Kintsugi Heroes Inspiring Hope Through Powerful Stories
Stories create connection. Connection creates hope. Ian and Alan reflect on why storytelling matters — because when one person speaks honestly, many others feel seen. 🎧 Watch the full episode: 🌐 Visit https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/ to connect with us, explore resources, and join the conversation. 📖 Discover our books and merchandise inspired by the Kintsugi philosophy. #kintsugiheroes […]
Colitis, Cancer, and Steroids My Life Threatening Battle
Colitis. Cancer. Steroid dependency. Alan shares what it means to face life-threatening illness — not once, but repeatedly — and how resilience is built when survival becomes personal. This isn’t just a medical story. It’s about identity, endurance, and redefining life after everything changes. 🎧 Watch the full conversation: 🌐 Learn more, explore resources, and […]
Ultra Running Why I Run 100 Miles And You Should Too!
Winning didn’t feel how she expected. Zali opens up about the emotional reality of becoming world champion — and what success actually gives you (and what it doesn’t). #kintsugiheroes #gritdiaries #worldchampion #successmindset #eliteathlete #truthaboutwinning ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Kintsugi Heroes is a not-for-profit Australian podcast network sharing real stories of resilience, disability, and […]
Skiing’s Secrets Control the Controllable, Master the Uncontrollable
You can’t control the weather. You can control your response. Zali reveals the elite skiing principle that applies to every high-pressure environment. #kintsugiheroes #gritdiaries #controlwhatyoucan #athletewisdom #mentaldiscipline #lifelessons ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Kintsugi Heroes is a not-for-profit Australian podcast network sharing real stories of resilience, disability, and transformation. Named after the Japanese art […]
Master Your Fight or Flight Plan, Prepare, and Thrive!
Fight or flight isn’t the enemy — unpreparedness is. Zali shares how planning and preparation turn stress into fuel instead of fear. This is how you train your nervous system to win. #kintsugiheroes #gritdiaries #fightorflight #mentaltraining #stressmastery #resiliencebuilding ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Kintsugi Heroes is a not-for-profit Australian podcast network sharing real stories […]
Thriving Under Pressure: What Lawyers Learn From Athletes
Courtroom. Starting gate. Same pressure. Zali explains why law, sport, and competition all trigger the same mental intensity — and how elite performers learn to thrive under it. #kintsugiheroes #gritdiaries #performancemindset #pressuretraining #lawandlife #mentalstrength ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Kintsugi Heroes is a not-for-profit Australian podcast network sharing real stories of resilience, disability, and […]
Happy vs Angry Which Mood Wins Races Expert Skier Reveals!
Does anger make you faster… or does calm win races? Zali breaks down how emotional states directly impact performance — and why happiness often outperforms rage at the highest level. Master your mood, master the race. #kintsugiheroes #gritdiaries #zalisteggall #mentalperformance #athletemindset #emotionalcontrol #highperformance ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Kintsugi Heroes is a not-for-profit Australian […]
Coping with anxiety and depression and a difficult start to family life with Peter Donnell
Peter Donnell grew up in Sydney’s northern suburbs. His career began strongly but the early 2000s brought unexpected hurdles, including workplace changes and the closure of his office. He also faced tough commutes and job stress. His wife’s health after childbirth brought extra challenges at home. Managing a newborn and household demands grew more difficult […]
Ian Westmoreland’s Story on the Campfire Project
Ian Westmoreland shares the Kintsugi Heroes story as well as his cancer journey on the Campfire Project podcast with Alan Stevens ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Kintsugi Heroes is a not-for-profit Australian podcast network sharing real stories of resilience, disability, and transformation. Named after the Japanese art of repairing broken pottery with gold — […]
Adventure and exploring life, through service, family and purpose with Aaron Tait
From war zones to slums, Aaron Tait has travelled to and worked in more than 70 countries across the globe as a military officer, humanitarian and social entrepreneur, and now writes to help people live deliberate lives filled with purpose. Aaron was thrust into the frontline of international crisis at a young age, deploying to […]