The University of Life

Raw, honest, vulnerable and educational. This conversation with Amanda Biccum is something else. Amanda works in the relationship space, helping people build authentic bespoke relations for themselves versus how most of us do things, which is simply how we think we should.  In this conversation together she beautifully breaks down the different states of relating, from casual friends with benefits...

Oh what a pleasure it is to share this conversation with you that I had together with Dylan Werner.  Dylan is a world renowned yoga instructor, lecturer, author, and educator in health, well-being, and mindfulness.  If you're in to your yoga poses, check this mans account out. What he can do would bend your understandings of what the human body is possible of. Check out his instagram. See: ht...

What a pleasure it is to introduce you to my good friend Joe Moore. Joe is serial entrepreneur, he's someone thats livid many lies. He's been homeless, sold drugs, travelled the world, immersed himself in the self-development space and has now built up an incredible business.  Together with two others he's founded Platinum University, an academy for online entrepreneurs. They'r...

Meet Aimee Batuski, a coach specialized in unlocking the power of intimacy and desire. She works with women, helping them to reach into this space and build out their lives in a more aligned, authentic pleasure filled fashion. Aimee is a highly in demand life coach and also the cofounder of Desire On Fire, an extremely successful group training program within this space. See: https://www.desireonf...

Meet Veronica Kaulinis, a vulnerability expert who helps people come to terms with their fears, anxieties, issues and vulnerabilities and through a process turn these into pillars of strength, security and confidence. Veronica is the founder of Vulnerable AF which describes itself as an international movement, event series and coaching program that encourages vulnerability and connection. A place...

Introducing Hayleigh Louise, a transformational coach native to New Zealand but based now in Bali. Transformational coaching is similar to life coaching. It involves helping people better themselves and their lives by bringing about necessary changes. Instead of changing how they act, however, as with life coaching, transformational coaching works on changing the way clients they see themselves. I...

Its not every day you get to talk with a Lion....  Meet Lion Galban, legendary and world renowned mens empowerment coach. Lion works together with men to help them develop the skills they need to express themselves authentically and emotionally in every moment of life. He helps them overcome trauma, drama, separation and ultimately master their masculine power.  Whats most striking is his embodime...

Meet Aren, spiritual gangster turned entrepreneur, philanthropist and transformational coach. Inspired by Eat, Pray Love he came to Ubud to escape a life as a gangster and drug abuser entangled in organised crime in Vancouver, Canada. When he arrived in Ubud in Bali he tells me he "traded Hennessy shots for wheatgrass, and lines in the club bathroom for cacao ceremonies". Since coming to...

Meet Tessa Mac,  Tessa is a dating coach who has recently established a business called Date Demo thats provides men with the opportunity to have practice dates and gain feedback on where they can improve. I think its genius.  In this conversation together we explore her wealth of knowledge in the dating space, she talks about the people she works with, the most notable issues that come up and giv...

Meet Mac Rundle, a DNA, hormonal and functional medicine expert.  Mac is the founder of Unrivalled Being, a company that utilises DNA testing and Functional Medicine  to help increase Health, Vitality & Longevity.  To date he's worked with over 11,000 people.  The DNA tests that Mac does essentially take the guess work out of knowing what works for you vs what doesn't. They're a...

Meet Tui Van Renterghem, vegan fitness coach and CrossFit athlete. Tui is absolutely inspiring, she's tall, beautiful, fit & strong. Most recently she won the CrossFit competition at CrossFit Wanderlust here in Bali.... And she's a vegan!  If ever there was someone to motivate me to look into this diet choice more, it's her. She radiates good health, strength and literally runs...

Meet Bekah England who essentially talks with dead people.  Bekah is an intuitive guide and teacher that specialises in helping people connect in with their spirit guides and loved ones who have passed.  This is a world I know nothing about but am absolutely fascinated by. With that, in this conversation I question everything with her and discuss all areas of this world and space from a very step...

