support NHS staff during the COVID-19 pandemic, providing peer support and distraction therapy. Emma emphasises the need for men to open up an...

Summary This is part one of my fascinating conversation with the delightful Emma Henderson MBE, an airline captain and founder of Project Wingman. Emma’s energy, enthusiasm, and humility in all she does are thoroughly infectious.  Among her many achievements, gaining her private and professional pilot’s licences only came after her three children arrived!  Emma became an EasyJet captain and a comp...

“The 5C’s Of Success ”   🛫 Uncovering The Aviation Mindset - Episode 6 with Ed Chitren 🛬   Summary   I am delighted to be joined by another old mate of mine, Ed Chitren.   Ed and I worked together for the Nissan North America Flight Department, where he was the Gulfstream and Hawker fleet maintenance director.   Ed now heads the team at a US West Coast-based corporate flight department.   In thi...

🛫 Uncovering The Aviation Mindset - Episode 5 with Martin Hunt 🛬 In this episode, another old mate, Martin Hunt, joins me. Martin flies a Gulfstream 600 for a UK operator after many years with Easyjet as a training and examining captain on the Boing 737. Martin and I played in the same cricket team at school many years ago.  I hadn’t seen him for decades until he sat in the examining seat when I...

Summary   Today, I am joined by my old friend Leo Nugent. Leo is a training captain on the Boeing 737 for a major airline in the UK, as well as the BALPA (British Airline Pilots Association) representing the pilots he works with at the company.   Leo and I met on our commercial training course at Oxford Aviation Academy about 24 years ago. Our paths crossed professionally about eight years later w...

Summary Today I am joined by another great friend, Veeraj Mewasingh. Veeraj currently flies Gulfstream 550 and 650’s for an operation in South Korea. We have similar backgrounds in coming to our piloting profession as second careers in our mid to late twenties. Veeraj qualified as an optometrist before overcoming his doubts as to his abilities, and, with the encouragement of his mother, finally fo...

Welcome aboard to episode 2 of the Uncovering The Aviation Mindset podcast. Today, I am joined by my friend Grady Montgomery, a full-time US-based Gulfstream contractor, entrepreneur, ex-firefighter, and self-confessed dreamer.   Grady and I met over ten years ago on the Gulfstream 650 type rating course in Savannah, USA, and have been great friends since.  Grady inspires me as he has always had t...

Welcome aboard, everyone, to the first episode of the Uncovering The Aviation Mindset Podcast!    I am delighted to be joined by my friend Gav Scott as my first guest 🙂    Gav is a Captain with a UK-based commercial VIP operation on the Gulfstream 650.  Before that, he served in the military as a C17 Captain.   In this conversation, we discuss the importance of mindset, confidence, and emotional...

Welcome aboard to the Uncovering The Aviation Mindset Podcast! In this episode, I introduce the podcast and explain my intention to help individuals build positive, creative mindsets and achieve significant goals in life on a journey of discovery, experience and adventure, navigating their way to the destinations of their dreams. I use analogies to illustrate the importance of setting goals and ma...