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Oct 13, 2026
Mike McGrath, Air Ambulances UK: From Street Fundraiser to Accidental CEO
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26:39Mike McGrathGUEST
So similarly as and when I got to different leadership levels, again, I had quite a few crossroad moments where, um, I was looking to stretch myself and inhabit different worlds rather than again, go down a, a single specialist track.
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26:55Mike McGrathGUEST
Um, but interesting you say about sort of the different crossroads or pivots.
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27:01Mike McGrathGUEST
Um, I quite often in my first few years in the sector, I think consciously or subconsciously, maybe I was a bit hypersensitive, but I definitely received, or I felt when receiving from various people's comments down the years of, um, you know, the ...
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27:18Mike McGrathGUEST
A little bit of that, when are you gonna get a proper job kind of, um, mention.
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27:24Mike McGrathGUEST
And sort of sometimes those were quite either overt, you know, literally, or, or, you know, "When are you gonna get a proper job?" Uh, and other time it was just that sort of slightly, slight feeling you'd get.
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27:34Mike McGrathGUEST
Um, but if ever I actually turned, thinking back to my childhood, whenever I thought, you know, sometimes people would say, "Okay, well, what would be your ideal job?" You know, "What, what are you going to do? What do you want to do?" And I, I, I dunno, I just, I genuinely don't know.
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41:41Scott HamiltonHOST
And, and how did you cope with that in terms of your own personal head space?