Ep 63 Sometimes "just one more" is all we need with Brooke McIntosh

About this episode

Kristi McVee and Brooke McIntosh discuss mental health, courage, and the impact of sharing personal stories.

In this episode of Conversations with Kristi , Kristi is joined by Brooke McIntosh  - speaker, endurance runner, and founder of the Just One More movement - for a raw, powerful conversation about mental health, courage, healing, and the ripple effect of choosing to speak when silence feels safer. Brooke shares the deeply personal story behind her decision to run 14,000 kilometres around Australia  - a journey born from suicidal ideation, unspoken trauma, and a life-changing car accident that forced her to confront the reality that she was not okay, despite appearing strong on the outside. Together, Kristi and Brooke explore how “just one more” - one step, one breath, one conversation - became a lifeline, not only for Brooke, but for countless people she encountered along the road. What began as a mission to spark conversation within FIFO, mining, and construction communities quickly revealed a much wider truth: mental health struggles do not discriminate. They exist everywhere - across families, generations, genders, and professions. This episode dives into the cost of emotional shutdown, the normalisation of masking pain, and how generational silence around trauma…

People in this episode

Host: Kristi McVee

Guest: Brooke McIntosh

Topics covered

• mental health
• courage
• healing
• vulnerability
• trauma
• addiction

Keywords

• mental health
• courage
• healing
• trauma
• addiction
• vulnerability
• Just One More

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Just One More

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