Magical Match

09/04/2024

Actively seeking to help raise awareness and hopefully encourage more people to the .

You might be a donor, recipient, a Consultant, CNS, or a family member or a friend who’s been affected by someone else’s story.

If you have a you’d like to share, please do get in touch. I’d love to speak with you.

Thank you ❤️💛

07/04/2024

New episode available - the second part in Lisa Gosnay’s story. Hope you enjoy the listen.

In this episode, the second part of our two parter, we continue the conversation with Lisa Gosnay. In part two, we hear about her struggles with career progression, her subsequent health issues which led to her relapse and her stem cell transplant. Lisa has a blog on Instagram which you can follow h...

23/03/2024

And here's the next episode ... a two-parter. Hope you enjoy listening to part one.

In this episode, we hear from Lisa Gosnay, who at 29, was diagnosed with Aplastic Anaemia. Lisa is an amazing person and has an extraordinary story. In this two-parter, we hear about her initial diagnosis and treatment. We learn about her career struggles, having been very career-focused and her det...

24/09/2023

S2 Ep 5 is out now! In this episode, we hear from Jake and Nelson Andrade. Both speak candidly about Jake’s diagnosis of acute myeloid leukaemia aged 13 & his not one, but two stem cell transplants.

In this episode we hear from Jake and Nelson Andrade. Jake was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukaemia aged 13 years old and has undergone not one, but two stem cell transplants and has turned his experience into a book, 'My Leukaemia Fight.' You can find out more about Jake and purchase his book her...

12/08/2023

The next Magical Match episode is here. In this episode we hear from Louise Stevens, mum of three boys, who speaks candidly about the loss of her beautiful son, Jack to JMML. We also hear of her campaigning in Australia around the importance of stem cell donation.

Please take a listen and share far and wide. Thank you ###

In this episode, we hear from Louise Stevens, a mum of three boys, who talks candidly and openly about the loss of her four year old son, Jack, to JMML and the charity she set up with her husband, Gary in his honour, to help bereaved families. She also speaks about her campaigning for change in Aust...

16/06/2023

Well, a few test t-shirts arrived today. Just working out best way to print en-masse for raising awareness. What colours do you prefer? Currently looking at offering white on blue, white on red and red on white …

30/05/2023

New episode available! In this episode, I chatted with Ellie Moss, Donor Recruitment Coordinator-Follow-up / Donor Patient Contact with DKMS. It’s an informative episode and fabulous insight into what happens in the donor / recipient journey. You can listen here:

In this episode we hear from Ellie Moss, Donor Recruitment Co-ordinator - Follow-up / Patient Donor Contact with DKMS. We talked the huge impact that the extraordinary people who sign up to the stem cell register have on the people waiting for a stem cell transplant, the role she has within the orga...

14/05/2023

New episode available!

https://magicalmatchpod.podbean.com/e/s2-2-more-people-more-diversity-we-ll-all-have-a-match-gobforgood/

Thank you for listening and sharing far and wide!

26/02/2023

****MAGICAL MATCH PODCAST INTVS****

Do you have a stem cell story you’d be willing to share with our audience? I host a new podcast chatting with donor, recipients, families, healthcare workers, etc and hearing about their experiences with stem cell donation. My aim is to raise awareness in light of our son, Ben’s experience and as a way to hopefully inspire more people to sign up to the stem cell register.

It takes just five mins to register and you may never donate in your life, but you will never be contacted if you are not on the stem cell register and your act of kindness could give a family more time with their loved one or even give someone a second chance at life.

I’d love to chat to interested parties, whether you are affected by someone else’s story, or have your own experience to share. Maybe you work in the health sector or research and would like to chat about your experience.

These conversations are recorded online in a relaxed environment. I’ll also be reaching out to some of you who’ve already expressed an interest ❤️

I’d also be very interested to speak with anyone connected with cord blood donation … it might make a really interesting conversation; or anyone around trials and research connected with blood cancers. Please DM me.

Thank you.

21/11/2022

You can find all our episodes so far … here! Do take a listen; then like and subscribe to keep up to date with all our inspirational . If you have a you’d like to share, please do get in touch 💛

Magical Match, a podcast all about real people with real stories around the important topic of stem cell donation and transplants. In each episode, I’ll be chatting with donors, recipients, those in supportive roles; and people who have been affected by e...

19/11/2022

This was our very first episode of Magical Match with Andy Mitchell, a donor and advocate for stem cell donation, whose inspirational suggestion turned into this podcast! We recorded this in Spring of this year and I hope you enjoy it ...

In this episode, devoted Evertonian, Andy explains the reason behind him signing up to the stem cell register, his experience of the donation process and his ongoing work to help raise awareness of stem cell donation in both the football and wider community. You can follow Andy on Twitter at Blues A...

19/11/2022

Welcome to the FB page for Magical Match; a podcast hosted by Ginny Walker () on Twitter. I hope to build a community of compassionate and inspiring individuals, helping to raise awareness of stem cell donation and the importance of this to so many people waiting for a stem cell donor.

The Magical Match podcast () was created following a conversation on Twitter Space with Andy Mitchell () and other like-minded individuals.

If you'd like to share your stem cell story with us, please do get in touch.

We are also on Instagram ()

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