The Orlagh Claire Podcast

Ft. a little five minute update on life and about my recent trip to Bali. In this podcast I talk about personal brand, how we all have one without our own choosing, how to control the narrative of our personal brand and use it to our advantage.  I talk a little about my own personal brand and how this has changed in the last few years and why I don't want to be on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list....

If you've been following my blog for the last few years, you'll know that I was very much all about the Girlboss aesthetic. Thanks to Sophia Amoruso's book changing my life back when I was in university, I was so ready to be a CEO at 21 years of age.  But fast forward four years and I couldn't want anything less. I'm not in my Girlboss era anymore and in this podcast I talk about why that is,...

We're having a mini freak out as friends start to get engaged, talk about babies and move to the other side of the world. This of course has me thinking about my own life situation and where I'm at when it comes to these big life events.  It's a societal norm to get engaged, get married, have kids and buy a house. But what if those things aren't what I want? Can't it be an option to not get m...

Do you want to try your hand at everything on offer? Do you constantly think about changing career paths? Do you constantly take up new hobbies without letting old ones go? Do you feel guilty when you let those hobbies slip to the side for a while? Or is it just me? This podcast discusses the irrational need to want to try every career path, live in every city in the world, have a hobby that's bas...

This episode was inspired by a message I received on Instagram about being lonely in London and how hard it is to make friends in a new city, especially in your 20s and especially when you don't know anyone.  So it inspired this podcast since I've been through this a few times in Liverpool, London, New York and once again, in London. So hear my sob stories, my own experiences and the tips tha...

Chaotic, I know. But do we expect anything less? If you want to find out why I've left another job, and where I'm off to next, then give this a listen.  As always, find me on Instagram @orlaghclaire , on my blog www.orlaghclaire.com or on Twitter @orlaghshanksPR . 

Is manifesting a load of nonsense and just for hippies? Well, that's what we're discovering in this week's episode of The Orlagh Claire Podcast. I delve into my first time trying to manifest, the goals that I've been able to achieve through manifesting and using visualisation, and why I owe everything to superwoman.  Do you say your goals out loud? Do you journal? Do you meditate? Do you ask...

These past few weeks I have been in such a funk, so unmotivated and tired 24/7. But not anymore. I basically recorded this podcast as some motivation to myself to get out of the rut and funk that I'm in, but I also hope that you find it useful too :) I'm giving all the tips and tricks we need to get ourselves motivated and back on track for 2022 and back to smashing those goals sista. I mention my...

In the most recent episode of The Orlagh Claire Podcast, I sat down with my best friend Tara Greene to talk about Molly Mae's thoughts on friendship. We delved into the Molly Mae podcast that aired on Diary of a CEO and discussed Molly Mae's attitude towards relationships, money, followers and striving for more.  Is it healthy? Is it normal? Are we being sexist for calling her out on her comm...

Back in 2018 I wrote a blog post about this exact topic (which you can read here ) and to be honest, it hasn't become any easier since. The blog post was randomly viewed quite a lot this week so I thought I would delve into the reasons why we are so fearful of putting ourselves out there online and why we hold back on doing the things we want to do.  I give my five tips on how to get over tha...

S2 Ep1: Hellooooo season 2!! God know's how we made it here but here we are. We're starting off 2022 and season 2 with a solo episode!! I know, who tf am I but I've made a commitment that I'm going to try and publish a podcast episode weekly and if I don't have a guest to bombard with questions, then I'm going to have to jump on the mic by myself.  So this is my first stab at a solo podcast a...

We've had a few podcast episodes discussing career paths and career advice, but this is the first that we've had a podcast episode talking about switching careers into a completely different industry. This was an extremely interesting topic for me to ask questions on, especially as Nick has moved into the publishing industry (if you follow me on Instagram you'll know that I'm an avid reader). Nick...

Richard Bailey has been running the PR Student Blog Awards since 2013. With the change in content output where students spend more time on social media apps like Instagram and TikTok, the Awards have had a change of direction this year, now being named the PR Student Creator Awards, meaning any piece of content you create online can be submitted for the competition on a weekly basis.  I spoke...

