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  • David Ayliffe: 23 Years in a Cult, an ADHD Late Diagnosis at 70, and the Day the Film Over His Eyes Fell Away

    David Ayliffe: 23 Years in a Cult, an ADHD Late Diagnosis at 70, and the Day the Film Over His Eyes Fell Away
    2026/10/15
    The film over the eyes fell away⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses mental health & wellbeing, which some listeners may find distressing.If you need support, you're not alone. Help is available:• Lifeline (24/7 crisis support): 13 11 14 · lifeline.org.auDavid's career began in journalism at the Bankstown Observer, where he worked alongside young Paul Keating. His ADHD, undiagnosed until age 70, drove him through multiple careers and into a Pentecostal healing ministry that became a cult led by a woman claiming to be God. For 23 years, he was isolated from family, including hanging up on his mother's calls. After the cult leader died, David led a five-year dismantling process, reversing isolation, reconnecting members with families, and eventually dissolving the group. He has since worked for International Needs, the Red Cross, Guide Dogs Victoria, and now runs a disability support business. His vision centres on kindness as a practice and framework for society, taught through children.David Ayliffe is a journalist, charity CEO, disability support worker and children's book author who spent 23 years in a religious cult before dismantling it from within. Now 72 and recently diagnosed with ADHD, he works with people with intellectual disabilities and advocates for kindness as a foundation for society.In this Kintsugi Heroes conversation with John Milham, David shares the story behind the moments below.🎙️ IN THIS CONVERSATION:• Late ADHD diagnosis can reframe decades of 'failures' and offer self-compassion instead of shame.• Fundamentalism thrives by declaring certainty; it requires turning off critical thinking by designating something sacred.• Cult recovery works when the leader loses credibility; collective realization can dismantle even deep isolation in a single moment.🕒 CHAPTERS:00:00 Young David at the Bankstown Observer06:17 ADHD diagnosis at 7016:19 The path into the cult: from journalist to believer22:09 How fundamentalism silences critical thinking27:20 Cut off from everyone but her32:35 The moment she lost all credibility35:28 The Emperor's New Clothes moment37:48 The dismantling: five years of reversal and reconnection42:04 Disability work and the kindness vision51:00 Kindness as something you practise56:51 Admitting what you got wrong1:03:17 Humour as the thing that saved me🎧 If this story moved you, follow Kintsugi Heroes in your podcast app so you never miss an episode.📌 RESOURCES MENTIONED:Lifeline Australia: lifeline.org.au━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Welcome.We're glad you found your way here.Kintsugi Heroes was created from a simple belief: every person has a story worth sharing, and sometimes the story we need to hear arrives exactly when we need it most.Our name comes from the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where broken pottery is repaired with gold. Rather than hiding the cracks, they are honoured as part of the object's history. We believe people are much the same. The experiences that challenge us, break us, shape us, and help us grow are often the very things that connect us to one another.This channel is home to honest conversations about resilience, hope, grief, recovery, courage, love, and what it means to keep moving forward when life doesn't go to plan.Here you'll find six podcast series, each sharing stories through a different lens:• Kintsugi Heroes, hosted by John Milham• Animals & Us, hosted by Natalie Stockdale• Grit Diaries: From Grit to Grace, hosted by Simone Allan and Maryan Bova• From There to Here, hosted by Emma Bellamy-Dodd• Golden Threads: Stories of Disability & Resilience• Pride in Stories, hosted by John DwyerEvery story shared here is offered with the hope that it helps someone feel a little less alone. A little more understood. A little more connected.Whether you're navigating a difficult season, supporting someone you love, or simply looking for meaningful conversations, you're welcome here.New episodes are released fortnightly across our series.If you'd like to help us keep these stories freely available to everyone, you can support our work here: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/donateThank you for being part of this community.We help people tell the stories they need to share so others can discover the story they need to hear.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH US━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌐 https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@kintsugiheroes📘 https://www.facebook.com/kintsugiheroes📸 https://www.instagram.com/kintsugi.heroes💼 https://www.linkedin.com/company/kintsugi-heroes#KintsugiHeroes #LivedExperience #ResiliencePodcast #...
