Kintsugi Heroes

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 fears to create a pathway for people of different cultural backgrounds to come together. Then she started a coaching business to help people find their mission and purpose in life. She helps others discover their unique gifts and skills, revealing their purpose.

About Our Guest

Lena Papadopoulos is a life purpose and leadership coach. She helps heart-centred, mission-driven visionaries and changemakers uncover their personal power and honour their unique gifts so they can live their truth, fulfil their purpose, and positively impact the world.

With fifteen years of experience designing and facilitating intercultural learning, community-building, and leadership development programs, Lena has worked with individuals, schools, non-profits, and social enterprises in more than ten countries.

Contact:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lena_papadopoulos/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lena-papadopoulos/

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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 harrowing story with humility, emotional truth and engaging honesty. His story offers a beacon of hope and inspiration to anyone else who finds themselves in a similarly desperate situation.

About Our Guest:

John's successful twenty-five-year career in corporate IT was interrupted fourteen years ago by personal tragedy. He became a widowed father of three young kids and felt a profound need to manage life's challenges and work in a new way.  

He embraced his new reality by leaving the corporate world and starting down a path of exploration, seeking understanding, growth and development. John tackled his depression, grief, suicidal ideation and general anxiety disorder head-on and found support and recovery.   

This total change of personal and professional direction and embracing massive personal growth and transformation involved study and research. He gained qualifications in coaching, mentoring, training and mental health. 

This lit a fire of passion for serving others and making a difference where he can.

His new mission was to help others through life's inevitable transitions and transformations.  

He has volunteered and worked on community programs and with organizations and groups working in the community for over ten years. His core focus is on supporting men's development and connection through peer support and a lived experience framework which promotes programs operating wherever men gather.  

John lives on Sydney's northern beaches, works with Mentoring Men, Raise, and others and is heavily involved in suicide prevention programs focused on working with men's wellbeing.

Contact

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/johnmilham

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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 a lot!

With this in mind, we will be taking a short break from new episodes over the next few weeks but we're not leaving you high and dry!

The first episodes we released were some of the most impactful, so we will be replaying episodes 2 to 10 in a re-edited and improved format. Every week, you'll get a glimpse into the early days of the podcast and we'll be back with brand new episodes in 2024.

Whether you've been with us for a while or just joined recently, we appreciate you taking the time to listen to our Heroes' stories and hope their experiences have helped you with your own. If you like what we're doing, we'd love it if you tell a friend or two about the show or leave us a rating and review on your podcast listening app. And if you'd like another way to contribute to Kintsugi Heroes, our donation link is available in the shownotes or at kintsugiheroes.com.au.

Lastly, if you have an experience of rising above adversity that you would like to share on the podcast, get in touch with [email protected].

Thanks again, and stay close! This week's replay episode is with the inspiring John Milham - enjoy!

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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 that led to working in animal welfare. Her second challenge was divorce, and she believes not coping with the stress contributed to the third D – disease when she developed breast cancer. Exploring the link between stress and disease led to her current path, answering the question ‘How do other people make the pain go away?’ And then to writing books sharing their stories of how they do it.

Biography

“My 'Creative Life Purpose' is to spread love and kindness through writing books and creating rich experiences for others in beautiful, natural settings. In doing so, I feel excited, connected to others and satisfaction in helping to create a kinder world.”

Natalie Stockdale is an author of the 'Campfire for the Heart' book series, and a resilience coach. She believes that hardships are an inevitable and essential part of life experience that shape our character and enrich our lives. How we handle our hardships is a choice. After surviving her own personal challenges of droughts, divorce and disease, Natalie eventually woke up to the importance of resilience for our mind and body. She subsequently resigned from her job as CEO of the Jane Goodall Institute Australia and dived into the world of wellness. Natalie is on a mission to make happier, resilient people.

Business Contact: 

https://www.stockdalewellbeing.com/

[email protected]

https://www.facebook.com/natalie.houghton.52/

https://www.instagram.com/natalieestockdale/

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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 time, the memories flooded back, and he had to give up his job at the time. He eventually received help through the Department of Veterans Affairs and saw a psychiatrist for five or six years. He realises that you cannot go through a war and not be affected for the rest of your life. He will never lose his connections with his Army friends.

He became involved with the RSL for some time and with other community activities and has a very happy life with his three families, his own family, the Army and friends from school. 

Biography

75 years of age, Passed the NSW Leaving Certificate in1964.

Conscripted into the Australian Army in October 1967, Served a Tour of Duty in Vietnam in 1969 with the 5th Battalion Royal Australian Regiment.

 Worked for 35 years as an Accountant in major commercial  organisations, Hon. Secretary of Hornsby RSL Sub-Branch 2009-2014: President of Hornsby RSL Sub-Branch 2014-2020, Committee Member of 5RAR Association 2016-Present.

