Take It From Us with Kent Johns
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/
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
Latest Episodes
The morning that made prison officer Rhonda Hāpi-Smith stop drinking
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 ...
What's the difference between failing and quitting? Ask Stefan Ozich
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. H...
What 53 days as National Party leader cost Todd Muller
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)....
Why Grant Robertson said no to being Prime Minister
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 w...
Nic Russell: How do you keep living after your child dies?
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 wante...
Fan Mail
thank you so much for your podcast. My daughter wrote her own transcript before taking her life we found it after her passing. Suicide we as a family got it published hopefully to help others it was regarding sexual abuse and how our mental health system in New Zealand is broken you are welcome to look up her name on Google Chanelle Haffenden and her book is called the girl with one thousand scars so many who have read it have been in touch thanking us for getting it published. Also The Royal commission of enquiry abuse in care used her book . Take care blessings for all especially the ones on the same journey. Kind regards Karlene Chambers
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