Miriam Hussey is a pharmacist, integrative health and wellbeing practitioner, yoga and meditation facilitator, keynote speaker, author of Light Up, and co-founder of Soul Space.
Drawing on a unique background spanning pharmaceutical science, holistic health, human performance, and conscious living, Miriam has become one of Ireland’s most respected voices on the interconnected relationship between physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing.
Known for her ability to make complex health concepts both accessible and actionable, Miriam brings science to life through powerful metaphor and practical wisdom. Whether exploring nervous system regulation through her red and green zone framework, explaining stress through the image of a shaken bottle under pressure, or illustrating resilience through the balance of exertion and recovery required of elite athletes, she helps people understand not only how they function, but how they flourish.
In this conversation, we explore cost-free, evidence-informed practices for nervous system regulation, including breathwork, movement, swimming, connection and recovery. We discuss the relationship between stress and resilience, the importance of balancing performance with restoration and why sustainable wellbeing requires us to honour our softness as a strength.
On this note Miriam reflects on the importance of reconnecting with the power of feminine energy, exploring the often-overlooked strength within softness, alongside the role of self-awareness, personal growth and ever evolving belief-systems, in shaping how we live. Her insights offer a thoughtful and compassionate perspective on what it means to cultivate greater health, purpose, presence and fulfilment, in an increasingly demanding world.
To learn more about Miriam’s work and upcoming events:
Soul Sundays:
https://www.gerryhussey.ie/soul-sundays
Retreats and Events:
https://www.gerryhussey.ie/gerry-hussey-retreat-2026

Aoife Bradley is a wellness entrepreneur, coach, and founder of MyFuel, whose work is informed by a deep engagement with the realities of health, loss, adaptation, and personal transformation.
Her philosophy of wellbeing has emerged through experience critically reflected upon rather than experience merely endured. Through complex pregnancies, major surgery, hormonal transition, motherhood, and bereavement, she has developed an approach to health that recognises wellbeing as an ongoing relationship with oneself—one grounded in awareness, self-regulation, resilience, and care.
Rejecting narrow definitions of health centred solely on appearance or performance, Aoife advocates for a more integrated understanding of wellbeing: one that encompasses physical vitality, emotional resilience, nervous system regulation, hormonal health, and the cultivation of sustainable daily practices that support a meaningful life.
The sudden loss of her father marked a profound turning point in her personal and professional journey. In the years that followed, she encountered not only the complexities of grief but also the additional challenges that can arise when private loss enters the public domain. These experiences deepened her interest in questions of dignity, ethics, and compassion, particularly in relation to how bereaved families are represented and treated within public discourse and institutional processes.
Drawing upon these insights, Aoife has become an advocate for a more humane and trauma-informed approach to conversations surrounding loss, recognising that the impact of bereavement extends far beyond the event itself and into the systems, narratives, and social structures that surround it.
Through MyFuel and her wider work, Aoife continues to champion a vision of wellbeing that is neither performative nor perfectionistic, but rooted instead in self-understanding, personal agency, and the capacity to remain connected to oneself through life’s inevitable seasons of challenge, change, and growth.

A conversation on lived experience, institutional power, and what it means to be heard. Host Síle Uí Chiaráin speaks with criminologist Robert Cullen and Dr Jody Moore, University College Cork, about their forthcoming collaborative paper exploring how lived experience is used across policy, healthcare, justice and public life. Together they reflect on inclusion, legitimacy, and whether participation is always meaningful or sometimes largely symbolic. The discussion moves between theory and lived reality, exploring ‘Lived Experience Talk’ (LET) versus ‘Lived Experience Dialogue’ (LED), alongside the idea of the ‘expert by experience’, how lived experience is included, what’s heard and acted upon in practice, and the question of aftercare for all involved. The conversation is grounded in humour, honesty, and real human exchange.

The Architecture of Sleep: Rest, Regulation & the Hidden Ecology of Family Life with Lucy Wolfe
Sleep is a foundational biological process, quietly governing cognitive function, emotional stability, physical health, and the relational tone of family life. When it falters, the consequences are rarely isolated; they reverberate across development, behaviour, and wellbeing in ways that are both subtle and profound.
In this in-depth conversation, Lucy Wolfe; one of Ireland’s foremost paediatric sleep consultants, bestselling author, educator, and founder of Sleep Matters, offers a richly informed, deeply humane exploration of children’s sleep. Her work is distinguished by its integrative, responsive ethos: a move away from prescriptive or distress-based interventions toward bespoke, evidence-informed support that respects the individuality of each child and the complexity of each family system.
We explore Lucy’s professional evolution, from her clinical practice to her expanding educational platform of books, programmes, and courses, and her ongoing doctoral research, which continues to deepen her contribution to this field. Central to her philosophy is the recognition that sleep is never about a single variable; it is shaped by a dynamic interplay of biology, attachment, temperament, environment, and developmental timing.
Alongside the professional, a more personal narrative unfolds. Reflecting on her own experience of raising children; now grown and thriving, Lucy speaks to the enduring value of connection, the long view of family life, and the quiet satisfaction of relationships that deepen over time. There is a palpable sense of alignment between her life’s work and her lived experience.
We also look ahead: to emerging ideas, future directions in her work, and the creative possibilities she is beginning to place on the horizon, an openness to what might unfold next.
This is a thoughtful, expansive dialogue for anyone interested in sleep not as a quick fix, but as a vital, living system at the heart of human wellbeing.
Explore Lucy Wolfe’s work:
• Website: https://sleepmatters.ie
• Courses & support: https://sleepmatters.ie/services
• Books: https://sleepmatters.ie/books
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sleepmatters.ie
• Research & updates: https://sleepmatters.ie/blog