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  • Dave Oliver: 32 Jobs, One Secret, and Men's Mental Health Motivation

    Dave Oliver: 32 Jobs, One Secret, and Men's Mental Health Motivation
    2026/10/13
    What recovery has given me⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses trauma & healing, addiction & recovery and abuse & exploitation, which some listeners may find distressing.If you need support, you're not alone. Help is available:• Blue Knot Foundation (complex trauma): 1300 657 380 · blueknot.org.au• Lifeline (24/7 crisis support): 13 11 14 · lifeline.org.au• SMART Recovery Australia (addiction): smartrecoveryaustralia.com.au• ReachOut: au.reachout.com• 1800RESPECT (family, domestic & sexual violence): 1800 737 732 · 1800respect.org.auBorn into a legacy of civic leadership in Cowra, Dave Oliver was a high-achieving student, school captain and rugby player who excelled outwardly while carrying the weight of childhood sexual abuse from ages 9 to 12. He masked his trauma through alcohol and drugs that escalated into his twenties and thirties, cycling through 32 employers in 25 years while his behaviour spiralled. A turning point came 10 years ago when mates intervened and he entered a psychiatric facility where therapy helped him name what had happened and begin healing. Today sober and purposeful, he works in mental health and mentors individual men, driven by a mission to become the support he needed as a young man.Dave Oliver is a 45-year-old survivor of childhood sexual abuse who spent decades using alcohol and drugs to survive unresolved trauma before entering recovery 10 years ago. Now a peer support worker and programs coordinator in mental health, he mentors other male survivors and has launched You, Me, Us, an initiative connecting men through shared lived experience.In this Kintsugi Heroes conversation with John Milham, Dave shares the story behind the moments below.🕒 CHAPTERS:00:00 Introduction and Cowra legacy06:31 The fracture: childhood sexual abuse12:00 Boarding school and coping mechanisms15:25 School success masking inner collapse18:04 The pattern: 32 jobs in 25 years23:17 Trauma, shame and sexuality in rural Australia38:11 From survival to recovery45:09 Reparenting the wounded child50:24 Purpose through lived experience mentoring57:15 The hybrid model: lived experience plus resources01:04:00 Practical steps and You, Me, Us initiative01:09:31 Closing and resources🎧 If this story moved you, follow Kintsugi Heroes in your podcast app so you never miss an episode.📌 RESOURCES MENTIONED:Survivors and Mates Support Network (SAMHSA): https://www.samhsa.org.au/Lifeline: 13 11 14You, Me, Us: Instagram: You, Me, Us Australia━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Welcome.We're glad you found your way here.Kintsugi Heroes was created from a simple belief: every person has a story worth sharing, and sometimes the story we need to hear arrives exactly when we need it most.Our name comes from the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where broken pottery is repaired with gold. Rather than hiding the cracks, they are honoured as part of the object's history. We believe people are much the same. The experiences that challenge us, break us, shape us, and help us grow are often the very things that connect us to one another.This channel is home to honest conversations about resilience, hope, grief, recovery, courage, love, and what it means to keep moving forward when life doesn't go to plan.Here you'll find six podcast series, each sharing stories through a different lens:• Kintsugi Heroes, hosted by John Milham• Animals & Us, hosted by Natalie Stockdale• Grit Diaries: From Grit to Grace, hosted by Simone Allan and Maryan Bova• From There to Here, hosted by Emma Bellamy-Dodd• Golden Threads: Stories of Disability & Resilience• Pride in Stories, hosted by John DwyerEvery story shared here is offered with the hope that it helps someone feel a little less alone. A little more understood. A little more connected.Whether you're navigating a difficult season, supporting someone you love, or simply looking for meaningful conversations, you're welcome here.New episodes are released fortnightly across our series.If you'd like to help us keep these stories freely available to everyone, you can support our work here: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/donateThank you for being part of this community.We help people tell the stories they need to share so others can discover the story they need to hear.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH US━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━🌐 https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@kintsugiheroes📘 https://www.facebook.com/kintsugiheroes📸 https://www.instagram.com/kintsugi.heroes💼 https://www.linkedin.com/company/kintsugi-heroes#KintsugiHeroes #LivedExperience #ResiliencePodcast #JohnMilham #...
