Story 2: Cancer as a couple

This one's a little special.This is me and my husband having a chat about the fact that we are both cancer survivors. We've never actually spoken together like this and so for both of us it was a bit of a challenge on many fronts. English is Yasu’s second language and Japanese is mine, so we've done the broadcast in English and in Japanese (Episode 3)

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Vanessa Oshima
Story 1: How it all started

Back in September 2012, I got a Facebook message from a friend. Caroline had reached out to me 20 years after we left high school. I was now based in Tokyo, far from my hometown of NZ and we had not been in touch. The message just simply said “you have inspired me to go for a walk today”. And this was the start of a promise, foundation of the outruncancer journey - which led to the life learnings from running and life learnings from cancer that I gather every.damn.day.


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Vanessa Oshima
Outrun Cancer Podcast!

Come join us for some stories and casual open chats about running every day, dealing with cancer and the life learnings that come with these things!

Cancer can at times be a very lonely journey, but after 10 years of running for a friend and going through cancer myself, we know that it doesn't have to be.


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Vanessa Oshima