Podcasts

Welcome and thank you for coming to listen to our lived stories.
My name is David Fitzgerald, I live with a brain stem injury that I have had from the age of eleven.
I understand that all of us have struggles and different challenges we need to cope with every day.
I believe by us sharing our stories and talking about our struggles and challenges and our resilience, we can help each other work through these and help each other to live full happy and loving lives.
Thank you to all the people who are sharing their lives with us and if you would like to get involved or have a comment or suggestion please contact me via the contact page.
Each podcast has a transcript of the interview, click on the persons name to expand their audio recording.

Contact page

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below is the list of podcast recordings
the below is layed out as follows
as you arrow down, first is the photo of the person & you will hear a basic discription of the photo
next is the persons name
Next is a brief description on what the person is talking about on the podcast
Next is a link to the transcript for that podcast
If you want to listen to that podcast go back up to the persons name & after their name you will hear, white down pointing backhand index button collapsed
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A head shot photo of David looking strait at the camera

David Fitzgerald

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David tells a little of his story and explains why these podcasts are important to him.
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Daniel Robinson

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Daniel talks about life in a wheelchair
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Albert Lee

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Albert talks about living life as a double amputee
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A front on photo of Jess sitting at a table smiling at the person taking the photo

Jess Kendall

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Jess talks about life as a blind person
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A photo of Anand shoulders up with trees in the background

Anand Bhatt

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Anand talks about the importance of living well and natural therapies and Yoga
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A photo of George from shoulders up smiling at the camera

George Vorkas

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George talks about life as a vision impaired person
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A photo of Jack from shoulders up smiling at the camera

Jack Murphy

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Jack tells us about his music & riding motor bikes as a blind person, following the interview is a recording Jack has recorded of Jack playing the guitar instrumental song he wrote called, Runaway Guitar.
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A photo of Terry sitting on a rock on the beach with a dog sitting on his lap

Terry Cook

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Terry talks about playing Rugby league & playing in the state of Origin.
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A photo of Colleen standing facing the camera with a hat on

Colleen Fitzgerald

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Dave's Mum [Colleen Fitzgerald] talks about Dave’s accident & how to live well
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A photo of Jason's face while standing facing the camera

Jason Loakes

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Jason talks about becoming ill as an infant & his passion in caring for homeless people.
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Living with a disability comes with many struggles and challenges. People with a disability helping people with a disability to overcome these by sharing our stories in how we can band together to assist each other in our journeys helps us all. Our podcasts of people facing challenges is one way we can do this by sharing our struggles and successes. Podcasts with people with a disability and people supporting someone with a disability is a way to bring us together and support each other.