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  • Steven Kennedy on Birth Trauma for Baby and the Dad Nobody Prepared

    Steven Kennedy on Birth Trauma for Baby and the Dad Nobody Prepared
    2026/10/12
    The first man who came and talked ⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses grief & loss and mental health & wellbeing, which some listeners may find distressing. If you need support, you're not alone. Help is available:• Lifeline (24/7 crisis support): 13 11 14 · lifeline.org.au• GriefLine: 1300 845 745 · griefline.org.au Steven's son Rory was born via emergency caesarean with an Apgar of 1, requiring resuscitation. Eight months later, Steven had a panic attack on a commuter train while reading about birth trauma, unaware he was experiencing postnatal depression himself. The breakdown triggered a deeper reckoning: he'd given his father CPR at 17 when his father suffered cardiac arrest; now, witnessing oxygen deprivation again, the trauma resurfaced. Steven sought help from a birth trauma specialist who told him something that changed his direction: she'd never spoken to a man about birth before. That admission became his mission. He spent six months researching 96 academic papers on men's role in birth, then founded Prepared Dads to teach expectant and new fathers what nobody had taught him: how to stay calm in the room, recognise their partner's needs, manage their own distress, and step into early fatherhood with intention. His son is now eight and thriving. Steven continues therapy and now runs support groups for bereaved dads, recognising that men have nowhere to process stillbirth, miscarriage, or perinatal loss. Steven Kennedy is the founder and CEO of Prepared Dads, an organisation equipping men with knowledge and skills for the perinatal period. 🕒 CHAPTERS:00:00 Welcome and content warning03:33 The traumatic birth: Apgar of 105:39 The unhealed wound: his father's death07:43 Breakdown on the commuter train09:01 Discovering postnatal depression in men14:33 Fear, pain and tension: why birth goes wrong20:34 Researching men's role: six months of papers28:10 Men as the weakest link in the birth room39:40 Nurturing masculinity and hormonal change55:46 Early fatherhood: paddling, not waves1:07:29 Prepared Dads: what the course offers1:30:05 Closing and call to action 🎧 If this story moved you, follow Kintsugi Heroes in your podcast app so you never miss an episode. 📌 RESOURCES MENTIONED:PANDA (Perinatal Anxiety and Depression Australia): https://www.panda.org.auPrepared Dads: https://www.prepareddad.org.auBereaved Dads Brotherhood: https://www.prepareddad.org.auLifeline Australia: https://www.lifeline.org.au ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Welcome. We're glad you found your way here. Kintsugi Heroes was created from a simple belief: every person has a story worth sharing, and sometimes the story we need to hear arrives exactly when we need it most. Our name comes from the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where broken pottery is repaired with gold. Rather than hiding the cracks, they are honoured as part of the object's history. We believe people are much the same. The experiences that challenge us, break us, shape us, and help us grow are often the very things that connect us to one another. This channel is home to honest conversations about resilience, hope, grief, recovery, courage, love, and what it means to keep moving forward when life doesn't go to plan. Here you'll find six podcast series, each sharing stories through a different lens: • Kintsugi Heroes, hosted by John Milham• Animals & Us, hosted by Natalie Stockdale• Grit Diaries: From Grit to Grace, hosted by Simone Allan and Maryan Bova• From There to Here, hosted by Emma Bellamy-Dodd• Golden Threads: Stories of Disability & Resilience• Pride in Stories, hosted by John Dwyer Every story shared here is offered with the hope that it helps someone feel a little less alone. A little more understood. A little more connected. Whether you're navigating a difficult season, supporting someone you love, or simply looking for meaningful conversations, you're welcome here. New episodes are released fortnightly across our series. If you'd like to help us keep these stories freely available to everyone, you can support our work here: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/donate Thank you for being part of this community. We help people tell the stories they need to share so others can discover the story they need to hear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH US━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@kintsugiheroes📘 https://www.facebook.com/kintsugiheroes📸 https://www.instagram.com/kintsugi.heroes💼 https://www.linkedin.com/company/kintsugi-heroes #KintsugiHeroes #LivedExperience #ResiliencePodcast #goldenjoinery #...
