In this episode of The Raw Nerve, we meet James Riley a young father from Ballarat, Victoria who works in the telecommunications industry and like the guest on our previous episode, is a passionate runner. James’s story is a little different, however. His running routine, his marathons and ultra marathons, were halted by an MS diagnosis, and now after over a decade, he has returned to running, albeit carefully and slowly. James recently completed a marathon, his first since his diagnosis and in April 2024 was profiled in his local Ballarat paper, The Courier, and his story has inspired many.

Diagnosed with MS in 2015, James shares with our Raw Nerve audience his lived experience of MS and its impact, in a deeply moving discussion with host Jeremy Henderson.

Passionate about empowering others with MS, James shares some of the strategies that have worked for him. He talks about living and working with MS, his diagnosis, disclosure, his passion for running, explaining MS to children, managing MS symptoms while training for and competing in a marathon, physical and mental health plus wellbeing, future goals and provides heartfelt advice for people newly diagnosed and starting their MS journeys. Today’s Raw Episode is with someone, an ordinary Australian, living his best life, managing his MS, slowly returning to something he loves and focusing on what he can do rather than what he can't.