This week I am delighted to be joined by a very special guest Seamus Ruane. 

Seamus is a community pharmacist based in the West of Ireland who is a passionate advocate for the power and benefits of making small changes to our lifestyles to promote better wellbeing and performance.   

Influenced and motivated by the benefits of positive psychology and the work of Martin Seligman in particular Seamus’s story is on that encompasses his own personal experience of burnout early in his career, an awakening around what really mattered most to him and a desire to spread his personal message grounded in professional experience, science and passion to as many people as he can via his work as a pharmacist and through his i-Thrive Academy 

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We are hosting our our first open, in-person event in over two years that we would love you to be a part of. Taking place in the beautiful Brooklodge Hotel and Spa and surrounded by the stunning natural landscape of the Wicklow Mountains, Elemental Leadership invites you to equip yourself with fresh perspectives, trailblazing ideas and creative tools, so you can navigate and meet the challenges of now with greater ease, confidence and clarity. 

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This week I am delighted to be joined by a very special guest Clodagh Hughes. 

Clodagh is a coach who brings a combination of hard won personal and professional experience along with cutting edge brain and neuroscience to her work supporting leaders in all manner of sectors and industries. 

Passionate about and definitive in her belief that leadership is the key to organisational success and performance Clodagh gave me a fascinating insight into what has led her to doing the work she does, setting up a business as a young working mother, dealing with and experiencing change and why the Covid 19 pandemic has utterly transformed how we work and why leaders in business need to understand and accept this if they are to support themselves and their people right now. 

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We are hosting our our first open, in-person event in over two years that we would love you to be a part of. Taking place in the beautiful Brooklodge Hotel and Spa and surrounded by the stunning natural landscape of the Wicklow Mountains, Elemental Leadership invites you to equip yourself with fresh perspectives, trailblazing ideas and creative tools, so you can navigate and meet the challenges of now with greater ease, confidence and clarity. 

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We're back for more inspiring conversations with great guests.

This week I am delighted to be joined by a very special guest Brian Hillery.  

Brian is a Partner in EisnerAmper Ireland - a firm specializing in Audit, Tax, Advisory, Risk & Regulatory Accounting & Compliance Services. Brian works as the firm's Head of Coaching where over the past number of years he has set up and operationalised a coaching practice both for the firm’s clients and its staff. Brian gave me fascinating insights the benefits that can be derived from creating and embedding a coaching culture across an organisation as well as speaking passionately about his own story and the formative experiences that got him to where he is today. 

Find out more about EisnerAmper Ireland

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We are hosting our our first open, in-person event in over two years that we would love you to be a part of. Taking place in the beautiful Brooklodge Hotel and Spa and surrounded by the stunning natural landscape of the Wicklow Mountains, Elemental Leadership invites you to equip yourself with fresh perspectives, trailblazing ideas and creative tools, so you can navigate and meet the challenges of now with greater ease, confidence and clarity. 

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This week I am delighted to be joined by another very special guest Shelagh Marshall. 

Shelagh is a woman of many talents and disciplines, a mother, business owner, chartered accountant and personal insolvency practitioner who very kindly took time out of her busy schedule to talk to me about her personal and professional journey and what is has taught her along the way. 

Training as an accountant she initially worked in industry in the UK before setting up her own business and building it into a successful and thriving practice before a life changing event forced her to change direction and countries as she settled back in Ireland and put her career ambitions on the back burner for 10 years. 

Picking up from where she left off a few years ago Shelagh has gone on to found another business Firm Advice specialising in helping people to manage and resolve debt and insolvency issues.  

For Shelagh helping people in financial difficulty is as much about supporting people in coming to terms with things like loss and failure as well as removing the stigma of looking for help and taking the first steps towards change which as Shelagh puts it herself is all about “helping people to look back in at their situation instead of just being in it”. 

This was an inspiring conversation with someone passionate about helping people to understand not just how money works but how their emotions to it work too so that we overcome our fears and insecurities about what for many of us can be a mysterious and intimidating commodity.  

This episode of the Live Well Perform Better Podcast brings the curtain down on what has been Season 2.Thank you so much listening so far this year, we really appreciate all the feedback we’ve gotten and we’ll be back in the Autumn with season 3 which will feature more great guests ready to share their stories and insights with us. 

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This week I am delighted to be joined by a very special guest Rob Cullen. 

Rob is a well-known and popular figure within the Dublin business community due to his long standing association with the Dublin Chamber of Commerce where he spent 7 years leading and managing its members events and engagements alongside teaching people how to network and build their own personal brands.  

Rob is equally well known for the massive change he made in his own lifestyle 6 years ago when along with his wife Yvonne they managed to lose 13stone between them and in the process completely transform the quality of their own lives and that of their family. 

