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The Nutters Club is a world first, online and offline media phenomenon that has changed and saved lives. It has spawned a very large, strong and supportive Facebook community and morphed into a popular television series on Maori Television. Over 500,000 people view the Nutters Club Facebook page every week.
It’s stated mission is "to forever change the way people, feel, think, talk and behave in relation to their mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, cultural and sexual well being; and in doing so encourage us all to take ownership of our own health and well being.” In plain English it’s a show about “Nutters helping other Nutters live at peace with themselves and others, so that we can all lead meaningful lives.”
The Nutters Club deals with all the tough stuff that many in society would prefer to keep in the closet. Topics like mental health issues, drug/alcohol addictions and the socially taboo. The show is hosted by Hamish Williams and Kyle MacDonald.
Hamish has worked in radio and media since age 12, drawn to it for the power that it had to share stories and help others. Involved with “The Nutters Club” since 2009 he has been a regular fill in for Mike King until becoming the main stay in 2017. Having experienced the impact of suicide personally he understands first hand challenges of mental health.
Our resident psychotherapist with 20 years experience - also writes a weekly mental health column for the New Zealand Herald (see: www.nzherald.co.nz/author/kyle-macdonald).
“Secrets keep you sick” is our motto. There are no secrets at The Nutters Club.
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12 November 2023: Dr Louise Cowpertwait studied psychology with the intention to help people, quickly becoming disillusioned to find herself working in a system...
05 November 2023: Neuroscience educator Nathan Wallis talks about how early life disruptions due to his mother's drinking inspired him on a path of teaching parents...
29 October 2023: FirstMate NZ is an organisation supporting people in the seafood industry with their mental and emotional wellbeing. Zak Olsen shares his own mental...
22 October 2023: What happens when people with mental health needs aren't able to access the services and the help they require? Hamish Williams and Are You Mental?...
15 October 2023: Psychotherapist Daniel Harrison offers his experience with gaming addiction which became very problematic in his own life. He talks with Hamish...
08 October 2023: Dr Murray Heasley and Darryl Smith discuss sexual abuse within the church and the lifelong impact of this kind of trauma. Daryl was abused by a...
01 October 2023: Senior Constable Bryan Ward talks to Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald about the NZ Police's strategy to internal mental health...
24 September 2023: Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald discuss how we can create perspective shifts in our lives to positively impact our mental health. With...
17 September 2023: Jono Snell had a great upbringing, and life generally went well for him, but when he hit his 40's, he couldn't avoid the nagging feeling that...
10 September 2023: Broadcaster Mike Puru rose to national prominence while keeping his sexuality a secret. He talks with Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald...
03 September 2023: Last week Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald asked listeners what they wanted to know from politicians about their parties' mental...
27 August 2023: With the New Zealand General Elections coming up in October, Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald discuss with callers what they'd...
20 August 2023: Everard Whangapirita suffered work place bullying and character assassination so severe, that he began to question the point of continuing to live....
13 August 2023: As a soldier in the British army Chris Collins was deployed to Bosnia where he was exposed first-hand to the shocking and traumatic circumstances...
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30 July 2023: With the news of Justice Minister Kiri Allan resigning from her cabinet role, after being charged with careless driving and resisting arrest sighting...
23 July 2023: Youth worker Aaron Hendry talks with Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald about the foundations of growing young people into healthy...
16 July 2023: More than 80% of NZ prisoners have suffered mental health or substance use issues. Are prisons just a place we put our most mentally unwell citizens...
09 July 2023: Davin Tan is a father, part-time psychiatrist and part-time parenting content creator. Malaysian-born, he talks to Hamish Williams and psychotherapist...
02 July 2023: In April this year two brothers were convicted of the sexual assaults of more than 20 women at Christchurch bar Mama Hooch. Sophie Brown was the first...
25 June 2023: After losing his mother suddenly at just ten years old, Ryan Howes saw a therapist to help to process the grief. Inspired by the transformative work,...
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11 June 2023: What are the psychological pathways behind how we respond to major stress? Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald discuss fight, flight,...
