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Dec 2022
30m 47s

Beat Your Fear of Flying

Edwina Stott
About this episode

Whilst we love to travel, so many of us are terrified of flying. So what can we do to ease those fears and fly fearlessly into the holiday season?

Captain Tom Bunn is an airline pilot and licensed therapist & the president of SOAR, an organisation that he's been running for the last 30 years helping people to overcome their fear of flying.

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Find out more about SOAR via the website.

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