Through Veteran’s Thoughts

Will is an RAF officer working within the Joint Expeditionary Force, with a background in air ops, international defence engagement and ops lessons analysis. He is also the Armed Forces Branch Chairman at Tottenham Hotspur’s.

Louis Rudd MBE is a record-breaking polar adventurer, expedition leader, former Royal Marine Commando and SAS soldier, with 34 years of service. He is the first – and only – person to have traversed Antarctica twice using human power alone, has reached the South Pole four times from different coastal start points and summited Antarctica’s highest mountain.

In this episode we have H-Hour Podcast’s Hugh Keir. Hugh is a former Para sniper, who talks about his own mental health breakdown, and the suicide of a friend. You can find the H-Hour podcast on ITunes and YouTube.

This episode is with Jo Jukes, founder of For the Fallen and widow of veteran Dave Jukes. This episode comes with *Trigger Warning*

In this episode of Through Veteran’s Thoughts we hear all about mental health from Mark Ormrod, from his time in the military, being an 11x winner at the Invictus Games and how purpose is key to better mental health. (Background noise is louder than normal in this episode due to the recording location).

Episode four is with Garrath Williams who, with nearly 20 years service as an Officer in the British and Australian Army’s, is now the Director of Veteran Engagement and Development at JobOppo. In this episode we talk about mental health, resettlement and work.

Episode four is with is with former RM Den Champ. After leaving the Marines he went onto work in close protection for royalty in Dubai and Mohammed Al-Fayed. In recent years he has been mentoring on accountability and fear, and has created the #StartYourDayOnPurpose movement.

On this episode we have (ret’d) Colonel, intelligence expert and founder of Grey Hare Media Philip Ingram MBE, talking about his personal experience with mental health and wider military systems in need of change. This podcast was recorded live and has unfortunately had to be reduced due to background noise. Another episode will be recorded with Philip!

Our first episode of Through Veterans’ Thoughts is with Rock2Recovery’s (ret’d) RM Brigadier Charlie Hobson. Upon retirement from the Marines, after 26 years of service, Charlie went on to become the Chief Executive of the Royal Marines Association and most recently is the Company Secretary for Rock2Recovery.