Would you like to know what it's like to become an astronaut? Do you want to know what it's like for an astronaut for that first blast off into space, to be in space and what it's like to see Earth rotating around every 90 minutes you’ve orbited the Earth?

Maurizio Cheli is a lieutenant colonel in the Italian Air Force, a European Space Agency astronaut and a veteran of one NASA Space Shuttle mission. Maurizio joined the European Space Agency (ESA) in 1992 and was then sent to the NASA Johnson Space Center in Houston where he would train as a Mission Specialist, who is effectively the flight engineer of the space shuttle. In 1996 he attended the Space Shuttle Columbia STS-75 Tethered Satellite mission, to be the first Italian to assume the role of Mission Specialist.

During the expedition, while he was flying over our planet, he took a picture of Mount Everest and since then, he always desired to reach that peak, and so he did: after having seen the world from above, in 2018 he even reached the “top of the world. For more than 10 years he has displayed the Eurofighter at the Paris Air Show and he's built his own aeroplanes too. He is an entrepreneur in the aviation industry and a speaker. Maurizio is sought to cover topics such as passion, teamwork, change management, decision making, sustainability and more.

Alex MacPhail and Maurizio Cheli go into detail about what it is to become an astronaut, what it is like to train for missions, what the launch looks like with the feelings of the acceleration and the g-forces at operating these machines.

If you like anything to do with fast aeroplanes or space, this is the conversation for you.
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ALEX MACPHAIL
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MAURIZIO CHELI
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mauriziocheli/
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/maurizio-cheli-2a690b10
Website: http://www.mauriziocheli.com/en/ 

Bruce Whitfield is a multiple award-winning financial journalists whose work on radio, television and print give them unique access to some of the biggest power brokers in the business and money.  He also presents The Money Show on 702 and CapeTalk, hosts Taking Stock, a weekly TV show on eNCA, and is a Contributing Editor for Financial Mail. 

Bruce has developed the ability to tell compelling stories about the political economy in a way that is creative and engaging. He is also a sought-after public speaker, MC and conference facilitator. 

In this episode, Alex MacPhail talks to Bruce Whitfield about his book ‘The Upside of Down: How Chaos and Uncertainty Breed Opportunity in South Africa’, published by Pan Macmillan reflects the optimistic realism of his popular keynotes.

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ALEX MACPHAIL
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Website: http://www.alexmacphail.co.za
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BRUCE WHITFIELD
LinkedIn: http://linkedin.com/in/bruce-whitfield-42448738
Twitter: https://twitter.com/brucebusiness
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brucebusiness
Website: http://brucewhitfield.com
The Money Show with Bruce Whitfield - 702: https://www.702.co.za/shows/9/the-money-show-with-bruce-whitfield 

Books by Bruce Whitfield
~The Upside of Down: How Chaos and Uncertainty Breed Opportunity in South Africa.
Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/Upside-Down-Uncertainty-Opportunity-Africa-ebook/dp/B08TZZKL24/ref=tmm_kin_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

At 3 years old Mike Ling attended an airshow at Biggin Hill and told his mum that he wanted to be a Red Arrows pilot. Fast forward 20 odd years and he became a Red Arrows pilot and not only that he spent the better part of a decade on the team and in various different roles,

Mike left the Royal Air Force in April 2019 as a Squadron Leader after 21 years of service. He has since become a commercial pilot, flight instructor and a full-time member of the Blades Aerobatic Team, the world’s only 'aerobatic airline' and part of 2Excel Aviation. Mike is the proud patron of two aviation charities; Fly2Help and the Nick Davidson Memorial Flying Scholarship Trust that help provide funding for young aviators to get their Private Pilots Licence.

Alex MacPhail and Mike Ling unpack the complexities of a high-risk operation and how you manage things that go wrong. They also share a fascinating story about how Mike had a mid-air collision where two aircraft flying head-to-head at a closing speed of about 1,000 km an hour, struck each other and the tale of the one went through the canopy of the other.
 
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ALEX MACPHAIL
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Website: http://www.alexmacphail.co.za
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MIKE LING
Twitter: https://twitter.com/MikeLingPilot
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/mikelingpilot/
TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@mikelingpilot
Website: https://www.mikelingpilot.com/
Fly2Help - Website: https://nickdavidsonflyingtrust.org.uk/
Nick Davidson Memorial Flying Scholarship Trust: https://nickdavidsonflyingtrust.org.uk/

What are UAVs and what are they used for? UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles), also called drones and have no human pilot onboard. Drones are either controlled by a person on the ground or autonomously via a computer program.

