CJ Grace, author of the comic self-help book, Adulterer’s Wife: How to Thrive Whether You Stay or Not, is planning to launch the Midlife Perspective Podcast on Radio CJ in 2022. You’ll meet ordinary people who have extraordinary stories to tell. Here’s a taste of what you’ll be hearing on the show.
Interviews
Brian Milton’s 250-ft Fall and Open-Cockpit World Flight
CJ Grace talks to adventurer, TV journalist and aviation historian, Brian Milton, whose feats of flying have won him a Guinness World Record and numerous prestigious awards. He plummeted 250 feet when testing out a prototype powered hang glider but went on to become the first person to circumnavigate the globe in an open-cockpit ultralight aircraft. Brian has written several books about his adventures and aviation history. To find out more about his writing and see videos of his flights, visit his website, brian-milton.com.
Duration: 36 min. 7 sec.
April Love Teaches Horses Yoga
April Love, founder of holistichorseworks.com and horsehealersacademy.com, is a true horse whisperer. She knows exactly how to get rid of an animal’s aches and pains or turn a racehorse into a winner. April talks to CJ Grace about how yoga, bodywork, and an astute eye for an individual animal’s needs can turn a dangerous horse in pain to a very happy camper—and she’s worked on dogs, sheep and even an egret too!
Duration: 33 min. 15 sec.
Jeff Lahl Turns on the Lights
Let there be light—and marriage proposals! CJ Grace meets Jeff Lahl, Project Director for SELF, the Solar Electricity Light Fund. The organization brings solar power to third world communities that have never had electricity before. This interview took place in 2017.
Duration: 30 min. 52 sec.
Lloyd Johnson on Sharks and Cleaning up Maui Shores
If Lloyd Johnson could turn lead into gold, he’d be a billionaire. The founder of the Maui Mantas, a Facebook group, Lloyd chats with CJ Grace about swimming in the nude with sharks and organizing coastal cleanups.
Duration: 26 min. 29 sec.
Interview music composed and performed by CJ Grace
Intro and outro voiceovers by Brian Milton
The Great British Rant
Brits love to complain. Maybe it’s because the weather is so bad in England. CJ Grace would love to be as good at ranting as Jonathan Pie. She’s doing a lot of practicing to try to improve her griping skills.
The Great British Rant: Dogs
CJ Grace proves that she is a grumpy, sarcastic Brit by giving her views on four-legged friends.
Duration: 3 min. 57 sec.
The Great British Rant: Surveys
CJ Grace demonstrates that she is not a fan of surveys.
Duration: 4 min. 1 sec.
The Great British Rant: Tea
CJ Grace complains about the lack of good British tea in America.
Duration: 3 min. 24 sec.
The Great British Rant: Facebook
CJ Grace takes aim at Facebook profiling and recounts her hetero son’s gay Facebook journey. Read CJ’s blog, Facebook: Uninvited Guest at the Dinner Table, to find out more.
Duration: 3 min. 39 sec.
The Great British Rant: Leaf Blowers
Unless you work in the landscaping business, it’s very likely you’ll share CJ Grace’s opinions on leaf blowers. Is there any other modern machine that is more hated?
Duration: 3 min. 29 sec.
The Great British Rant: Wristwatch Chimes
On the hour, every hour, and as annoying as hell. That’s CJ Grace’s view of the ubiquitous chimes setting on digital watches.
Duration: 3 min. 58 sec.
The Great British Rant: Bird Poop
Maybe if you’re an ornithologist you might see bird droppings as a wonderful natural process. Anyone else, especially the Romans, will have a very different attitude towards the stuff, as CJ Grace explains.
Duration: 5 min. 46 sec.
The Great British Rant: Emojis
First used on Japanese phones in 1997, emojis began to appear in the US about a decade later and to CJ Grace’s great chagrin, have now become ubiquitous.
Duration: 4 min. 39 sec.