What A Woman Podcast

Our guest this week on What A Woman Podcast is Dr Patricia Sheahan, a Consultant Palliative Care Physician and the Head of Palliative Care at University Hospital Kerry. Patricia has specialised in Palliative Care for almost thirty years and has been integral to the establishment of one of the best integrated palliative care services in the country. She was awarded Kerry person of the year in 2022...

Dr Mary Ryan is a highly experienced Consultant Endocrinologist and Physician in the Beacon, Limerick and she is author of "It's probably your hormones", a fantastic, accessible book which we believe should be owned by every woman in the country! It helps us to understand our hormones and how they impact our health with proactive advice about how we can stay healthier and more import...

Vivienne Connolly is Ireland's most successful former top model and Fair City star who rose to fame in the 1990's and shared the catwalk with some of the world's top models including Naomi Campbell, Christy Turlington and Helena Christensen. She also went through one of the country's most high-profile divorces when she split up with her former husband Mark Dunne. Vivienne spent twe...

Our guest to begin this exciting series is Maeve Frawley, a leading Irish fitness professional, a mum and entrepreneur and a competing Strongwoman, winning Best in Show at Ireland's Strongest Woman competition earlier this year. Maeve has previously managed her own fitness studios & two professional gyms and she has been lecturer at MTU since 2007. She is now pursuing a new venture in busi...

Orlagh Winters is a hugely popular social media personality, a style judge for some of Ireland's biggest race meetings, a mediator and presenter for events and a businesswoman and fundraiser for charities particularly close to her heart as she is a survivor of breast cancer. Orlagh was only eight months married and aged thirty-six when she was given a twenty percent chance of living because he...

Maeve is a highly experienced yoga practitioner and founder of Ebb & Flow where she offers a range of classes in Yoga, Pilates & Forest Bathing; she hosts many workshops and retreats and she has designed a wellbeing programme especially for women called Seasonal Soul which spans the seasons of the year. Maeve had a successful career in the corporate world before she decided to follow her h...

Louize is a highly experienced Consultant Psychologist and a chartered member of the Psychological Society of Ireland with over fourteen years of experience in mental health in both in the private and not-for-profit sector. She is Co-Founder of Prism Therapy Online which was set up to help people in need of mental health support be matched with the right therapist, offering a platform of handpicke...

Today we are joined by the fabulous Geraldine Walsh who is an Irish Author, Editor, Book Coach & Journalist contributing to Ireland's leading newspapers including the Irish Times & parenting magazines on topics including (but not limited to) Parenting, Mental Health & Lifestyle. Geraldine has been shortlisted for a number of Writer Awards and was in the Top 100 Inspiring Irish Wome...

Today we are joined by the amazing Laura Crowley to talk about Autism Spectrum Disorder with a particular focus on women and girls. Laura is an Author, Lecturer and Autism Consultant with over twenty-three years' experience in this area. Laura founded Laura Crowley Connect in 2014, an Autism Consultancy where she provides educational resources and training events for families and professionals...

* Content advisory - this podcast includes discussion of miscarriage. Today we are joined by a really amazing guest, Orla Kirby who very powerfully shares her fertility journey with us. Orla suffered with endometriosis from puberty but this was not diagnosed until her twenties and she was aware this could impact her fertility but like many of us, she wasn't aware quite how dramatically our fer...

Loretta Dignam is one of Ireland's leading women's health campaigners and is Founder and CEO of the Menopause Hub, Ireland's first dedicated menopause clinic. Loretta previously enjoyed a long and successful career at Marketing Director level for leading multinational global brands including Mars, Diageo, Kerry Group & Jacob Frutifield where she won marketer of the year. Loretta ha...

In this last episode of the second season of the podcast, our guest Joanne O'Riordan is the epitome of everything what a woman is about - a powerful, extraordinary woman whose attitude to life is inspiring for us all and who is breaking down barriers for women and the disabled community. Joanne is a broadcaster, sports journalist and activist who was born with a rare condition known as Total A...

Content Advisory - this podcast episode covers eating disorders Sene Naoupu is a former Irish Women's Rugby Union International who earned 48 caps for Ireland before her retirement in 2022. She was a member of the team that won the 2015 Women's Six Nations Championship, she represented Ireland at the 2017 Women's Rugby World Cup and she was also part of the Irish women's national r...