Alex MacPhail talks to Nicola MacPhail, who is Alex’s sister, has had several careers and right now she's busy completing her PhD. In this episode, Nicola shares some interesting things about the drone world. She is currently working for a company called Hover UAV in Australia, where they operate drones there, assisting with the legislation of drones and particularly beyond visual line of sight.

Please enjoy this conversation and remember to reach out via social media channels with your questions. Send me your comments.

ALEX MACPHAIL
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmacphail99
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCztTx1LzCAnC4woeNOpU5-A
Website: http://www.alexmacphail.co.za
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NICOLA MACPHAIL
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolahmacphail/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/nicolamacphail
HOVER UAV - Drone Consultancy (Australia): https://www.hoveruav.com.au/

Alex MacPhail  talks to Candice Mama, who is an activist, published author, and speaker in her own podcast ‘Coffee With Candice’. She is truly an inspirational woman.
She's also Vogue magazine’s Top 33 most inspiring women in the world alongside Nicole Kidman and Michelle Obama. Named Africa's Top 20 Women by the African Union and the United Nations. The United Nations also celebrated 75 years that shows 75 people to celebrate, and Candice was chosen in this honour as one of the 75 interesting stories. So her story is all about forgiveness. Her father was murdered by an Apartheid assassin Eugene de Kock and she chose to forgive him and we talk about this in this episode.

Please enjoy this conversation and remember to reach out via social media channels with your questions. Send me your comments.

ALEX MACPHAIL
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Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmacphail99
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCztTx1LzCAnC4woeNOpU5-A
Website: http://www.alexmacphail.co.za
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CANDICE MAMA
Twitter: https://twitter.com/CandiceMama
Instagram: https://www.candicemama.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/candicemamapublic
Linktree: https://linktr.ee/candicemama
Website: https://www.candicemama.com/

Podcast by Candice Mama
Coffee With Candice - Instagram: http://instagram.com/coffee_with_candice/
Coffee With Candice - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLIVoWbd9BIst8QAW4NwGtA
Coffee With Candice - Podcast: https://www.buzzsprout.com/1154393

Book by Candice Mama
~Forgiveness Redefined: A Young Woman’s Journey Towards Forgiving the Apartheid Assassin who Brutally Murdered Her Father
Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/Forgiveness-Redefined-forgiving-apartheid-assassin-ebook/dp/B07YYGSYTH
Google Books Edition: https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Forgiveness_Redefined.html?id=5sXnDwAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y

In this episode Alex MacPhail talks to Warren Ingram, understanding his background growing up in Cape Town and how he got into thinking that he could be a professional basketball player but ended up becoming a financial advisor and with an investment company. Warren is an award-winning Wealth Manager, author, public speaker and also the co-founder of Galileo Capital.

Warren brought out his new book recently hot-off-the-press, Global Investing Made Easy, and that follows on from his other two books. The first book is about how to Become Your Own Financial Advisor. He also has a podcast called Honest Money where he answers your questions about what it is to invest, from basic ideas to complex things in investing.

Please enjoy this conversation and remember to reach out via social media channels with your questions.


ALEX MACPHAIL
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmacphail99
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCztTx1LzCAnC4woeNOpU5-A
Website: http://www.alexmacphail.co.za
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WARREN INGRAM
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/WarrenIngram
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/warren-ingram-b08b571
Galileo Capital - Website: https://galileocapital.co.za/ 

PODCAST by Warren Ingram
Honest Money - Twitter: https://twitter.com/honestmoneypod
Honest Money - Website: https://honestmoney.co.za/podcast/
Honest Money - YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCpvV8y06gG7A3_Ibk15T_FQ

BOOKS by Warren Ingram
~Global Investing Made Easy: Your Wealth-creating Guide to International Markets
Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/Global-Investing-Made-Easy-wealth-creating-ebook/dp/B09D7VV4NZ
Google Books: https://books.google.co.za/books/about/Global_Investing_Made_Easy.html?id=Frc-EAAAQBAJ&source=kp_book_description&redir_esc=y

