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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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Signup to Generate a PitchIf 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.
Take It From Us with Kent Johns is hosted by Ember. The show has published 68 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "What's the difference between failing and quitting? Ask Stefan Ozich" (28 October 2026, 30 minutes), "Why Grant Robertson said no to being Prime Minister" (25 October 2026, 37 minutes), and "What 53 days as National Party leader cost Todd Muller" (25 October 2026, 44 minutes).
Take It From Us with Kent Johns publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 37 minutes across 68 episodes.
Booking probability for Take It From Us with Kent Johns is 32%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Take It From Us with Kent Johns requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Take It From Us with Kent Johns's contact route on record: public web form.
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Ember hosts Take It From Us with Kent Johns, a health podcast with 68 episodes published.
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Take It From Us with Kent Johns
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...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
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...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
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...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
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...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
Mia Simcock didn’t know what a psychotic episode was until she had one. She was 19 and studying at Otago when she went five days without sleep and lost touch with reality. A second episode a few years later brought a...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
For nearly 20 years as a firefighter, Jemarl Paerata pushed the trauma to the back and drank to keep it there. But one day, after a cardiac arrest callout, he asked the boys in the truck, "Do you ever feel like there...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
"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...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
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...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
On New Year's Eve 2022, Sam Cox went through the windscreen of a car doing over 100km/h down a gravel road outside Rangiora. His best friend Kaide, who was driving, didn't survive. Sam did — with a brain injury so...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
Shane Cameron spent 17 years as a professional heavyweight boxer — a Commonwealth Games bronze, a world title shot and the 2009 fight against David Tua that ended with him in an ambulance. He didn't watch the footage...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
At 22, Tai Tupou learned that the man who raised him wasn't his biological father. He told no one. For three years he isolated himself, burned bridges and had no idea he was living with depression — until a colleague...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
Five years ago, Meg Vardy was a UK-based researcher studying treatment for anorexia. What most of her colleagues didn't know: she'd been living with anorexia herself for 15 years. She's since stepped away from academia...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
"Who the f*** you really are underneath all the other shit." That's the question Rob Brown puts to every man he coaches — and it's the one he couldn't answer himself for most of his life. Two businesses built and lost...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
"I'm a catastrophiser," admits Grant Robertson, New Zealand's former Deputy Prime Minister. It's a confession that sits behind a high-profile political career — years of COVID decisions, and eventually, a panic attack...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
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 organisation built to save him. Justine...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
Suzy Morrison took her first drink at 14 and remembers it as a turning point — for the first time in her life, she felt at ease and connected to the people around her. By 17 she was using other substances, and at 26 she...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
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...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
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...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
Joe Daymond is a Kiwi comedian who makes you laugh about the hard stuff - the things most of us hide. He talks about things like mental health and relationships on stage in a way that makes people feel less alone. He's...
Take It From Us with Kent Johns
<p>Todd Muller was elected leader of the National Party in May 2020, a tantalising final step towards achieving a boyhood dream of one day being Prime Minister. </p><p>Within five days, he was experiencing waves of...
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