Becoming You - The Podcast with John Fleming

Season 2 of Becoming You – The Podcast has been shaped by the theme Uncovering You. Across nine episodes, John Fleming sat down with guests to explore identity, purpose, shadow, and truth.

In this special finale, John shares five of the most powerful moments that resonated with listeners , the episodes that received the most downloads, sparked personal messages, and captured the heart of the season:

• S2E3: Unmasking Autism — Kieran Rose on Stigma, Masking & Rediscovering Identity
• S2E2: Uncovering Your Abundance — Vulnerability and Shadow Work with Moira Geary
• S2E5: Uncovering Your Gifts & Talents with Martin Duffy — Exploring Shadow, Spirit and Human Potential
• S2E8: Uncovering Gender — Paige Behan on Transition, Intersex, Identity, and Finding Peace
• S2E9: Uncovering Your Soul Purpose — Grounded Spirituality and Why Ego Isn’t the Enemy with Dr. Anémona Peres
  
  

Each of these clips reflects the depth and honesty that made Season 2 so impactful for the Becoming You community.

If you’ve enjoyed this season, please consider leaving a review on Apple Podcasts , it’s one of the best ways to support the show and help others discover these conversations. And if any of these highlights speak to you, share the episode with a friend who might need it.

Thank you for listening to Season 2 of Becoming You – The Podcast. Season 3 is on the way in 2026. 

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Disclaimer: The content shared in this podcast represents the personal experiences, opinions, and insights of the host, guests, and contributors. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice, whether medical, psychological, therapeutic, legal, or financial.

If you are experiencing mental health challenges, emotional distress, or require professional support, we strongly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional or relevant support services.

What does it really mean to uncover your soul purpose?

In this episode of Becoming You – The Podcast, John Fleming sits down with Dr. Anémona Peres, a clinical hypnotherapist, psychologist, and shamanic counsellor whose life journey has taken her from Romanian law enforcement and EU agencies to deep therapeutic and spiritual practice.

Together, John and Anémona explore what it means to live with purpose, and why it has less to do with job titles or external success - and everything to do with becoming more of yourself.

They discuss:

• Why soul purpose is about who you are, not what you do
• How Anémona’s own journey led her from workaholism and people-pleasing to alignment and authenticity
• The role of therapy, hypnotherapy, and shamanism in uncovering the self
• The dangers of spiritual bypassing and ungrounded spirituality
• Why building a relationship with yourself is the foundation of healing
• How play, laughter, and creativity reconnect us with the natural child within
  
  

About Dr. Anémona Peres:
Dr. Anémona Pires is a psychologist, education specialist, clinical and transpersonal hypnotherapist, counsellor, and consciousness researcher with over 20 years of international experience. Her background spans law enforcement psychology, strategic change management, and quality assurance in higher education, alongside deep training in Transactional Analysis, Gestalt, NLP, somatic and parts work, and relational neuroscience.

Connect with Dr Anemona Peres on Linkedin: https://pl.linkedin.com/in/dr-anemona-peres-36784047?trk=public_post_feed-actor-name

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If you are experiencing mental health challenges, emotional distress, or require professional support, we strongly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional or relevant support services.

“I wake up every morning since my surgery and think: this is what life was meant to be like for me.” - Paige Behan

At just 27, Paige Behan has already walked a journey of extraordinary courage. Growing up in Dublin, she knew from an early age that something felt different. By 15, she was diagnosed as intersex, and soon after, she began her transition - in a world where understanding, acceptance, and adequate healthcare were often absent.

In this conversation, Paige speaks with John about:

• Growing up intersex and discovering her diagnosis at 15
• What it really feels like to live with gender dysphoria and why it can be life-threatening if unsupported
• Navigating transition as a teenager in Ireland and the fight for healthcare
• The profound relief of undergoing gender reassignment surgery in Germany
• The role of her mother’s unconditional support in her survival
• Facing stigma and transphobia — and why education matters
• How she has learned to stop seeking validation from others and live in peace with herself

Paige’s words are filled with wisdom born of resilience. This is not just a story about gender identity,  it’s about what it means to finally meet yourself, to survive, and to step fully into life.

If you want to better understand gender identity, the intersex experience, or simply what it means to live aligned with who you are, this episode is for you.

Connect with Paige on social media: @paigebehan on Instagram

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If you are experiencing mental health challenges, emotional distress, or require professional support, we strongly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional or relevant support services.

What role has race had in your life?

In this conversation on Becoming You - the podcast, John speaks with Dr. Claire Stewart Hall - a researcher, practitioner, coach, and educator to explore how whiteness shapes identity, leadership, and belonging. 

They discuss masking, silence, systemic power, and why noticing your own racialisation is the first step in meaningful personal growth. Claire spent 20 years as a qualified teacher and head teacher, and for the last 10 years has studied race and whiteness in leadership settings.

Claire now designs programmes and coaches people to understand systemic injustice - how it shows up in their lives, their settings, and themselves. 

