Alex MacPhail Podcast

In this episode, Alex MacPhail  speaks to Mike Stopforth  about his time in the Pipe Band and competing at the Pipe Band World Championships in Scotland. This later evolved into a rock band and his life on stage, teaching, entertaining, and training began in his early 20s.

Mike shares his horrifying story about when he was out skateboarding with his friends. He saw a light aircraft crash into his friend’s vehicle right before his eyes, and while he was frozen with panic another friend rushed in and started pulling people out of the wreckage. Alex and Mike talk about this startling effect, how it's relevant in aviation and how pilots are trained to manage this, and how it relates to real life and whether this could be a developed skill. 

Mike Stopforth is also a successful digital pioneer, an entrepreneur, start-up investor, and the founder and director of the consulting firm Beyond Binary. He has built, developed, led multiple teams, and businesses. He is a global public speaker and his area of expertise is digital transformation. Please enjoy this conversation and remember to reach out via social media channels with your questions.


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 

MIKE STOPFORTH

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikestopforth 
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mikestopforth
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/mikestopforth 
• Website: https://mikestopforth.com/ 
• Podcast link: https://pod.link/oem 

Matthias Dolderer  is a German Professional Race Pilot.  He was not only the first driver to win a race on the legendary Speedway, he is also the first German World Champion ever in the Ultimate Motorsport series of the skies and the first air race pilot to take the world title ahead of schedule .

He gained a glider and ultralight license at the age of 17 and the following year obtained his private pilot’s license.  At 21 he became the youngest flight teacher in Germany. He is also the 2016 champion of the Red Bull Air Race.
 

Florian Bergér  is a German Aerobatic and Airline Pilot. He is the first German ever to claim the Challenger Cup title and the only pilot of any nationality to have earned the honour twice.

He began his career by piloting gliders and still cross-trains with them when time permits, in addition to flying the A320 as a First Officer for Lufthansa. When Bergér joined the Challenger Class in 2015, he was one of the youngest pilots ever to fly in the Red Bull Air Race.

This episode proudly brought to you by Salesforce. Click on this link below, to receive a free 10-week:  https://1.salesforce-partners.com/fundamentalsza

ALEX MACPHAIL: 

• Email: [email protected]
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmacphail99
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
• Website: http://www.alexmacphail.co.za 

MATTHIAS DOLDERER : 

• Email: [email protected]
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/MDolderer
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/matthiasdolderer
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthias-dolderer-885a095
• Website: https://www.matthiasdolderer.com/
                        https://edmt.de/

FLORIAN BERGÉR: 

• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/florianberger62

Jesse Twum-Boafo  is a System and Application Architect with 5+ years of experience working for organizations with data.  He studied BSc in Mathematics, Statistics, and Economics at the University of Cape Town. He came from a humble beginning with a truly inspiring life story. He likes to explore everything, but also to love thy neighbor as thyself. 


ALEX MACPHAIL: 

• Email: [email protected]
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmacphail99
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
• Website: http://www.alexmacphail.co.za 

JESSE TWUM-BOAFO:

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/Jesse_tb
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessetwum
• Trailhead Profile: https://trailblazer.me/id?uid=jesse&cmty=trailhead 

Yoshi Muroya is a Japanese aerobatics pilot and race pilot of the World Championship Air Race. He started entering the Red Bull Air Race from 2009, and won its Chiba round for his first time in 2016.  In 2017 he became Red Bull Air Race's World Champion. 

He also holds air shows throughout Japan to generate public awareness in aerobatics. He actively works to bridge the earth with the sky and holds the Japan National Aerobatic Championship event.   

This episode proudly brought to you by Salesforce. Click on this link below, to receive a free 10-week:  https://1.salesforce-partners.com/fundamentalsza


ALEX MACPHAIL: 

• Email: [email protected]
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/alexmacphail99
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
• Website: http://www.alexmacphail.co.za 

YOSHI MUROYA:

• Website: http://www.yoshi-muroya.jp/en/profile/

Maj. Trevor Aldridge served as the Left Wing Pilot for the United States Air Force Air Demonstration Squadron, the Thunderbirds.