Treasurer of Parklea Sports & Recreation Club 2004-Present.

Have 2 children & 5 grandchildren.

Contact

[email protected]

5RAR ASSOCIATION

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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 moment in time where everything changed, and he began to work in rehab. He realised what he has been through in his life such as body image issues, addiction, and disorderly conduct, enables him to develop very successful programs to help others and which he describes in this extraordinary conversation.

Contact:

InsideOut Coaching & Consultancy Collective

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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 intelligence of infinite knowledge and align our frequency in the quantum field to that which we desire we can create what we love - in abundance. She describes her journey after escaping and creating successful businesses almost immediately while gradually healing her trauma and her life.

Biography

Today I am an international best-selling author, award winning entrepreneur, speaker, co- founder of Tribe of Traders and creator of Trilogy of Transformation and the Attune to Prosperity brand.

Over the past 20+ years I've built and sold numerous multi -million-dollar businesses in many categories including starting the first ever online coaching business in 2000.

I've studied and researched human potential for over 20 years - it's been my understanding of human behaviour and potential that has not only allowed me to create massively successful pioneering businesses but overcome the most extraordinary challenge - of being locked up throughout my childhood until I escaped in my early 20's.

Business Name: Attune to Prosperity

Contact

[email protected]

www.judyvee.com

Social Media

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/JudyVeeProsperity

Facebook Group:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/attunetowealth

Instagram:  https://www.instagram.com/judyveeprosperity/

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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 mobilise a movement of people to help bring an end to the abuse that is handed out to kids who are trapped in a place without hope and enable them to rediscover their destiny of a fruitful life.

Paul has fought for the rights of children who are trapped in the most horrific situations both in Australia and overseas. He describes first- hand the impact human trafficking has on the lives of children and the exhilaration and sheer relief experienced by victims when they are freed.

Biography

Paul trained as an accountant with KPMG, he has also worked in two of Australia’s largest charities, The Salvation Army and Compassion. He joined Destiny Rescue as Executive Partnerships Manager in 2019, before taking the CEO role in April 2021.

Paul has a Grad Dip in International Development and has spent many years in the developing world working with people who live in extreme poverty or have been sold into slavery.

https://www.facebook.com/destinyrescue/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/destiny-rescue/

https://www.instagram.com/destiny_rescue/ 

Business name: Destiny Rescue

www.destinyrescue.org

[email protected]

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Derek has always been active and healthy, playing sports, in clubs and involved with communities. He was in scouting for eighteen years and is a Queen Scout.

He has researched and studied food, human behaviour, and longevity for the last twenty years. As a single parent, he suffered from burnout and depression, and this is where he begins his story of what happened and how he was healed.

Derek also describes his recent move from Victoria to the Sunshine Coast with his wife, a place that has always felt like home and allows him and his wife thrive.

Biography

Derek is the founder of ‘The Thrive Movement Australia’. He is passionate about

empowering People, Teams, Leaders and Organisations to be Healthier and Happier, Safer, more Engaged, Communicate and Perform better. To Thrive!

Derek now uses his experience, plus his background as a TAFE, then PE, Health and Outdoor Ed Teacher and Mindset Coach to deliver transformational Training and Coaching for communities and businesses.

Being a social soul, he is a member of several men’s groups, a golf, car, football, and craft beer club.

Contact

The Thrive Movement Australia

www.thethrivemovement.com.au

[email protected]

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Monica is a wife, mother, mogul, jet setter, and socialite who shares her own personal struggles with social anxiety, failure, and fear to illustrate how to stop being pushed by pain and start being pulled by your own vision. Her story is a compelling account of how she transitioned from poverty and homelessness to a fulfilling and abundant life using the power of vision to create exactly the life she wanted.

Biography

Monica M. Henderson, founder, and creator of MinkLife Motivation LLC is a powerhouse global speaker who emboldens her audience to tap into their own zone of genius to create an impact in the world. She shares how calibrating your life and maximizing your business can help you build a brand and boost your influence. She helps draw a simple path to living a life designed by you for you to become healthy wealthy and fulfilled.

Famous for Activating People zone of genius

Founder & Creator of MinkLife Motivation, LLC.

Genius Activator at MinkLife University

Event Producer of NEXT Global Virtual Conference

Motivational Speaker

Host of MinkLife Motivation LIVE

Author of A Visionary's Manifesto Book Series

Philanthropist & Socialite

Contact

[email protected]

Business name: MinkLife Motivation LLC.

https://www.monicamhenderson.com

Social Media

https://www.linkedin.com/in/monicamhenderson/

https://www.facebook.com/monicamariehenderson

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC-GSRNAKEHGd3umlkmTB7Iw

https://www.instagram.com/monicasminklife/

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