Together, John and Claire explore:

• How whiteness functions as a structure not just skin colour
• Why masking, silence, and “looking away” uphold racism
• How fear and the nervous system influence our response to race
• What it means to be racialised as white, and how to begin noticing it
• The potential for growth when white people create spaces to run towards these conversations

Claire also reflects on her personal journey navigating her identity, family, and her work as a leader and researcher, and why she continues to examine her own relationship with whiteness.

If you’re curious about what “uncovering your whiteness” really means, and how race shapes identity, leadership, and belonging, this episode offers an open and honest entry point.

Listen to the podcast Whiteness at work: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/whiteness-at-work/id1782561091

Check out Dr Claire Stewart-Halls website & programs: https://equitablecoaching.com/

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If you are experiencing mental health challenges, emotional distress, or require professional support, we strongly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional or relevant support services.

What does it mean to uncover your spirituality?

In this episode of Becoming You - The Podcast, John sits down with Cathair Curran - known to many online as Kegs - to explore his journey of transformation, spirituality, and identity.

From growing up in Tyrone feeling disconnected, to living the party lifestyle abroad, to experiencing profound awakenings through travel, sobriety, and spiritual practices, Cathair shares the pivotal moments that helped him peel back the layers of who he thought he was and step into who he is becoming.

You’ll hear:

• The power of listening to your intuition, heart, and soul even when it’s scary
• The first “heaven on earth” moment that began his own spiritual awakening 
• What listening to your heart actually feels like (and how he uses it to make hard decisions)
• A mirror-moment that ended his relationship with alcohol
• Identity in transition: moving from “Kegs” (persona) to Cathair (essence) and protecting what stays private
• Where he is now: living in his van in Ireland, documenting his journey online and reconnecting with his roots

This is a raw, open, and inspiring conversation about identity, authenticity, and the ongoing process of becoming.

About Cathair (“Kegs”)

Creator and traveler documenting life and growth; currently transitioning from the online persona “Kegs” back to his given name, Cathair, while sharing more value-led, heart-first work.

Connect with Cathair (Kegs) on Instagram: @kegs97

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If you are experiencing mental health challenges, emotional distress, or require professional support, we strongly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional or relevant support services.

In this episode of Becoming You - the podcast, John Fleming sits down once again with Martin Duffy - former psychiatric nurse and director of the Irish Centre for Shamanic and Transpersonal Studies.

With 35 years in mental health in the HSE, training in humanistic and Jungian psychotherapy, and decades learning directly from indigenous shamans around the world, Martin brings a rare blend of clinical insight and experiential, transpersonal wisdom. 

This conversation bridges the structures of mainstream psychiatry with the soul-centred practices of shamanic healing, exploring what it truly takes to evolve both individually and collectively.

In this episode, Martin and John explore:

• Why shadow work matters: Jung’s view that the hard work of bringing the shadow into the light is the path to real change.
• Jung vs. Freud: How Jung’s inclusion of the psychospiritual was a turning point for Martin.
• Beyond the medical model: the limitations he witnessed first-hand in psychiatry and why he founded an alternative centre for healing.
• The Wetiko mind virus: Martin's story of working with a young man listening to the “voice” in his head
• Telepathy as normal: why some non-verbal autistic children could be showing us the future of humanity.
• The Yuga cycles: why our current era of upheaval may be a necessary purging before a shift in human consciousness.

Learn more about Martin Duffy and his work:

Irish Centre for Shamanic and Transpersonal Studies – www.shamanismireland.com

Elements of Shamanism – Online Course – Explore the course here

Books & resources mentioned in the episode:

Adventures in the Psychotic Mind – Jerry Marzinsky

Spirit Releasement Therapy – Dr. William J. Baldwin

The Yuga Shift – Bepin Behari (on Vedic Yuga cycles)

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What if the story you live by isn’t actually yours? And what if you could reclaim authorship of that story today?

In this episode of Becoming You, the Podcast, John Fleming sits down with Transactional Analyst and Rosemary Napper to explore the idea of the "life script" which is the unconscious story we begin writing in early childhood that continues to shape how we live, love, age, and define ourselves.

Rosemary Napper is a Transactional Analyst Trainer & Supervisor based in Oxford, UK. In this conversation, she shares practical insights and reflections about how early decisions and assumptions form a blueprint for who we think we should be. 

You'll hear:

• How ageing can become a radical act of freedom
• The pressure to stay youthful in personal development culture
• What life script is and why it matters
• How early childhood experiences form our unconscious stories
• How Transactional Analysis helps us update outdated narratives
• The power of authorship in personal growth
• Why noticing your patterns is the first step in reclaiming your story

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Check out TA Works: Transactional Analysis Training and Education: https://www.taworks.co/

Connect with Rosemary Napper on Linkedin:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/rosemarynapper/

Disclaimer: The content shared in this podcast represents the personal experiences, opinions, and insights of the host, guests, and contributors. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice, whether medical, psychological, therapeutic, legal, or financial.

If you are experiencing mental health challenges, emotional distress, or require professional support, we strongly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional or relevant support services.

Disclaimer: The content shared in this podcast represents the personal experiences, opinions, and insights of the host, guests, and contributors. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice, whether medical, psychological, therapeutic, legal, or financial.