Rob has recently embarked on his latest challenge as the director of business development with the Noel Group and he very generously took time out of his schedule to share his story with me and in the process tell me what his weight loss journey has taught him about himself and life as well as what others can learn from his experience and put into practice when making and implementing change in their personal or professional lives.  

This was inspiring conversation all about the importance of taking action towards the goals and ambitions that are meaningful to you, why accountability on your change journey matters and why the one thing that anyone looking to change something in their lives or business must give up are excuses. 

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This week I am delighted to welcome another very special guest, performance and wellbeing coach Tony Og Regan 

A dedicated and committed athlete who played senior county hurling for Galway, Tony has taken his passion and interest for all things performance related and turned into a career which he describes as helping people achieve things that they thought weren’t possible or that they have been held back from doing. 

Highly knowledgeable, deeply thoughtful and wonderfully open, Tony give me brilliant insights into what it’s like to be part of major sporting success what it takes for him to maintain the standards of wellbeing and performance that he sets for himself as well as why love should be at the heart of every team trying to succeed and perform in business and sport, alike. 

 Find out more about Tony here

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This week I am delighted to be joined by a very special guest Robert Mac Ghiolla Phadraig. 

Robert is a founding director and CCO at Sigmar Recruitment one of Ireland’s leading recruitment businesses whose work and career journey has taken him down many varied and interesting paths. A thought leader in the area of employment trends, talent recruitment and the future of work. Organiser and driving force behind initiatives such as National Employment week and the Talent Summit – fast becoming one of the world’s largest conventions on organisational talent development as well as a champion of Ireland Inc. both as a regular participant and supporter of numerous trade missions across the world and an advisor to government on employment policy. 

Robert gave me a fascinating insight into the very personal experiences that drive his work, the story of Sigmar Recruitment and the many businesses risks and decisions taken that have come to define its culture, growth and successes as well as what he has learnt from meeting and interviewing some of the most inspiring and influential people on the planet.  

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This week I am delighted to welcome another very special guest, Claire Carroll of Project Unbound.

Initially beginning her working life in marketing Claire’s career trajectory is one that has followed the developments and innovations in technology that have defined our lives over the past 20 years and in that time she has worked in and held leadership roles in areas ranging from online marketing and the attention economy to persuasive deign and understanding people’s behaviour in the online world.

It is these experiences that have led Claire to what she is now doing which is working as a consultant in ethics and technology where she is exploring some of the most challenging questions at the interface between technology and human behaviour.

A voracious reader, a deep thinker and an eloquent speaker Claire gave me a fascinating insight into her own story, her coaching journey, and the impact it has had on her life as well as the meaning and purpose that is driving her work on the frontiers of the technological revolution we are continuing to live through.

This was a great conversation with someone who was willing to talk candidly and openly about the challenge of personal growth and how and why doing what she describes as “the work” on herself has made all the difference to who she is today and what she is doing now.

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This week I am joined by a very special guest 

Jennifer Rock, aka The Skin Nerd®, is CEO + Founder of Skingredients and a multi-award winning dermal facialist.

This was a fascinating conversation with an inspiring, energetic and hugely relatable person who just happens to be an Entrepreneur, & CEO, mother and media personality with a growing business, brand and profile both here in Ireland and internationally. Warm, open and honest with a good line in self-deprecating humour, Jennifer is also someone who possesses a strong sense of purpose and determination about who she is, what she does and why she does it. 

In this conversation she spoke to me about how her growing awareness of the need for greater alignment between her personal state of wellness and her work in the last few years has led her to care more for herself both mentally and physically and how important getting this right is for her not just personally but for her business, her brand, her team and her aim to be the best CEO for her company that she can be.  

For Jennifer this about building time for a few small but key daily and weekly activities that she knows work for her, never accepting that you are the finished article as well as working with and tapping into a range of personal and professional mentors and coaches on a regular basis.

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This week I am delighted to welcome another very special guest, Ronan O’Brien of Breathwave Ireland 

Ronan is a man of many talents and disciplines who is probably most widely know for his work as a Breathwave Practitioner, whose virtual Wednesday evening breathing sessions became a vital part of people’s coping mechanisms during the height of the Covid -19 pandemic. And which have continued to attract a large audience of participants from across the world. 

I was first introduced to Ronan via members of the Below the Line Press Pause Community and with my curiosity piqued I reached out to see if I could talk to him and find out more about his work.  

What followed was a fascinating conversation with a really thoughtful and thought provoking person who’s path towards what he does has been shaped by challenging personal circumstances and overcoming them, emotional and spiritual awakenings at key moments in his life and learning to trust both himself and the work he is doing so that he can create the life he wants for himself while the doing something that holds huge meaning for both himself and his clients. 

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Find out more about Ronan here: https://breathwaveireland.com/#home

Contact Ronan here: [email protected]

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