Over the Bonnet

In this episode I get to chat with a man who is a self-taught barefoot doctor and surgeon who devoted himself to the healthcare of peasants rural and remote areas of China.

Lizhe Sun is known as the cave doctor after beginning his practice in caves in performing more than 3000 operations in the Shaanxi province.

In this episode I speak with a lady who is an advocate of multi-level marketing and CBD oil for chronic pain and has never lost her quest for true freedom.

Ria Boustead runs 3 on line businesses and is keen to share her knowledge to help others to live in financial freedom, while also helping people who suffer from long-term pain.

In this episode I do my first Skype interview with a man who has been a tireless worker for blood cancer charities.

Neil Pennock has been described as one of St Vincent hospital’s greatest community supporters – raising close to a half a million dollars for the Haematology and bone marrow transplant unit while also supporting Nurses with post graduate education through the TLR foundation.

In this episode I get to chat to a retailer and promoter with a focus on energy and wellness.

While Dianne Woodstock’s primary focus in on her retail outlet, Magicality, she also runs lifestyle expos and retreats. Plus she’s an avid dinosaur hunter and history enthusiast.

In this episode I get to chat to one of the founders of Whiskey’s wish – an organisation involved in training service dogs for ADF and other frontline personnel facing PTSD. Scott Jackman has fought through his own trauma after serving in the Army in Afghanistan and was injured during the deployment causing him to be medically discharged, and it was his dog Whiskey that helped battle his own inner demons.

In this episode, I get to chat with John Knox – the man long considered one of the most talented of his time and the nice guy of Brisbane radio.

When he finally stepped away from full time work behind the microphone and hung up the headsets, he left behind a legacy of an inspirational media portfolio and played a part in launching a generation of radio and television personalities.

In this episode I sit down with the deputy speaker of Federal parliament and member for Wide Bay Llew Obrien.

After a 15 year career as a Queensland police officer Llew Obrien took over the seat vacated by Warren Truss, and has a rapid rise through the parliamentary ranks after backing a failed leadership spill to topple Michael McCormack in favour of Barnaby Joice. He then announced he would no longer sit in the nationals party room but remain in the LNP and support the government - and then was unexpectedly nominated by Labor for the deputy speakers position.

In this episode, I get to chat with Dr Jhao Fengrui, one of the world’s best thoracic surgeons and China’s leading lung transplant specialist. Dr Zhao also pioneered the development of Zhao’s artificial trachea and since his retirement he’s now hoping to pass on his knowledge of tracheal reconstruction.

In this episode I get to sit down with Dr Rod Day who is about to retire from General Practise after over 40 years in the profession and 4 decades in Gympie.

Dr Day has spent a lifetime in service to the medical profession and finally hangs up the stethoscope on the 17th of December.

In this episode, I get to chat with Toby Wilson – a former SAS special forces soldier who is saddened and sickened by the actions of a few members of the unit who have blackened the name of the SAS.

Toby is responding to the Brereton report where new SAS recruits have allegedly been forced to kill prisoners and unarmed men to get their first kill on the battlefield amongst other atrocities.