This week I am delighted to welcome another very special guest, Marc O'Dwyer.

Marc is likely to be best known to people as the owner and founder of Big Red Cloud, an online accounting, bookkeeping and payroll platform which is used by 75,000 customers in Ireland. Outside of his success in business. Mark is a dedicated and devoted husband and father, as well as an athlete who has competed in marathons and triathlons all over the world.

Mark spoke to me about his early beginnings in business and how he backed himself to grow big red cloud into the company it is today, as well as the routines, habits and practices he engages in to enable him accomplish the things that matter most to him. A born competitor both in business and sport. This was a brilliant conversation with someone who manages to combine a strong competitive edge with deeply held values about the importance of family relationships and community and getting that balance right.

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Thanks for listening and see you next week.

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This week I am delighted to welcome Donna Reilly to this week’s podcast.  

Donna is Wellness Coach and Consultant who began her career in Human Resources in the financial services sector before taking the plunge to set up her own business almost 2 and a half years ago. Donna’s journey into the work she does now came via the opportunities she had to learn about and implement wellbeing programmes with her previous employer and witnessing the impact that they had with the people she worked with.  

It was experiences such as these as well as a deeply held belief that our wellbeing is something that we can all learn to take better care of that convinced her that she had a role to play and an impact to make outside the confines of her own organisation.  

In this conversation Donna spoke to me about her own journey, why she believes wellbeing is is a concept that takes in a multitude of activities and practices and how and why she encourages her clients to take time to really think about and connect with this idea for themselves so that they reach conclusions, insights and learning that are personal to them, their lives and their situations, something that she very much tries to live and adhere to in her own life as a busy mother and business owner. 

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Email Donna @: [email protected]

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This week I am delighted to be joined by a very special guest Cara McGillivray.  

Cara is the Experience & Engagement Lead at Allianz Partners where she is responsible for building programmes and interventions that support people to achieve greater performance and fulfilment in their working lives at what is the world’s largest financial services company. 

In a wide-ranging discussion Cara shared with me her own story and the path that has led her to where she is now. From training initially as a teacher to getting started in the insurance industry to motherhood and all points in between, Cara also spoke candidly about the metaphorical cliff edge she very nearly fell off in her early 30's and how she avoided it thanks to awakening she had into how she was living and the changes she has made to her lifestyle, health and habits since then. 

As well as all of this Cara also spoke to me about the challenges she sees organisations currently grappling with to provide meaningful and impactful experiences to employees that help keep people motivated, connected and attached to their employers.

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Connect with Cara on LinkedIn here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cara-mcgillivray-39874066/

Thanks fir listening and see you next week!

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This week, I'm delighted to be joined by a very special guest, Miriam Mooney.

Miriam is a coach whose path towards this form of work has come from her own extensive explorations into her own life and career, the choices she has made and the relationship she has with herself. This exploration is what now drives her to work with and support our own clients through the same journey she has come through and continues to go on for herself.

A strong feature of Miriam's work as a coach is her belief in and connection to energy as a life force that we can see and feel in others. She sees her primary role as connecting as closely as she can to the energy of her clients in the pursuit of transformational breakthroughs, thinking and insights which, in her own words, enable people to become. Architects of their own future.

This was a fascinating conversation with someone whose deep, personal passion for and belief in what she does comes through in every word she utters.

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Sign up to our Story Coaching Programme here: In Person — Coaching, Leadership & Training Programmes — Below The Line

Make contact with Miriam here: [email protected]

Connect with Miriam on Instagram here.

Thanks for listening and see you next week.

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This week I am joined by a very special guest, my good friend Tomás Ó Ruairc. 

Tomás has dedicated much of his life and energy to the field of education where he has enjoyed several careers over the course of his working life from secondary school teacher and university lecturer to educational leader and policy maker in various roles across the Irish Civil Service. Outside of his career Tomás is a poet and writer and most importantly, a husband and father and joining the dots between all these aspects of his life is a search for greater meaning and understanding of both himself and the world around him, something that becomes instantly apparent from even the shortest interaction with this warm, engaging and inspiring person. 

Tomas’s advice for how it live well and perform is that we should surrender to our glorious, vulnerable selves and in this conversation you will hear and learn why he holds this belief and how he tries to connect with this idea and bring into his own life and work.  

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Sign up to our Story Coaching Programme here: In Person — Coaching, Leadership & Training Programmes — Below The Line

Connect with Tomás on Linkedin here.

