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If you're navigating mental health struggles, addiction or recovery — your own or someone else's — you'll hear what actually worked, what didn't and what people wish they'd known sooner.
Take It From Us is the voice of lived experience, featuring people sharing their own journeys, unscripted and unfiltered.
Host Kent Johns is a broadcaster and health coach who believes everyone has a story worth hearing if someone takes the time to really listen.
Press play — you might hear your own story in someone else's.
If you need support, click here for helpful links, phone numbers and resources: https://ember.org.nz/resources/in-a-crisis/
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Prison officer Rhonda Hāpi-Smith spent 20 years on the wings at Rimutaka and Hawke’s Bay prisons. She’d learnt to be loud and hard and to shut down the sensitive side of herself, because there was no room for it inside. People kept telling her she’d be all right. Off shift, she was drinking a dozen beers a night and turning up to work still smelling of it. Then one morning, still hungover, she unlocked a cell. Rhonda talks to Kent about what that day changed, why she turned down a drink that ...
Three people lost to suicide in three years. The last was his brother, Jerome. So endurance athlete Stefan Ozich picked a challenge that genuinely scared him — running Te Araroa end to end and back again, something no one had ever done. He called it The Long Path, after what the trail’s name means, and ran it for men’s mental health. This week on Take It From Us, Stefan talks to Kent about why he keeps putting his body through gruelling events most of us would never attempt, and why he thinks...
With the election on 7 November, we’re re-releasing two conversations that have nothing to do with how you vote, and everything to do with what politics asks of the people in it (Grant Robertson’s episode is back in your feed today too). In May 2020, Todd Muller was elected leader of the National Party — one step from a boyhood dream of being Prime Minister. Within five days, panic attacks were so severe he could barely get through speeches, the words on the page moving and disappearing. Afte...
Election day is 7 November and politics is everywhere right now... but here’s a different kind of perspective on it. We’re re-releasing our conversation with Grant Robertson about what the job costs the people doing it — whichever way you vote (Todd Muller’s episode is back in your feed today too). “I’m a catastrophiser,” admits New Zealand’s former Deputy Prime Minister. Behind years of COVID decisions sat a panic attack he didn’t see coming. As pressure mounted to replace Jacinda Arde...
Nic Russell has been through more than most — breast cancer, a heart transplant and Parkinson’s. None of it comes close to 2005, when her three-year-old daughter Kenzie died of bone cancer. Even when she could no longer walk, Kenzie wanted to be alive. Nic has carried that with her ever since. It doesn’t mean pretending things are fine. She’ll have a pity party, but she won’t live there. She leans on good friends, cold water and dark comedy. When Kenzie died, the professional support stopped....
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