The Happy Pear Podcast

This week we talk to the delightful Venetia La Manna, a great friend and truly inspiring woman. Venetia is a podcaster, slow fashion campaigner and co-founder of  Remember Who Made Them , which is helping to energise a new solidarity economy in fashion.  Venetia tries to bring mindfulness and compassion to all that she does. In her new podcast, “All The Small Things”...

“Most people really struggle with just slowing their thoughts down . So, I always say ‘What’s your favourite song?” . If you close your eyes, and you can hear the creeks in the piano of the song and hear feet moving on the ground, all of the sudden, you are in that space. That’s meditation and that mindfulness.” This week’s episode is with the incredible Niall Breslin A.K.A Bressie.   What can we...

“Don’t create another committee. Talk to people where they already gather. Share ideas and that ripple effect will build and build and build.”   Our guests on this episode of The Happy Pear Podcast is the amazing duo of Dr Tara Shine & Madeleine Murray, of Change by Degrees.  Tara and Madeleine are wonderful humans. Tara has spent 20 years as an international climate change negotiato...

“We aren't weak. We don’t lack will power. We’re just humans trying to get by each day. The world is tough. It is difficult at the moment. We don’t need to beat ourselves up. Let’s be kind and compassionate to ourselves.” Our guest on this episode of The Happy Pear Podcast is the amazing Dr Rangan Chatterjee. Rangan is a breathtaking human. He is a physician, author, television presenter, podcaste...

“Health is so simple. We can make it so complicated, but at the base of it is simplicity. That's what I have been focusing on and I can’t tell you the difference it has made”  Our guest on this episode of The Happy Pear Podcast is the amazing Ella Mills, founder and driving force behind the brand Deliciously Ella. Ella is all about using her platform to share simple and delicious ways to take...

“Your body isn’t just for show, it does a million things for you every single day that you take for granted and by punishing it or wanting another body is never going to make that relationship better. I tried every single diet fad, every quick fix out there and I never went, 'now I’m happy'” - Roz Purcell  Our guest in this episode of The Happy Pear Podcast is the amazing Roz Purcell. Roz is...

“Yes, you might want to lose weight, yes, you might want to build muscle, but right now, you are enough. The moment you start to look in the mirror and feel inspired by the person you see is the moment you take your own power back.” - Gerry Hussey This  episode of The Happy Pear Podcast is with the great Gerry Hussey. Gerry is a performance psychologist and has been in the human health and pe...

If you don't have good gut health, then it doesn’t matter how good your diet is. If your gut lining isn’t strong, then no matter how healthy you are, your body is not going to be able to digest and extract what you need from your food. This is the key message from our guest on this episode of The Happy Pear podcast. Dr Megan Rossi, also known as The Gut Health Doctor, founded The Gut Health Clinic...

Joe Wicks is one of the world’s best-known health and fitness professionals. Author of 9 books, including Lean in 15 and a kids focused one called Wean in 15, Joe has played a central role throughout the Coronavirus pandemic, keeping millions of kids and grown ups fit and healthy through his ‘PE with Joe’ workouts on YouTube.  In this episode of The Happy Pear Podcast, Joe describes his early...