Quinton is a practicing barrister, a former environmental scientist, and the founder of Verenigma: a mobile app service which provides insight into your mental health. Verenigma is designed to help users to self-manage their mental health far more effectively. http://verenigma.com/
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Jody Mitic is a Canadian former politician, an author, and a retired Master Sniper. While serving with the Canadian Army, Mitic lost both of his legs in a landmine incident while fighting in the War in Afghanistan in 2007. He served as an Ottawa City Councillor, representing Innes Ward in Ottawa’s east end, from 2014 until 2018.
Jody is also the founder of Green Army Coffee, and has authored his first book: “Unflinching: The Making of a Canadian Sniper”
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Ben Pile is a researcher, commentator and blogger. He is the co-founder and main writer of the Climate Resistance blog, which claims to be “challenging the climate orthodoxy.” https://www.youtube.com/c/ClimateResistance https://twitter.com/clim8resistance
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Rachel and Clare are former British Army Nurses (QARANC) who host the Just a Mum Podcast “Two Nurse Veterans walk into a podcast and talk about mental health and whether mental illness is a choice” https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/just-a-mum/id1617084416
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Hugh answers your questions. All questions were submitted via the H-Hour Discord Server or via the H-Hour Podcast instagram and twitter accounts.
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Freddie Kruyer served with the Parachute Regiment throughout the 1990’s and 2000’s, deploying on multiple operations around the world. He now works restoring historical military vehicles and equipment and was a regular cast member of Combat Dealers, alongside Bruce Compton.
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Simon served 23 years in the British Army with the Parachute Regiment and with 22 SAS (UK Special Forces). He is the founder and director of Big 5 Protection – a company focusing on enhancing anti poaching and wildlife conservation capabilities around the world. https://www.b5p.co.uk/
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Nick Brown is a former British Army Major who commanded infantry units on multiple operations, including Afghanistan. He is now the Product Marketing and Business Development Director – Defence at Hadean Supercomputing. Hadean provide distributed computing at massive scale. https://hadean.com
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Savannah Thompson is ex Army, now campaigning for better access to mental health support for veterans. She is in the process of developing an app which connects veterans and charities together – with some fantastic charities already lined up to use it – and is completing a Fan Dance Olympic Triathlon in October to raise awareness and funds. In the interim, she has created the Through Veterans Thoughts podcast, solely revolving around veteran mental health. https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/through-veterans-thoughts/id1621897865?i=1000568591713
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Christie was just 17 when he passed out of Para depot and deployed weeks after joining 3 Para, to recapture the Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic, following the Argentine invasion in 1982. After leaving the British Army, Christie became one of the UK’s chosen few Level 1 undercover Police operatives, regularly deploying into some of the most dangerous criminal environments in Britain, fighting serious and violent crime, playing the role of drug dealer, gangster and gun man, contract killer, thief, robber and handler of stolen goods. Early in his career as a UC he took it upon himself to redesign the Level One UCO course, transforming it into arguably the toughest police training programme in the UK. https://www.instagram.com/therealchristievincent/
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Joseph Mitcham served with the British military, in elite and technical units, for over 16 years. His service not only gave him a thorough tactical and technical understanding of some of the techniques and processes employed in his stories, but it also provided him with the opportunity to develop himself, earning a first-class honours degree in business leadership. Find Joseph’s books at https://www.amazon.co.uk/Joseph-Mitcham/e/B0822SRK9H%3F
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Krishna Thapa is ex-22 SAS and Royal Gurkha Regiment. He is a legendary mountaineer who has helped mentally or physically ill veterans and civilians summit some of the most difficult peaks in the world, recently completing a world first by guiding a double above knee amputee to trek to Everest basecamp. Krishna is also the founder of HST Adventures ( https://hstadventure.com ) – a company providing trekking, climbing and mountaineering trips in Nepal and around the world.
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Matt is a former mixed martial artist who now facilitates therapeutic retreats with Heroic Hearts Project UK who facilitate opportunities for healing by connecting military and emergency services veterans struggling with mental trauma to psychedelic therapy options.
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In this episode, Hugh answers questions submitted by H-Hour patrons and fans of the podcast.
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Dr Jenny Murray is a clinical psychologist with a special interest and experience in working with children and adults with complex needs. This includes people with mental health needs, neuro developmental difficulties and trauma. Dr Murray is also the founder and clinical director of berkshirepsychology.co.uk
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Shay Doyle is a former soldier and police officer who was one of the UK’s chosen few Level 1 undercover operatives deploying into the most dangerous parts of the criminal underworld during his career. Check out his new book “Deep Cover”: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Deep-Cover-infiltrated-dangerous-gangsters/dp/152910940X
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Meyli Chapin is a former Google employee who spent 17 hours inside a hotel under attack from al-Shabbab terrorists in 2019. Meyli has since authored a book about her experiences -Terrorist Attack Girl: How I Survived Terrorism and Reconstructed My Shattered Mind. https://www.amazon.com/Terrorist-Attack-Girl-Terrorism-Reconstructed/dp/B09PW8K846
Meyli also founded the app Brace: “Brace is a full, end-to-end program for people who are struggling after a trauma. You do not need to have a therapist to use Brace, and you do not need to have an official PTSD diagnosis. Regardless of your trauma type, or whether you are a soldier or civilian, Brace was designed with you in mind. ” https://apps.apple.com/us/app/trauma-brace/id1575804297
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Dr Jeff Foster is a Men’s Health specialist and one of the founders of H3Health. He is passionate about spreading awareness of men’s health topics, whether by lecturing, writing articles, creating videos and infographics, and of course, seeing patients within the NHS and at his private practice. https://www.h3health.co.uk/
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
Ben is a former soldier and the founder of Redeployable, a company providing training and employment for service personnel entering into a career in Sales. https://redeployable.co.uk
Podcast host: Hugh Keir ( @hughkeir )
