Tahlia McSwain's guest appearances

Tahlia McSwain

Company

Life on the Land

Claire Dunne

Victoria Carey

Jane Cay

Meg Bignell

Emma Williams

Sophie Hansen

Skye O'Neill

Georgie Robertson

Victoria McGrane

Jo Palmer

Laura Hall

Pip Brett

Julie McDonald

Annabelle Hickson

Kara Rosenlund

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It's fair to say that 2020 has been a tough year for most, certainly an extraordinary year like we’ve never seen before. But for today’s guest, young dairy farmer Tahlia McSwain from Busselton in south west Western Australia it’s been a shocker. Earlier this year she took a job as a stockwoman, escorting sheep and cattle on a live export vessel. She’d done it before and she should have been home the family dairy farm within a matter of weeks. But things went wrong. Complications with COVID 19 which are still unclear to Tahlia saw herself and the crew onboard stranded on the vessel unexpected for 170 days. This took Tahlia to the depths of her mental strength to get through the days.But it doesn't end there, shortly after she finally arrived back home in Western Australia, one of the crew members tested positive to COVID 19 whipping up a West Australian media frenzy. Also while on board she lost some of her colleagues in a nightmarish tragedy when the live export vessel they were working on capsized in the south china sea.The good news is that she’s at home now - and in a weird way - almost back to normal life. This is her story.Life on the Land is an independently produced podcast for the Graziher magazine. If you want to read more about the wonderful women of the land in Australia, you can subscribe to Graziher yourself or buy a subscription for a friend at graziher.com.auThank you to the Sponsor for this episode PharmOnline a new start up business based in Walcha new South Wales.We’ll back next week with another episode of Life on The Land. 

It's fair to say that 2020 has been a tough year for most, certainly an extraordinary year like we’ve never seen before. But for today’s guest, young dairy farmer Tahlia McSwain from Busselton in south west Western Australia it’s been a shocker. Earlier this year she took a job as a stockwoman, escorting sheep and cattle on a live export vessel. She’d done it before and she should have been home the family dairy farm within a matter of weeks. But things went wrong. Complications with COVID 19 which are still unclear to Tahlia saw herself and the crew onboard stranded on the vessel unexpected for 170 days. This took Tahlia to the depths of her mental strength to get through the days. But it doesn't end there, shortly after she finally arrived back home in Western Australia, one of the crew members tested positive to COVID 19 whipping up a West Australian media frenzy. Also while on board she lost some of her colleagues in a nightmarish tragedy when the live export vessel they were working on capsized in the south china sea. The good news is that she’s at home now - and in a weird way - almost back to normal life. This is her story. Life on the Land is an independently produced podcast for the <a href="https://www.graziher.com.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Graziher</a> magazine. If you want to read more about the wonderful women of the land in Australia, you can subscribe to <a href="https://www.graziher.com.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Graziher </a>yourself or buy a subscription for a friend at <a href="https://www.graziher.com.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">graziher.com.au</a> Thank you to the Sponsor for this episode <a href="https://www.pharmonline.com.au/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">PharmOnline</a> a new start up business based in Walcha new South Wales. We’ll back next week with another episode of Life on The Land.

2020 has been a tough year for dairy farmer Tahlia McSwain

Right now here in Australia many of us are being plunged back into lockdown due to COVID-19 and for many the second time around is harder, more isolating and more mentally challenging. But what if you’d never left isolation? Today's guest, west Australian dairy farmer Tahlia McSwain has been stuck on a boat (a live export boat) in a port in South Africa for more than 100 days – after their plans to disembark were derailed by confusion and COVID. I came across Tahlia on Instagram about 2 months ago and I haven’t stopped thinking about how mentally challenging, boring and scary this experience would be for her. But she’s a bundle of strength and mature beyond her years as you will hear. I hope you are equally as blown away by her story as I am.

Right now here in Australia many of us are being plunged back into lockdown due to COVID-19 and for many the second time around is harder, more isolating and more mentally challenging. But what if you’d never left isolation? Today's guest, west Australian dairy farmer Tahlia McSwain has been stuck on a boat (a live export boat) in a port in South Africa for more than 100 days – after their plans to disembark were derailed by confusion and COVID. I came across Tahlia on Instagram about 2 months ago and I haven’t stopped thinking about how mentally challenging, boring and scary this experience would be for her. But she’s a bundle of strength and mature beyond her years as you will hear. I hope you are equally as blown away by her story as I am.

Tahlia McSwain has been stuck at sea for more than 100 days