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Kintsugi Heroes

Kintsugi Heroes

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Kintsugi Heroes podcast conversations are the stories of everyday people who have found a way through challenges or adversity in order to achieve something inspirational to fellow humans on similar journeys. It's a collection of stories that are designed to uplift people, give them hope, and inspire them to keep going to achieve their dreams - despite the rocky path they may be on. Our stories cover a wide range of adversity topics including abuse, addiction, crime, dysfunctional families, career or business failure, grief and loss, financial hardship, mental illness, physical illness, relationship breakdown and more. Our Kintsugi Heroes have a wide variety of backgrounds across genders, cultures, languages and ages.© 2023 Kintsugi Heroes
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  • Written off at 15, Phil Hugill spent decades inside Australia's hardest systems, and found goodness there

    Written off at 15, Phil Hugill spent decades inside Australia's hardest systems, and found goodness there
    Jul 21 2026
    The light in the tunnel⚠️ 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.auJohn left school at 15 written off as a slow learner, worked manual jobs, and felt trapped. An art teacher gave him a chance on an art course despite his inability to draw; that opened a career in education and social work. Over decades, he worked with youth in diversion programs, people with disabilities, children in care, and finally prisoners in corrections. In each role, he discovered the same truth: people who've been excluded, abused, or labelled criminal carry trauma that systems punish rather than heal. He learned to see the person beneath the label, to lead with respect, and to believe that connection and opportunity prevent crime better than law and order ever will. Now retired from government work but still volunteering, he supports ex-prisoners through peer friendship. His message is clear: before you judge someone, find out their story. Goodness still outweighs the crisis narrative.John Milham is a social worker, educator, and corrections leader who spent decades working in some of Australia's most challenging environments: youth diversion programs, disability services, child protection, and prisons. He volunteered his way into these roles after leaving school at 15 with no qualifications, shaped by a mentor who helped him unpack his own biases and rebuild his moral compass. He now volunteers with ex-prisoners, believing that second chances and human connection are the only path out of cycles of trauma and incarceration.In this Kintsugi Heroes conversation with John Milham, Phil shares the story behind the moments below.🎙️ IN THIS CONVERSATION:• Second chances are rooted in someone seeing potential you don't see in yourself.• Labelling people disempowers them and makes it easier for institutions to dehumanise.• Trauma is the root cause; punishment is the symptom we treat instead.🕒 CHAPTERS:00:00 Why second chances matter01:58 Written off at school04:50 The art teacher's chance08:15 Unpacking bias, rebuilding values14:59 Building community access programs18:55 Corrections: seeing the person29:01 Labels dehumanise45:58 Youth crime and crisis politics53:27 Diversion over detention56:09 A walk to Woolworths1:01:02 Finding light in darkness1:06:24 Embrace the light🎧 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 (launching 31 July 2026)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 weekly 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://...
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  • Holly Deane-Johns: 17 Years Inside, One Moment of Clarity, and a Life Rebuilt with Purpose

