Advocating for Accessibility after Legally Blind at 42 with Narelle Gatti
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 […]
Experience the Harsh Realities of Caring for a Loved One with Gary Watson
Gary grew up curious and spirited, always eager to solve problems. He discovered his innate passion for helping others early on in his life. He studied business and economics and combined academic rigor with practical insights, eventually earning a doctorate. Gary entered the automotive industry, quickly rising through the ranks and became known for his […]
Friendship and Fitness are the key to a good life with Philip Basche
Phillip has a very simple but profound story. He holds the record at St Vincent’s Hospital for the most heart by passes in one operation when he was 51. This was a defining moment for him as he realised, he may not have much longer to live and needed to live every day for today. […]
Finding your inspiration after divorce with Jeni Vercoe
Jeni was married at twenty-two at a time when many women stayed at home after marriage. When her marriage broke up after twenty-two years, she had zero self-esteem, two kids and no idea how to move on as she felt she had no skills. She tells her remarkable story with humour, honesty and wisdom and […]
BONUS: Preview of “Humans of HOPE: Inspiring Stories with Kerrie Atherton”
This month, Kintsugi Heroes is sharing episodes from other podcasts we’ve created to address different stages of adversity. You may not realise, but Kintsugi Heroes is a podcast network with many stories to listen to, watch and share. This week, you’ll hear a preview of the “Humans of HOPE: Inspiring Stories with Kerrie Atherton”. With […]
Tim Kay – Tell Your Story
Tim shares why it is important for all of us, especially seniors to tell our stories ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ 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 — the philosophy that what’s been […]
Addressing PTSD as a veteran and finding your gratitude with Terry James
Terry is an early baby boomer. His life plan to become an archaeologist changed when he was conscripted into the Australian Army in 1966. He shares some of his traumatic experiences as an elite soldier. After two years he left the army and became an accountant and put the military out of his mind. Over […]
Beyond the Deluge – Book Launch
The “Beyond the Deluge – Flood Resilience Stories from the Hunter Valley” book was officially launched Starline Alpaca Farm in Broke. This short video shows the event and also the beauty of the location ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🎙️ ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Kintsugi Heroes is a not-for-profit Australian podcast network sharing real stories of resilience, disability, and […]
BONUS: Preview from “Connecting Seniors (Kintsugi Heroes)”
This month, Kintsugi Heroes is sharing episodes from other podcasts we’ve created to address different stages of adversity. You may not realise, but Kintsugi Heroes is a podcast network with many stories to listen to, watch and share. This week, you’ll hear a preview of the “Connecting Seniors (Kintsugi Heroes)”, a Limited Series that focuses […]
Fighting Loneliness and Separation with The Chatty Cafe with Glenys Reid
Glenys Reid is the CEO of the Chatty Cafe Foundation in Australia, an initiative focused on addressing loneliness and social isolation through facilitating conversations in coffee shops and cafes. Glenys has a background marked by resilience, shaped by her family’s experience, particularly her father’s time as a prisoner of war. Her family’s attitude towards life […]