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  • Si Moore: The IVF Support Gap No One Talks About For Dads

    Si Moore: The IVF Support Gap No One Talks About For Dads
    2026/10/07
    I had to love myself ⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses grief & loss and mental health & wellbeing, which some listeners may find distressing. If you need support, you're not alone. Help is available:• Lifeline (24/7 crisis support): 13 11 14 · lifeline.org.au• GriefLine: 1300 845 745 · griefline.org.au Si Moore spent his twenties searching for meaning through self-help and education, but burnout and a six-year relationship ending via email cracked him open. He rebuilt through reading, therapy, and deep self-reflection. When he and his wife pursued IVF, they discovered a brutal gap: there was support for her, nothing for him. After losing twins at nine weeks, dealing with family estrangement over a wedding exclusion, starting nursing school, buying a house, and COVID all at once, Si hit a breaking point. A panic attack during pathophysiology class, which he recognised because he understood the science, forced him to stop running from grief and start building something. He founded Strong Dads to offer fathers the one-on-one, holistic support he never found: a space to do the hard work of loving themselves so they can show up for their kids. His parents are now asking him for advice. He has three dads on the books and a goal of twenty. Si Moore is a registered nurse, father, and founder of Strong Dads Geelong, a holistic support program for fathers navigating identity, grief, and emotional development. After losing twins during IVF, a family estrangement, and a panic attack that came during his nursing studies, he left hospital crisis work to build upstream preventative support for men who have no other place to turn. In this Kintsugi Heroes conversation with John Milham, Si shares the story behind the moments below. 🎙️ IN THIS CONVERSATION:• Men have no institutional support during IVF or perinatal loss, even as they carry grief and stress alongside their partners; this gap is not accidental, it is a systems failure Si is now filling one-on-one. 🕒 CHAPTERS:00:00 This is a love story02:57 Finding meaning at 1708:38 Environmental science, burnout, and a breakup14:59 The gap: no support for men in IVF19:30 The wedding that fractured everything22:16 The panic attack that broke him open28:00 Building Strong Dads from the rubble35:55 The tipping points that make men ready48:35 What fathering looks like in practice51:38 20 dads: the goal spoken aloud54:38 Vulnerability is not a group sport59:22 How to find Si and do the work 🎧 If this story moved you, follow Kintsugi Heroes in your podcast app so you never miss an episode. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Welcome. We're glad you found your way here. Kintsugi Heroes was created from a simple belief: every person has a story worth sharing, and sometimes the story we need to hear arrives exactly when we need it most. Our name comes from the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where broken pottery is repaired with gold. Rather than hiding the cracks, they are honoured as part of the object's history. We believe people are much the same. The experiences that challenge us, break us, shape us, and help us grow are often the very things that connect us to one another. This channel is home to honest conversations about resilience, hope, grief, recovery, courage, love, and what it means to keep moving forward when life doesn't go to plan. Here you'll find six podcast series, each sharing stories through a different lens: • Kintsugi Heroes, hosted by John Milham• Animals & Us, hosted by Natalie Stockdale• Grit Diaries: From Grit to Grace, hosted by Simone Allan and Maryan Bova• From There to Here, hosted by Emma Bellamy-Dodd• Golden Threads: Stories of Disability & Resilience• Pride in Stories, hosted by John Dwyer Every story shared here is offered with the hope that it helps someone feel a little less alone. A little more understood. A little more connected. Whether you're navigating a difficult season, supporting someone you love, or simply looking for meaningful conversations, you're welcome here. New episodes are released fortnightly across our series. If you'd like to help us keep these stories freely available to everyone, you can support our work here: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/donate Thank you for being part of this community. We help people tell the stories they need to share so others can discover the story they need to hear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH US━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@kintsugiheroes📘 https://www.facebook.com/kintsugiheroes📸 https://www.instagram.com/kintsugi.heroes💼 https://...
