For Paralympian athlete Gerrard Gosens, taking on the challenge of swimming across the English Channel is more than just a physical one.

It’s also mental, as the blind swimmer confronts the elements and conditions of the day and then figures out how to overcome them. 

Gerrard tells us on Streets of Your Town podcast how he is well into an intense training regimen preparing for his attempted channel crossing in August - swimming from the UK to France in his quest to become the first blind person to do so. 

It’s a big leap from his previous sport of running - having represented Australia in long distance running in three Paralympic Games and three IPC World Athletic Championships from 1996 to 2011, as well as the Paratriathlon at Tokyo 2022.

Contact Streets of Your Town host Nance Haxton AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links HERE

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For Paralympian athlete Gerrard Gosens, taking on the challenge of swimming across the English Channel is more than just a physical one.
It’s also mental, as the blind swimmer confronts the elements and conditions of the day and then figures out how to overcome them. 
Gerrard tells us on Streets of Your Town podcast how he is well into an intense training regimen preparing for his attempted channel crossing in August - swimming from the UK to France in his quest to become the first blind person to do so. 
It’s a big leap from his previous sport of running - having represented Australia in long distance running in three Paralympic Games and three IPC World Athletic Championships from 1996 to 2011, as well as the Paratriathlon at Tokyo 2022.
Contact Streets of Your Town host Nance Haxton AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links <a href="https://lnk.to/p2NSuH">HERE</a>
Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

Join dual Walkley award winning Wandering Journo Nance Haxton in conversation with authentic, sometimes eclectic, and often pre-eminent Australians about the streets of their town. Stories about where they grew up, the environment they live, and what inspires them. Go on an audio journey with Nance highlighting a different slice of Australian life each episode.

Find all of Nance Haxton's links and work HERE

Join dual Walkley award winning Wandering Journo Nance Haxton in conversation with authentic, sometimes eclectic, and often pre-eminent Australians about the streets of their town. Stories about where they grew up, the environment they live, and what inspires them. Go on an audio journey with Nance highlighting a different slice of Australian life each episode.
Find all of Nance Haxton's links and work <a href="https://lnk.to/p2NSuH">HERE</a>

A slice of Australian (audio) life from The Wandering Journo

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Gerrard Gosens' attempt to become the first blind person to swim across the English Channel

It’s not often we get an Australian jazz singer legend on Streets of Your Town, but we are lucky enough to enjoy that on today’s episode. 

Vince Jones is well known not only in this country but throughout the world as one of Australia’s most renowned jazz musicians. 

He tells us how the love of his craft started young, in the lively jazz surrounds of Scotland.

And after half a century of performing, and a lifetime of loving music, Vince is gladly still on the road, performing and creating his distinctly Australian take on jazz music.

Contact Streets of Your Town host Nance Haxton AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links HERE

Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

It’s not often we get an Australian jazz singer legend on Streets of Your Town, but we are lucky enough to enjoy that on today’s episode. 
Vince Jones is well known not only in this country but throughout the world as one of Australia’s most renowned jazz musicians. 
He tells us how the love of his craft started young, in the lively jazz surrounds of Scotland.
And after half a century of performing, and a lifetime of loving music, Vince is gladly still on the road, performing and creating his distinctly Australian take on jazz music.
Contact Streets of Your Town host Nance Haxton AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links <a href="https://lnk.to/p2NSuH">HERE</a>
Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

Australian jazz legend Vince Jones on keeping your creativity alive

Some people when they visit Australia, simply can’t stop themselves from coming back time and time again.

So it is for Irish performer Ciaran Olohan, who is bringing his show The World of Musicals in Concert back to Australia for the fourth time.

And he’s not just taking it on the well worn route to the capital cities, Ciaran and his crew are doing the big lap of Australia, taking their show that has graced stages across the globe to some of Australia’s most off the beaten track locations as well.

Ciaran tells us on Streets of Your Town, how music has always been a part of his life from his childhood in County Wicklow to today with a career taking him to the US, Canada, Germany, Norway, Spain and China. And he ponders how much Irish music and Australian musical traditions have in common.

Contact Streets of Your Town host Nance Haxton AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links HERE

Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

Some people when they visit Australia, simply can’t stop themselves from coming back time and time again.
So it is for Irish performer Ciaran Olohan, who is bringing his show The World of Musicals in Concert back to Australia for the fourth time.
And he’s not just taking it on the well worn route to the capital cities, Ciaran and his crew are doing the big lap of Australia, taking their show that has graced stages across the globe to some of Australia’s most off the beaten track locations as well.
Ciaran tells us on Streets of Your Town, how music has always been a part of his life from his childhood in County Wicklow to today with a career taking him to the US, Canada, Germany, Norway, Spain and China. And he ponders how much Irish music and Australian musical traditions have in common.
Contact Streets of Your Town host Nance Haxton AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links <a href="https://lnk.to/p2NSuH">HERE</a>
Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

Ciaran Olohan on travelling around Australia as an Irish musician

In this episode of Streets of Your Town Elise McCann gives us insights into her creative process, particularly of late in the musical adaptation of Groundhog Day which had a season in Melbourne. 

Elise admits that despite her success as a musicals performer, like anyone, there are days that get the better of her, and that’s how she decided to create the stress and motivation app Hey Lemonade.

Together with her fellow performer friend Lucy Durack they hope to turn around people’s woes with the Hey Lemonade app that they designed and built.

As Elise explains, the app offers three-minute talks on various topics, written by a team of writers and psychologists, and delivered by a diverse range of well known voices from the entertainment industry. A bit like a portable pick me up in your pocket.

Contact Streets of Your Town host Nance Haxton AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links HERE

Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

In this episode of Streets of Your Town Elise McCann gives us insights into her creative process, particularly of late in the musical adaptation of Groundhog Day which had a season in Melbourne. 
Elise admits that despite her success as a musicals performer, like anyone, there are days that get the better of her, and that’s how she decided to create the stress and motivation app Hey Lemonade.
Together with her fellow performer friend Lucy Durack they hope to turn around people’s woes with the Hey Lemonade app that they designed and built.
As Elise explains, the app offers three-minute talks on various topics, written by a team of writers and psychologists, and delivered by a diverse range of well known voices from the entertainment industry. A bit like a portable pick me up in your pocket.
Contact Streets of Your Town host Nance Haxton AKA The Wandering Journo and find socials links <a href="https://lnk.to/p2NSuH">HERE</a>
Get the full story, and join The Wandering Journo tribe at substack.soyt.com

Gerrard Gosens' attempt to become the first blind person to swim across the English Channel

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