What A Woman Podcast

By Caroline Lyons and Sarah Benner

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Inspiring conversations with a diverse group of women that have achieved great things across different professions. Including guests like Jacqui Hurley, Carol Brick, Ciara Griffin, Louise Galvin, Louise Quill, Elaine Burrows Dillane, Caitriona O' Sullivan and more! We discuss how they achieved their goals or childhood dreams, the sacrifices they made and the resilience they needed to get to where they are now to encourage us all to get the best out of ourselves.

Episode Date
Victoria Mary Clarke: On grief, children, addiction, spirituality and why she doesn't know if it's possible to find another soul mate like Shane MacGowan"
Jun 26, 2024
Ranae von Meding: How a young woman from a strict, religious household met her now her wife & is fighting for the rights of their children to have two legal parents
Jun 19, 2024
Denise Phillips: How a working class girl has built a haircare empire while enduring eleven rounds of IVF & coping with hair loss
Jun 12, 2024
Dr. Monica Peres: How a young girl who lost her mum in Nigeria, moved to Ireland and became a Doctor
Jun 05, 2024
Dr. Katriona O'Sullivan: How a poor girl raised by addicts became an award-winning academic
May 29, 2024
Audrey Dore Geraghty: The reality of parenting a child with Autism & profound needs
May 22, 2024
Lorraine Keane: 'When the stalker arrived at my front door, that was not nice'
May 15, 2024
Deirdre O'Kane: "I love swearing, it gives me energy!"
May 08, 2024
Debbie Dillon: "You grieve for the child you thought you would have"
Apr 17, 2024
Nuala Moore: "In a split second they could lose me"
Apr 10, 2024
Ali Keane: "I couldn't feel anything from the neck down"
Apr 03, 2024
Helen Steele: "Being neurodiverse is a superpower"
Mar 27, 2024
Helen Collin: "Divorce is a full-blown bereavement"
Mar 20, 2024
Suzie O' Neill: "I had no fall-back, this business can't fail'
Mar 13, 2024
Nina Carberry: 'The scariest thing is the concussions I had'
Mar 06, 2024
Dr Sinead Kane: "Whatever decision you make in the next few seconds can change your life"
Feb 21, 2024
Madie Wilson-Walker "It's a miracle that I'm here"
Jan 31, 2024
Grace Alice "Sleeping in separate rooms is common but there's stigma around it"
Jan 24, 2024
Anneliese Dressel: "Some additives is like giving children cocaine"
Jan 17, 2024
Christmas Special: "All of these women have had journeys, luckily for us they've shared it"
Dec 20, 2023
Dr Joanna Fortune: Children need 'Presence' with a 'C' instead of 'Presents' with a 'T'
Dec 12, 2023
Nicola Tallant: "Those Middle Class Cocaine Users Don't Get To Turn A Blind Eye"
Dec 05, 2023
The Fabulous Pharmacist: "Women couldn't even say the word vagina to me"
Nov 29, 2023
Dirt Birds: "Women say thank you for being so real and telling it how it is"
Nov 08, 2023
Oonagh O'Hagan: "People think success leads to happiness but it's the reverse"
Nov 01, 2023
Dr Patricia Sheahan: Patients say, "Why didn't I just enjoy the now?"
Oct 25, 2023
Dr Mary Ryan: "Everything was fine until I got my period. You wouldn't believe the number of women I heard that from"
Oct 18, 2023
Vivienne Connolly on Modelling: 'You don't realise what prey you are... until you look back"
Oct 10, 2023
Maeve Frawley " I found myself a single mum, it was sink or swim
Oct 04, 2023
Orlagh Winters: ' I was given a 20% chance of living"
Sep 13, 2023
Maeve Ferris: "Yoga does make you sounder"
Sep 06, 2023
Louize Carroll on anxiety: "When the 'like' button was put onto Facebook, everything changed"
Aug 02, 2023
Geraldine Walsh on postnatal depression: "I didn't bond with my daughter until a year after she was born"
Jul 26, 2023
Laura Crowley on Autism: "I spent a lifetime knowing I was different"
Jul 19, 2023
Orla Kirby On Her Fertility Journey: "There's a lot of pressure...and there's no guarantee it'll work'
Jul 12, 2023
Loretta Dignam On Menopause: If we were forewarned, we'd be forearmed & it would demystify the whole thing
Jul 04, 2023
Joanne O'Riordan: What is an accessible. livable place? That's something we're still not grasping with to this day.
May 03, 2023
Sene Naoupu: Ireland's Women's 15's could win a world cup in a few cycles...it will take time, energy, investment and belief
Apr 26, 2023
Helen Murphy: Don't dress for others, dress for yourself
Apr 19, 2023
Annmarie O'Connor: You're never going to live a charmed life...because then you'll never learn
Apr 12, 2023
Caroline Reidy: There's nothing sadder than when somebody feels they haven't maximised their own potential
Apr 05, 2023
Maria Moynihan: The trauma is living without Danann..but it was a golden time, the time we had with him
Mar 29, 2023
Madeleine Griffin: I can either be a victim in this for the rest of my life or I can take control
Mar 15, 2023
Caitriona O' Sullivan: Quieten the negative voice in your head because there will be nobody as harsh on you as that voice in your own head.
Mar 08, 2023
Elaine Burrows Dillane: I won't get out (of the water) unless you take me out...I never feel like giving up
Mar 01, 2023
Ciara Griffin: If you don't back yourself, how do you expect anyone else to back you?
Feb 22, 2023
Louise Quill: Are our children unhappier than children in Tanzania? I would say they are.
Feb 22, 2023
Jacqui Hurley: Grief is terrible for a family forever ...but you have to find ways of being happy
Feb 14, 2023
Louise Galvin: You may not be the smartest in the class, or the prettiest girl, or have the nicest, most expensive phone... but your value can skyrocket in a team
Feb 14, 2023
Get Out Of Your Comfort Zone
Jan 30, 2023