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  • Michael Collins on Grief, Men's Mental Health and Family Violence Prevention

    Michael Collins on Grief, Men's Mental Health and Family Violence Prevention
    2026/10/01
    What happens after we break ⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses mental health & wellbeing and trauma & healing, which some listeners may find distressing. If you need support, you're not alone. Help is available:• Lifeline (24/7 crisis support): 13 11 14 · lifeline.org.au• Blue Knot Foundation (complex trauma): 1300 657 380 · blueknot.org.au Michael grew up in a violent household with an alcoholic father and emotionally burdened mother, taking on the role of emotional caregiver for his family by age twelve. He spent two decades in performing arts before pivoting through myotherapy and exercise science, searching for meaning without credentials or financial security. When his mother died and his brother Marty took his own life a year later, Michael experienced profound grief that redirected his entire path. He pursued a Master of Public Health, then a PhD in men's suicide prevention and mental distress, driven by both personal loss and a conviction that men's emotional lives have been systematically constrained. He now interviews men across generations about their experiences of distress, help-seeking, and connection, finding patterns of change and hope. Michael Collins is a PhD researcher at the University of Technology Sydney investigating the lived experience of men from low socioeconomic backgrounds who experience suicidal thoughts and behaviours. A former dancer, choreographer, and fitness instructor, he returned to formal study in his 40s after losing his mother to cancer and his younger brother Marty to suicide within a year of each other. His research explores help-seeking, distress disclosure, and masculinity through interviews with men across multiple generations. 🕒 CHAPTERS:00:00 Opening: grief is not shameful05:05 How Michael became a researcher in men's distress10:17 Growing up in a dysfunctional household16:11 His father's thwarted dreams and family legacy22:53 The jobs, the searching, the lack of direction28:20 His father's cycle: drinking, employment, abandonment34:00 Losing his mother and brother within a year40:14 Witnessing grief in public as an act of courage46:54 Dance as reclamation of his body50:49 What his research reveals about men's help-seeking59:59 What he hates about men: violence and its aftermath1:08:07 His message: feel your emotions in safety 🎧 If this story moved you, follow Kintsugi Heroes in your podcast app so you never miss an episode. 📌 RESOURCES MENTIONED:Lifeline Australia: 13 11 14Lifeline Australia webchat: lifeline.org.au ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Welcome. We're glad you found your way here. Kintsugi Heroes was created from a simple belief: every person has a story worth sharing, and sometimes the story we need to hear arrives exactly when we need it most. Our name comes from the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where broken pottery is repaired with gold. Rather than hiding the cracks, they are honoured as part of the object's history. We believe people are much the same. The experiences that challenge us, break us, shape us, and help us grow are often the very things that connect us to one another. This channel is home to honest conversations about resilience, hope, grief, recovery, courage, love, and what it means to keep moving forward when life doesn't go to plan. Here you'll find six podcast series, each sharing stories through a different lens: • Kintsugi Heroes, hosted by John Milham• Animals & Us, hosted by Natalie Stockdale• Grit Diaries: From Grit to Grace, hosted by Simone Allan and Maryan Bova• From There to Here, hosted by Emma Bellamy-Dodd• Golden Threads: Stories of Disability & Resilience• Pride in Stories, hosted by John Dwyer Every story shared here is offered with the hope that it helps someone feel a little less alone. A little more understood. A little more connected. Whether you're navigating a difficult season, supporting someone you love, or simply looking for meaningful conversations, you're welcome here. New episodes are released fortnightly across our series. If you'd like to help us keep these stories freely available to everyone, you can support our work here: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/donate Thank you for being part of this community. We help people tell the stories they need to share so others can discover the story they need to hear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH US━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@kintsugiheroes📘 https://www.facebook.com/kintsugiheroes📸 https://www.instagram.com/kintsugi.heroes💼 https://www.linkedin.com/company/kintsugi-heroes #KintsugiHeroes #...
