CHRIS THRALL

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Author: Chris Thrall

After leaving the Royal Marines to run a successful business in Asia, Chris found himself homeless, suffering acute mental illness from crystal meth addiction and working for the Hong Kong triads. Declining conventional support, Chris rebuilt his life to become a qualified pilot, skydiver, adventurer and bestselling author. He has expeditioned to eighty countries on seven continents and raised thousands for charity. An extreme-endurance athlete, in 2018 Chris ran an ultra-marathon a day for thirty-seven days, unsupported, the length of Britain, to raise awareness of veterans suicide, and in 2019 a quadruple ironman consisting of a 9.6-mile swim, 450-mile cycle and a 107-mile run. Chris firewalked forty metres on red-hot coals to raise money to work with street children in war-torn Mozambique. He's driven volunteer journalists to India and back by bus to highlight global poverty. Chris was awarded the Second Level Commendation of the Finnish Nation on the grounds of Human Generosity for his ability to inspire others. Backpacking through every country in North, Central and South America, he dived off the famous cliff in Acapulco, caught piranhas and survived without equipment in the Amazon rainforest and snorkelled with bull sharks off Belize. In colder climes, he has scuba-dived with leopard seals and icebergs in the sub-zero waters of the Antarctic Polar Circle. Chris wrote the bestselling memoir Eating Smoke, a frank yet humorous account of his time down and out in Hong Kong. He has appeared on numerous podcasts and programs and two award-wining radio plays have been made about his life. Forty Nights, Chris’s second memoir, details how the life-changing experience of addiction led to his enlightenment. Chris has a degree in youth and community work and is a substance-misuse/addiction specialist. He presents this topic from a progressive perspective. Along with trademark Royal Marines humour, Chris’s fascinating story, inspirational message and passionate approach appeals to those unlocking their potential and corporate clients concerned with workforce wellbeing.

Could YOU Pass SAS Selection? | Nick Grainge | Podcast #228

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Could YOU Pass SAS Selection features Nick Grainge who tells us about the arduous selection training for the reserve special-forces.

Could YOU Pass SAS Selection? | Nick Grainge

Nick Grainge is a highly successful athlete and creator of ‘Elite Outdoor Fitness’. In this podcast, Nick gives us his experience of going through selection in order to join 23 Special Air Service. From the Brecons mountains, to the notorious interrogation phase, Nick endured all to attain the coveted sand beret of the world’s most elite special-forces.

Transcript from’ Could YOU Pass SAS Selection?’ podcast

Nick – I think the first step that people need to make is, just try and find out as much information as possible. There’s a lot of information out there nowadays. You mentioned on the last podcast, that this is an open book to a certain extent. Certainly with 23, there’s a lot of open source information out there and if you go to a recruiting office, you can kind of get a really good understanding of what kind of level of fitness you need to go through, to start that process. You can get quite good understanding.

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Forty Nights: My Escape from Crystal Meth Hell

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How to Write a Memoir

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Virtual Planet | Joseph Steel | Bought The T-Shirt Podcast #227

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Virtual planet features Joseph Steel, who’s company, Virtual Skies, use drone technology to digitise the real world.

Virtual Planet | Joseph Steel

Joseph Steel is part of the Visualskies company who are a collection of studios utilising the latest technology to digitise the real world. Visualskies is an aerial focused technology company, who provide photographic and surveying services for heritage, construction, film and tv sectors. Visual Skies specialise in high definition 3D mapping, Virtual Reality environments, as well as aerial based time-lapse and photography services.

Transcript from ‘Virtual Planet’ podcast

Joseph – Absolutely yes, this is definitely already happening. Virtual reality training already happens. Dropping a soldier into a virtual reality experience feels real when you have the headset on. When you take the headset off afterwards, you’re almost disappointed. It looks worse than the virtual reality world you’ve just been in, which is sort of scary. In as good a form as we can, we can preserve something right now. For Assassin’s Creed they had fully created a digital copy of Notre-Dame in Paris.

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Forty Nights: My Escape from Crystal Meth Hell

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How to Write a Memoir

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From CLAPPING To SACKING | NHS Paramedic Lilith | #226

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From clapping to sacking features NHS paramedic Lilith, who along with her colleagues, are battling to save their jobs.

