Kintsugi
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Sep 14, 2026
Austin GoenHOST
He does something different.
Austin GoenHOST
This dish here, maybe you've been wondering about it, is a kintsugi dish.
Austin GoenHOST
I don't know if this is genuine, but Kintsugi is an ancient Japanese art that means something like golden joinery or repair, depending on which word you're using.
Austin GoenHOST
And so when you break a dish, and I'm sure all of you have broken a dish before, if you break a dish, usually what we do is we throw that dish in the garbage.
Austin GoenHOST
And then we say, yes, I get to go to Target again.
Michael John CusickHOST
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Michael John CusickHOST
the piece of Kintsugi pottery that's laying on the floor.
Alison CookGUEST
Yeah.
Michael John CusickHOST
Um, but bruised.
Andrew WhiteHOST
Then at 59 and a half, he walked away from it all to become a full-time volunteer.
Andrew WhiteHOST
That decision led him to the founding of two non-for-profits, Mentoring Men and the amazing Kintsugi Heroes.
Andrew WhiteHOST
I hope I'm saying that correctly, Kintsugi Heroes.
Andrew WhiteHOST
Built from a belief They were all built from the belief that community, connection, and shared stories can literally change lives.
Ian WestmorelandGUEST
But then life tested
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Yeah.
Ian WestmorelandGUEST
And there was sufficient money to put in place a paid team to do what I was doing.
Ian WestmorelandGUEST
And I stepped aside, had three months off, and then I started the Kintsugi Heroes.
VanessaHOST
That to me is like mending your fragmented ego or your fragmented identity.
VanessaHOST
Oh, yeah, Kintsugi.
VanessaHOST
Kintsugi, yeah.
VanessaHOST
You're perfect in your imperfections.
VanessaHOST
And it's honoring your imperfections.
Jen GergenHOST
So I'm just appreciating that this is about what's worth fixing.
Jen GergenHOST
You know, I think of that Japanese art of Kintsugi, if I'm saying it right, where it's a broken piece of pottery, but we repair it with gold because it's worth it.
Jen GergenHOST
It's worth saving.
Jen GergenHOST
It's worth protecting.
Saina AvestaGUEST
I just wanted to be alive.
John DwyerHOST
Hi folks and welcome to the Kintsugi Heroes podcast in our series Pride in Stories.
John DwyerHOST
It's so good to have you here as always.
John DwyerHOST
Today my guest on this episode is an amazing transgender woman and an LGBTQIA refugee rights advocate who has taken their own lived experience, the challenges, the trauma, and transformed that into a powerful force for good in support of the refugee and LGBTQIA community.
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John DwyerHOST
Thanks for having me.
John DwyerHOST
Thank you.
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Vijay GuptaGUEST
But the thing is that the broken bone will never not be broken.
Vijay GuptaGUEST
Right? Kintsugi, the metaphor of Kintsugi, teaches us that, in fact, the bone is stronger where it's broken.
Vijay GuptaGUEST
Because the inflammatory response, the pain, actually creates a super bone where the bone was broken.
Vijay GuptaGUEST
But medicine gets off on saying that you're now returned back to this state.
Keggie CarewGUEST
This is happening across, across the world.
Keggie CarewGUEST
And I mean, I, in beastly, I described it as a kind of Kintsugi, you know, that, that thing where they do the gold and, around you break a pot and you just fix it with these amazingly strong lines of kintsugi and it really it's happening it gets a lot of you know shit you know we get a lot of shit for it but it's um people are coming around like beavers i mean how brilliant is that and i mean they create these worlds that make it possible for a million other creatures to live in And but also heal the land.
Keggie CarewGUEST
So it's you know, that's a sort of a symbiosis.
Keggie CarewGUEST
It's not an association where they need that one needs the other to exist.
Jacob NordbyGUEST
And your creative nature wants to help you transform whatever you might be going through at the moment into something that becomes a work of art in its own way, even if it feels really broken.
Jacob NordbyGUEST
Like that Japanese art of Kintsugi or Kintsukuroi, two different words, of taking a broken bowl and fixing it with gold so it becomes more valuable and beautiful than it was even before.
Kristen BoyceHOST
Do you think that creativity is your purpose and mission? Or could be, I guess, being
Jacob NordbyGUEST
Yeah.
Jeff FullerHOST
But God is saying, like, I can use that and heal that wound, that deep hurt, and just so Satan can't use it as a stronghold to, uh, hold you back from all that God has for us to accomplish.
Jeff FullerHOST
And so God might be saying, "Do you want to be made well?" It's like, well, you don't have to always say, "Well, I'm the one that went through bankruptcy," or, "I'm the one that got divorced," or, "I'm the one with this kid out of wedlock," or, "I'm the one..." But you could say, "Hey, that all happened, but man, I'm so grateful for God now to give meaning and bring meaning out of those things so His, His way can be accomplished, and we can be witnesses and give testimony to out of broken things, God does give life." I'm actually sharing that a little bit today about Kintsugi.
Jeff FullerHOST
We talked about it briefly.
Jeff FullerHOST
Japanese art of a broken, uh, pot, broken, um, glass, how they put it back together with gold.
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