Everywhere We Go

On this weeks episode I sat down with Melissah Mullins.  I am a long time follower of her instagram page @themindofamammy. Melissah's daughter Evie was diagnosed with Down Syndrome, with little support from the hospital and out dated leaflets Melissah turned to Instagram to get some real life perspective and in turn set up her own page to help others. She talks to me about wasted tears, misco...

On this week's episode I sit down with Ali Ryan. On February 21s, 2021, Ali survived a suicide attempt. Ali has always struggled with her mental health, including self-harm, family fallouts, abandonment, and later, a sexual assault which leads Ali down a path of self-destruction. Alcohol, drugs, and finally an overdose that inevitably saved Ali's life. Sober over a year now, Ali, at just24 years o...

On this week's episode, I sit down with Amy Henderson.  Amy and I have been friends for years but a video published on the Irish Times website this week broke my heart. Amy‘s son Jensen was diagnosed with autism and a global development delay. Amy talks to me about how children with disabilities I’ve been left behind by our government and how they are desperate for early intervention for thei...

On this weeks episode I sit down with Jason Garvey. Jay, Well used to the mic's as a co-host of the Did Ya Hear show. In this episode Jay Opens up about his suicide attempts and opened my eyes to the fact that it’s not just women who hear criticism in a relationship, he opens up about home life and the relationship between father and son. Jay make some statements in this podcast and I have to pull...

On this week's episode I sit down with Mandy Walsh. Mandy and I go way back, she is one of the brightest stars in our field but, I always knew there was heartache in Mandy’s history and this week she tells me about her Brian. Brian the love of her life, her soul mate, taken away far too young. Mandy talks about her life after Brian and how her grief can still overwhelm her today. Hosted on Acast....

On this week’s episode, I sit down with Leah Wynne. We had to put a trigger warning on this episode as Leah is a survivor of rape and domestic violence.   At just 17 years of age, Leah was raped and left with horrific injuries. We talk about the long-term effects this has had on her over the years and how years later seeking solace in what she thought would be a safe loving relationship...

On this week's episode, I said down with Kim Hall. Kim talks to me about the death of her mother by suicide Kim’s mother suffered from postnatal depression and depression, her manic episodes resulted in her being hospitalized throughout Kim’s young life. Kim’s mother was abandoned by the mental health services releasing Kim's mother into the hands of her 15-year-old daughter. Kim experienced...

On this week’s episode, I sit down with Denise Philips. I always wondered about Denise where she got her fight, determination and outlook on life. I couldn’t put my finger on it but I always knew there was something about Denise and it wasn’t until this podcast I find my answers Denise is a warrior, not just an IVF Warrior but as she opens up for the first time about grief. The death of her boyfri...

On this week’s episode, I sit down with Gillian and Barry. This episode could’ve been done one on one but I wanted to speak to them as a couple, it also could’ve been done in many parts as we didn’t get to talk about everything this couple has been through. Barry from Belfast met Gillian on a night out and their journey took them from Belfast to Dublin, onto Australia, and back Belfast and Dublin...

On this week's episode, I sit down with Mary and Nicole. Due to the sensitive nature of this topic, Mary sits off-camera, We are also joined by Natasha who is a social care leader on the foster social work team. This week starts a recruitment campaign for foster carers in Dublin South Central. Nicole was fostered I just six years of age after a horrific incident with a needle left at her home she...

On this weeks episode I sit down with David O Reilly. David is one of Ireland’s biggest exports to the west end, from Greece, to the book of Mormon and heading to LA next year to start in everybody’s talking about Jamie. However when we sit down we strip it back to growing up in Ireland, how he was horrifically bullied for being gay and the effect bullying had on not only on him but on his fa...

On this week’s episode, I sit down with Ruth Dungan. Ruth talks to me about her struggles with conceiving. After a devastating journey through IVF, she watched Rosanna Davidson on the Late Late talking about having her baby through surrogacy and, Ruth thought we can do that and started to work on the process. She talks to me about the horrible effects infertility can have on a couple: why me and w...

On this week’s episode, I sit down with Paul Stenson. This is an emotionally charged episode, 15 minutes in I want to reach across the table and hug him. As Paul sit across from me I soon find out that behind the Charleville lodge Paul and the white moose café Paul, is a man who has struggled for a very long time, struggled with his shame of being gay, struggled with adoption and struggled with al...