Aldridge is a 2009 graduate of the Air Force ROTC program at Texas A&M University. He completed the Euro-NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training Program, Sheppard AFB, Texas in 2011. After pilot training, he was assigned to the F-15C at Kadena AB, Japan where his squadron won the Raytheon Trophy twice and then Sheppard AFB, Texas as an instructor pilot teaching Introduction to Fighter Fundamentals and several other positions. 

Prior to joining the Thunderbirds, Aldridge flew the F- l5C in the 493rd Fighter Squadron, RAF Lakenheath, United Kingdom.

https://1.salesforce-partners.com/fundamentalsza

Get in touch with Alex to improve the performance of your team: 

• [email protected]
• https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
• www.alexmacphail.co.za 

Steve Jones is a British airline pilot and an aerobatics pilot who competed in the Red Bull Air Race World Series, flying a Zivko Edge 540, before taking up the post as race director. Jones had his first flying lesson at just five years old, in 1965, in a Cessna, on the knee of a family friend.

He became a pilot both commercially and competitively. Commercially, Jones is a senior Captain for British Airways, flying a Boeing 747. He spends his off-season working on and racing vintage cars.

https://1.salesforce-partners.com/fundamentalsza

Get in touch with Alex to improve the performance of your team: 

• [email protected]
• https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
• www.alexmacphail.co.za 

As an Olympic rower, Cath competed at three Olympic Games. She is the winner of the World Championships in 2003 and an Olympic silver medal at Athens, in 2004. 

Cath, who spent over a decade serving as a diplomat, specialised in conflict issues, with postings to Bosnia and Iraq, as well as leading in Whitehall on the UK civilian contribution to stabilising conflicts around the world.

Cath’s expertise lies in building effective leaders, developing resilience and high performing teams.

Get in touch with Cath:

• Website
• LinkedIn
• Twitter

Get in touch with Alex to improve the performance of your team: 

• [email protected]
• https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
• www.alexmacphail.co.za 

"I always tell my team that I refuse to let anybody work harder than me, they might beat us, but they are not gonna work harder than us we’re gonna get up every morning and we’re gonna outwork everybody. I think that mindset is what got us here and that's what is going to continue to make us successful in the future."   -   Kevin Coleman, on building his race team for the 2022 season of  the World Championship Air Race.

Kevin Coleman is a Red Bull athlete and airshow pilot. He has been involved in airshow flying for more than half of his life and he is not yet 30. He was the youngest pilot to join the Red Bull Air Race, but he arrived with more than 2000 hours on the Extra 300.

Dedicated to flying in the air show circuit across the United States, Kevin's career is unconventional, but extremely focussed. He is one passionate aviator!

This episode proudly brought to you by Salesforce. Click on this link below, to receive a free 10-week.

https://1.salesforce-partners.com/fundamentalsza


Get in touch with Alex to improve the performance of your team: 

• [email protected]
• https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
• www.alexmacphail.co.za 

Paul has done many interesting things in the course of his life. He has pioneered activities, but the last decade is where he has left his mark in the world. Through various adventure sport series, most notably IRONMAN, Paul and his team have delivered World Class events, on the South African landscape.

Get in touch with Alex to improve the performance of your team: 

• [email protected]
• https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
• www.alexmacphail.co.za

At 65 Robert Owens completed five of the world’s toughest endurance events, in one year. He also completed 7 marathons in 7 countries in 7 days! He has competed in an 8-day race over 200 miles across Greece; a combination run/ocean swim event lasting more than nine hours; an Ironman Triathlon; and a 50-hour challenge modelled after a Navy SEAL-style Hell Week.

Robert says he is an average guy. Trained as an US Air Force Pararescue operator, the medical rescue equivalent of a Navy SEAL, he was one of only 7 to qualify, of the 157 candidates.

Robert understands setbacks. He was adopted as an infant. His knees and ankles were deformed. From 5 - 10 yrs, he wore special boots with metal rods to support his walk. He was never part of any school sports team and later had to find his own way in life.

Once he finished high school, he lived a carefree life, often in trouble with the law. He got severe burns, when fooling around with a beach fire and a peer-pressure dare.

Watch this conversation on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YQ0BI8ONp3M

Get in touch with Alex to improve the performance of your team: 

• [email protected]
• https://twitter.com/AlexMacPhail1
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/flyingmogul
• www.alexmacphail.co.za