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Frankie’s Pod is a podcast built on real stories and honest conversations. While rooted in military and service life, this channel goes far beyond borders, uniforms.
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Episode 142: Blinded, Broken & Rebuilt | Stuart Mendelson’s Journey from Combat to The Muster Point (opens the original)
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From Royal Engineers combat deployments to a life-changing injury in Afghanistan, addiction, homelessness and eventually rebuilding his life, Stuart Mendelson’s story is a brutally honest look at what can happen when the uniform comes off. In this episode of Frankie’s Pod, Frankie Dunn sits down with Stuart to trace his journey from growing up in Stevenage, through joining the British Army and training as a Royal Engineer, to deployments in the Falklands, Cyprus, Germany and Afghanistan. Stuart
Chris Yates — A Royal Engineer's Journey Through Injury, Recovery, and Finding Purpose Again (opens the original)
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Chris Yates, known online as The Sapper Project, joins Frankie Dunn for a brutally honest conversation about military life, serious injury, recovery, mental health, autism, writing, and rebuilding a life after service.Chris takes us from growing up as a military child across Germany, Cornwall and Yorkshire, to joining the Royal Engineers as a plant operator, to an unexpected posting with 9 Para. He's open about the fitness, the camaraderie, the drinking culture and the pranks — what life inside
From Tanks to Therapy | Gareth Evens (opens the original)
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He crewed Challenger 2s in Iraq. Now he treats the damage war does topeople — including his own.Gareth Evans grew up in Hereford, served on multiple tours in Iraq andAfghanistan with the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, then moved into the Army Welfare Service and later trained as a hypnotherapist. In thisconversation he's honest about what army culture does to a person, whythe stigma around mental health held on so long, and what recoveryactually looked like for him — not the tidy version.We cover t
The Flight Deck Accident That Ended Her Navy Career | JM Balbuena | Ep 140 (opens the original)
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She serviced fighter jets on the deck of the USS John C. Stennis. Oneaccident, and everything changed. JM Balbuena was a US Navy aviation electronics technician with two combat deployments aboard the Stennis. After a flight-deck accident left herdealing with chronic pain, PTSD and insomnia, one night of proper sleep sent her down a road she never expected — into advocacy, authorship, and a fight to get medical cannabis to terminally ill patients in American hospitals. We talk about carrier life,
Episode 139:Wayne Ingram MBE:The Tankie Who Couldn't Walk Away (opens the original)
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What happens when a young soldier discovers that some battles don't end when you leave the battlefield? In this episode of Frankie's Pod, Frankie Dunn sits down with Wayne Ingram MBE MCPara — former soldier, reconnaissance specialist, paramedic, fundraiser and author — for one hell of a journey through military service, war, trauma, friendship and the extraordinary power of simply deciding to help someone. Wayne joined the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment at just 17, beginning a military career that woul
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