Then - our friendship with this guest goes way back to when he and Kerry got their first and only guide dogs in Quebec in 1998 and how he shared an apartment with Brian in Toronto for a few years between 2009 and 2012.

And now - this week on Outlook we’re speaking with our friend Erik about how, in the past five years, he’s found love and gotten married, had two kids during a pandemic, and is raising two kids (between zero and three years), and about his recent promotion promoted to Access Technology Analyst with Shared Services Canada.

what the co-host’s longtime friend Erik Burggraaf says of his life now and over the last five years: “Couldn’t draft it up, dream it - don’t know how a person gets that lucky”.

And we’re lucky to be speaking with him again, third time appearing on this show, to talk blindness advocacy, the bonds of friendship with others who understand, as he shares his new-found experiences as a parent who is blind and educating the public along the way.

Check out the last time Erik was on the show with his sister during our blind siblings series in April of 2021:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/outlook-2021-04-26-siblings-series-part-4-erik-burggraaf/id1527876739?i=1000518765532

And travel back in time to 2018 to hear him on our other podcast, Ketchup On Pancakes:

Part 1:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ketchup-on-pancakes-episode-13-pell-mell-claptrap-part/id1527876739?i=1000633134054

Part 2:

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/ketchup-on-pancakes-episode-13-pell-mell-claptrap-part/id1527876739?i=1000633134239