The University of Life

Abby Wynne is a bestselling author and healer who blends Shamanism, Psychotherapy and Energy Healing to create a unique way of working which she offers to the world through her books and online programmes. Our conversation essentially brought together and simplified the key learnings I've taken from this year and especially since the covid lockdown kicked in to effect. At the crossover where...

If you've been introduced to cacao recently chances are its because of this woman, Natasha Vavasour.  Natasha is a passionate free thinking woman, she let me know that she "thinks podcasts are a load of waffle" before we even got started. No pressure.  She has a deep love and understanding for the sacred seed of wisdom within us all and is a huge advocate for women’s innate power. A...

Sinead Bailey Kelly is one half of H&G Creations and if you know anything about them as a business, you'd understand why I was so excited to have this chat together with her. H&G Creations create some of the most special, intimate and heartfelt events I've ever been to.   We chatted and chatted, hard to keep to my normal structure in this one but for anyone in the events industry...

At 16 Sean Treacy is Ireland's young filmmaker of the year for two years running and internationally recognised as one of the most exciting talents emerging in this world.  We talked all about youtube and the content creation space, what works, what doesn't and his tips for success on the platform. This advice centred on creating from an authentic heartfelt space with real purpose and de...

Kevin Boyle is the host of The Yoga Life podcast, he’s a yoga teacher and a teacher trainer himself. He is someone that is so passionate about what he does and so open to share all that he knows. We really zoned in on the business behind being a yoga teacher and the little things that make all the difference in terms of speeding you up in your journey or slowing you down. The teacher training spac...

Siobhan O'Hagan is an online personal trainer who has built up an incredible following for herself on social media. She's strong, confident, smart as hell and living the life she dreamed up and focused her goals on only a few short years ago. In this chat together we talked all about her world and how she got there, there are some really interesting points in this. She talked about the s...

Dr. Fionnula McHale is a medical doctor who practices functional medicine. She's predominantly working with people suffering from chronic illnesses and peak performance athletes and individuals.  We journeyed deep into her area of expertise and discussed some simple life hacks that make a big impact in terms of addressing health issues and developing peak performance. We then went into her ow...

Darren is a TV host and entrepreneur. He's someone that radiates good energy, positivity and confidence. He's exceptionally stylish, loves his dog, his cocktails and has his own male cosmetics business.  In this conversation, we talked all about self-love and authentic living very much in relation to coming out and the associated challenges at a young age. We talked through this, how he...

Darragh is a scientist who's especially interested in psychedelics and specialises in that space. He's also the co-founder of Inward Bound who hosts psychedelic retreats in the Netherlands.  The world of psychedelics from a self-discovery and optimization basis is something that I am absolutely fascinated with. I really believe they can be extremely beneficial when used in a respectful a...

Becca Gillen is a mindset coach with an incredible online following. She's built a life for herself that's very much in sync and in complement to who she is and what she loves doing. She's fun, happy and full of chat.   This is something that sadly so few of us achieve, for whatever reasons we settle and so I really wanted to explore her journey to where she is with her, what she le...

Joe is a health psychologist who's especially interested in behavioural change. As someone who's obsessed with making little changes for the better all the time, this is a conversation I'd been dying to have and I am delighted to share with you. We talked all about therapy from a self optimizing perspective. An area I'm fascinated in and one that keeps coming up in the work I&a...

Will is a good friend and a fascinating guy. Very hard to introduce as he does so much, you'll understand as you listen through.  This conversation centres around his business Bingo Loco, his travel, all that he's learned along the way and what he might do differently if he got to do things all over again.  From an entrepreneurial perspective, I found it fascinating. The work he's d...

In this episode, I delve into the Life Coaching space together with my friend and Life Coach himself Thomas McCormack. Thomas is someone who I've known loosely over the past few years however we've really gotten to know each other well over the past few months. I wanted to explore his journey into this space and what he's learned along the way, especially so as its something I actua...

In this episode, I talk with Niall O'Murchu, a friend, an amazing character and a beautiful storyteller that has such a great way of sharing all that he does. Niall is a Wim Hoff Instructor, a wild herbalist and a traditional Irish healer. With that kind of an introduction, I'm sure you can gather why I wanted to chat and learn from him. Most especially with regards to conscious breathin...

In this episode, I sit down with Gary Cunningham, someone that's navigated through battles with alcohol and depression, spent time in prison and who now works to inspire and help others. Gary's authored two bestselling books, Joys Of Joy, Finding Myself In An Irish Prison, and, Life After Joy: A Prisoner No More.  He's someone that's unbelievably open, honest and transparent an...

In this episode I talk with Paul Walsh, a personal friend and someone who’s passionately committed himself to self development, inner growth and authentic living.  Paul is someone that inspires me in these areas every time we meet and with that very much in mind I’m delighted to share this with you. In our conversation together we discuss everything from vipassana meditation to biohacking and self...

In this episode, I sit down with Pat Falvey.  Pat is a world-renowned explorer, Guinness world record holder and one of these people that really makes you wonder how the hell they've done so much.  I wanted to better understand his story, his motivation for doing all that he's done and most especially what he's learned from it, from all his incredible adventure and the amazing peopl...

In this episode, I sit down with a male sex therapist, who describes herself as "turning men into unforgettable lovers". Justina is the founder of Sexual Mastery NYC. She's a certified Sex, Love & Relationship coach through The Tantric Institute of Integrated Sexuality, trained by Layla Martin, world-renown sex coach. She also studied under Marisa Peer, voted Britain's best...

In this episode, I delve into an area that has me absolutely fascinated, Astrology or as Drew puts it, The Science of Timing. Drew is a successful author, speaker, Sanskrit scholar and Vedic astrological consultant. He has been a practitioner of Vedic Astrology or Jyotish for over 34 years and has been a featured speaker at the International Symposium on Vedic Astrology held in the United States a...

How exciting it is to finally get to do The University of Life right, as a podcast. I've gone live with this brand in a number of different ways, frustratingly its hard to get things right first time but after all thats been done, this is it. This is the way forward.  This is a very short introduction to what I'm at with The University of Life as a podcast, my aims and goals.  The Univer...