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  • Rich Papais on Trauma Recovery, PTSD and Finding Color Again After a Navy Rescue Gone Wrong

    Rich Papais on Trauma Recovery, PTSD and Finding Color Again After a Navy Rescue Gone Wrong
    2026/09/30
    Color came into my life ⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses mental health & wellbeing, trauma & healing and suicide & self-harm prevention, which some listeners may find distressing. If you need support, you're not alone. Help is available:• Lifeline (24/7 crisis support): 13 11 14 · lifeline.org.au• Blue Knot Foundation (complex trauma): 1300 657 380 · blueknot.org.au Rich joined the Navy at 17 to escape a working-class childhood in Newcastle, spending 21 years at sea where he found purpose and deep friendships. In April 2010, while on a border patrol, a refugee boat sank beneath his vessel. Rich and three others ended up in the water for hours in darkness and heavy swell. When rescued, something had broken inside him. He developed PTSD, couldn't sleep, couldn't handle whistles or flashing lights, developed a stutter and shakes, and became suicidal. For years he was medicated into numbness. Slowly, through music, family, friends' dark humor, his own pets' unconditional love, and finally retraining as a peer support worker, he rebuilt. Now he attends concerts, rides trains and buses, watches his grandchildren, and volunteers helping others in crisis. Color returned to his world. Rich Papais is a retired Royal Australian Navy officer who served 21 years as a chef and naval police officer. After a catastrophic incident at sea in 2010 involving a capsized refugee boat, he lived with severe PTSD, suicidal ideation, and invisible injuries. He is now a qualified peer support worker and volunteer, helping others navigate trauma and mental health recovery. In this Kintsugi Heroes conversation with John Milham, Rich shares the story behind the moments below. 🎙️ IN THIS CONVERSATION:• A traumatic night at sea doesn't define you; how you rebuild after it does.• Invisible injuries like PTSD can cause visible symptoms others dismiss as weakness.• Music, animals, and close friends can heal where medication alone cannot.• Sharing your story with someone in crisis can be the lifeline they need. 🕒 CHAPTERS:00:00 Gray to color: the turning point04:32 Escaping Newcastle by sea12:32 Twenty-one years as a sailor22:14 The night the boat sank25:58 In the dark water: holding on30:33 I don't trust myself34:16 Invisible wounds, visible shakes43:23 Survivor's guilt45:01 Music becomes therapy52:04 Dogs as recovery guides57:43 Learning to live today1:02:37 The hand and the shoulder 🎧 If this story moved you, follow Kintsugi Heroes in your podcast app so you never miss an episode. 📌 RESOURCES MENTIONED:Lifeline Australia: https://www.lifeline.org.au ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Welcome. We're glad you found your way here. Kintsugi Heroes was created from a simple belief: every person has a story worth sharing, and sometimes the story we need to hear arrives exactly when we need it most. Our name comes from the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where broken pottery is repaired with gold. Rather than hiding the cracks, they are honoured as part of the object's history. We believe people are much the same. The experiences that challenge us, break us, shape us, and help us grow are often the very things that connect us to one another. This channel is home to honest conversations about resilience, hope, grief, recovery, courage, love, and what it means to keep moving forward when life doesn't go to plan. Here you'll find six podcast series, each sharing stories through a different lens: • Kintsugi Heroes, hosted by John Milham• Animals & Us, hosted by Natalie Stockdale• Grit Diaries: From Grit to Grace, hosted by Simone Allan and Maryan Bova• From There to Here, hosted by Emma Bellamy-Dodd• Golden Threads: Stories of Disability & Resilience• Pride in Stories, hosted by John Dwyer Every story shared here is offered with the hope that it helps someone feel a little less alone. A little more understood. A little more connected. Whether you're navigating a difficult season, supporting someone you love, or simply looking for meaningful conversations, you're welcome here. New episodes are released fortnightly across our series. If you'd like to help us keep these stories freely available to everyone, you can support our work here: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/donate Thank you for being part of this community. We help people tell the stories they need to share so others can discover the story they need to hear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH US━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@kintsugiheroes📘 https://www.facebook.com/kintsugiheroes📸 https://www.instagram.com/kintsugi.heroes💼...
