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 features real people sharing their own journeys, unscripted and unfiltered. No theory, no talking points — just the honest, specific version of what recovery actually looks like.
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. Each episode is that time.
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
Justine & Blain: Running a 24/7 recovery centre after their own addiction
Blain Collinge was once the reason his parents started Red Door Recovery — refusing help, deep in addiction, with "no desire to change." Over a decade later, he co-leads the very organi...
Recovery isn't a straight line — Suzy Morrison on 35+ years sober
She took her first drink at 14 — and for a moment, everything made sense.Suzy Morrison chased that feeling for years, through other substances and eventually heroin, before it nearly cost her everything. She's been in recovery sin...
Jamie Summers: I thought I was invincible. Then I had a stroke at 39
Jamie Summers thought he was invincible. At 39, working in construction, high stress and no downtime felt like just part of the job.Then he had a stroke.Six and a half years later, he's still living with it — fatigue that doesn't ...
Heidi McIlroy: A book for young people who can't find the words
Heidi McIlroy teaches kids who can't make it into a regular classroom. They're too anxious, struggling with their mental health, autistic - kids who carry shame because they think they're broken.She gets it because she's been there. Year...
Kent Johns: 'I slept rough for one night - here's what I learned'
A different kind of episode this week. Host Kent recently slept rough for one night at the Big Sleepout. He bedded down on cardboard at the AUT campus, part of a group of 70 community leaders raising funds and awareness for people experiencing ...
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