After years of working in global investment markets, Fiona decided to change her career and follow her passion. She now coaches and is a speaker on Positive Psychology, the science behind what makes individuals and communities flourish. She has been reasearching spirituality and its potential to influence the wellbeing in our lives. In 2015, she […]
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Dawn grew up in a rural area in Co. Tipperary, Ireland. After studying social science in college she joined Ana Liffey where she has worked for the past 13 years. Now Head of Services with the organisation, Dawn is a very emphatic and a realist with a wonderful human touch. Her work, and the work […]
Deb Davis is part of a group that plans to adopt the co-housing system in Ireland. Based on the LILAC project in Leeds, UK, the concept is one that promotes low environmental impact while enhancing community cooperation and interaction. Deb has traveled extensively and worked as a chef in various parts of the world. She […]
Keith grew up in Greystones, Co. Wicklow, Ireland and followed his father path into business and sales. He followed a normal path of school, study, first job, career, marriage, first child… His normal life path was changed abruptly when their second child was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis just weeks after birth. He and his family […]
Deirdre Doyle grew up in Dublin and went to college in Galway. After travelling and working in various parts of the world, including Switzerland and the USA, she settled back in Ireland. When a job with a large Irish retailer did not work out as she had hoped, she dedicated her working life with a […]
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 […]
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 […]