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Kahlil’s story is about his challenge which was, that at forty he realised he was not living an authentic life. ‘it's like my whole life, I've just been trying to be someone who I wasn't’. Although living very comfortably and with a job in the family business, he was unhappy, overweight, single and had no friends. At the same time, he helped grant hundreds of wishes as a volunteer of the Make-A-Wish Foundation Philippines which he loved.

He spent time in an ashram in India and a Buddhist monastery in Nepal and other spiritual activities trying to learn self-love. He fell in love with comedy improv in the US and eventually turned his life around and now helps support immigrants and refugees in the US. 

Biography

Currently work as an employment services advisor for Upwardly Global, a non-profit in the US working to support immigrants and refugees with international credentials to restart their careers in the United States. (https://www.upwardlyglobal.org)

Do volunteer work for the Global Play Brigade, a non-profit that with the mission of using play across borders to build community and connection, creating new possibilities for social change.  (https://www.globalplaybrigade.org)

Also do volunteer work for The Afara Collective, a non-profit that exists to empower people with the tools needed to dive deeply, honestly, and effectively into the work of dismantling systemic racism. (https://www.weareafara.org)

Business Name: Upwardly Global

Contact:

[email protected]

Social Media:

https://www.upwardlyglobal.org

https://www.globalplaybrigade.org

https://www.weareafara.org

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Whitney describes her journey as she coped with autoimmune conditions wanting to avoid surgery or drug treatments for her thyroid issues. Realising she has multiple food sensitivities she adopted an autoimmune protocol to heal her thyroid this led to her changing her lifestyle and eating habits. She began working with many other women to help them heal themselves and like her take responsibility for their own health and wellbeing in all aspects of their lives.

Biography 

Whitney Coupland is a Certified Nutritional Practitioner and Certified Life Coach. She was diagnosed with Raynaud’s in her early teens and Hashimoto's almost two decades later. Despite this, Whitney lives a healthy and fulfilling life and has made it her mission to help others with chronic health conditions do the same.

You can connect with Whitney through her website WhitneyCoupland.com.

If you are looking to kickstart your healing journey either for the first time or hop back on the train, check out Whitney’s free course at EatToHealCourse.com

Contact

[email protected]

WhitneyCoupland.com

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Luiz's story is about addiction. It began when he left his traditional Catholic family in Brazil and moved to London, where he became addicted to cocaine. He returned to Brazil and tried for fifteen years to overcome his addiction without success despite trying many different solutions. During that time, he maintained a job, so he always had the money for drugs and to live a comfortable life 

His extraordinary breakthrough in overcoming his addiction came after deciding to move to Australia. He describes what happened next here in the podcast. 

Biography

Luiz Ferreira was born in Brazil and moved to Australia seven years ago. When he moved to Sydney, he completed a master's in Counselling at the University of Notre Dame. He is passionate about helping people suffering from addiction and other mental health disorders.

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Scotty Schindler is a force of nature. He has a quintessentially Australian identity as a born optimist and clear-cut straight talker and is an extraordinary entrepreneur and businessman who ‘retired at forty-six.’ He takes us through his amazing career and how he triumphed over adversity as he built as super successful business ReNet from scratch while at the same time being dedicated to his family and being a competitive surfer as well!

Biography

Street Smart Entrepreneur 

International Adviser Mentor Speaker

Contact

www.scottyschindler.com

[email protected]

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Diane shares her story of growing up in extreme domestic violence with no safe adults and how dreaming of escape to a safe place ignited her love for real estate at a very early age. Her good work ethic, resilience and determination resulted in her becoming an entrepreneur by seventeen and moving into her first home at twenty-one. She describes the huge personal cost to her health and wellbeing and how she overcame pain caused by the unresolved trauma. Her passion is now to support women suffering from domestic violence and help find long term safe housing.

Biography

Diane Klem-Goode is the founder of Goode Property Group buyers agency specialising in residential and commercial property acquisition.  Diane is also a Property Mentor, Property Educator and Wealth & Mindset coach.  Diane’s passion for property started when she bought her first property at the age of seventeen and went onto build a substantial property portfolio across residential and commercial property.

Diane’s mission is to support domestic abuse survivors by finding their voice, building their confidence, finding a whole lot of self-love and donating to domestic housing charities.

Diane partners with her clients so they build their property portfolio based on strong foundations to ensure and growth.  Diane’s aim is to ensure each client understands why each property is selected to expand their knowledge and confidence in building their portfolio.

Diane loves helping women heal from past domestic abuse events by supporting her coaching clients to discover self worth, self love and find their voice.  To see a client go from being over worked in their career which led to health, emotional and relationship breakdowns to changing jobs, receiving a salary increase, working less hours, prioritising their health, relationship, speaking their truth and taking a leap of faith to enter into property investing with confidence is an incredible transformation to watch.

Social Media

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diane-klem-goode/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/propertyloversaustralia

Facebook (Personal): https://www.facebook.com/diane.klemgoode

Business: Goode Property Group

[email protected]

https://goodepropertygroup.com.au/

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David was born to eighteen-year-old drug addicts, in the UK, who did their best to provide for him and support him, while working through their addictions.  He achieved a Masters in Sports Science and later became his father’s carer until his death which devastated him, so he moved to Australia. He was unable to get a job in his field so manged an aquatic centre. He shares that about three years ago he started therapy for his grief and to deal with his upbringing traumas, where he was surrounded by addictive behaviour. He now sees his challenges as his greatest gifts and supports marginalised groups through sport.

