Everywhere We Go

On this weeks episode I sit down with Neilo Kelly. Neilo was diagnosed with Ataxia CP which is a type of Cerebral Palsy that effects Neilo's talking, movement, posture and balance.  You may think that this diagnosis holds Neilo back but Neilo is a pocket rocket he is one of the most determined people I have ever met. From asking his parents to put him into mainstream school, doing his le...

On this weeks episode I sit down with Elle Chavan, I came across Elle’s page to the self build community on Instagram I have another close-knit group of well-wishers who you can turn to for information or advice on everything you need to know about building your home, but when Elle’s son Ben be overnight became a different baby Elle found out she had no one to turn to.  Countless sleepless ni...

Hello everyone my name is Rebecca Kelly and your listening to the everywhere we go podcast on this episode i sit down with James Patrice.    It was a genuine privilege to sit and chat with James, his Malahide woman persona inspires body confidence throughout women of all ages and his ask my arse attitude is something to be applauded.   James is blessed, blessed because he has someth...

On this week’s episode I sit down with Olivia Fitzsimons. Olivia came to my attention when she did an Instagram live with her brother Andrew with Luke, her beautiful baby on her lap as they discussed what pregnancy was like during Covid.   Olivia talks to me about her and her partners plans to have a baby and when she conceived quickly how their dreams came true but, with maternity restrictio...

On this weeks episode I sit down with Ruth Leonard. Her totally Ruthless videoed have amassed millions of viewers around the world. But behind this very funny persona is a story filled with great sadness and immense bravery. Ruth talks to me about growing up in Drogheda and how unfortunately your childhood was far from a safe haven as she watched her father violently beat her mother and at just 13...

On this weeks episode I sit down with the stars of Gogglebox Ireland the Cabra Girls Lindsay, Ashley, Grainne and Jamie.  They worry they have nothing to say but the conversation come easy with each of them as quick witted as the other. Their friendship is a force to be reckoned with and is a result of being truly there for each other through thick and thin.  The girls talk about growing...

On this weeks episode I sit down with Alison Murphy. Alison has the most infectious laugh but behind this laugh lies tragedy, while dancing away to the last song Alison’s sister Lisa fell to the floor and unfortunately passed away. Alison tells me of their dysfunctional upbringing that lead to not only a break up between husband and wife but to broken relationships that will never be mended. She t...

Trigger warning. This week’s episode is about miscarriage with graphic details about a miscarriage experience.   On this week’s episode I sit down with Melissa Gearon, as a mother this was an extremely painful listen. It is the longest individual episode to date but the sad reality is one in five pregnancies end miscarriage.    Melissa was born with only 7 fingers, a limb birth defe...

Trigger warning on this weeks episode we talk about suicide with descriptions of someone dying by suicide. On this weeks episode I sit down with Ian Kinsella, Ian talks to me about his brother Jonathan this year will be Jonathan’s 10yr anniversary. Jonathan died by suicide.  Ian tells me what it is like being left behind after suicide and how a loss through suicide is like no other and tells...

A loud laugh can carry a lot of weight. That’s the first thing you notice with Sarah “The Ballymun Hun” Brogan—she’s gas, quick, and unfiltered, but the humour sits on top of a life that’s seen too much too early: the murder of her father, a brother pulled under by drink and homelessness, and years where anger felt like the only language she spoke. We asked her how she kept the light. The answer i...

A phone call that says “bring someone with you” can split a life in two. Stacey’s did—while she was pregnant. What unfolds from there isn’t a tragedy arc; it’s a masterclass in practical courage: an early induction so doctors can scan, a rare inflammatory breast cancer diagnosis that demands speed, Thursdays in the chemo chair marked by bright clothes and small talk, and a mastectomy followed by r...

A phone call on Mother’s Day, three words that felt like winning the lotto, and a family learning to love in a new language—Kizzy joins us to share the tender, unvarnished story of her mum Ev’s Lewy body dementia. From the first subtle signs to vivid hallucinations, from a medication crisis to an overnight shift from moderate to severe, we move through the realities families face and the support t...

What if the kindest corner of your phone started with a sleepless night and a single message to a trainer? We sit down with Nicole Gaffney to map the quiet turning points—grief that sharpened her anxiety, a GP who suggested movement before medication, and the steady routine that made the noise fade. Out of that came an Instagram page that began as a weight loss journal and grew into a 10,000-stron...

