Men Are Nuts

Amani Kaite a Nutritional Therapist and entrepreneur with a passion for all things nutrition science, technology and mindfulness. Grew up in Belgium and as child always had this passion for helping others. After leaving Belgium for Ireland to be part of a international company. Amani realised to help cope with the move she would need nature’s help. So would often go for walks to contemplate. Little did she realised that those walks in nature would help her in the future. Website:www.amanikaite.com/work-with-me email: [email protected]

Ben is a successful masters student and business analyst having worked in Finance for a number of years. With strong communication and stakeholder management skills he has been able to manage that side of his life. On the other side of his life growing up Ben has never known who he really was or why he existed. That underlying thoughts of no fitting in led to him developing a gambling addiction and a acknowledgement of depression. This is his inspiring story.

Fidleaf is the brain child of Sophie and Adam it is a platform that is being developed as a work place well being tool. Her belief the personal wellbeing and workplace wellbeing go hand in hand. Using research and data to help and track what are the contributing factors to what makes us human and well.

Dr Sam Manger is living and working in Australia as GP. He is also researching and looking into lifestyle clinical programs which include food, movement, connection to land connection to each other and social determinants of health. On this episode we go in depth talking about how the mind and body are connected. How some doctors still don’t see a mind body connection. We also talk about helping the indigenous aboriginal people and Sam’s determination to bring about change with fact based research.

Matthew Bartolo is Therapist and Counsellor specialising in sex and relationships. Growing up in Malta Matthew seemed to have a gift of helping others and giving advice. He would often get friends coming to him talking about girlfriend boyfriend issues. He is founder of Willingness Malta (www.willingness.com.mt) a multi-disciplinary team working together to offer professional services related to family, sex and health. On this episode we talk about celibacy and modern day attitudes towards sex and relationships.

Having had 15 years as a professional basketballer.in Greece and UK Anastasios came to a point in his life where he felt he needed a change. He thought long and hard about his decision but he knew it was the right one. Going into the unknown there would be an element of fear. With the right support and strength of mind he made his decision. Listen to his story of playing against NBA star Giannis Antetokounmpo and travelling from sunny Greece to wet UK. Below are his contact details :@ttraianos on Twitter , @trai_16 on Instagram and Anastasios Traianos on LinkedIn

Orla mcKeating is a anti racism campaigner she is also training for international accreditation life coaching specialising in coaching women from the BAME community. She is also a mum bringing up her son of colour in a country that is predominately white. After leaving Belgium and coming back to Belfast Northern Ireland she found that racism was rife amongst the community. She also felt that she would be frowned upon for being a single parent. Orla was struggling mentally to cope with work/life. She suddenly found herself on the verge of a breakdown. Listen to her empowering story

Rob Shenton is back on the podcast and here we chat about the corona virus pandemic, how he copes with it. Also how you can develop coping mechanisms to keep your mental health intact.

After having a baby Zahra Butt ended up with postnatal depression. She struggled to come with terms of birth and motherhood. When she had her second child she knew what was going to happen but due to her first experience she was able to cope. Feeling lost and struggling to cope with who she was. Zahra took to exercise as a coping mechanism. This helped her to deal with the her mental health but something still wasn’t right. The light bulb switched on and she decided to become the 1st hijab ABA trained boxing coach. Listen to Zahra Butt and her story.

As part of his upbringing and childhood looking out for others in the community was always part of Mendel Kastel life. Growing up in Brooklyn Mendel felt that he had a passion for helping others and he used to instinct to help him on his journey. His student exchange took him to Sydney, Australia where he has continued his mission to help others. We chat about his driving passion and continued work in helping whilst fighting for the cause of others. We talk about the alarming suicide rate and the need to help the aborigines(Australia’s original people).