Life Lessons with Siobhan O'Hagan

This episode is a really interesting chat on how Eoin created the concept of Bread 41, which is a very popular bakery in Dublin. T

hese are the conversations that inspired the Life Lessons podcast. We talk about his story in the food business but what I found really interesting is the culture he creates, alongside his sustainability efforts, and how he will keep hold up these ideals as the business expands. I have no experience in a bricks and mortar business, so I found the conversation really interesting, and I hope you do too.

This is actually the final episode of the first season of Life Lessons, and I just want to thank you for listening, whether this is your first episode or if you have listened to them all. Please do subscribe or follow the podcast so you don’t miss when I come back.

In this week’s episode of Life Lessons, I am very excited to have Emma Dowling who is one of Ireland’s original prenatal and postnatal coaches. I wanted to talk about prenatal training in a long format, as I’m sure you will realise, it is quite nuanced and different for every body and every pregnancy. I hope you find it helpful, and if so, please do share it with your friends or family or anybody that might find it helpful too.

If you would like to start tracking your health, wellness and fitness at a deeper level today, go to join.whoop.com/siobhan to get your first month free and a free Whoop 4.0 device on me.

Corinna is one of Ireland’s most respected skin and beauty experts, and also a good friend of mine.

I have struggled hugely with my acne over the years, and we discuss that journey, but we also talk about other skin concerns like rosacea, wrinkles and sun damage.

We talk about how to feed the skin what it needs, but also about running the successful family business Monica Tolan Beauty.

I am excited to talk about breathwork as it really was life changing for me. Cathy has a PhD in neuroscience and left academia to become a full time breath work coach.

You might have heard of and tried “breathwork” but “breathwork” comes in lots of different forms. Think of it like “exercise”. You might have tried one type but never found a form that you found life changing or even effective.

In this episode we talk about our experiences with breathwork and why we became breathwork facilitators. It really did change the path of my life, and I’m excited to bring it to more people.

The breath is powerful for both exciting and de-exciting the nervous system. There is an excellent feature on the Whoop app, in collaboration with Dr. Andrew Huberman, that allows you to select which option you need given your current stress levels.

Once again, this episode is kindly sponsored by Whoop. I’m sure you know by now that Whoop is a wearable fitness tracker that specializes in breaking down your recovery, sleep, and workouts, while also helping you to manage your overall health and wellbeing.

Lydia is officially a breastfeeding counsellor but this episode is about more than that. With the pressure to breastfeed felt by a lot of mothers, I wanted to create an episode so that women can feel prepared for birth and can make informed decisions about what is best for them and their baby.

I’m sure this is a bit of a niche subject and won’t be applicable to all of my listeners but I will have another episode soon that might interest you.

Once again, this episode is sponsored by Whoop. I’m sure you know by now that Whoop is a wearable fitness tracker that specializes in breaking down your recovery, sleep, and workouts, while also helping you to manage your overall health and wellbeing.

Siobhan Murray is the founder of 23 The Agency, which is the agency I work with, and one of the founders of Mantra Official. In this episode we speak about her really interesting career to date, as well as the best way to do influencer marketing e.g. how it can benefit the brand, the creator and the consumer. But I also wanted to learn more about creating a viable product-led business like Mantra, all while juggling family-life.

In this solo episode of Life Lessons, I try to define “healthy” and how that might look different for different people. I talk about finding a balance in all areas of your life including physical, mental, and even the health of your social life.

Once again, this episode is sponsored by Whoop. I’m sure you know by now that Whoop is a wearable fitness tracker that specializes in breaking down your recovery, sleep, and workouts, while also helping you to manage your overall health and wellbeing.

Whoop has really helped me find a healthy balance of physical and mental health. The graphs of recovery and strain is an excellent indicator of overtraining and helps me make decisions on training intensity - which is very important in pregnancy.

In today’s episode - I have Sinead Crowe who set up Intuitive Eating Ireland on instagram. It is a great resource for anybody who is looking to move away from dieting and learn to eat more intuitively. I thought this would be an interesting conversation to have on the podcast, because of course - I do believe there is a time and place for dieting. We actually recorded this late last year, but I just wanted to space out the episodes where we talk about nutrition so that the podcast isn’t too focused on that.

We talk about eating disorders and disordered eating. If you feel like you would like more information on these, please check out bodywhys.ie, and the instagram accounts linked below.

I hope you find this episode helpful and interesting!

Resources:

@intuitive.eating.ireland

@bodywhys

@binge.eating.dietician

@nutritionwithniamh

@shaunagibson01

Today I am joined by Diren Kartal, who is a close friend of mine and also an online fitness coach. But today we are not talking about fitness. Diren and his family are Kurdish/Turkish and he is just back from a second trip to Turkey to help with with aftermath of the earthquake that affected millions of people in Turkey and Syria.

Diren is passionate about helping people in all areas of life. We also talk about how our values have changed since we first met in Bali all those years ago. We tackle some controversial topics later on in the episode, but I think it is interesting to hear differing opinions. Myself and Diren would have conflict of opinions in a respectful way in real life and I think you will hear that throughout this episode.

Stephanie Barry Woods has been named one of the top travel bloggers in Ireland. She has so many practical tips and experiences around travelling, but also because she lives a life of freedom, that so many people might feel is out of their reach. We talk about why we think somebody should travel, how to make money from travel blogging, what Bali is like now, how to do things on a budget and we also talk about Tech, as Steph now has courses to get women setting up their own freelance tech businesses. 

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