Grief can hollow out a life—or remake it into something fiercely tender. Rebecca sits down with Sinead Barry to trace a love story from small-village glances to a Paris proposal, from lifting toddlers to lifting rafters on a five‑year self‑build, and then through the sudden fracture of stage four metastatic melanoma. What follows is raw and luminous: a young father who joked through fear and refus...

A happy house can hold many stories at once: a Dublin childhood in crowded flats, a love found under theatre lights, twins born on a date that tied past to present, and a long illness that forced two good people to rewrite their future. We sit with Anne as she opens the door to all of it—how sharing half a bag of sugar on the balcony shaped her sense of community, why Dermot’s gentle wisdom made h...

A life can pivot on small brave choices: saying “I am—and what,” booking a one-way ticket for dance, or opening the door to a love that feels simple and true. Rebecca sits with Paul Kinsler to trace those pivots—from a childhood shadowed by addiction to a future shaped by chosen family, honest partnership, and the kind of home you build with your own hands. Paul shares how a caring mum and early r...

A school project snowballed into a citywide lifeline. Brandon (18) and Aaron (16) open up about building Dublin Homeless Awareness from a Transition Year sleep-out into a disciplined outreach and response effort that books rough sleepers into hostels, de-escalates crises, and works shoulder-to-shoulder with the Simon Community, Gardaí, and Dublin Fire Brigade. The story is raw, unsentimental, and...

A cap and gown, a crowded Great Hall, and then—her waters broke. Carmel thought she was walking toward a diploma; she walked into motherhood instead, delivering a premature baby she didn’t know she was carrying. That shock set off a chain of moments that would test everything: a terrifying delivery, an ICU baptism, and a ward where no one asked how she was. Years later, the ripples were still movi...

A makeup page that hid “the mum” inside its name, a holiday spent apart, and the quiet sentence that changed everything: “You can always come home.” We sit down with makeup artist and creator of The Makeup Mentor, Tracy Lorie, to unpack how a private person found the courage to speak publicly about prenatal depression, OCD spirals, and the messy, necessary work of co‑parenting with grace. Tracy wa...

A lump, a choice, and a promise to keep living. That’s where our conversation with the Roach sisters takes off: three women who built a buzzing salon in Swords while facing down Hodgkin’s lymphoma for the second time—and found a life-saving donor match within their own family. We go back to the early days in Oldtown, the mischief and the loyalty, and how losing their dad pulled them even closer. C...

A single line from a child can rewire a parent’s life. When Bev’s daughter wished for “the happy Mammy” from the zoo lights, it wasn’t a throwaway comment—it was a mirror. What follows is an unflinching, strangely joyful journey through grief, postnatal anxiety and psychosis, birth trauma, and a cervical screening delay that could have ended everything. We start where she didn’t: the motorbike acc...

You don’t expect a 24-year-old to hold a house of nine together—twin boys, four younger sisters, and a grief that still knocks the wind out of you—but Chantelle does it with a stubborn love that feels like home. From Seville Place pride to years of relentless bullying, from a dad who died of cancer in prison to a mam who lit every room she walked into, her story is a map of heartbreak and the hand...

If you’ve ever looked successful on the outside while barely holding it together on the inside, Deborah’s story will feel like a hand on your shoulder. We invite you into a candid, warm conversation with the youngest of the Wheeler sisters—co-owners of Dublin beauty salons and a skin clinic—about family loyalty, building a business from a kiosk to multiple locations, and the messy middle that neve...

Phones rang, targets blinked, and a small office across from the Phoenix Park taught us how to sell, how to stay calm, and how to show up for each other. We bring Marguerite Penrose and our pal Julie Hannah back to revisit Ryanair Direct—the reservation centre that became a launchpad for our careers and a permanent home for our stories. We swap the origin tales—interviews where you had to sell a p...

If you’ve ever paused before speaking and wondered, “What words won’t hurt here?” this conversation is the answer—and then some. We start with language and respect, then travel through diagnosis, the Q-CHAT turning point, and two very different autism profiles in one family. One child is moving from non-verbal to pre-verbal with a speech device; the other wrestles with regression, self-injury, and...