Episode 30: Mike Machowiak; What Survival Teaches About Love And Faith
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A home birth in a ham radio room on a Fairbanks-area homestead is only the opening scene of Mike Machowiak’s life, and it explains more than you’d think. Mike grew up around improvisation, cold mornings, and the kind of grit you don’t learn from a manual. From there, his family history stretches back to WWII Europe: the Polish underground, a POW camp and escape, Switzerland’s mountain culture, and the long, complicated ways trauma can echo into the next generation.
We follow Mike’s path through welding, shipyards, commercial diving, and the early, cowboy days of Dutch Harbor…
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