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: From orphaned, addicted & alone to success in academia with Gregory Smith | Kintsugi Heroes
Gregory’s story begins in a violent and destructive home environment fuelled by anger and alcohol. He describes in graphic detail a life of neglect and trauma through his years as uncontrollable child in an orphanage. When he left at nineteen, he had no life skills and eventually ended up living as a recluse living alone […]
REPLAY: One person can change your life with Lena Papadopoulos | Kintsugi Heroes Podcast
Lena describes her dysfunctional family and a long struggle with depression, including suicidal ideation. The loss of a close friend to suicide without her being aware of his pain provided the basis of her passion for creating safe places for other people to find acceptance and support when they need help. Lena faced her own […]
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 […]
ANNOUNCEMENT: We’re improving the first season of the show!
If you’ve been with us from the beginning, you’ll know we’ve had an incredible year of episodes for the podcast, hearing inspiring stories of our guests rising above their addiction, trauma, mental illnesses and more. The Kintsugi Heroes Team has also grown and, as I’m sure you can understand, 50 episodes of a podcast is […]
Addressing PTSD as a veteran and finding your gratitude with Terry James | Kintsugi Heroes Podcast
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 […]
Finding resilience and surviving the Three Ds with Natalie Stockdale | Kintsugi Heroes Podcast
Natalie shares her story about the experiences she had that enabled her to create her resilience tools and shares several of them with us. As a young woman she experienced the heartbreak of drought in the outback when suffering stock were lost or had to be destroyed. Drought was the first of the three D’s […]
Rising above a traumatic childhood and changing lives with Danny Lloyd | Kintsugi Heroes
Danny grew up in Guernsey Channel Island, bullied for being grossly overweight. He had a good home with a hardworking single mum but didn’t fit in. He was surrounded by wealth and privilege and felt trapped and became involved with drinking, drugs and violence. After many other experiences and now living in Australia, Danny had […]
A life of love and business after a traumatic childhood with Judy Van Nierkerk | Kintsugi Heroes
Judy’s truly remarkable story begins at the age of fifteen after a childhood of unimaginable fear and torment as a victim of sexual enslavement by her father. She had the first of several extraordinary ‘transcendent’ experiences that gave her insight into the extraordinariness of who we are. She learned that we could access the universal […]
The truth about Child Slavery & being part of the solution with Paul Mergard | Kintsugi Heroes
Paul’s story is very moving, confronting but overall filled with hope. Over the past two decades, Paul has spent multiple nights in some of the darkest places on the face of the planet, rescuing children who have been sold into the global sex trade. He has felt a drive to do what he can to […]