Who better to give advice on how to secure your most-wanted job role than someone that has been in the recruitment teams at Twitter, Google, Apple and UBS? Will Ellis resides in San Francisco, USA but talks fondly of his international experience and the start to his career in recruitment in the UK through the Mountbatten Program. From his year in London, Will has went on to work for some of the bi...

This is a very special episode of the Orlagh Claire Podcast as I sat down with Rhiannon Gogarty who talked to me about living with Turner Syndrome. As I had never before heard of Turner Syndrome, Rhiannon talked me through what this meant for her day to day life, her childhood and her future.  Turner Syndrome effects 1 in every 2,000 baby girls, yet isn't something that is widely known. Rhian...

I recently spoke with Adam Gracey who is from my own hometown of Lurgan/Craigavon in Northern Ireland about growing up gay, coming out to his family and friends and the perceptions of the LGBTQIA+ community today. We also spoke about being from Northern Ireland and the backwardness of the political system in Northern Ireland in regards to same-sex marriage and rights for those in the LGBTQIA+ comm...

I recently spoke with Alex Maidwell about his length of service at the London Stock Exchange Group and how he progressed from an entry role in New York City to leading a team of 20 as Head of Marketing.  Alex started his career as an intern on the Mountbatten Program in New York, the same program I partook in myself a few years ago. We chatted about similar experiences, how being in New York...

Not many people would have the confidence to start a food business in the height of a pandemic, but after being furloughed from her corporate job, Aoibheann McCormack did just that. With a passion for chunky cookies, Aoibheann set out to build her Dumb Dough cookie business to bring the chunkiest and tastiest cookies to Liverpool.  As Aoibheann is a great friend of mine, it was more than a pl...

In this episode of The Orlagh Claire Podcast, I sat down to chat with Sangeeta Waldron, author of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is Not Public Relations (PR).  As CSR comes more and more to the forefront of business policies, ethics and ways of working, we discussed how businesses should incorporate these policies because they want to and not because they feel this will return them gre...

This week I am in conversation with Orla Clancy, a public relations and communications professional who created an online magazine in 2020 called Strategic Magazine. Now in its fourth edition, the Summer 2021 issue was just released last week and can be found here .  In our conversation, I asked Orla about her idea for the magazine, why there was a gap in the market and what exactly the magaz...

In this week's episode of The Orlagh Claire Podcast, I am in conversation with Sophie Princeton, someone I have been following on social media for a very long time as she has always inspired me with her work ethic both inside and outside of the office. I've been so intrigued about Sophie's career in the radio industry and grill her on both this and the part of her career that led her to living in...

In the latest episode of The Orlagh Claire Podcast, I chat to Carlijn Postma, award-winning content marketer and author of Binge Marketing, a new book to hit our shelves discussing the concept of attention-grabbing content and looking to TV series that keep us hooked and wondering how we can transfer that addictiveness to our own brand content and marketing.  Binge marketing is a brand new co...

A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of talking to Stephanie O'Quigley, someone I have followed on social media for a very long time. It was great to chat to Stephanie all about her career journey so far, going from Dublin to New York and working in PR and influencer marketing.  In this interview, we chatted about visas, the difficulty of making a life in America, apartment hunting and what it...

In my first #bookchat podcast episode, I was very lucky to sit down (virtually) with Giles Lury and Katy Mousinho, authors of the book Wonder Women: Inspiring Stories and Insightful Interviews with Women in Marketing. I read the book last month as part of my Women's Month inspired reading and loved it. As a marketer myself only at the beginning of her career, it was great to read about so man...

This week I was very lucky to be in conversation with influencer marketing expert, Scott Guthrie. Scott has been a mentor-of-sorts for myself over the past number of years and a fountain of knowledge and advice when it comes to influencer marketing.  I was very excited to get Scott on the podcast and to pick his brains and ask for his opinions on topics such as ads on social media, influencer...