Take It From Us with Kent Johns

About 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/ (https://ember.org.nz/resources/in-a-crisis/)

Publisher

Ember

Category

health & fitness · health & fitness · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

25 Jun 2025

Latest episode

1 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

63 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   1 Oct 2026

   Eman Ghandour: On being not Kiwi enough, not Arab enough

   "You don't feel Kiwi enough for the Kiwis, but you don't feel Arab enough for the Arabs." Eman Ghandour was 10 when her family moved from Jordan to Dunedin. Growing up, she tried to get her "ratio" to 50/50 Kiwi and Arab, and it kept landing at 80/20. While at Otago Uni she lived as a Kiwi with her friends, then came home to Arab Muslim parents and a constant sense of guilt. Her mid-20s, she says, were the worst years. In 2021 she started a group chat for young ethnic women who were feeling t...

2. 

   24 Sept 2026

   Jason Blyth: The boy who had to advocate for himself at nine years old

   Jason Blyth was nine years old when he asked his psychiatrist a question no child should have to ask: why was he the one being brought in for treatment, when his mother was the one abusing him? Between the ages of two and fifteen, Jason saw around 20 different clinicians. He begged, repeatedly, to be taken away from a home where his own reports describe genuine fear for his life. Nothing changed. By eleven, he'd stopped asking. Jason Blyth’s story is a Hollywood epic of survival and redemptio...

3. 

   17 Sept 2026

   The 4000 kiwi adults stuck living at home with Mum and Dad

   Flynn Mitchell spent three years in a Dunedin university flat built for wheelchair users — accessible kitchen, accessible bathroom, full independence. Then he moved home to Auckland and lost all of it. Now he needs a carer just to wash his own dishes. He's not alone. Ray Finch, CEO of the Laura Ferguson Trust, says nearly 4,000 physically disabled adults across New Zealand are living with ageing parents, not by choice but because nothing accessible exists for them. With most of those parents ...

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Spotify

5.0 / 5

1 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 35 / 100

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Quality

70

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

0

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