#1 - Annmarie O’Connor: Edgy Elegance Hair Personality & Parkinsons

This week on our first  Hair With Clare podcast I’m joined by Annmarie O’Connor who  is the Irish Examiner fashion editor, a stylist, podcaster, bestselling author, TEDx speaker and well-known media contributor. With a self-styled ‘wardrobe wellness’ brand and practical approach to dressing, she helps people take the ‘war’ out of their wardrobes and adopt a healthier relationship with fashion. Her books The Happy Closet and The Happy Medium explore how considered choices can increase sartorial and personal satisfaction; a topic she also explores in her TEDx talk ‘Enough is Enough: Deciding to Be Satisfied’. In 2021, Annmarie was diagnosed with early-onset Parkinson’s disease – an incurable neurodegenerative condition affecting movement, coordination and speech. She now uses her platform to spread awareness and bring about positive social change. She has been featured in the Irish Examiner as one of 100 Women in Ireland Blazing a Trail, 2023; Image.ie as one of Ireland’s 100 Most Inspiring Women and in Irish Tatler Business on Ireland’s Power List: 1,000 Women of Influence (2013, 2014, 2015). Please join us in a fun, in-depth and enlightening chat on hair, health and life !