Jack Byrne grew up in Ranelagh, Dublin. From his early days he always had an entrepreneurial streak with a social conscience. He set up a Co-Op in Coolock, where he had moved with his family but when larger supermarket operators forced him out of business, he decided that the community needed a stronger voice. To […]
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Orla grew up in a farming community in the North West of Ireland, County Donegal. After studying Commerce and Business in NUI Galway, she realised that her passion was in helping others to achieve their goals through diet, nutrition and lifestyle changes. She set up her business in 2016, Health By Orla, specialised in digestive […]
Ciara is the editor of A Lust for Life and the producer of Where there’s a Will Podcast series on the status of mental health in Ireland She is passionate about social changes, something that was sparked at a young age through music and personal circumstances . She wrote for broadsheet newspapers in Ireland before […]
Stephen Flynn is one half of the The Happy Pear. He and his identical twin David created a movement for social change that centered around well being – plant based diet, happy heart courses, exercise and sea swimming at sun rise. In this conversation Stephen tells us of the challenges of fatherhood, travelling, schooling and […]
Barry Dempsey has spent the last 20 years working in the field of social care from disability, aged care, psychiatry, life sentence prisoners, challenging behaviour, mental health, in both community and residential, prisons, transitional housing and emergency accommodation He works mainly one-on-one in a preventative context with youths and addiction (all along the spectrum from experimentation […]