From Clapping To Sacking | NHS Paramedic Lilith

NHS100k.com brings together NHS, Care, and social work colleagues, including more than 111,000 NHS staff who have exercised their basic human right of informed consent regarding a medical intervention. NHS paramedic Lilith, chats with Chris Thrall regarding her co-worker’s fight to keep their jobs.

Transcript from, ‘From Clapping To Sacking’ podcast

Lilith – So The NHS 100k is the platform we’ve just created. It’s only been two weeks and we’re seeing good growth, so hopefully, we can get more people involved. Hopefully we can stop the legislation coming in.

Chris – First of all, yes cracking effort getting your organization off the ground and rallying the good, wonderful people in the health industry. It’s certainly got some movers and shakers. So a massive thank you to you and a big well done

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Eating Smoke: One Man’s Descent Into Psychosis in Hong Kong’s Triad Heartland

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Forty Nights: My Escape from Crystal Meth Hell

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How to Write a Memoir

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Can You REFUSE To Serve In An Illegal Conflict? | Joe Glenton #225

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Can you refuse to serve, features Joe Glenton who went on the run, after refusing to go back and fight in Afghanistan

Can You REFUSE To Serve In An Illegal Conflict?

Joe Glenton was a lance corporal with the Royal Logistics Corps, who vowed not to return to Afghanistan. After going on the run for a full 737 days, Joe was jailed at the ‘Glasshouse’ in Colchester. The court-martial heard that Joe had been suffering from PTSD after his first tour of duty. He was later officially discharged from the British army. Joe is now a journalist, film-maker and award-winning author.

Transcript from ‘Can You Refuse To Serve In An Illegal Conflict’ podcast

Joe – I was in a deeply unglamorous corps, as I was in the Royal Logistics corps. I joined which would have been ordnance corps. I’m not exactly sure, but yes I joined in 2004 for probably the same reasons most people do. I’m from a working-class background, it was a route out of that and loved it. I was keen, green and I was gonning to stay forever, which is what we all say at the start. It was the era of Iraq and Afghanistan, so we went to Afghanistan and did a tour. For me it wasn’t a terribly kinetic tour. I was doing the ammunition with the 13 air assault regiment. We were the logistics element of that went out. Over the course of the tour, I started to question the kind of rationales about why we were in Afghanistan.

We were given lots of reasons, such as, it’s about helping women to go to school or stopping the opium trade. I think those started to fall away over the course of the tour. I wasn’t a very political person at the time, but that developed. Not on tour, because you don’t really have time on tour as you know yourself. After that I think that started to crystallize into a kind of critique, a critique of the war in a very uncomplicated way. A moral objection to what was going on and I planned to just get out of the military.

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Eating Smoke: One Man’s Descent Into Psychosis in Hong Kong’s Triad Heartland

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Forty Nights: My Escape from Crystal Meth Hell

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How to Write a Memoir

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Parachute Regiment to DJ Legend | Danny Rampling | Podcast #224

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Parachute Regiment to DJ legend, features Danny Rampling who is one of world’s best known DJ’s with a lifetime achievement award.

Parachute Regiment To DJ Legend | Danny Rampling

Danny Rampling is one of the original founders of the UK’s rave scene and he’s also a famous radio presenter. He served with the Parachute Regiment in 10 Para and is a leading activist in the global freedom movement. With a career stretching back to the early 1980’s, Danny was the first winner of the No. 1 DJ in the world, by DJ Magazine and a winner of their lifetime achievement award, selling over one million compilation albums.

Transcript from ‘Parachute Regiment To DJ Legend’ podcast

Danny – My love for music started at a very young age, through my mother having the radio on. My father worked at a printers so he’d either be sleeping during the day or at work.

I loved records at family parties and I used to put the records on. I just loved music from a very young age. My imagination was making this picture of the studio on on a ship, somewhere off the coast in the Atlantic. That’s where it started, collecting records at a very young age and I wanted to be on the radio.

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Eating Smoke: One Man’s Descent Into Psychosis in Hong Kong’s Triad Heartland

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Kindle: https://amzn.to/3hdOdLl

Forty Nights: My Escape from Crystal Meth Hell

Paperback Book : https://amzn.to/2AYH0hn

Kindle : https://amzn.to/2AUMkCI

How to Write a Memoir

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