Soul Brew

Aidan and Stephen are together recording for the first time in a while. Using Spotify Wrapped as an influence they discuss their top 5 moments of 2023 and have some suggested conversation starters when visiting family and friends this festive season.

12 questions to ask to get the craic going and to have good conversations this Christmas - 1. Which of your current values would be different if you were raised by different parents? 2. What annoys you about other people that you sometimes do yourself? 3. What was the last lie you told and would you tell it again? 4. What did you buy recently that you now regret? 5. What was true a generation ago that no longer is, and who is clinging to that old truth? 6. Is cereal soup? 7. What would you choose as the title of your memoir? 8. If your family had a theme song what would it be? 9. What’s the funniest thing that’s happened to you this year? 10. What’s one thing that came good for you this year? 11. In what ways have you yet to accept the fact of who you are, and you are not the person you ought to be 12. What’s the craziest thing you’ve done this year?

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The village people sang macho man and they had great moustaches. Here we speak to Aisling Quigley who is the Marketing & Communications Manager at Movember Ireland. We spoke about her role, what Movember is and Aidan speaks about his personal experience of having testicular cancer twice in his twenties.

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Dr Sharon Lambert is a lecturer in the School of Applied Psychology in UCC. Sharon’s research interests revolve primarily around inclusion psychology/inclusion health in the areas of mental health, substance dependence, homelessness and trauma and consequent impacts on service design and delivery and is regularly published in peer-reviewed journals and delivers seminars. 

We discussed how podcasting has made mental health and wellbeing information more accessible and understandable for listeners and a new study has proved that they can in fact improve mental health literacy. The paper, published by Dr Lambert and Naoise Ó Caoilte from UCC, shows that access to information through podcasts has decreased stigma and increased help-seeking amongst listeners. We also talk about topics including stress, mental health, mens mental health, trauma and looking at change on the individual and societal level.

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Stephen reveals his very serious morning routine which results in the lads talking about the importance of what we eat, how much we sleep and how we relax. Originally this episode was to be called "Eat Sleep Lift Repeat" and focus on how important each are for health and the discussion ended up focusing on relaxation for health because its an area Aidan and Stephen feel like they need to work on.

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The 7th of October 2022 will be a day that nobody from Creeslough and the greater area will ever forget when the lives of Leona Harper, Robert Garwe, Shauna Flanagan Garwe, James O'Flaherty, Martina Martin, Hugh Kelly, Catherine O'Donnell, James Monaghan, Martin McGill, and Jessica Gallagher ended too soon. As we approach the year anniversary we have Lisa Gallagher, sister of Jessica Gallagher joins us for a chat - Lisa thank you for sharing your story.

Thank you Matt McGranaghan to read more about Olldáimh click on the link.

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HSE Support Line - Call 087 140 5138

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The Boys are Back in Town and now we are FULL-TIME(ish). We're doing away with the 'seasons' format and will release an episode at least every three weeks.

In this episode, the lads discuss what they have been up to since the last episode. By reflecting on previous episodes and topics they discuss lessons learned, Aidan finally turns 30, on "becoming adults", our new podcast "Studio" and more.

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Man's Search for Meaning is one of those books constantly suggested as a "must-read". Aidan and Stephen have reread the book lately and discussed some of their key findings and thoughts from it.

In Man's Search for Meaning, Victor E. Frankl describes his lessons learned as a holocaust survivor, and how his experiences shaped his understanding of meaning. The will to meaning, his iconic Logotherapy, and the true meaning of life are all masterfully explained by Frankl.

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We have spoken to many guests on this show about a variety of topics and one that is frequently discussed is personal values. Aidan and Stephen decided to sit down (separately) to figure out what their values are and then together they discuss their process of finding them. They also discuss what a personal value is and what it means to them.

We forgot to mention that we will speak about the book Mans Search for Meaning in next week's episode.

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In this episode, the lads are joined by Gary McGowan aka Skinny Gaz. He speaks about being clinically diagnosed with depression yet somehow can still highly function studying as a doctor and managing a business he co-founded called Triage Method. We speak about his experience with all of this and how he is managing his depression, workload, and trying to find balance in life.

We mention the book Mans Search for Meaning as it pertains to the content of this episode. Check it out as we will be speaking about it in a few weeks.

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Named after an absolute belter of a throwback song The Way I Are is about a recent personality test that Aidan and Stephen took part in to figure out who they are. Stephen did his test on truity.com while Aidan did his on understandmyself.com. The lads discuss their results and what meaning they derive from their sometimes contrasting scores. Check them out to see how you score for Openness, Conscientiousness, Extraversion, Agreeableness, and Neuroticism in this scientific personality assessment.

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