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  • Kim Borrowdale: The Question That Rewrote Her Story After Suicide Loss

    Kim Borrowdale: The Question That Rewrote Her Story After Suicide Loss
    2026/09/29
    The question that rewrote my story ⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses suicide & self-harm prevention and grief & loss, which some listeners may find distressing. If you need support, you're not alone. Help is available:• Lifeline (24/7 crisis support): 13 11 14 · lifeline.org.au• GriefLine: 1300 845 745 · griefline.org.au Kim grew up in a small Northern New South Wales beach town, curious and creative in a sports-obsessed community. After leaving for Brisbane, then a decade in London exploring different cultures and working in communications, she returned to Australia following a breakup. Her aunt's death by suicide while she was away shifted everything. It reframed her career from corporate communications to suicide prevention work at Suicide Prevention Australia, then into coaching individuals and organisations to share lived experience stories safely. A therapy session years later asked her a question that cut to the heart of her whole life's work: was she helping others be heard because she herself had never been heard? Now she trains people in storytelling, celebrant work, and public speaking, believing that vulnerability and preparation are what move audiences. Kim Borrowdale is a storytelling coach, celebrant, and communications strategist who spent a decade in London before returning to Australia to work in suicide prevention. After losing her aunt to suicide, she shifted her career focus to helping others tell their stories safely and powerfully, founding training programs that combine trauma-informed communication with narrative craft. In this Kintsugi Heroes conversation with John Milham, Kim shares the story behind the moments below. 🎙️ IN THIS CONVERSATION:• Suicide grief is categorically different from other loss because it leaves unanswered questions and triggers relentless self-blame about what could have been done. 🕒 CHAPTERS:00:00 The question that changed everything02:40 Small town childhood, running barefoot06:18 The creative kid in a sports family08:59 Why she left for Brisbane and London14:11 Finding meaning in corporate communications17:13 The breakup, Egypt, and coming home19:01 Her aunt's suicide and the turn inward23:08 Working in suicide prevention and safe storytelling30:05 From freelancer to story coach35:10 The counselor's mirror42:48 Why storytelling matters and how it moves people46:13 The next chapter and what she wants to share 🎧 If this story moved you, follow Kintsugi Heroes in your podcast app so you never miss an episode. 📌 RESOURCES MENTIONED:Lifeline Australia: https://www.lifeline.org.auBorodale Communications: https://www.borodalecommunications.com ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ABOUT KINTSUGI HEROES━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ Welcome. We're glad you found your way here. Kintsugi Heroes was created from a simple belief: every person has a story worth sharing, and sometimes the story we need to hear arrives exactly when we need it most. Our name comes from the Japanese art of Kintsugi, where broken pottery is repaired with gold. Rather than hiding the cracks, they are honoured as part of the object's history. We believe people are much the same. The experiences that challenge us, break us, shape us, and help us grow are often the very things that connect us to one another. This channel is home to honest conversations about resilience, hope, grief, recovery, courage, love, and what it means to keep moving forward when life doesn't go to plan. Here you'll find six podcast series, each sharing stories through a different lens: • Kintsugi Heroes, hosted by John Milham• Animals & Us, hosted by Natalie Stockdale• Grit Diaries: From Grit to Grace, hosted by Simone Allan and Maryan Bova• From There to Here, hosted by Emma Bellamy-Dodd• Golden Threads: Stories of Disability & Resilience• Pride in Stories, hosted by John Dwyer Every story shared here is offered with the hope that it helps someone feel a little less alone. A little more understood. A little more connected. Whether you're navigating a difficult season, supporting someone you love, or simply looking for meaningful conversations, you're welcome here. New episodes are released fortnightly across our series. If you'd like to help us keep these stories freely available to everyone, you can support our work here: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/donate Thank you for being part of this community. We help people tell the stories they need to share so others can discover the story they need to hear. ━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━CONNECT WITH US━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ 🌐 https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@kintsugiheroes📘 https://...
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