Pattern Matching
Joanna Donnelly, former meteorologist with Met Éireann and a familiar face as a broadcaster of national weather on RTÉ, shares a story that is ultimately about coming home to herself.
In this conversation, we explore patterns, both in the science of weather and in the personal terrain of being human. Joanna speaks candidly about the breakdown in her working world with Met Éireann and the toll it took on her mental, physical, and emotional health.
She reflects on Easter Monday 2025, when she announced on the national airwaves that the forecast she was delivering would be her last; a decision that to many, seemed sudden, but which we now recognise wasn’t the result of any one single moment, rather the culmination of a myriad of micro-moments and ruptures in her relationship with the system, left unresolved.
By her own admission, what followed carried a certain intensity; a frenetic, task-oriented response to an ending that, while self-directed, felt somewhat imposed, internally!
Dancing with the Stars offered visibility, connection, and a kind of release to Joanna, soothing at the time, yet perhaps masking what was still moving beneath, less choreographed!
Early experiences and relationships in formative years shape the internal templates we carry for future relationship to self, to others, and to visibility itself, until we do the work. As Ignatius of Loyola said,
‘Give me a child until he is seven and I will show you the man’.
Not unlike weather systems, patterns repeat in human experience; fear, loss, resilience, until we can recognise and leverage them adaptively. A breakthrough moment during Joanna’s journey of self-discovery with her therapist revealed a sense of having been raised in fear. In hindsight, that was the threshold moment during which she sought nomination for the presidential election. Stepping into fear doesn’t always equate to readiness for what follows.
At its heart, this is a deeply human conversation about pressure, pattern-matching, and repotentiating DNA through inner child work and loving-kindness. It’s a conversation about perspective, authenticity and the ongoing possibility of integrating and self-actualising the meeting of emotional needs that were once unseen, unheard, unmet. A manifesto for living more fully, grounded-in and at the intersection of self-efficacy and loving service, where every choice you make is a vote for your higher self and the greater good in equal measure, beyond any need for the outsourcing of validation and value through visibility at all costs!

Life Beyond the Highlight Reel | Erin McGregor on Motherhood, Perspective & Building Her Business
Erin McGregor joins me for a candid conversation that looks beyond the public-facing moments of her life. Known for her social media presence, her appearance on Dancing with the Stars, and her fashion label; Imperfect by Erin, she has built a recognisable platform that blends business, personal style, and family life. In this interview, we move past curated moments, to explore the realities that shape her world: motherhood, marriage, and the challenges she encounters when growing ventures, that she aims to integrate as seamlessly as possible, with family and family life.
Central to Erin’s story is her beloved son, Harry, who is non-verbal and has autism. She speaks openly about navigating the practical and emotional aspects of parenting, advocating for Harry, and discovering routines and environments that help him to thrive. She also explores the couple-power, she and her husband draw on, as they embrace life’s uncertainties together.
Dialling out to view family life, parenting and work through a wider lens, Erin contemplates the delicate balancing act that sustaining relationships under pressure can be, especially given the physical and emotional demands of long-term caregiving and the evolving phases of adult life. Throughout, Erin shares truths that will resonate with many families; nurturing children and all aspects of relationship, whilst carrying the unseen weight of everyday responsibilities, in a world that seems to prize polished posts over process flow.

I Am Beauty UK | Nicole Gordon & Emilia Gordon |
I AM Beauty UK is more than a cosmetics brand, it’s a movement; celebrating confidence, diversity and the power of self-expression. Founded by Nicole Gordon in 2019, the brand creates vegan, cruelty-free beauty products named after affirmations that remind every woman she is seen, valued and beautiful exactly as she is.
In this episode of The Síle Show, we sit down with Nicole and her dear friend and Marketing Director Emilia Gordon, for a heartfelt conversation about identity, resilience and reinvention. They both bring deeply personal stories about how body image, confidence and self-belief have shaped their lives, from navigating industry expectations to discovering what it truly means to feel at home in your own skin.
Emilia opens up about her mental health journey and the realities of healing and rediscovery, while Nicole reflects on her own transformation and the lifestyle choices that have supported her along the way. Together they talk about wellness, sustainability, mindset and why representation in beauty matters, now more than ever.
This episode goes beyond makeup, it’s an honest exploration of self love, friendship, grit and the courage to rewrite your own story.
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The Art of BecomingIn this inspiring episode of The Síle Show, we sit down with Caroline Duffy; Dundalk-based designer, artist and founder of Caroline Duffy Design, to explore the real art of building a creative life and a business simultaneously.Caroline takes us through her journey from working with established brands in London and New York, to carving out her own design studio at home, navigating the early days with three young children under the age of three, and evolving into a recognised creator, whose work now features in many curated retail spaces, not least Brown Thomas.This conversation isn’t just about fashion or design, it’s about the intersection of creativity and responsibility: how ambition and artistry can coexist with parenthood, how confidence grows from self-doubt, and how meaningful work emerges when life’s many roles are steered with purpose and adaptability.We talk about:• What it really means to move from working for others to working for yourself• Balancing motherhood, home-life and entrepreneurial identity• The inner dialogue that shapes confidence and creative momentum• Building a business ecosystem; from studio space to education partnerships, enterprise supports and social platforms• Launching a new Spring/Summer collection rooted in intuition, craft and expressionCaroline’s story will resonate with anyone who’s ever asked: Can I have creative freedom and be present for my family? Can I pursue my calling without losing myself?This episode is for the makers, the mothers, the dreamers and the doers, anyone shaping life on their own terms.