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Author, Alastair Henry - "Pick a 'Best By' date"- Double Lung Transplant Recipient S4 EPS 18
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Alastair is an author, Narrator, Adventurist, and Double Lung Transplant recipient.
Alastair immigrated to Canada from England by himself when he was 19. He became a typical yuppie – family, a house in the suburbs, and a big job in the corporate sector. Following London Life’s Freedom 55 plan – he retired at 57 and went to live in the country.
Disillusioned with retirement's passivity, he shed his material possessions and lived for two years with a small First Nations band in a remote fly-in location in the Northwest Territories.
Cultural differences and a challenging environment ignited in him fresh perspectives, and inspired a new way of being, and fueled his soul searching. The experience changed the direction of his life, which he wrote about in his memoir Awakening in the Northwest Territories. He left the north two years later and, motivated to help others, went to Bangladesh on a two-year assignment as an International Development volunteer.
With his new partner, Candas Whitlock, they next went to Jamaica and Guyana as International Development volunteers on one-year assignments. They co-wrote Go For It: Volunteering Adventures on Roads Less Traveled.
Two years later, between volunteering assignments, they spent four months backpacking Central America and Southeast Asia and co-wrote Budget Backpacking for Boomers.
They were part of a Reconciliation Canada project. In 2016, they went to Alert Bay, B.C., on a four-month volunteer placement with the Namgis First Nations. This was part of a Reconciliation Canada project. The experience was so profound that they felt compelled to write about it in a memoir entitled Tides of Change.
Candas and Alastair became entertainers for the next three years, presenting their audio/visual shows based on their books to audiences in retirement residences, service clubs, libraries, and community centers throughout Ontario.
Alastair’s double lung transplant in 2020 enabled him to finish writing his novel The Soldier and the Orphan and narrate it as an audiobook.
While narrating his other books (his three memoirs), he learned that there is a demand for his type of voice–senior male with a British accent – as a narrator and voice-over artist.
Alastair has three children and seven grandchildren and lives in London, Ontario. Canada.
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