My Perfect Family: Mitch Brown

Bulletproof: Aleina Beer

Contracting meningitis changed Aleina Beer’s life. She lost her right leg and now needs a kidney tra...

Bulletproof: Dinesh Palipana

Dinesh Palipana was halfway through medical school when a car crash left him tetraplegic. Despite hu...

In My Mind TeenAnxiety

What exactly is anxiety and why is it more prevalent in teens now than in previous generations? Neu...

My Perfect Family: Api Latu

Api Latu is a fun-loving, cheeky four-year-old boy living with Down Syndrome. His family dote on him...

My Perfect Family: Neil Singh

Neil is a 10-year-old with an infectious energy and a passion for playing football. However, he was ...

Bulletproof Jake Gibbons

Jake Gibbons lost both feet and his right hand to frostbite in Greenland and has had to adapt to his...

Being Me Emma Myers

Emma Myers is a writer with Cerebral Palsy, who has mined her own experiences to co-write TV series ...

Bulletproof: Rebecca Allum

In 2017, Rebecca Allum became a tetraplegic when she was thrown from a horse. Contrary to the expect...

Bulletproof: Jezza Williams

A canyoning accident in Switzerland in 2010 left Jezza Williams a tetraplegic. An adventurer at hear...

Being Me: Rufus Henry

Rufus lives in Kaikoura with his parents but wants to live independently like his siblings. On a roa...

My Perfect Family: Maddison Blitvich

Maddie Blitvich’s a lively seven-year-old with Pfeiffer Syndrome 2 which affects the shape of her sk...

Bulletproof: Anita Kendrick

A life-changing quad bike accident at 18 left Anita Kendrick paraplegic. But with determination and ...

Bulletproof: Anna Parsons

University student Anna Parsons suffered horrific injuries in a climbing fall accident in the US. In...

My Perfect Family: Ebony Sinclair

Ebony Sinclair is a go-getter born with Achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. Ebony and her husband Ge...

Bulletproof: Bailley Unahi

Bailley Unahi was crushed when a balcony collapsed on her at an outdoor concert in Dunedin. Paralyse...

Bulletproof: Wojtek Czyz

Wojtek Czyz’s professional soccer career was cut short when his left leg was amputated. He went on t...

In My Mind: Living with Psychosis

When reality and imagination get mixed up in your mind, life can be a living hell. Four young peopl...

Being Me: Sarah Morrell

Sarah Morrell has a rare genetic condition called Morquio IV which means she is just one metre tall....

Bulletproof: Peter Cowan

Peter Cowan lost his right leg in a hit and run accident when he was a teenager. Now this champion o...

Being Me: Julie Woods

Blind woman Julie Woods doesn’t shy away from challenges. She achieved her aim to visit all seven mo...

My Perfect Family: Fragile X

Discovering you are the carrier of genetic condition Fragile X only after your children are born is ...

Bulletproof: Bryce Dinneen

Recovering from a spinal injury, Bryce Dinneen dreamed of going fishing again. He launched the chari...

Being Me: Claire Freeman

Claire Freeman has achieved a lot since a spinal injury made her a wheelchair user at 17. She has a ...

Being Me: Te Huia Apaapa

26-year-old Te Huia Apaapa is a gifted runner and triathlete known as ‘The Rocketman’. Te Huia has a...

Jamie Nepia

Jamie Nepia lost a leg after a violent shooting. To help rebuild her life, she took up boxing and di...

Being Me: Joshua Sade-Inia

Joshua Sade-Inia is a burns survivor who’s scars cover half of his body. To Josh they represent his ...

Bulletproof: Lee Warn Part 1

Lee Warn has never let the fact he is in a wheelchair slow him down. He is a wheelchair marathon ath...

My Perfect Family: Nash Jones

The Jones family’s life changed forever when their youngest boy Nash was diagnosed with a rare condi...

Being Me: Juanita Willems

Pre-Christmas Juanita Willems is flat out, collecting, wrapping and distributing presents for foste...

