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The Holiday That Changed My Life

‘The holiday that changed my life’ is a podcast that combines travel, business and lifestyle. Holidays are normally measured in terms of days or weeks but, for some, they have the potential to change your life forever.In every episode co-hosts Jen Atkinson and Chris Maguire interview someone about that one holiday that changed the direction of their life. Those experiences can be happy or sad, funny or serious, life-changing or life-ending.From finding yourself at the centre or a terror attack to

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Series 1, Episode 10 – ANGELA LUGER – ‘Dream...

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2024/06/11

Angela Luger is an experienced and well respected FTSE 250 CEO and non-executive director but nothing could have prepared her for what happened in 2022. She’d been enjoying a dream catamaran holiday in the British Virgin Islands with her American husband Michael and two other couples when tragedy struck. The couple had been snorkelling when Michael suffered a heart attack and died despite frantic efforts to save his life. Angela described it as the ‘worst hour of my life’ and a police investigation

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Series 1, Episode 9 – APRIL HUTCHINSON – ‘How travel...

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2024/06/04

APRIL HUTCHINSON is a doyen of the travel industry. She’s the editor and publisher of TTG Luxury and has been a journalist for 30 years. However her devotion to travel has been at tremendous personal sacrifice. She was in a trip to Antarctica when she discovered her mother had died and she couldn’t get back in time to attend the funeral. Then, in 2008, on a short break to Amsterdam her husband told her he didn’t love her anymore and the pair got divorced. During Covid, April’s beloved cat Clio died

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Series 1, Episode 8 – PETER HOPTON – ‘Skiing off a...

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2024/05/28

Serial entrepreneur PETER HOPTON may have been successful in business but he admits his people skills left a lot to be desired. As the keen skier stood at the top of the mountain in Lake Tahoe, California, in 2019, his focus was getting to the bottom as quickly as possible. An app recorded his descent at 49mph – but then disaster struck. Peter didn’t see a fast-approaching cliff and skied off the side of the mountain. He fell from the equivalent of a two-storey building and suffered horrendous

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Series 1, Episode 7 – RORY O’HARE – ‘I owe everything...

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2024/05/21

RORY O’HARE is today a high-flying partner with Primas Law but looks back on a £28 silent retreat in North Wales as the holiday that changed his life. At the time Rory was living in London and routinely punching out 13-hour days but admits he’d never felt more alone. Then he saw an advert for a £28 silent retreat in North Wales and found the answers to the questions that would change the direction of his life forever. Instead of burning the midnight oil at work he slept solidly for 36 hours and woke

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Series 1, Episode 6 – PHILIP WALSH – ‘I survived...

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2024/05/14

Keen skier Philip Walsh couldn’t wait to celebrate his 30th birthday by going skiing in the Canadian Rockies with some friends. However ecstasy turned to tragedy as he waited to be picked up by a helicopter in one of the most beautiful places in the world after completing his ski. His instructor suddenly pointed to an avalanche in the distance after hearing a ‘woof’ sound and within seconds the group was hit by a wall of snow. “It was like being hit by a wave the size of a Ford Transit doing

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Series 1, Episode 5 – MARIAM ASLAM-DIGGER on why...

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2024/05/07

Mariam Aslam-Digger thought she could find happiness chasing the corporate dream but found peace closer to home. The youngest of five Muslim daughters Mariam always knew she was different. In her first trip back to her parents’ homeland of Pakistan she admits she acted like a spoilt teenager and the disastrous holiday ended with her being bitten by a scorpion. As she grew older, she threw herself into her career but despite enjoying the trappings of success she wasn’t happy and was close to

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Series 1, Episode 4 – EMMA SQUIRE ‘I nearly died on...

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2024/04/30

Emma Squire had been planning a relaxing beach walk in Sri Lanka with her family to celebrate her 20th birthday. However her excitement was rapidly replaced by blind terror as the island was hit by the devastating Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami on Boxing Day 2004 that killed 230,000 people. The waves separated her from her family and carried on her on a terrifying journey that brought her face-to-face with death. Amazingly, Emma survived and was found by her dad but she faced an agonising wait

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Series 1, Episode 3 – SOPHIE BROWN ‘I married a...

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2024/04/23

Sophie Brown could have been forgiven for having a few nerves when she flew to Saint Lucia on her honeymoon with her new husband, Jonathan Wileman. That’s because the stars of the hit show ‘Married At First Sight’ had just met each other and their every move was being followed by a TV crew. Sophie tells The Holiday That Changed My Life podcast how she appeared on the show looking for love but found herself at the centre of a bizarre experiment watched by a TV audience of millions. However, the

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Series 1, Episode 2 – DERRY GREEN ‘I owe my life to...

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2024/04/16

When Derry Green was trapped at home with his kids in 2020 during the Covid lockdown he made a decision that would change his life. Unable to fly to Florida for their planned holiday to Disney he told his kids to pack their bags as they were going on an alternative holiday - in their bag garden in Skelmersdale! With Derry’s European transport business facing an uncertain future he built a glamping pod in his garden and posted photos on Facebook – and immediately became a viral media sensation. He

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Series 1, Episode 1 – DOMINIC McGREGOR on how...

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2024/04/02

Series 1, Episode 1 – DOMINIC McGREGOR on how surviving the 2015 Paris terror attack forced him to confront his own demons. ‘The holiday that changed my life’ podcast with Jen Atkinson and Chris Maguire Friday November 13th, 2015 could have been the last day of Dominic McGregor’s life – but it turned out to be the start of a new one. In the space of a few hours the entrepreneur went from the euphoria of closing a £1m investment deal with his business partner Steven Bartlett to finding himself at

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