Biography

David has worked in the sport, leisure and wellness sectors in England and Australia for 22 years, in roles spanning Local Government, peak bodies, private sector and the social economy.

David is the Founder and CEO of Collective Leisure and Director of David Burns Consulting. Collective Leisure is Australia’s first social enterprise leisure management company, certified by Social Traders with a mission to reduce health inequity within our communities. This is summarised in their purpose statement of “enabling well-being without boundaries”. 

David Burns Consulting works with government, peak bodies, and universities in a policy, planning and strategic context. 

David is a systems leader with a proven reputation for executing projects that serve the hard to reach, hardly reached and underserved communities.

Board roles:

• Non-Executive Director Social Enterprise Council of NSW + ACT

• Swinburne University Sport Innovation Research Group - Advisory Board

Business Name: Collective Leisure

Contact

[email protected]

https://www.collectiveleisure.com.au/

Social Media

www.linkedin.com/in/david-t-burns/

https://www.linkedin.com/company/collective-leisure/

https://www.instagram.com/collective.leisure/

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Endre was born in Hungary and his story is based around healing the trauma of his toxic relationship with his father. He felt angry and unloved and a sense of worthlessness so powerful that in 2002 he moved to New Zealand dreaming of a new life. He describes the many challenges and rejection he experienced as an unskilled migrant without a work permit.

Eventually he succeeded in finding work, but his underlying issues were not healed. 

He returned to Europe and saw his father before he died, then moved to Australia, but his trauma was not resolved until his wife gave him an ultimatum. He shares with us how he committed himself to his healing then began a new life as the Doctor of Self Worth.

Biography:

I provide deep transformational coaching work to help business owners & leaders who experience inner struggle, self-doubt, and sticky negative thoughts when they are stressed, overwhelmed, exhausted & working hard. 

Specifically, through my “Step into your Power” group program and one on one transformations, I remove the internal conflicts and struggle from their mind to achieve confidence and peace within.

I have been reconnecting people to their natural high self-worth that brings new rapid results typically in areas of money, business/career, relationships, health, self- confidence, communication & leadership.

I have aligned myself in recent years to my purpose, which to impact a million+ people's lives.

Contact:

[email protected]

https://www.doctorofselfworth.com/

Social Media:

https://www.facebook.com/Doctor.of.Self.Worth/

https://www.linkedin.com/in/Doctor-of-Self-Worth

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCd0atNV7cUdAwYwcRGoBhlg

https://mobile.twitter.com/DRofSelfWorth

https://www.tiktok.com/@the_doctor_of_self_worth

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Josie Parata’s story is an inspirational and heart-breaking account of survival from domestic violence and cancer. She was a single mum of four young children when she moved out of her own victim and poverty mentalities, found her faith and began equipping the community to move forward in order to step into their best lives no matter what they are confronting in their lives.

Biography

Founder/CEO of a Not-for-Profit Charity supporting victims of Domestic Violence, Homelessness & Addictions. 

Founder of a Christian Faith Gathering in Dee Why, Civil Marriage Celebrant & Itinerant Minister, Justice of the Peace, multiple community award winner. 

‘Nothing is impossible if you only believe.’

Business Name 

Lighthouse for the Community

[email protected]

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Phillip has a very simple but profound story. He holds the record at St Vincent’s Hospital for the most heart by passes in one operation when he was 51. This was a defining moment for him as he realised, he may not have much longer to live and needed to live every day for today. Twenty-two years later he is still here, and he is living his life with meaning mostly around helping others. His volunteer work includes Lifeline, Mentoring Men and several boards involved with young people and mental health issues. The two things most important to him are exercise and being part of a supportive community. He sees helping others as his purpose for being on the planet.

Biography

I have had what would be described as a privileged life but like most people there are challenges for everybody. I have overcome my challenges mostly by being there for other people.

Contact

[email protected]

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This episode is a preview of the first episode in the new Kintsugi Heroes - Alpine Series Podcast available on podcast platforms and YouTube.

What is the Alpine Series?

The Black Summer fires in 2019/2020 were devastating in Victoria and around Australia. The ripples of the effects on the environment were catastrophic, but the trauma is still felt by the residents of the alpine region today.

These episodes are intended as a form of recovery for listeners and guests, as key members of the alpine community share their stories and experiences of the fires.

In this episode...

Janice’s story, a first-hand account of her experience inside the Black Summer bushfires in the Alpine region of Victoria, is gripping and terrifying at the same time. She takes us through the flames with her heroic husband and sons as they battle to save their home, that farm, their animals and support their neighbours and the wider community at the same time. She also discusses the aftermath, the recovery period which still continues for many people as nobody processes trauma at the same pace.

Biography

I am an active volunteer supporting bushfire recovery of our community, as chair of the Walwa Recovery Committee and have recently self-published two books:  one directly relating our experience of the Black Summer Bushfires, "From The Inside" and the last one is "White Lies" a mystery novel, based on a true story, set in the wake of the 1939, Black Friday Fires. A recurring theme with my first outing into being an author!

Contact

[email protected]

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