Mike Trauner was declared clinically dead twice. He served in the Canadian Armed Forces for almost 19 years with the 3rd Battalion Royal Canadian Regiment at CFB Petawawa and was injured on December 5th, 2008, when an IED exp...
This guest enrolled in the Canadian Armed Forces Reserves as an administration clerk in 1987, she moved her way up to Chief of Nursing Services for the Canadian Armed forces. She has all these acronyms behind her name RN, BSC...
This guest joined the military, the Royal Canadian Navy in 1999 serving on different units, in 2008 she began to display symptoms of PTSD and anxiety, which subsequently manifested into depression and withdrawal. This episode...
This episode of DROPPING IN we chat with a husband, father, a decorated Chief Petty Officer who enrolled in the Royal Canadian Navy in 1999 as a Naval Communicator, after being injured he now works for Soldier On. We chat …
This series, series VIII, we will be DROPPING IN with Soldier On athletes. What is the Soldier On program? It’s a program of the Canadian Armed Forces which contributes to the recovery of ill and injured Canadian Armed Forces...
Trevor is a is a father of 2 who has several World Championship All Star awards. He is a Parapan American Games champion and has competed in 4 Paralympic Games for Team Canada in the sport of wheelchair rugby. He …
Bo Hedges is a 7x National Champion, Para Pan American games medalist, Paralympic champion and gives back to sport in the best ways. Bo is a wheelchair basketball player, listen to his paralympic stories on this episode of DR...
Kate O'Brien is an athlete through and through she was a bobsleigher, and Olympic cyclist, Pan America champion, world record breaker, she is also a Paralympic medalist you're going to want to hear her stories and what her ne...
Tyler played AAA hockey but when he was 15 years old, while playing hockey he broke his leg. After surgery they found a growth behind his leg. At 16 years old he went through 8 months of chemotherapy and his …
Mac Marcoux is a World Champion, Paralympic Champion he's a blind freeskier that doesn’t seem to be scared of going fast. Having raced at three Paralympic Games, Sochi 2014, Peyongchan 2018 and Beijing 2022 we get to hear his...
Tyler Tuner not only achieved his goal of competing at the Paralympics, in Beijing 2022 he blew away the competition, racing to gold in para snowboard cross and bronze in the para banked slalom. Not long ago, in 2017 he …
Mark is one of Canada's most decorated Paralympians. The list goes on and on, he is a 4x Paralympian in Biathlon and cross country, 2x Paralympic champion, an award winner, multi medalist and 3x World Champion. On this episod...
Erica Gravel was a basketball player, due to injuries she turned to wheelchair basketball. She is a Paralympian, Parapan medalist, Physiologist, soon to be PHD. Listen to her story now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...
Ethan Hess, a para nordic skier, made his dream come true competing at the 2018 Paralympic Winter Games as a teenager. He didn’t stop there he then raced in the 2019 World Championships and raced at his second Paralympics at …
DROPPING IN with Team Canada Paralympian Mollie Jepsen. At the Peyongchang Games she took home 4 medals, gold, silver and 2 bronze. 4 years after a diagnosis of crohn's disease she raced a the 2022 Beijing Paralympic Games a...
Intro to series VII: Paralympic Stories, we chat with Chelsea Walker, executive director of Whistler Adaptive. We learn how to get involved in sport if you or someone you know may have a disability. What sports are offered an...
Olympian Annamay Pierse Oldershaw shares her stories
3x Olympian and Olympic bronze medalist Lauren Regula shares her stories
2x Olympian Chris Robanske shares his stories
3x Olympian and Olympic silver medalist Darcy Marquardt Hortness shares her stories
Olympian Calynn Irwin shares her stories
2x Olympian Zac Plavsic shares his stories
What's it like to be on the road with this husband, father, friend, NFL & CFL player, 3x Olympian 2x World Champ medalist, sports analyst, Jesse Lumsden has got some good stories from his travels. Learn more about your ad …