ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
Kintsugi Heroes is a powerful Australian podcast sharing real-life stories of resilience, mental health, and human transformation. Each episode features raw, honest conversations with everyday people who have overcome adversity including addiction, trauma, grief, illness, financial hardship, and life-altering challenges.
Inspired by the Japanese philosophy of Kintsugi — repairing what’s broken with gold — this podcast explores how life’s toughest moments can shape strength, purpose, and connection. Kintsugi Heroes exists to remind us that our struggles do not define us — they refine us. 
Through deeply human storytelling, we create a safe space for lived experiences to be shared with dignity, compassion, and authenticity. Our mission is to reduce isolation, increase connection, and promote mental wellbeing through the power of story — not as clinical advice, but as real conversations that people can relate to and learn from. 
🎧 Topics covered include:
Mental health, addiction recovery, trauma, grief and loss, personal growth, resilience, relationships, disability, identity, life transitions, and rebuilding after failure.
🌍 Featuring voices from diverse backgrounds across cultures, communities, and lived experiences — because everyone has a story worth hearing.
🔗 Listen, Connect & Learn More
Website: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KintsugiHeroes
💬 Why Listen to Kintsugi Heroes?
If you’re navigating a tough time, rebuilding your life, or looking for real stories that inspire hope — this podcast is for you.
These are not polished success stories.
These are real people, real struggles, and real comebacks.
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Follow the podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
Subscribe on YouTube for full video episodes
Share this with someone who needs to hear it
Inspired by the Japanese philosophy of Kintsugi — repairing what’s broken with gold — this podcast explores how life’s toughest moments can shape strength, purpose, and connection. Kintsugi Heroes exists to remind us that our struggles do not define us — they refine us. 
Through deeply human storytelling, we create a safe space for lived experiences to be shared with dignity, compassion, and authenticity. Our mission is to reduce isolation, increase connection, and promote mental wellbeing through the power of story — not as clinical advice, but as real conversations that people can relate to and learn from. 
🎧 Topics covered include:
Mental health, addiction recovery, trauma, grief and loss, personal growth, resilience, relationships, disability, identity, life transitions, and rebuilding after failure.
🌍 Featuring voices from diverse backgrounds across cultures, communities, and lived experiences — because everyone has a story worth hearing.
🔗 Listen, Connect & Learn More
Website: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@KintsugiHeroes
💬 Why Listen to Kintsugi Heroes?
If you’re navigating a tough time, rebuilding your life, or looking for real stories that inspire hope — this podcast is for you.
These are not polished success stories.
These are real people, real struggles, and real comebacks.
⸻
Follow the podcast on Spotify or Apple Podcasts
Subscribe on YouTube for full video episodes
Share this with someone who needs to hear it
Hosts:
Update frequency:
every 2 days
Average audio length:
55 minutes
Guest interviews
English
Australia
202 episodes
since Dec. 12, 2022
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
How Queer Looks
Ruth and Ash met in Year 7 and found each other through shared online interests during the early years of social media and queer community discovery. Ruth came out as attracted to women in their mid-teens in a supportive family environment; Ash came out as queer at age 9 and later c…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
The kettlebell in the garage
⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses trauma & healing, 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…
It doesn't help to have a bad attitude
⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses abuse, grief, 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
Bill Stahl's fracture came gradually, …
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.au
David's career began in journ…
What that little child's brain did to survive
⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses trauma & healing and mental health & wellbeing, which some listeners may find distressing.
If you need support, you're not alone. Help is available:• Blue Knot Foundation (complex trauma): 1300 657 3…
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 …
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• Grief…
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 84…
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 Kn…
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 …
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