04 June 2023: Host and producer of podcast Are You Mental? Mick Andrews shares on his search for his own purpose in life, which led him to training and working as...
28 May 2023: Brenda Barry struggled with feeling “big” from childhood. She was never able to find effective diets or weight loss strategies until she came across...
21 May 2023: Living in a world with a growing complexity of challenges can wear us down. Feeling hopeless, helpless and overwhelmed are perfectly normal responses...
14 May 2023: Scotty Harvey became crippled by rheumatoid arthritis aged only 30. The medication to manage the pain induced a deep and frightening psychosis which...
07 May 2023: Resilience has become somewhat of a buzz word in mental health world in recent years. It’s a concept which encourages people to build capacity to deal...
30 April 2023: As herd animals, humans are hard-wired to feel good in face to face interactions and social connection. A sense of belonging, helps to put us into...
23 April 2023: Humans are wired for social connection and on the flipside, the effect of social isolation and loneliness on mortality is comparable to that of other...
16 April 2023: As Harry Averill entered high school he began pushing himself to excel as an athlete. He began training harder, losing weight and getting faster;...
09 April 2023: The unpredictable nature of change in life is inextricably linked to the experience of anxiety. The more changes we’re asked to make or are forced...
02 April 2023: Craig ‘Wiggy’ Wiggins talks about mental health in shifting New Zealand rural community landscapes. Farmers are facing huge pressure with escalating...
26 March 2023: New Zealand-Samoan hip-hop artist Bill Urali, aka King Kapisi talks about managing a successful music career in the public eye, high stress-levels,...
12 March 2023: Perspective is everything, the way we see life will shape the experiences we have. Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald how perspective...
12 March 2023: As a self-conscious teenager, Blain Collinge began smoking and selling cannabis at the tender age of 13 in an attempt to fit in with his peers. From...
05 March 2023: With the decision to use a special Lotto draw as a fundraiser for Cyclone Gabrielle relief sparking criticism from an anti-gambling advocates, Hamish...
26 February 2023: Psychotherapist Sandra Russell tells her story of being diagnosed with cancer and undergoing the subsequent physical and emotional journey with...
19 February 2023: Accelerated career and business development consultant Alicia Mckay, grew up in an unstable family environment, eventually leaving home at 13 and...
12 February 2023: With plenty of understandable fear wrapped around the onslaught of Cyclone Gabrielle, Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald talk about...
Brendan Reid, author of The Fat Ginger Nerd - A Weight Loss Story shares on his experience of being overweight from childhood and with lots of attempts at losing...
29 January 2023: In facing the aftermath of the Auckland floods where emergency services and heroic individuals risked their own safety to rescue others; Hamish Williams...
22 January 2023: The Nutters Club returns in our 14th year on air for the first show of 2023! Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald talk not about new...
18 December 2022: Why is gratitude good for our mental health? Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald talk about how reframing our perspectives can...
11 December 2022: Child psychologist Dr Emma Woodward shares about early life trauma that resulted in her becoming homeless at 16 and ultimately inspired her to...
04 December 2022: Professor of Public Health at AUT, Grant Schofield talks to Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald about an overwhelmed mental health...
27 November 2022: Mental health therapist Anna Elders intimately knows the journey of extremes of the female menstrual cycle. Premenstrual dysphoric disorder or...
20 November 2022: Julia Vahry served in the New Zealand police force for almost a decade. The job normalised dealing with sudden death, corpses and gruesome situation,...
13 November 2022: Burnout and other stress-related issues are becoming a rising phenomena worldwide. With cascading global crises including the escalating cost of...
06 November 2022: Palliative care specialist Sue Marsden talks about how meeting Dr Elisabeth Kübler-Ross who coined the five stages of grief, shifted her perspective...
30 October 2022: Former rugby league star and I AM HOPE ambassador Richie Barnett talks about the impact of a horrific on-field head injury and the onset of chronic...
23 October 2022: Hamish Williams and clinical psychologist Aaron O'Connell discuss the reasons for mental illness, mental distress and trauma and how we all can...
16 October 2022: New Zealand entertainer and comedian Willy De Wit shares on coming through alcohol, drug and methamphetamine addiction after a stroke gave him the...
