Bringing Irish Community to Australian Mental Health Advocacy with Alan Earls | Kintsugi Heroes
Alan’s personal experience with homelessness and mental health challenges, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic, informs his empathetic approach to peer support work. He transitioned from a career as a financial advisor to a peer worker position in suicide prevention, where he co-designs and implements vital services to support those in crisis. Alan is an inspiring […]
Art, Advocacy, and Ending Child Slavery through Destiny Rescue with Tracie Eaton | Kintsugi Heroes
Tracie Eaton is an Internationally-renowned & award winning Australian artist with an artistic career spanning over 17 years. Tracie’s studio is located on the Gold Coast, QLD, Australia. Her personal experiences with burnout propelled Tracie to transition from corporate to creative pursuits, emphasizing the importance of listening to one’s inner needs and embracing purposeful change. […]
Domestic Abuse as a Child Empowering her to Advocacy with Jas Rawlinson | Kintsugi Heroes
Jas describes her experiences with domestic violence as a young teen, which included she and her mother running through the bush to seek safety and then spending 9 months in a safe house. Jas’s experiences with her father’s emotional abuse, led to self-esteem and body image struggles, highlighting the deep impact of non-physical forms of […]
Teaching & Mental Health Advocacy after Trauma, Addiction and Loss with Chris Edwards
Chris Edwards is a father of a son who died by suicide in 2021. He has a history of suicide ideation, brought about by domestic violence and abuse in his early life. His experiences and events like these, drive him to share his story, with the hope that the stigma surrounding mental health and suicide […]
Advocating for Accessibility after Legally Blind at 42 with Narelle Gatti | Kintsugi Heroes Podcast
Narelle has a severe vision impairment that means she uses a guide dog to get around. She only started to lose my sight about 16 years ago and has lived with only seeing shapes for the last two years. She is an advocate for digital accessibility in Australia and work to let people know about […]
Shining Light on Men’s Mental Health through Advocacy with Bradley Spillane | Kintsugi Heroes
Bradley Spillane is an advocate, a community volunteer and spokesperson. Through the men’s mental health radio show on Radio Blue Mountains, he is a lodestone, a centre for people talking about something that wasn’t fashionable when he started, which was men’s mental health and men’s health in general This episode is a brutally honest, in-depth […]
From Brain Surgery at 13 to Health, Fitness & Success with Bishoy Tadros
Bishoy Tadros was born in Egypt. At the age of three the family immigrated to the US when he was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. He grew up in Long Island, NY where he received treatment for ten years. On his thirteenth birthday, Bishoy underwent brain surgery and remains cancer-free. Bishoy shares his passion for […]
Resilience and changing your life after a spinal cord injury with Dinesh Palipana | Kintsugi Heroes
Dinesh Palipana is an extraordinary human being. He was the first quadriplegic medical intern in Queensland and is a doctor, lawyer, disability advocate, and researcher. Halfway through medical school, he was involved in a motor vehicle accident that caused a cervical spinal cord injury. Biography Dinesh has completed an Advanced Clerkship in Radiology at the […]
REPLAY: Healing from a toxic home with functional medicine with Dr. Traci Potterf | Kintsugi Heroes
Today Traci shares her very personal journey helping save her mom’s life… and colon… from Crohn’s disease, which doctors said was impossible, as well as her own experience with a terrifying combination of lead paint poisoning and toxic mould sickness that challenged her will to live. These struggles put everything she thought she knew to […]
REPLAY: Surviving crippling loss and changing your life with John Milham | Kintsugi Heroes Podcast
In this first guest podcast, the Kintsugi Hero is John Milham. He describes his journey from the crippling grief of losing his childhood sweetheart and beloved wife to how he survived and later thrived. At the same time, he completely changed his life’s direction and identity while raising his three young children. He tells his […]