In episode 3 Life Coach Máirtín Óg McDonagh and Julie Clarke chat about overcoming life challenges and growing through them to come out the other side.   

Máirtín Óg brings a wealth of life experience and professional qualifications to the table. An entrepreneur, responsible for building two successful businesses in the past, employing a skilled workforce and managing teams. A casualty of the downturn in 2010, losing everything he had worked so hard to achieve. This difficult time in Máirtín’s life gave him a huge understanding and empathy of how frail our mental health can be. How we need to draw on inner strength and how with determination and the right mindset you can rebuild your life, with an emphasis on the quality of your life rather than the material acquisitions.

This experience led to a passion for helping others and resulted in him studying and acquiring an accredited Life Coaching Qualification in 2019.

In 2020 Máirtín set up Mind Over Mountains, an initiative that combines coaching, mentoring and the great outdoors. Encouraging positive and productive teamwork through a healthy mind health body ethos to his clients.

For more about Mairtin see his website  www.mindovermountains.ie

Julie Clarke had a successful career in training and education when in 2006 she had a car accident that changed her life forever.  Shortly after completing the Connemara half Marathon Julie was involved in a car crash – this left her with an injury to her brain causing muscle movement disorder.   It was a long road to recovery leading her down a road of great personal growth. The turning point for Julie was when she faced the fear of what was happening to her body and at that moment decided she was going to survive this.   Julie kept a vision of running the London Marathon in her heart and bought herself a pair of marathon runners to wear every day during the years of her recovery.   In 2012 Julies dream came through when she ran the London Marathon with her friends and husband.    

Following her recovery Julie set up her own artisan candle business called Julie Clarke Candles – at the heart of this business lies Julie’s passion for health and well-being.   The podcast Simply Holistic Living has grown out of Julie’s journey of recovery and passion to help others.  

The website for Julie Clarke Candles is www.julieclarkecandles.com

In episode 2, I have a conversation with Psychologist Willie Horton about the practises he teaches through his various programs, helping us to become who we really are and hit the off button on the autopilot running our lives. 

Willie Horton is an Irish Psychologist living in France.  He has an amazing program called the ‘The Psychology of Success Online Program’ and an inspiring podcast ‘To Succeed Just Let Go’.  Through his podcast, online program and free videos and other resources on his website, Willie teaches us how to change our lives, how to become who we really are and to stop paying attention to the thinking mind which he says is the false self. 

Willie’s work is truly inspirational and changing lives.   To find out more about his work click on to his website www.willie-horton.com

In this episode I chat with Dr Gladys McGarey, 103-year-old medical doctor still practising medicine and inspiring everyone who meets her with her wisdom and life experience.  Our chat focuses on the six secrets she talks about in her most recent book. 

The title of her book is – ‘The Well Lied Life.  A 102-year-old Doctor's Six Secrets to Health & Happiness at Every Age.’  This is truly a life changing, inspirational book.    

Dr McGarey is known as the mother of holistic medicine and has a dream for a Village of Living Medicine putting “the sacredness of love and life at the forefront in healing”.  She talks and writes about the physician within each of us.   

For more about Dr McGarey see her website https://gladysmcgarey.com/  and her Instagram @begladmd

A trailer for series 3 of the podcast Simply Holistic Living - Feeding the mind, body and soul.

Episide 1 will be released on September 4th 2024, with 3 more episodes to follow every week in September.

 The theme running through the 4 episodes in this series is – becoming who you really are.  We have the inspirational 103 years old Dr Gladys McGarry sharing her wisdom and talking about her six secrets to a well lived life.   In episode two we have Irish Psychologist Willie Horton in conversation about connecting with our real self to reach our full potential. In episode 3 Life & Business Coach Mairtin Óg McDonagh from Mind over Mountains on the experience of overcoming life challenges and connecting with who they really are.   In the final episode, Business Coach Fiona Brennan from ‘Inspire, Action, Success’ chats about the power of meditation.

Presented by Julie Clarke

This podcast series is sponsored by Julie Clarke Candles and Mervue Natural Skincare – check out our websites www.julieclarkecandles.com and www.mervuenaturalskincare.com 

Kelly is a Yoga Ayurvedic Living Educator and senior Yoga Teacher with Yoga Alliance Professionals.   Kelly works from  her Yoga Ayurveda Living Centre based in Setu Studio Space, Bungalow 7, Clarinbridge.  

Kelly says “Ayurveda and Yoga balance what you need vs. what you want. This is your medicine, you can call it stress relief, stress management, work life balance.  It is relaxation and mental health for wellbeing. Yoga and Ayurveda are a simple path to wellness.”

In this podcast Kelly guides us through a beautiful meditation to help us enter into that calm space within.

www.yogaayurvedicliving.com

I chat with Niall Breslin – one of Irelands leading mental health advocates, host of multi-award winning ‘Where is my mind’ podcast, musician, composer, and inspirational life transformation speaker. 

Niall is currently doing his Ph.D. examining the history of how we dealt with mental health in the past in Ireland both at state and community levels.  Niall believes Ireland can be transformational leaders on the world stage in how we deal with mental health challenges as a state and society.  Niall’s personal struggles with his own mental health has informed his journey to become one of Ireland’s thought leaders in mental health.  

In this episode we look at where mental health sits in Ireland today on an individual, community, and national level and how things are changing.  

www.niallbreslin.com

Kathy runs a successful private counselling practice in Trim in County Meath.  

She is a psychodynamic counsellor and integrates other approaches such as CBT, SFT, Mindfulness and Dreamwork Therapy – this she believes can allow you to unlock closed doors and open up an avenue of growth and freedom.

Kathy says “I truly believe that each one of us has the capacity to lead fulfilled lives, and the only thing holding us back are the negative stories/narratives/beliefs and even lies, that we have told ourselves.  Sometimes you just need to take that first step to explore what’s behind those closed doors and you will find that you can set yourself free.”

In this episode I chat with Kathy about navigating our mental health and the different things that help us on our mental health journey. 

Kathys website is www.willowavenuetherapy.com  and her email is [email protected]

Rory is a physiotherapist and owner of Ratoath Physiotherapy in Ratoath County Meath. 

In addition to his training as a physiotherapist Rory has pursued training in cutting edge therapies emerging from around the world.  He has completed extensive education in Neurokinetic Therapy, Integrated Cranial, Structural Joint Balancing and Systemic Kinesiology and uses a combined approach of these therapies to uncover the root cause of musculoskeletal dysfunction and bring lasting results even in chronic conditions. Rory is a Level 3 Advanced Neurokinetic Therapy practitioner, a member of the Irish Society of Chartered Physiotherapists and is registered with CORU.

Rory is a passionate therapist, and this passion is evident in our chat for this episode.  In this episode I talk to Rory about how we can take better care of our bodies. 

Rory can be contacted on 01 689 6701 and his website is www.ratoathphysio.ie

Clare is a qualified Nutritional Therapist (NT) and advocate for healthy eating and lifestyle medicine.  She is owner of ANU Wellness a Galway based holistic Nutritional Therapy practice in Oranmore, County Galway.  

In this episode Clare is back on the podcast to talk about connecting with natural food sources.  She says a good way to judge that we are connecting with natural food sources is - to check if our grandparents were going to our supermarket today what would they recognise as food.  

Clare can be contacted through the website below.

https://galwayphysio.com/services/nutritional-therapist/