09 October 2022: Devastated by being served with a protection order meaning he couldn’t have any contact with his children, Frank Hicks began to educate himself...
02 October 2022: With a growing awareness for digital addiction and its impact on our relationships and mental health, Digital Discipline works with schools and...
25 September 2022: Pain and mental health is an interwoven phenomena; chronic pain can have severe emotional implications and mental distress can cause physical...
18 September 2022: At 33, with her five-year-old son at home, Brenda Cheyne was pack raped during a home invasion. Brenda shares how the rage, anger, grief and sadness...
11 September 2022: Tricia Walsh describes Once were Warriors as a nicer version of her childhood. She grew up in an environment where violence was normalised and...
04 September 2022: Shaneel Lal knew they were different from their peers from a young age. Born during the third fijian coup, they began to realise they were queer...
28 August 2022: Hamish Williams and clinical psychologist Aaron MacDonald talk about anxiety and depression and take calls on how people manage or cope with either...
21 August 2022: Food is an essential element of our survival. Diet affects both our physical and mental health, and unhealthy eating patterns can have detrimental...
14 August 2022: With the NZ Labour Party rocked by allegations of bullying this week, Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald talk about why bullying...
07 August 2022: What are you afraid of in life, and what does it stop you from doing? Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald talk about the mechanics...
31 July 2022: Money and our relationship with it, looks different for everyone; how we earn it, how we spend it, how we share and how we feel about it is fundamental...
24 July 2022: Teenager Lena Watt couldn’t understand why she felt so sad, tired and unmotivated all the time. Finally after four years of feeling “off” she was diagnosed...
17 July 2022: Journalist, television host, author and sometimes farmer Matt Chisholm discusses what led him to seek help for his mental health in the height of his...
10 July 2022: The story of Catherine Daniels’ childhood trauma and sexual abuse was kept secret for years. It wasn’t until she was nearly 50 that she realised her...
03 July 2022: It's a common human habit to undervalue ourselves and believe we’re not good enough for our environments, jobs and relationships. Hamish Williams and...
26 June 2022: The Network of Survivors of Abuse in Faith-based Institutions and Their Supporters is an organisation which gives support and helps to facilitate victims...
19 June 2022: Nicola Hoogenboom was diagnosed with epilepsy after having a seizure at home and being rushed to hospital. She speaks openly and honestly about her...
13 June 2022: Why do vets have one of the highest rate of suicide of any professional industry in the world? Veterinary doctor Shalsee Vigeant with Hamish Williams...
05 June 2022: Our relationship with our jobs can impact all areas of our lives and extend far beyond work hours. Hamish Williams and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald...
29 May 2022: Meg Marshall grew up in a challenging childhood environment with a mother with mental health issues. Subsequently she was sent to a behavioural school...
22 May 2022: Diagnosed with ADHD at age six and medicated until fifteen, Hunter Wilson aka King Cass became familiar with being labelled as a problem child and treated...
15 May 2022: Melissa Malcolm experienced bouts of depression and anxiety over the years which led to treatment, counselling and medication. Through experimentation...
08 May 2022: After turning to alcohol in his mid-thirties, Bryne Gregory lost everything, including his family and home. He came to the Auckland City Mission, which...
01 May 2022: What happens to us when we hold onto resentments and we’re not able to forgive ourselves or others, or when we haven’t been forgiven? Hamish Williams...
24 April 2022: With a surge of recent trials and research around psychedelic-assisted therapy for helping long-term psychological conditions like PTSD and depression, psychotherapist...
17 April 2022: Usually on the other side of the studio window, the producer and cofounder of The Nutters Club, Boris Sokratov talks with psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald...
10 April 2022: Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald discuss the cornerstones of good mental health - sleep, food, exercise. With thanks to NZ...
03 April 2022: Whether occurring in childhood or through our adult lives and relationships, bullying can have a severe, ongoing effect on our mental health and sense...
27 March 2022: Human connection is an incredibly significant contributor to our physical and mental health, yet we live in an age where digital connection often...
20 March 2022: What triggers gambling addiction, what are the neurological processes that get you hooked, and what are ways to recover? Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist...
