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Animals & Us

Follow the Sun: From Monsoon Drains to Mountain Gorillas

A naturalist's childhood wonder becomes a lifetime of speaking for animals that cannot speak for themselves.

Connecting Seniors

Overcoming Trauma Through Storytelling Therapy with Catherine Maguire-Donvito

One theatre director's structured storytelling program is giving refugee teenagers the science-backed tools to process their trauma, reclaim their identities, and transform audiences of 50,000 high school students across Australia.

Kintsugi Heroes

Breaking Free from Abuse and Hardship: A Journey of Courage, Growth, and Hope with David Lee

Raised in poverty and subjected to calculated psychological abuse by the people meant to protect him, David Lee found no guide but himself — and turned that hard-won self-knowledge into a mission to fight injustice for others.

Connecting Seniors

More than One Way to Skin a Cat: How Narelle Lost Her Sight and Found Her Purpose

A computer programmer who lost her sight at 42 rebuilt her life by treating obstacles as problems to solve, not identities to accept.

Kintsugi Heroes

The Light Bulb Moment: From 17 Years Inside to Rebuilding a Life of Purpose

Holly Deane-Johns spent 17 years in prison for addiction, then chose to spend her freedom helping others leave.

From There To Here

How to Navigate Migration as an Introvert: Embrace Your Quiet Strengths with Serena Low

Serena Low's journey from Singapore to Australia reveals how introversion — so often framed as a barrier — can become the very foundation of resilience, belonging, and quiet leadership in a new country.

Kintsugi Heroes

Resilience and Changing Your Life After a Spinal Cord Injury with Dinesh Palipana

After a car accident left him paralysed halfway through medical school, Dinesh Palipana refused to stop — and became Australia's first quadriplegic medical intern, proving that the mind and spirit can outlast almost any physical limitation.

From There To Here

Being a Brown Female Doctor with Sarah Arachchi

A Sri Lankan-born paediatrician and memoirist unpacks a lifetime of being othered—by schoolyard taunts, the relentless 'where are you really from?' and a medical system that keeps mistaking her for the nurse—and shows how embracing a 'cross-cultural kid' identity transformed exclusion into empowerment.

Kintsugi Heroes

The Power of Perspective and Gratitude: Dinesh's Path to Making a Difference

From fleeing war-torn Sri Lanka as a child to becoming Australia's first quadriplegic doctor in Queensland, Dinesh Palipana's story is a masterclass in perspective, gratitude, and the transformative power of purpose.

Alpine Bushfires

Kintsugi Heroes Alpine Special Launch Event

A beef farmer who lost 80% of her land to the Black Summer bushfires turned grief into a book, a community recovery committee, and a blueprint for healing that a trauma expert says captures the science of storytelling better than almost anything else.

Animals & Us

Protecting the wild and self-healing with Alison Papas • Animals & Us E17

Alison left corporate success to direct a wildlife sanctuary, discovering that empathy with boundaries is what sustains a life devoted to caring.

Connecting Seniors

The Fox Stops Running: How Alan Stevens (R) Found Connection by Letting Go

Alan Stevens stopped chasing connection at 50 and built the community he'd always needed by learning to facilitate others' stories instead.

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