The Sharon Fitzmaurice Podcast

Episode 44 and my guest this week is resilience coach Josh Connolly from the UK but can also boast that he has Irish connections! A wonderful and eloquent speaker, Josh has come through his own traumas from a very young age in watching his Father pass away and dealing with the lack of emotional support he had growing up. Now in his thirties Josh has been working to change how we can learn to becom...

Episode 42 and my guest this week is Mads Friis from Denmark who is the founder of Growth Island Podcast on health, performance, business and life's bigger mysteries. Covering more than 90 episodes to date with global experts, one of his biggest passions is building health-related impact ventures and during the past number of years, Mads has built 3 successful start-ups with KRING - making a posit...

Welcome to this wonderful new month ahead and all that it has to offer us. I have felt guided over the past few weeks to help guide others to connect to their true authentic selves on a deeper level through meditation and a spiritual circle I am starting on 6th October.  This is an opportunity to connect, embrace, love and discover our true potential.  This guided meditation helps you to connect t...

Episode 41 and my guest today is Kayla Cooley, a social worker and postgraduate researcher in Limerick Institute of Technology under The Loss & Grief Research group. Kayla's research focuses on suicide and the internet, pro-suicide websites and what we in the helping spaces may be able to learn from them. I learned so much from this conversation with Kayla and how She is empowering others with...

Finbar McHugh is an artist and meditator from Galway, Ireland. He believes that art can transform how we feel in a space while also allowing us to become present, reflect and let go. For Finbar, art is his form of meditation and this can be felt in everything he creates. His studio work is a colourful, emotive and personal experience which breathes and transforms in natural light, bringing with it...

With each new month and my newsletter being published, I am going to add a monthly guided meditation to my podcast series also. It is my way of saying Thank You for listening and sharing.  In this guided meditation we journey with a smile into the heart centre and greet whatever stands before us, whether that be anger, sadness or anxiety, we see it as a teacher into what needs healing in that mome...

Today I am by myself and reflecting on the ever changing parts of my own life. After a conversation with my friend this morning and comparing our 'symptoms' it was so lovely to speak so openly and honestly and have a good laugh about it too.  I am learning and growing into this phase of my life and allowing myself to be kinder and more compassionate to my body.  I feel this is a very sacred and sp...

In this week's episode I chat with Rosie McMahon a transformational coach from Ballynacally in Co. Clare. Her mission is to help women transform and step into their own power as She has done for over 20 years now. From a young age, Rosie had listened to the inner critic and it led her to a period of isolation and negativity.  Her adventurous and free spirit, or boldness as her Mother would call it...

An amazing in depth conversation with Peter Kelly, a native of Waterford Ireland, who has worked through the chaos of his life to find clarity, peace and self-acceptance. He shares this in his work as a poet, writer, teacher and guide. An explorer of the untouched regions of the subconscious mind, Peter writes about his journey from darkness into light in his new poetry book 'The Phoenix Birth'. ...

Happy 1st August Everyone, As an add on to my monthly newsletter, I always do a free guided meditation for my subscribers and I thought I would share it with on my podcast  too!  This month I wrote about how we can use affirmations to reframe out thoughts and how we can make daily choices that will create the future we want to see for ourselves, this meditation is a visualisation of your future se...

My wonderful guest in Episode 34 is Andrea Splendori who left Rome at the age of 23 and is now part of the landscape of Greystones with his wife and two kids. A morning swimmer, jogger and well known member of their community, he is also well known in the online community of mental health advocates and podcast lovers. Andrea has a lot of notches to his talented belt in that he works as a career &a...

Episode 33 and my guest this week is the amazing Denise Christie - based in Loughrea, Co. Galway. Denise works as a Fertility Coach, Acupuncturist, Holistic Therapist, Author & Radio Presenter.  Denise shares with us how problems in her first labour and 8 miscarriages later led her down the holistic path.  After 20 years as a legal executive, she changed careers and moved to Ireland. She is an...

Episode 31 - This week my guest is the wonderful Chris Delaney - hypnotherapist, careers advisor, NLP Life Coach and the founder of the Employment King. He prides himself on supporting people to achieve all their life and career goals.  Author of 3 books - Evolve the Mind, Influencing the Interview and most recent What is your Interview Identity. Chris lives in Manchester, UK and works with client...

