Young Blood - Men’s Mental Health

For so many years, Matt denied his sexuality to himself and the world. He was so terrified of accepting who he really is, that he thought it would be better to just live a lie and it turned him into someone he hated.

This October Cooper Hough is running the entire 1200km of the Heysen Trail for mental health! Cooper's been touched by suicide indirectly through friends and family who've lost people. Like many of us, his experiences have made him feel helpless and desperate to do something to make things better. He's an outdoorsman and fitness fanatic who's channeling his passion into pulling off the biggest cha...

There's a misconception that people only get depression when something terrible happens. But for some, depression slowly takes hold for no obvious reason at all. What would you do if all the experiences and people that have always brought you joy suddenly didn't anymore? Luke is a proud survivor of the darkest chapter in his life that no one ever saw coming and now that he's on the oth...

Chris Blowes is one of the very few people on earth to literally escape the jaws of death... In 2015 Chris was surfing at Fishery Bay in Port Lincoln, South Australia when he came face to face with every surfers worst nightmare, a great white shark. Surviving the horrific attack defied near impossible odds that to this day Chris still can’t fully comprehend. The ordeal deeply affected his mates, h...

Cancer doesn’t care that you have your whole life ahead of you. It affects everyone and can target anyone. Harry Malcolm was just your average easy going bloke cruising along in life when out of nowhere he had a seizure at work. From then on, Harry endured seizure after seizure, with the culprit soon revealed as a brain tumour the size of a golf ball...Fortunately the surgery to remove the tumour...

Harry's a 22 year old go-getter living a full and active life. He's also got a slow growing brain tumour he can't get rid of.

Ben Hirst; on the 12th of July he'll be climbing twice the height of Mount Everest, by trekking up and down the slopes of Mount Wellington in Hobart. It's the latest in a long line of ultra endurance challenges that he's been pumping out over the past 8 years to raise awareness and funds for mental health. His passion comes from living through his own struggles, which've included a...

This August, Blake Bourne is running 380km across the Simpson Desert to raise money for mental health. Blake has a long history of mental health struggles dating back to childhood; that culminated in multiple suicide attempts when he was just a boy. Thankfully he found boxing; giving him years of direction and confidence as he became an adult. But frustration and politics brought his progression i...

Take a look back at a Young Blood moment that'll stay with you... Episode 36 - The Conversation That Saved A Convicted Ex-Cop with Matt Newlands Matt Newlands is a former police officer turned mental health worker, community leader and podcast host. During his decade in the force, Matt was confronted by distress and violence on a daily basis and the more he became the uniform, the more he lost...

Teon Lolesio aka Turquoise Prince, is a Canberra rapper and singer with Tongan heritage and to say his life's been a rollercoaster barely begins to describe it... Teon was always a wild kid, but it wasn't until he experienced bouts of psychosis as an adult that he started to understand the impact Bipolar disorder was having. It took him years to realise bipolar was fueling his drug abuse, leading...

When people first heard Turquoise Prince they saw him as a rising star full of potential ⭐️🎙️ Then when he suffered a mental breakdown, he was cast aside as just another sad example of wasted talent. But that was then… and stars rise again 💫

Take a look back at a Young Blood moment that'll stay with you... Episode 21 - A Soldier's Silent Battle with Australian Army Veteran Luke Adamson In 2011 Luke Adamson was a Lance Corporal in the Australian Army serving as a Combat Engineer on a tour of Afghanistan. Enduring the deaths of his fellow soldiers and suffering an anxiety induced heart attack, Luke was diagnosed with PTSD and di...

Zane Kirkwood is a new dad, a husband and one of the most decorated SANFL state league footy players of all time. Zane's also a big mental health advocate, because he's lived with varying degrees of anxiety and depression throughout his life and knows the toll it can take. An anxious lad from a young age, Zane found space to breathe out on the footy field, until panic attacks threatened to...

The thoughts racing non-stop through Zane's mind interfered with his sleep to such an extent that he started hallucinating and considering suicide.

Take a look back at a Young Blood moment that'll stay with you... Episode 14 - The Night My Mum was Murdered Arman Abrahimzadeh OAM is a husband, a father and anti-domestic violence campaigner. His life changed forever the night his father tracked down and murdered his mother Zahra in public after they fled the family home. Scroll back to December 18 2019 in our podcast library for the full st...

Allan Ball is the National Director of White Ribbon Australia, part of a global movement to eradicate violence against women.  Allan's got his own story of navigating trauma and tragedy, having lost his mother in a house fire when he was just a child.  He's had a relish for social justice from a young age and now stands at the forefront of Australia's mission to stop one of our most de...

A few years back, Warren Hubbard aka Wazza was at breaking point; having been dominated by drugs and alcohol for most of his life. His addiction came before everything else, even his daughter, who was going through the pain that Wazza experienced from his own father. After a downward spiral more than a decade long, Woz finally drew a line in the sand, said "NO MORE" and meant it...Now he...

Alexander Arthur is a young man living with cerebral palsy who wants you to know there's more to disability than how it's often portrayed. Alex had a tough time of it growing up, struggling with bullying in his younger years and his mental health as he's gotten older. He's made major strides through therapy and committing to self care, learning how to love who he is and manage the...

These laid-back chats are a different vibe to our studio episodes and your opportunity to share your thoughts with the Young Blood community! It works like this... We ask a mental health related question on the @youngbloodmensmentalhealth Instagram page, you comment your answer on the post and we'll soon follow up with one of these podcasts reading out all of your responses and sharing our tho...

There was time when Ed Fowler thought he might never recover from his acquired brain injury... He faced an immense challenge and stacked up the little wins one day at a time. Five years later he’s the fittest he’s ever been, has a career he loves and is living the life he wants to live.

Five years ago, Ed Fowler sustained a brain injury in a car accident that threatened to take everything from him. It’s not the only trauma Ed's lived through..when he was finishing high school he was there when someone he knew got struck by lightning. Ed ramped up the partying and drinking without realising he was partly doing it to cope with what he’d seen and that’s partly what led to him be...

Two years ago, Zak Hausler lost his little brother Luke to suicide. Luke struggled with his mental health throughout his younger days, but it seemed like that all changed for the better when he met his partner Zoe. Luke and Zoe had just had a baby girl and gotten engaged when he died. It was an inconceivable shock to Zak and the rest of his family who never saw any warning signs. Zak's pushed...

It's Question Time! These laid-back chats are a different vibe to the main podcast and your opportunity to share your thoughts with the Young Blood community!  It works like this... We ask a mental health related question on the @youngbloodmensmentalhealth Instagram page, you comment your answer on the post and we'll soon follow up with one of these podcasts reading out all of your respons...

Nick Stacey's life was torn apart by an opioid addiction and it's taken more than a decade for him to piece himself back together. As millions of people do, Nick started taking prescription drugs to cope with the pain of a shocking  sports injury and as he endured surgery after surgery, use turned to abuse. Nick lost his marriage to addiction and diagnosed with cancer soon after, all while...

Surviving child sexual abuse… Surviving a decade long prescription drug addiction… Surviving cancer… all while trying to be a good father. Nick’s carried more weight on his shoulders than most could bear. Yet he has endured and never given up hope.