Dysfunctional

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In this episode, I’m joined by Amber Hughes for a powerful conversation about addiction, homelessness, grief, and the impact all of it has on families.

Amber shares the story of her sister Hannah, who experienced addiction and homelessness before passing away in 2017. We talk about the chaos and heartbreak of loving someone through addiction, the stigma that still surrounds homelessness, and how these struggles affect the whole family, not just the person at the centre of it.

Amber also shares how she has turned that pain into purpose through Amber Lights in Oxford, raising awareness, supporting local charities, and helping children understand homelessness with more compassion and humanity.
A raw, honest and deeply human conversation.

Links:
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https://www.linkedin.com/in/amber-hughes-bem-1a888b38a/
https://amberlightsinoxford.com/
https://www.gofundme.com/f/Publish-our-book-on-homeless-education-forchildren
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This week on Dysfunctional, I’m joined by Becky Ray.

Becky works in workplace culture and leadership, helping organisations improve toxic work environments and develop better leaders, especially middle managers.

We talk about toxic workplace culture, sexism, bullying disguised as banter, and how poor leadership becomes normalised over time.
We also explore “accidental managers” and why so many people are promoted without ever being taught how to lead.
A big part of this conversation is resilience. Not just pushing through stress, but understanding emotional capacity and why burnout is often about what people are already carrying, not just workload.
We also touch on men’s mental health, emotional suppression, and the importance of release, whether through breathwork or other ways of getting out of your head and into your body.

In this episode:
Toxic work culture and leadership
Bullying vs banter in the workplace
Accidental managers and poor leadership
Burnout and emotional capacity
Men’s mental health at work
Resilience and emotional release

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Breathwork:
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In this episode, I sit down with Laura Marston for one of the most raw and honest conversations we’ve had on Dysfunctional.

Laura shares her journey from being labelled and sectioned, spending years in and out of psychiatric units, struggling with addiction, and being told she had a “disordered personality”… to beginning to understand her experiences through the lens of trauma.

We talk about emotional neglect, family dysfunction, self-harm, psychosis, and what it’s like to grow up without your needs being met.
But more than anything, this episode is about what happens when you stop seeing yourself as broken… and start taking your life back.

We also explore:
What psychosis actually felt like from the inside
The reality of psychiatric wards (and why they often don’t help)
Being diagnosed vs understanding trauma
Addiction, survival and coping mechanisms
Going no contact with family
Breaking generational patterns
Learning to sit with yourself instead of escaping
Rebuilding your identity from the ground up

Laura also shares how she’s now supporting others through resilience coaching and community, and what helped her move from survival mode into something that actually feels like living.
This one is raw, emotional, and incredibly powerful.
Trigger warning: This episode includes discussion of self-harm, suicide, childhood trauma, abuse, addiction and psychiatric hospitalisation.
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In this episode of Dysfunctional, Josh sits down with Kevin Brown for a raw and honest conversation about men’s mental health, addiction, shame, and the long road from self-destruction to self-respect.

Kev shares his journey through chaos, binge drinking, drug use, and living a double life, before a powerful moment of clarity helped him finally understand the impact of his childhood and the wounds he’d been carrying for years.

They explore father wounds, generational patterns, endurance running, breathwork for emotional release, and why healing isn’t a single breakthrough moment, but a messy process of getting back up again and again.

This episode is a grounded, deeply human conversation about learning to sit with the boy you once were… and becoming the man you choose to be.

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