Episode 30 and my guest this week is Fiona O'Brien - creator of the Ultimate Visualisation Programme, author of the gratitude & success journal and now offering one to one coaching and networking workshops to help promote other amazing ladies with their wellness businesses. Fiona is married to Liam and has two beautiful children Michael 8 and Hannah 7, living in Edenderry Co. Offaly Fiona shar...

Episode 29 and this week my guest is Bill Fitzgerald who works as a Senior IT Engineer, Personal and Business Coach, Competent Communicator with Toastmasters and also a Reiki Practitioner.  Bill shares with us some of his story as a child and the lead up to his diagnosis with Bipolar 1 in 1997. We discuss how more awareness in children's behaviours could help alleviate issues in their adolescent y...

Episode 28 and my guest is Emma Murphy who many may recognise from her video that went viral in 2015 for all the wrong reasons. In the video Emma sits on the stairs, tears streaming down her face, her young kids in the background as She shares on social media that no man should ever hit a woman as her left eye shows the bruise left from a punch in the face from her boyfriend. She wants it to stop...

Episode 27 and my guest this week is the beautiful Ruth McGill, an acclaimed actress, classically trained singer, vocal and singing coach and a death doula. Combining these skills and attributes to alchemise vocal embodiment and healing. She is also the Mum to 11 year old Charlie.  A beautiful conversation with Ruth about finding her joy in life as a child and facing the inner critic, both lessons...

Episode 26 and my guest this week is Yvonne Duffy O'Shaughnessy, the health and nutrition coach based in Galway. Yvonne has been in business for over 10 years and is a natural health specialist as seen on The Today Show , RSVP live & RSVP Magazine. Yvonne specialises in Food Intolerance testing & Nutrition - guiding others to strategic eating (not dieting) without counting calories. This i...

Episode 25 and my guest this week is Marie Cronnelly from Athenry in Co. Galway. Marie works as a mindfulness and meditation practitioner for adults and children online and in person, but more importantly is the Mum to her 10 year old son Riley.   We spoke about being the only young female boxer in her local club and later on doing some modelling and becoming more aware of herself and her insecuri...

We may not be walking together,  but you are not alone. I recorded this short reflection to honour those that have gone before us and we that hold in our hearts.  Together we are beacons of light and hope for each other.  To help Pieta House to continue their work in supporting those that are affected by suicide and self-harm please Donate what you can  Music by Liborio Conti Image by Warren Wong...

Episode 23 and my guest this week is Damien Gormley, a singer/songwriter, musician and mental health advocate from Clarecastle in Co. Clare.  Damien 'The Young Rambler' Gormley will share with us how publicly posting about his discharge from HSE Mental Health Services on Social Media in April 2021 brought about a huge response from the public in helping to end the stigma of mental health issues in...

Episode 22 and my guest is Natasha Pickup who is the queen of the squiggly career, a former marketer and teacher, turned mindset and positive psychology coach with a diploma in coaching from University of Warwick.  Natasha shares with us how her life changed when she worked with a mindset coach who helped her identify her beliefs and strengths , discovering these led her to study positive psycholo...

My guest today is Stephanie Dowling-Folan, a Galway native, wife, Mom, a lover of animals and the incredibly proud founder and owner of Galway Holistic. A capped Irish International Rugby player, physical therapist and expert in sporting injuries, Stephanie is a multi-talented lady with an amazing story to share.  Stephanie will share with us that in 2006 when She was diagnosed with an autoimmune...

Always love chatting to Brian Pennie, he is one of the most passionate people I know and he exudes joy in every word, his smile and the energy he radiates helps others to connect with him on every level. Brian chats to me about the trauma he experienced from birth and how it had a physical and psychological effect on his life. Years of anxiety led Brian to become a chronic heroin addict for 15 yea...

This week my guest is Laura McDonald - A clinical hypnotherapist, Brain Working Recursive Therapy Practitioner, Personal Trainer, Yoga Teacher, Mum of 4 and one of the 14 therapists that contributed a chapter to newly published book Awaken Your Wellbeing.  In this episode Laura shares with us the patterns and beliefs that affected her younger life and how tried to find a sense of self after being...