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This week's special guest is the wonderful Sue Hollingsworth

Sue is a storyteller who has been performing and teaching the art of storytelling for over 20 years. An acclaimed, internationally recognised workshop leader, coach and organisational consultant as well as author Sue has brought her passion for the power of storytelling into many settings and environments around the world from story telling retreats on the islands of Greece  to Oil Rigs in the North Sea.

Sue spoke to me from Cape Town South Africa where she was hosting a storytelling workshop and writing her second book and in this wide ranging discussion she talked to me about where her love of story telling came from,  what storytelling  can teach us about ourselves and our lives as well as the practices and habits she engages in to help be at her best for herself and the people she works with. 

As you might expect from talking to a story teller this was an inspiring conversation full of expression, images, ideas, laughter and above all fun with a person who is truly living a life in thrall to an ancient form of communication that holds the promise of awakening the inner child that exists within us all.

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Connect with Sue here: [email protected]

Learn more about Sue and her work here: www.suehollingsworth.com

Visit the Sue's other website here: Centre for Biographical Storytelling here: https://www.centreforbiographicalstorytelling.com/ 

Connect with Sue on Linkedin here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sue-hollingsworth-b608a666/

Buy Sue's book The Storytellers Way here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Storytellers-Way-Storytelling-Sue-Hollingsworth/dp/1907359192

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This week I am joined by a very special guest Corrina Kavanagh.

Corrina is a young woman who has recently taken the plunge and stepped out on her own as the founder and principal coach in her own business Kind and Conquer. Prior to working as a coach Corrina had a successful career as a marketing executive in the music business working with many well known and globally recognised artists. At the same time as she was progressing in her career Corinna was also experiencing debilitating anxiety and a lack of confidence that led her to explore many different avenues of healing and therapy to help solve her problem.

In the end what worked best and most effectively for Corinna was coaching and in this conversation she talked to me about how and why she found coaching to be so effective for her, her own journey towards becoming a coach, the routines and practices she engages in to help her be at her best as well as providing some fascinating insights into the industry she has come from and the artists she has worked with.

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This week I am joined by a very special guest Jack Kavanagh. 

Jack is a man who wears many hats, he is a performance and resilience coach, community pharmacist, podcaster and board member of various organisations and charities, all while living with a life altering spinal cord injury that he sustained 10 years ago and which he has spoken about movingly in his Fearless Like a Child Ted Talk.

For this conversation I wanted to understand how someone living with the challenges he faces on a daily basis prepares, manages and sustains himself to be able to be at his best and play all the roles he plays as well as he does. 

For Jack this means placing an emphasis on his personal health, cultivating strong relationships in his life and finding and doing meaningful work and in this conversation you will hear him expand on these things as well as what he has learnt from trying to find what he call the magic in the messiness of life. 

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Thanks for listening. I'll see you next week.

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This week, I'm delighted to be joined by a very special guest. Declan O’Connell.

Declan is a coach and performance consultant based in Dublin and working internationally. Beginning his working life in corporate banking Declan decided to retrain as a coach, having answered a growing call within himself to change career. His work now focuses on bringing a scientifically validated and evidence-based approach to supporting people in organisations at all levels to be able to confidently adapt their thinking behaviours and ways of working when change is called for, which, as we know has never been more important than right now.

Refreshingly honest and simple in his outlook and approach, this conversation really brought home to me the power of reflection and asking yourself two simple questions Where am I now and what steps do I need to take next?

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Thanks for listening. I'll see you next week.

Visit Declan's website here: https://declanoconnell.net/

Contact Declan here: [email protected]

Follow Declan on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/declanoconnellperformance/

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This week I am joined by a very special guest Gerry Hussey Performance Psychologist, Author, Co-founder with his wife Miriam of Soul Space and a colleague of mine in Below the Line. Over the past two years Gerry has shot into the consciousness of many people here in Ireland and across the globe as “The Soul Coach” and someone who articulates and captures the wonder and magic of what it is to be fully alive as well all the challenges and problems that the human condition can present to us all and how we can overcome them to live joyful, healthy and purposeful lives.  

This was a conversation that touched not only on these areas but the advice Gerry has for anyone seeking to change their current experience of their lives and their world and the various practices and techniques that he uses to help him be at best for himself, his clients and his family.  

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Connect with Gerry via: [email protected]

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Find out more about Soul Space here: www.soulspace.ie

Find out about Gerry's upcoming Awaken Your Power Within Event on the 27th of February here: https://soulspace.ie/aypw-nch

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