13 March 2022: How do diagnoses of mental illness affect people? How are they helpful, and how can they become a limitation? How do the diagnoses influence the perspective...
06 March 2022: Where is the existing support for mental health and what are the needs in our communities? Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald...
27 February 2022: With the anti-mandate protest on the lawns of Parliament entering its third week, Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald talk about...
20 February 2022: The pandemic has had signifiant mental health effects on the general population’s mental health, but what about our young people? Hamish Coleman-Ross...
13 February 2022: Anxiety is our brain and body’s way of managing threats to our safety and wellbeing. The way we react to and learn to manage this natural human...
06 February 2022: Is the Mental Health Act working? Does it deliver on its promise? Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald talk to listeners about...
30 January 2022: With the sad news of the death of past guest, Once Were Warriors actor, Pete Smith The Nutters Club looks back and reflects on Smith’s journey....
23 January 2022: When life bring inevitable moments of change, how can we cope with the flux these times bring? Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald...
20 December 2021: Even in our darkest days, although it may seem counterintuitive, finding gratitude is a significant tool that can help us move through our hardships...
12 December 2021: Christmas can be stressful any year with family tensions, financial strains, alcohol, food and addiction issues heightened. With an added dose...
05 December 2021: Failure happens to all of us in different ways and can cause a great amount of mental and emotional suffering and impact our self-worth negatively. Hamish...
28 November 2021: Resilience is the ability to mentally or emotionally cope with a crisis, or return to pre-crisis status quickly. It’s a set of mental processes,...
21 November 2021: Parents are the very first relationships in our lives and profoundly significant attachments in our developmental years. Learning to be parents...
14 November 2021: Chronic loneliness has the same physical health effects as smoking 15 cigarettes a day. Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald...
07 November 2021: Therapy has the potential to help people make major break-throughs with their mental health, though understandably, some may feel anxious or uncertain...
31 October 2021: Acts of kindness and positive attention of our energies can help us to navigate ongoing challenges we face through pandemic unknowns. Hamish Coleman-Ross...
24 October 2021: Past traumatic experiences can inform so much of our mental health, in fact it’s a common reason people end up in therapy. Traumatic childhood...
17 October 2021: What are the psychological motivation and implications of lies and lying? Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald discuss, not just...
10 October 2021: Life routines have been turned upside down during the pandemic as populations go in and out of lockdown. New habits are formed to adjust to new...
03 October 2021: There have been many losses associated with the pandemic; from lives, jobs and relationships to losing the ability to plan and in many cases the...
26 September 2021: As uncertainty over Aotearoa’s pandemic response continues, Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald talk about how the anxiety...
19 September 2021: The pandemic continues to have many of us live in an daily reality of uncertainty, where the future is unknown. Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist...
12 September 2021: For some, a mental health diagnosis can be liberating, relieving and provide a supportive pathway to wellness. For others it can feel more like...
05 September 2021: As New Zealanders make their way through the third week of the most recent pandemic lockdown, Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald...
29 August 2021: Focusing on positives especially through challenging times, supports better mental health and helps to keep anxiety and depression at bay. Hamish...
22 August 2021: Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald check in on people’s experience of the first nationwide full Covid lockdown in over a year. They speak...
15 August 2021: As a journalist for six major international TV and media networks over the years, Dale Owens came to know high-pressured work environments and relentless...
08 August 2021: Founder of the Lion Academy, Dion Jensen began his professional life in the military which included doing service in Iraq. After a chance to begin...
01 August 2021: Chairman of Broken Movement Trust, Jacob Leo Skilling grew up in a chaotic family environment laced with domestic violence and surrounded by gang...
25 July 2021: How do we support our young people and how do we talk to to them in the most effective and helpful ways? What works and what doesn’t? Hamish Coleman-Ross...
18 July 2021: MP for Waimakariri and National Party Spokesperson for mental health Matt Doocey talks about creating positive policy for mental health in New Zealand...
11 July 2021: Mark Belchamber talks about the effects of work as a paramedic on his mental health after experiencing PTSD through repeatedly attending traumatic...