If you are experiencing mental health challenges, emotional distress, or require professional support, we strongly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional or relevant support services.

In this episode of Becoming You - The Podcast, John Fleming welcomes autistic author, researcher, and international speaker Kieran Rose to explore autism, masking, identity, and how we start to uncover who we are.

Kieran is a published mainstream and academic author, international public speaker, trainer, researcher and consultant to organisations worldwide. His work focuses on Autistic Masking, Burnout and Identity. Diagnosed as autistic in 2003, he’s also a proud dad to three autistic children.

Together, John and Kieran dive into what masking really means, how it differs from everyday context switching, and why unmasking isn’t as simple as taking something off. 

It's about years of survival, stigma, and learning to feel safe in your own identity, especially within the current education systems and environments.

What You’ll Hear in This Episode:

• The hidden ways autistic masking begins unconsciously and why it’s wired into survival

• How stigma, invalidation, and other people’s expectations shape your identity as an autistic person

• The meaning of unmasking and why it’s not as simple as “just be yourself”

• John’s experience of growing up in the Irish education system and its flaws in recognising 

• How education systems are built one way and what happens to autistic people who don’t fit that mould

• Why professionals must question their frameworks and what becoming a reflective practitioner really means

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Check out Kieran's Course: The Inside Of Autism: https://kmrtraining.teachable.com/a/aff_sc33dh6r/external?affcode=903653_mwf27ja9

Connect with Kieran Rose:

Visit his website: theautisticadvocate.com

Disclaimer: The content shared in this podcast represents the personal experiences, opinions, and insights of the host, guests, and contributors. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice, whether medical, psychological, therapeutic, legal, or financial.

If you are experiencing mental health challenges, emotional distress, or require professional support, we strongly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional or relevant support services.

Disclaimer: The content shared in this podcast represents the personal experiences, opinions, and insights of the host, guests, and contributors. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice, whether medical, psychological, therapeutic, legal, or financial.

If you are experiencing mental health challenges, emotional distress, or require professional support, we strongly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional or relevant support services.

In this episode of Becoming You - The Podcast, John Fleming sits down once again with Moira Geary, also known as The Recombobulator, to explore vulnerability, authenticity, shadow work, and how to reconnect with the forgotten parts of you.

Moira is a former nurse and midwife, holds an MA in Psychotherapy and a Postgrad Diploma in Positive Health, Moira is dedicated to creating awareness and transformational change to evolve human awareness and consciousness.

Together, they strip back the glossy ideas of authenticity and get real about what it actually means to uncover the version of yourself you’ve buried under life, protection, and old beliefs.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

• The uncomfortable truth about vulnerability
• ​​Why most people think they’re being authentic and how it’s often just anger or fear in disguise
• How to spot where you’re living from with the Four Levels of Consciousness
• The language you use every day and how one small change can completely shift your mindset
• Why playfulness, curiosity, and even a little “fairy energy” are essential
• What happens when you finally stop running from the shadow — and start welcoming it in

Moira also leaves you with two powerful questions to sit with (tune in till the end to find out)

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Visit her website: https://www.moirageary.com/

Visit her Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/moirageary_

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If you are experiencing mental health challenges, emotional distress, or require professional support, we strongly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional or relevant support services.

Disclaimer: The content shared in this podcast represents the personal experiences, opinions, and insights of the host, guests, and contributors. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice, whether medical, psychological, therapeutic, legal, or financial.

If you are experiencing mental health challenges, emotional distress, or require professional support, we strongly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional or relevant support services.

To open Season 2 of Becoming You – The Podcast, John takes the guest seat to explore the personal and ongoing journey of uncovering who he really is - starting from a powerful moment at eight years old, when he looked in the mirror and saw himself for the first time.

In conversation with Sarah Spoule, John speaks openly about his experience with internalised ableism, what it took to move from being “a head with legs” to listening to his body and learning to recognise his physis or life force.

What You’ll Discover in This Episode:

• What John has been uncovering recently on his own journey 
• The role of internalised ableism in shaping his relationship with capacity
• The moment at age eight that marked the first time he truly saw himself
• Why asking for help, both then and now, has been a defining part of uncovering himself
• The power of naming his life force - his physis - and trusting it 
• The messy and uncomfortable truth about the journey of uncovering yourself

Would you like to explore the idea of uncovering your authentic self?

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Connect with the Guest Sarah Sproule

Website: https://sarahsproule.com/

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/iamsarahsproule/

Disclaimer: The content shared in this podcast represents the personal experiences, opinions, and insights of the host, guests, and contributors. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice, whether medical, psychological, therapeutic, legal, or financial.

If you are experiencing mental health challenges, emotional distress, or require professional support, we strongly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional or relevant support services.

Disclaimer: The content shared in this podcast represents the personal experiences, opinions, and insights of the host, guests, and contributors. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice, whether medical, psychological, therapeutic, legal, or financial.

If you are experiencing mental health challenges, emotional distress, or require professional support, we strongly encourage you to seek guidance from a qualified professional or relevant support services.