Let me introduce you to Victoria Evans, an intuitive eating expert that specialises in helping people overcome eating disorders and the various associated challenges. Her knowledge is vast and her experience deep. She too has gone through her own journey in this space, navigating through eating disorders and mental health issues. She specialises now in teaching women how to heal their relationship...

Do you ever wonder how couples end up having threesomes, is it something you've ever wanted to try yourself?  Meet Key & Lily, they're the hosts of the podcast "How To Have Threesomes" and they've built up quite the business for themselves in this space, guiding and teaching couples " how to have threesomes". There's a lot to it in fact and in this podca...

Meet Freya, a money and business coach with a deep understanding of personal development and growth.  This is a podcast for the many people in the holistic space that perhaps feel that conventional coaches and money experts just don't get them or talk the same language.  In this chat together we explore so many topics, from authentic living to financial foundations, as in the key financial pr...

Have you ever struggled with selling and especially so from an authentic place, have you ever felt challenged in pricing appropriately or increasing your pricing? Meet Jason Marc Campbell, host of the Mindvalley podcast Superhuman's at Work & future author of Selling with Love.  Jason is someone who lives and breaths selling, he's studied it, learned the space inside and out and in t...

Introducing James Sweetland.  James is a carnivore meaning that he only eats meat, essentially the polar opposite of a vegan.  He's also been living from hotels for the past six months moving from country to country to avoid lockdowns.  The second we met I knew we'd have a good conversation together with plenty to share, he's an independent thinker and an open mind. Someone that lov...

Introducing Tom Dalton of TD Performance. TD Performance has been leading the way in workplace wellness here in Ireland, creating evidence-based employee wellness programs for multiple companies across a number of industries. Tom is somebody who lives and breathes what he does, his energy is infectious and this chat together covers so much, everything from his approach to business, to life in gene...

Meet Paul Merriman, Irelands chief money man and financial planner extraordinaire. He's a fast talker and even faster mover who "loves money" and is taking the financial industry here in Ireland by absolute storm. From packing shelves to managing millions, in this chat we talk through his journey to where he is today, the key lessons he's learned along the way and a whole host...

Meet Clarity, tech consultant by day, bad ass dominatrix by night. She describes herself as an explorer of sexuality, from the trivial mundane to the utterly bizarre and in this conversation we explore it all together. She talks about her work, the origins of the industry, some of the fetishes of her clients and where a lot of these originate. She's smart, strong and knows her stuff inside ou...

In this podcast, I wanted to take some time out from interviewing and go over what I've learned from The University of Life as a Podcast to date. It's been 25 interviews and just over 7 months since I first went live.  In the beginning of this I wanted to talk about what I've learned about podcasting in general, there's a lot more to it than I first thought. A few pointers that...

Meet Aoife, 27 years Dj'n and still rocking sets. Following my chat together with Sinead of H&G Creations where we looked in to the events business and the industry as a whole I wanted to dive that bit deeper in to the scene and from a different perspective. Aoife Nic Canna is someone who has been partying and passionately involved in events, clubbing and music for almost thirty years. Sh...

Meet Sarah Lucey, the Irish butcher's daughter who is now the nightclub queen of the US and entertaining the world’s biggest A-list celebrities every week.  She is "mad driven" as she puts it and shares a beautiful message of self belief telling me that "if you can’t take yourself seriously, nobody else will".   We talked about her journey to where she is now and how she c...

Joe Doyle is a property investor and business mentor to the construction sector. He's also one hell of a character online, on social media and in his advertisements which have had him written up and ripped apart in media.  There's no getting the better of him though, he's made it all work well for him. Few people could play with attention better than him, he's up there with the...

Anthony Flynn is the founder of Inner City Helping Homeless which he set up in 2013. If you aren't familiar with them, check them out. They're an independent, non government funded and predominantly volunteer based organisation that are on the front line of tackling homelessness here in Dublin.  Anthony is also a Dublin City Councillor. He serves on multiple boards including the Communit...