04 July 2021: With so much public discussion about New Zealand’s broken mental health system, Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald decide to talk...
27 June 2021: Born and breed in Geraldine, self-described jack of all trades and master of none, Robbie 'Gooserooter’ Shefford has spent his life working as a farmer,...
20 June 2021: CEO of Kidz Need Dadz, Brendan Smith became a stay at home dad of two young children when his wife wanted to return to work. He talks about how he...
06 June 2021: How can we accept the inevitability of death while living? Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald discuss terminal diagnoses, and how...
30 May 2021: Georgia James was one of the first babies in NZ to be born with Ventricular Septal Defect, a hole in the heart, and have it repaired by Sir Brian Barret...
23 May 2021: The original founder and host of The Nutters Club, Mike King joins Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychologist Ingo Lambrecht to talk about this year’s Gumboot...
17 May 2021: Verna McFelin's husband was charged and convicted of crime and sent to prison unexpectedly. While Verna was moving through the passage of holding her...
09 May 2021: The mother relationship is often seen developmentally as our most significant in terms of our emotional development through childhood. Mothers' Day...
09 May 2021: The mother relationship is often seen developmentally as our most significant in terms of our emotional development through childhood. Mothers' Day...
03 May 2021: Long-time friend and supporter of The Nutters Club, Dean Kini, returns for his third time on the show. The former drug addict shares his story of long-term...
03 May 2021: Long-time friend and supporter of The Nutters Club, Dean Kini, returns for his third time on the show. The former drug addict shares his story of long-term...
25 April 2021: MP for Central Auckland Chloe Swarbrick talks about her personal journey with depression and how she’s now come to understand it. She discusses with...
25 April 2021: MP for Central Auckland Chloe Swarbrick talks about her personal journey with depression and how she’s now come to understand it. She discusses with...
18 April 2021: Seafarer and chief marine engineer Brendan Wade, experienced a massive anxiety attack at 24 off the coast of Western Australia. This wake up call...
18 April 2021: Seafarer and chief marine engineer Brendan Wade, experienced a massive anxiety attack at 24 off the coast of Western Australia. This wake up call...
11 April 2021: Grief eventually touches us all in some shape or another, whether through death or other forms of loss. What ways do we deal with grief when it touches...
11 April 2021: Grief eventually touches us all in some shape or another, whether through death or other forms of loss. What ways do we deal with grief when it touches...
04 April 2021: How is the mental health system in New Zealand performing after lofty promises of transformation from the 2017 mental health inquiry? Hamish Coleman-Ross...
04 April 2021: How is the mental health system in New Zealand performing after lofty promises of transformation from the 2017 mental health inquiry? Hamish Coleman-Ross...
28 March 2021: Walking on eggshells through childhood with a mother dealing with mental health challenges and drug addiction, meant Alana Thomas grew up without...
28 March 2021: Walking on eggshells through childhood with a mother dealing with mental health challenges and drug addiction, meant Alana Thomas grew up without...
21 March 2021: Bridget Wilson is an therapist, who's speciality is helping people recover from sex and love addiction. She speaks with Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist...
21 March 2021: Bridget Wilson is an therapist, who's speciality is helping people recover from sex and love addiction. She speaks with Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist...
15 March 2021: Paora Raharaha began experiencing the adrenaline rush of crime, after joining a gang as a teenager. He was soon convicted and sentenced to prison,...
15 March 2021: Paora Raharaha began experiencing the adrenaline rush of crime, after joining a gang as a teenager. He was soon convicted and sentenced to prison,...
07 March 2021: After this week's earthquakes and tsunami warnings in New Zealand, coupled with yo-yoing pandemic lockdowns, heightened levels of anxiety due to...
07 March 2021: After this week's earthquakes and tsunami warnings in New Zealand, coupled with yo-yoing pandemic lockdowns, heightened levels of anxiety due to...
28 February 2021: Levels of frustration with Auckland's latest lockdown have escalated amongst the public. Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald...
28 February 2021: Levels of frustration with Auckland's latest lockdown have escalated amongst the public. Hamish Coleman-Ross and psychotherapist Kyle MacDonald...