Ep. 13 - Living While You're Dying with Lisa Briggs

Ep. 15 - Surprise Goannas, Flying Guineapigs & A Heap Of Great Mates!

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) into the crowd and judge comedy, while Ames wound back the clock when Bliss n Eso took to the stage and she also devoured the greatest calamari on the planet! Shout out to every legend that came and said G’day and it was unreal to get to meet so many of you who are getting around Flying Blind, we love ya! Feeling thirsty? Get around Born Dry to re hydrate from a can that looks good tastes good and is good for the environment –   https://borndry.com.au/  ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Ep. 14 - Can You Chop My Leg Off? with Mike Rolls

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, Benny sat Mike down for his debut on Flying Blind, catching up on their adventures, going through some of Mike’s story of contracting Meningococcal Septicaemia at 18, electing to amputate his only remaining leg 9 years later, the question that changed it all and what’s involved with getting a new pair of legs. Enjoy this one and we’re sure it won’t be the last time that a Legless & Blind catch up features on Flying Blind.      Feeling thirsty? Get around Born Dry to re hydrate from a can that looks good tastes good and is good for the environment –   https://borndry.com.au/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Ep. 13 - Living While You're Dying with Lisa Briggs

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.   In this weeks episode of Flying Blind, Lisa runs us through her story so openly covering conversations about mortality, having to live in the present when your future is so unknown, making the little things big, the power of mindset and the importance of always having something to look forward to! Lisa recognises that all of us are really just ‘Living while we’re dying’ and she chooses to focus on doing as much living as she can while she can!     We will be at Alpha Fest at Sandstone Point on the 30th of May in QLD. It will be an epic event and if you haven’t already, make sure you grab your tickets today and we can’t wait to catch up with you there! –   https://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/alpha-fest-%E2%80%93-the-mateship-muster/192080 [https://www.moshtix.com.au/v2/event/alpha-fest-%E2%80%93-the-mateship-muster/192080]    Feeling thirsty? Get around Born Dry to re hydrate from a can that looks good tastes good and is good for the environment –   https://borndry.com.au/ ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Ep. 12 - We Will Find Another Way

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-waivering help from his family, especially his Dad, was able to keep his hobbies of waterskiing, shooting and fishing simply by doing things differently. We also chat about Amy's low key Mothers Day, Bens calendar & the very exciting release of the line up for Alpha Events Co's Podcast Royale 3.0 that Ben will once again feature in. Get around him and all the other fighters over on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/p/DX_e8oIkSQw/ As always, Flying Blind is kindly supported and hydrated by Born Dry. Get around them at https://borndry.com.au/ Check out Flying Blind on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/flyingblindpodcast/ And on TikTok - https://www.tiktok.com/@flyingblindpodcast Or watch full Flying Blind episodes over on YouTube - https://www.youtube.com/@FlyingBlindPodcast ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.

Ep. 11 - A Smile A Day With Ash Kasi

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 rollercoaster from 3 days old right through to 43. Ash and Benny cover it all in this one from bullying, identity and family through to stand up comedy and his mission to make 1 person smile every day.        Check out Ash’s podcast, Older But Not Wiser –   https://www.facebook.com/p/The-Older-but-not-Wiser-Podcast-61572427020828/  Feeling thirsty? Get around Born Dry to re hydrate from a can that looks good tastes good and is good for the environment –   https://borndry.com.au/  ---------------------------------------- Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy [https://acast.com/privacy] for more information.