On this weeks episode I sit down with Arlene Bailey. Arlene, at just 16 years of age left her home in Sallins to head on the road as a singer in a band. Arlene talks to me about her life on the road and a pressure of travelling the world had on her, her body and her mind. She tells me about her darkest times an how at one point she contemplating suicide but, she also tell me about her highlig...

On this weeks episode I sit down with Karl Clinch, Karl talks in the hope of helping others through this awful unless that is addiction. Karl tell's me how his addiction pulled him apart and stripped him of himself. He tells me how addiction is a lonely place, it wears you down and alienates you. Karl talks to me about the effect it has had on his family, past relationships and his loved ones. Wit...

On this week’s episode, I sit down with Paloma Lynch. Paloma, originally from Coolock, talks to me about even as a child she felt different and how her mind compelled her to act out, and how those actions lead her down a very dangerous path to heroin use and drug trafficking and eventually been sent to prison at just 17 years of age. She talks about leaving prison for Cyprus to get away from every...

On this week’s episode, I sit down that Ruth Barry. This was one of the most eye-opening sit down’s I have ever had. Ruth wears her story well, no longer in active addiction, Ruth has encountered more tragedies than bears thinking.   When she was just 11 years of age Ruth’s sister, her idol, dies in a horrific incident that rocked Ruth’s family and started her on her journey of self-destructi...

Trigger warning this weeks episode we talk about suicide. On this week's episode I sit down with Fiona Sheridan. Fiona talks to me about her Kieth Kieth by all means was a wonderful man, he was the life and soul and a person you want to be around to have a good time but, Keith suffered with his mental health. His anxiety destroyed his life. As a boyfriend and a husband he doted over Fiona and they...

On this week's episode, I sit down with Sabrina Hill. Sabrina is one of the hardest-working people I know. She’s a business owner, a single mum and a TV personality but above all, she is a wonderful person. I ask Sabrina about her life before Instagram, becoming pregnant on Aaron and why she got into hairdressing, and her journey to Kopper.   Sabrina tells me about her ups and downs...

On this weeks episode I sit down with Patrick James. From the moment I met Patrick he had me in stitches but behind his fabulous personality lies a horrific story of a house fire that left 33% of his body burnt. While Patrick was left was physical scars his parents suffered mentally and turned to alcohol which resulted in all four children taken into care. When Patrick‘s father died shortly afterw...

On this week’s episode I sit down with Jennifer Fay and her daughter Rosie. Jennifer and Rosie at ultimate survivors and in this episode Jennifer opens up for the very first time not only about Rosie‘s illness but also some of the horrors she experience in her own life. A distressing relationship that nearly killed her, and alcohol dependency as a result of this and the loss of not only one or two...

On this week’s episode I sit down with Dwayne Edgar and Karl Taffe, cofounders of the inner-city Running club. There is a certain je ne sais quoi about these lads and you would be wrong for saying it’s far from je ne sais quoi they were reared but that’s exactly how they were reared. What these two guys have cannot be taught in any school but in the community they were brought up, in the flats in...

On this week’s episode I sit down with Katie Keyes. This is Katie’s first time to sit down to talk about April story and her nervous laughter come through as a coping mechanism as she articulates April’s journey.   Just before April’s third birthday, she is diagnosed with neuroblastoma.   The treatment plan resulted in April been cancer free in the January, only to relapse in the match a...

On this week’s episode I sit down with Julie Haynes also known as Twins And Me. Julie is one of Instagram‘s biggest personalities but behind this persona has been the hardest three years of Julie‘s life, her hopes of a new life with her partner and babies dashed because of a Visa issue and when her partner decides to go and leave, Julie is left homeless and heartbroken.   Julie’s followe...

Hello everyone my name is Rebecca Kelly and your listening to the everywhere we go podcast on this week’s episode I sit down with Amy Lowry.   Amy’s story is one of pain, anguish and heartbreak but it is also a story of resilience, strength and determination.   It begins when Amy‘s new life in Australia is cut short when her mother was diagnosed with cervical cancer and Amy leaves everyt...