~Become Your Own Financial Advisor: The real secrets to becoming financially independent Kindle Edition: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07TKCPJS6/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i1
Google Books: https://books.google.co.za/books?id=i0efDwAAQBAJ&source=gbs_book_other_versions 

From fighter pilot to the owner of a fleet of luxury aircraft. Alex MacPhail  talks to Glenn Gonzales  who is the co-founder and CEO of Jet It,

Gonzales, a Lieutenant  Colonel Air Force veteran, started his career flying F-15s in 2005. He served as an instructor pilot and was later deployed to Kyrgyzstan. He transitioned to the reserves in 2009 and began working at planemaker Gulfstream while pursuing his MBA at the University of South Carolina. The Houston native had his first brush with elite travel while demonstrating flights for executives and high net worth customers.
He met his future co-founder, Vishal Hiremath, who also worked in sales at Gulfstream, in 2013. After flying to India, they were stuck together for a week because the plane needed repairs.

The following year, he went to work at Honda Aircraft Company, managing sales for the Northeast region. For years, he kept hearing the same complaint from customers, that they loved HondaJets but couldn't justify the cost of buying a plane. In 2016, he started planning to launch his own business and currently he captains flights for Jet It occasionally.


ALEX MACPHAIL
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YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCztTx1LzCAnC4woeNOpU5-A
Website: http://www.alexmacphail.co.za
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GLENN GONZALES
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/glenn-gonzales-285167b
Website: https://www.gojetit.com

Alex MacPhail  talks to Verity Price, who is a former singer/songwriter who is currently a professional speaker and facilitator, speaking passionately about helping people and businesses change their thinking and write a different story. She went to the Waldorf School in Cape Town, ended up in a more formalised competitive high school, and studied psychology and anthropology. She's been in Hollywood movies, she's albums on Spotify, she does corporate training, she is a wife and a mother, and she is the world public speaking champion.

Verity won the 2021 World Championship of Public Speaking, hosted by the International Toastmasters  A nonprofit educational organisation that teaches public speaking and leadership skills; it has more than 300,000 members in 149 countries. Verity Price is a member of both the Professional Speakers Association of Southern Africa and Toastmasters. She is not only the first South African world champion of public speaking but also the first from the continent of Africa.

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ALEX MACPHAIL

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VERITY PRICE

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/helloverity  
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/verityprice 
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iamverity 
• Website: http://www.tapresults.co.za/
                        https://www.iamverity.com/ 

Our partner Salesforce is hosting an upcoming Virtual Career Fair in October 2021. The Career Fair will share insight on possible career paths in your local market, the requirements thereof and current opportunities in demand. Get the skills you need to jump-start your career in the Salesforce ecosystem and reskill yourself for the future.  If there were ever a time for a big change of career, it's right now. Register for the upcoming Virtual Careers Fair on 28 October 2021. Click here to register: http://sfdc.co/signupnow   

What do you get if you cross an aunt who is a Concorde Stewardess, a father who is an airline executive with TWA, and a mother who ran the first tour operator business in Tenerife in the 1960s? You get Jon Howell.

Alex MacPhail talks to Jon Howell, about all things aviation, diversions, and resilience. Jon is the Managing Director and Founder of AviaDev. AviaDev is a platform providing for the last six years intra-Africa travel and the means to connect airlines, countries, tour operators, and all sorts of the aviation business that can grow aviation on the African continent. He’s lived in about 7 countries, got his own podcast,  and knows the value of a good network.

This episode is proudly brought to you by Salesforce, the world’s largest provider of customer relationship management software. More than 150,000 companies around the world are using Salesforce to grow their business, by strengthening their customer relationships with more than four million jobs that are predicted in the Salesforce ecosystem by 2024.

Our partner Salesforce is hosting an upcoming Virtual Career Fair in October 2021. The Career Fair will share insight on possible career paths in your local market, the requirements thereof and current opportunities in demand. Get the skills you need to jump-start your career in the Salesforce ecosystem and reskill yourself for the future.  If there were ever a time for a big change of career, it's right now. Register for the upcoming Virtual Careers Fair on 28 October 2021. Click here to register: http://sfdc.co/signupnow 

ALEX MACPHAIL
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmacphail99
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCztTx1LzCAnC4woeNOpU5-A
Website: http://www.alexmacphail.co.za

JOHN HOWELL
Twitter: https://twitter.com/JonRHowell
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonh1
AviaDev: https://www.aviationdevelop.com