    Holly Deane-Johns: 17 Years Inside, One Moment of Clarity, and a Life Rebuilt with Purpose
    Jul 7 2026
    ⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses addiction & recovery and trauma & healing, which some listeners may find distressing.If you need support, you're not alone — help is available:• SMART Recovery Australia (addiction): smartrecoveryaustralia.com.au• ReachOut: au.reachout.com• Blue Knot Foundation (complex trauma): 1300 657 380 · blueknot.org.au• Lifeline (24/7 crisis support): 13 11 14 · lifeline.org.auHolly Deane-Johns grew up in a stable home until her mother's involvement with a man who introduced the family to heroin. By 16, Holly was using; by 20, she was imprisoned. Over the next nine years, she cycled through Australian jails while her family spiralled into addiction, culminating in her mother's heroin overdose. Arrested in Thailand at 29 during her husband's flight from authorities, Holly received a 31-year sentence. Seven years into a Bangkok prison, sitting on filthy ground, she had a clarity moment and made a decision to never use drugs again. She returned to Australia, completed her sentence, and studied while inside. Today she works directly with men leaving prison, using her lived experience to build trust and show them a different path. She's written a book and gives talks in schools, driven by the belief that her fractured life was always meant for this work of helping others rebuild.Holly Deane-Johns is a youth and community worker who spent 17 years in various prisons across Australia and Thailand after struggling with heroin addiction from age 16. She now works with Wadjining Aboriginal Corporation in the RESET program, supporting men transitioning out of prison, and has written a book about her journey to help others see a future beyond addiction and incarceration.In this Kintsugi Heroes conversation with John Milham, Holly shares the story behind the moments below.🎙️ IN THIS CONVERSATION:• Addiction is rarely about drugs; it's about masking pain from trauma, and understanding this shifts how we approach people struggling with substance use.🕒 CHAPTERS:00:00 Welcome and Holly's Work Today02:40 Working with RESET: Supporting Men Leaving Prison07:34 The River: How Holly Ended Up in Heroin10:51 A Man Entered the Family Home13:06 The 110% Rule: Why Addicts Don't Stop16:12 Loss: Her Mother's Overdose in Prison20:36 Thailand: The Arrest and 31-Year Sentence27:29 This Life Was Always for This Reason33:00 The Heartbreaking Gap: Housing and Survival40:48 Studying Inside: Planning for a Future46:16 What the Community Needs to Know48:38 Going Forward: Books in Schools and Prisons🎧 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 five 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 & ResilienceEvery 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.If you'd like to help us continue sharing these stories and keeping them freely available to everyone, you can support our work here: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/donate#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://kintsugiheroes.com.au▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@kintsugiheroes📘 https://www.facebook.com/kintsugiheroes📸 https://www.instagram.com...
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  • Jason Blyth: The Gold in the Cracks, How Pain Refines and Purpose Is Built

    Jason Blyth: The Gold in the Cracks, How Pain Refines and Purpose Is Built
    Jun 24 2026
    Jason Blyth: The Gold in the Cracks, How Pain Refines and Purpose Is Built⚠️ Content advisory: this episode discusses abuse & exploitation, addiction & recovery and 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• 1800RESPECT (family, domestic & sexual violence): 1800 737 732 · 1800respect.org.au• SMART Recovery Australia (addiction): smartrecoveryaustralia.com.au• ReachOut: au.reachout.com• Lifeline (24/7 crisis support): 13 11 14 · lifeline.org.auBorn from rape after his mother's catastrophic accident left her brain-damaged and emotionally dysregulated, Jason entered the world under profound darkness. The child protection and mental health systems failed him repeatedly as he cycled through twenty clinicians between ages 2 and 15. He left home at 15 believing his circumstances would change, only to discover trauma travels inward. A gifted athlete and musician, he spent 15 years seeing himself as a victim, living with rage, engaging in escapism through drugs, prostitution, and even satanic cults. At 29, drinking a litre of wine three times daily to pass out, he hit rock bottom. In rehab on his 30th birthday, a single realisation shifted everything: no one was coming to save him. His wife's ultimatum to check himself in became his turning point. Now, nearly 8 years sober with a wife of 13 years and an infant son, Jason is using his voice and storytelling gift to champion systemic child protection reform and help others recognise that pain refines rather than defines us.Jason Blyth is a speaker, advocate, and systemic change champion who survived profound childhood trauma, addiction, and a near-fatal descent into alcoholism before rebuilding his life with intention and faith. Now 8 years sober, he channels his lived experience into work protecting children and helping others recognize their own agency in rewriting their stories.🕒 CHAPTERS:00:00 The Riptide: A Story Shaped Before Birth01:51 The Fracture: How Jason Came Into the World04:46 The System That Failed: Fifteen Years in Psychology08:58 The Hero's Journey and Necessary Trials13:39 Being the Story: Narrative and Presence16:50 Why Pain is the Great Initiator22:09 One Person's Love Stops the Spiral28:44 Marriage, Miracles, and a Son33:54 Purpose From Pain: The Systemic Change Mission43:27 Discipline and the Daily Regimen59:13 Seeking His Biological Father: Closure Without Redemption1:07:46 What's Next: Growing Into the Mission🎧 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 five 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 & ResilienceEvery 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.If you'd like to help us continue sharing these stories and keeping them freely available to everyone, you can support our work here: https://www.kintsugiheroes.com.au/donate#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://kintsugiheroes.com.au▶️ https://www.youtube.com/@kintsugiheroes📘 https://www.facebook.com/kintsugiheroes📸 https:...
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