Helen Murphy is a Munster fashion influencer and model who became an overnight sensation when she went to her very first ladies day in Galway in 2014 and won best dressed lady with her Christian Dior 1950's silhouette look and a strong resemblance to the sophisticated and elegant Audrey Hepburn. Her blog Daily Diva Diary has followed her journey as she has reinvented her style since having her...

Annmarie O' Connor is an award winning stylist, a fashion editor and a columnist for the Irish Examiner. She is also a bestselling author of books including The Happy Closet and The Happy Medium and she has her own self-styled brand of 'wardrobe wellness' to promote a more mindful relationship with fashion. Annmarie has been featured in the Irish Examiner as one of 100 Women in Ireland...

When Caroline Reidy came home with her Leaving Certificate exam results to her father, she was surprised that rather than congratulate her straight away, he simply asked: 'But are you happy?' It was this simple but impactful question that Caroline says stopped her in her tracks and is a question she has repeatedly asked herself on her career path to becoming a business owner. Caroline is a...

Content advisory - this episode covers miscarriage and baby loss Maria Moynihan is a Features Editor with Irish Country Living of the Irish Farmers Journal and a columnist for Irish Country Magazine. As an accomplished writer and journalist, Maria is used to telling other people's stories but today she is telling us her own very personal and moving story about her beautiful son Danann who was...

Our guest today is Madeleine Griffin who has led an incredibly full life so far and shows us that it is never too late to reinvent yourself, even in retirement.  Madeleine was born in Dublin, the 2nd youngest of five children and she experienced a difficult childhood after the death of her mother when she was very young and her life changed completely after her father remarried when she was t...

Caitriona O' Sullivan is a singer-songwriter from Tralee who's had number one hits on the Irish Country Music charts including her original song 'Don't say Goodbye' and her original duet co-written and performed with Johnny Brady called 'This Country Girl'. She's also just finished her nineteenth year as a resident judge on TG4's hit country music show, Glór Tíre and for her work on this show and...

It was an honour to meet the Queen of the Seas, Elaine Burrows Dillane who holds the original Triple Crown '22 (English Channel, North Channel, Bristol Channel) and the Irish Triple Crown '21 (Fastnet, Galway Bay, North Channel) of open water swimming. Her incredible achievements were recognised when she was inducted as an Honour Swimmer in the Hall of Fame -Marathon Swimmming Ireland class of 202...

Ciara Griffin was appointed Captain of Ireland's Women's International rugby team in 2018, aged twenty-four, just two years after she made her International debut against Wales in the 2016 Women's Six Nations Championships.  During her six year tenure on the team, Ciara earned 41 international caps and said that playing for her country at the highest level was the fulfillment of a childhood d...

Our guest today is Louise Quill who from the moment she was nine years old and heard from a teacher that there were children in the world much less fortunate than herself, she became determined to find a way to help them. Growing up with a fascination of Africa, at the age of twenty-two, Louise volunteered in Tanzania where she first encountered an orphanage and saw the desperate conditions childr...

It was so exciting to meet Jacqui Hurley who is at the pinnacle of her broadcasting career in sport after it was hot off the press that she is the new host of the iconic Sunday Game, a dream job she has wanted for a long time. We talked about everything from the secrets to Jacqui's long-lasting career after she was the first ever female to present Sunday Sport on RTE Radio 1 back in 2009; her book...

Louise Galvin is a multi-talented Sports Star and an inspiration to all aspiring young athletes. She's represented Ireland Internationally in rugby, playing in two women's rugby world cups at sevens and fifteens level, after taking up rugby at aged twenty-five. At Sevens level, she represented her country over 120 times with the highlights being the 2018 Rugby World Cup in San Francisco and reachi...

Carol Brick is one of the leading business women in Ireland and founder of HerMoney, an all female business dedicated to providing financial planning to professional women throughout Ireland and for which Carol won the 2021 Network Cork Business Woman of the Year award for Established Business. She is also Managing Director of CWM Wealth Management which provides tailor-made financial solutions to...