Bradley “Brad” Spillane is a driving force for men’s mental health in Australia, turning his own story of pain and survival into a platform that helps thousands of men feel less alone and more understood. Brad is the founder and host of the Men’s Mental Health Show, broadcast on Radio Blue Mountains 89.1 and released as a podcast featuring guests with personal or professional experience in mental health, and from his base in the Blue Mountains of New South Wales. Brad has become a recognised advocate, community volunteer, and spokesperson for men’s mental health and men’s health more broadly. After the breakdown of his marriage, Brad’s life spiralled, and he made two serious suicide attempts in 2013 and 2014, spending months in hospital recovering from his injuries. and he now draws on those experiences to speak openly about how childhood pain, long-term illness, and body image can feed deep anger and self-destructive patterns. Encouraged by a friend after he began sharing his journey on the radio, Brad created the Men’s Mental Health Show as a space where vulnerability is framed as courage, strength, and bravery rather than weakness. Each week, he sits down face-to-face with guests in the Katoomba studio to explore topics like suicide prevention, grief, community, masculinity, recovery, and everyday mental fitness. Through the show and his involvement with initiatives like Walk ’n’ Talk For Life, he promotes connection, movement, and conversation as practical tools for keeping people safe and supported. His mix of humour, honesty, and lived experience has made him a trusted voice in schools, local organisations, and community events, helping to normalise talking about suicide, trauma, and hope.This post is a tribute to Brad for turning some of the darkest chapters of his life into a lighthouse for others, for every conversation that has helped someone make it through another day, and for proving that real strength is found in telling the truth about how it actually feels to be human.