Being Me: Bailee Lobb

Installation artist Bailee Lobb uses her colourful works to explore lived experience of disability, ...

My Perfect Family: Lydia Golding

6-year-old Lydia Golding was born with her right femur bone significantly shorter than her left. In...

Waka Ama - Part 2

After a training camp at Lake Rotoiti, the Aotearoa Para Waka Ama crew depart for the IVF Internatio...

Waka Ama Part 1

Twelve waka ama para-athletes striving for gold, attend a training camp ahead of the World Champions...

My Perfect Family: Georgia Heard

Georgia Heard thought she had parenting all mapped out. But when the younger of her two boys was di...

My Perfect Family: Grace Payne

Grace Payne is a powerlifter who has competed in the Special Olympics as an autistic athlete. Now, 2...

My Perfect Family: Harper Ahern

Since being diagnosed with Muscular Dystrophy at age four, 10-year-old surfer Harper and his family ...

My Perfect Family: Malaena Cariño

12-year-old Malaena Cariño has a rare genetic form of epilepsy. Her whānau have exhausted most treat...

My Perfect Family: Tiffiney Perry

Always an active person, Tiffiney Perry continued participating in sports and achieving success afte...

My Perfect Family: Tara Aumalesulu

Nine year old Tara is launching her very first album, Pele O Lo’u Fatu. Living with visual impairmen...

Being Me: Susan Williams 8/5/22

Non-binary performance artist Susan Williams adores theatre. Their latest show, Illegally Blind, is ...

Being Me: Brent Eyskens

Unable to communicate verbally, songwriter Brent Eyskens - who lives with Cerebral Palsy - has found...

Being Me: Bailey Conlon

16-year-old para-swimmer Bailey is smashing records and helping to raise the profile of swimmers wit...

Being Me: Kiranjit Singh

Tetraplegic, Kiranjit Singh, is competing to qualify for the 2024 Paralympics in Para-sport shooting...

Being Me: Gabby Wright

Gabby Wright suffered an injury from a virus that attacked her spine, dashing her Silver Fern dreams...

Being Me: Jared Flitcroft

Jared Flitcroft is a filmmaker, businessman, family man, and he is Deaf. Overcoming barriers to achi...

Being Me Eric Knapp

Eric Knapp was a fit and healthy professional firefighter. But on the eve of his 33rd birthday, his ...

Being Me: Steff Green

Author Steff Green writes full-time from her home in the Kaipara Harbour. Legally blind, Steff was o...

Being Me: Danielle Aitchison

Danielle Aitchison was born with Cerebral Palsy. As a child she struggled to walk, but her family en...

Being Me: Dillon Maydon

Dillon's life was altered at just eighteen when he was diagnosed with Friedreich’s Ataxia, a rare ge...

Being Me: Aidan Terpstra

Aidan’s life changed forever when he was knocked out with a king-hit punch. The injury to his brain ...

Being Me: Devon Briggs

Para-athlete Devon Briggs was born with severe clubfeet, twisted backwards. The 18-year-old has end...

Bulletproof: Khadag Bista

In 2018 Khadag suffered a traumatic brain injury in a car accident. Incredibly, this Nepalese chef h...

Bulletproof: Ryan Gibb

After a motorbike accident leaves outdoor enthusiast Ryan paralysed, he adapts with a change in care...

Bulletproof: Mitch Joynt

Mitch Joynt is lucky to be alive. The young arborist lost his leg when he was dragged into a woodchi...

Bulletproof: Mac

Teenager Mac Denniston nearly lost his life in a mountain bike accident. The crash left him with a T...

Bulletproof: James Littlejohn

James Littlejohn lives with partial paraplegia after a motorbike accident. He loves mountain biking,...

Bulletproof: Scott MacDonald

Motocross enthusiast Scott MacDonald was 14-years-old when he broke his back after a jump went wrong...

Cool As Ice

From Wānaka to Beijing, we follow Paralympic veterans Corey Peters and Adam Hall, as well as debutan...