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everymum
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Meet everymum… discover Ireland's largest parenting community with over half a million followers across social and email channels. Hosted by Aisling Keenan, everymum the podcast promises to talk about the parts of motherhood we just don't hear enough about. Reassuring words, support on your motherhood journey, and authentic honest chat. everymum is here to let you know that you’ve got this, even when you feel like you don’t! Insane highs to anxious lows, we're here to remind you that every pregnancy, birth, baby and mum is unique, and every feeling along the way is completely valid. #everymumthepodcast is sponsored by WaterWipes - the no. 1 baby wipe in Ireland. Their wipes are made with simply two ingredients, 99.9% water and a drop of fruit extract. Together, we are committed to reassuring
Episodes
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Conceiving after an adenomyosis diagnosis, with Rachel Ivie
Hi everyone, it's the finale of season 20, and our guest today is Rachel Ivie. She's been on the podcast before, but this time she's had some big life changes. When Rachel was on before, we talked about life with her two children and her experience as a primary school teacher and an influencer....
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Why children need to experience hardships to build resilience, with Dr David Coleman
Hi everyone, welcome back to Everymum the podcast, I'm Aisling Keenan. If you’ve ever looked at your child and thought, I just want to make life a little easier for you, then this episode is for you – but it might not be the episode you think. My guest today is Dr David Coleman, one of Ireland’s...
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Protecting children in a digital world, not FROM the digital world, with Dr Garth Graham
Hi, welcome back everyone to Everymum the podcast, I’m Aisling Keenan. Today’s guest is Dr Garth Graham, a doctor and public health expert who is the Global Head of Health at YouTube, where he leads the platform’s work around health information, wellbeing and making sure people can find credible,...
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Life with Tiny Humans, screen time limits and online comparison, with Emma O'Leary
Welcome back to Everymum the podcast with me, Aisling Keenan. Today I’m joined by Emma O’Leary, a paediatric speech and language therapist, mum of three boys and the woman behind the hugely popular parenting platform Life With Tiny Humans. Emma has been sharing the realities of family life online...
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Double the miracle: Sarah Maria Griffin on her curative pregnancy
Welcome back to Everymum the podcast, I'm your host Aisling Keenan. My guest this week is Sarah Maria Griffin, a successful novelist whose work explores identity, family, fear and the complicated business of being human. She’s the author of Eat the Ones You Love, and her latest release, Strange…
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Are we all parenting our anxious children wrong? With psychotherapist Bronagh Starrs
Hi everyone and welcome back to Everymum the podcast, I'm Aisling Keenan. My guest this week is Bronagh Starrs. Bronagh is a psychotherapist, expert in contemporary adolescent mental health. She’s also an author and she has spent decades working with young people and their families. Her new book…
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CMPA, colic and reflux and how Nicole Gaffney managed early motherhood
Welcome back to Everymum the podcast, with me Aisling Keenan. What happens to a woman when the physical body, social identity and daily life she knew are all suddenly altered? That’s what my guest this week and I discuss – Nicole Gaffney Hahesy, or Cole Gaffney as you might know her online, is an...
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The app that will change how you co-parent
Hi everyone, welcome back to Everymum the podcast, I'm your host Aisling Keenan. As many co-parents will know, separation is rarely the end of a relationship. For parents, it's often the beginning of a totally new one where you're navigating school runs, birthdays, holidays, doctor's appointments...
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The beautiful chaos of parenting, with Sinead de Butleir
Today's guest is someone many of you will know from social media, where she's built a loyal following by sharing her passion for style, her relatable family stories and lots more. Sinéad De Butléir is one of the real rarities on social media today – aspirational but still a down to earth girl...
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Holly Cairns on the future Irish families deserve
Welcome back to Season 20, Episode 1 where we welcome Holly Cairns - leader of the Social Democrats, a TD for Cork South-West, and one of the most recognisable voices in Irish politics. First elected to Dáil Éireann in 2020, she's built a reputation for speaking candidly about issues ranging from...
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Mothers are in crisis, with Laura O'Connell
Welcome back to Everymum the podcast, I'm Aisling Keenan, your host. Today's episode surprised me. It's not often that happens, but when I first invited today's guest, Laura O'Connell, to join me, I wanted to talk to her about her genuinely hilarious and sometimes triggering midwife comedy...
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Motherhood, identity & the truth about matrescence with Claire Moore
Welcome back to everymum the podcast, with me Aisling Keenan. Today we are talking about one of the biggest identity shifts a person can go through and one we still don’t talk about nearly enough. Motherhood isn’t just a physical transition; it’s emotional, psychological, social. There’s a word…
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Honesty as a mother: 'I feel like I'm failing all the time' with Dr Laura
Welcome back to Everymum the podcast, I'm your host Aisling Keenan. Today’s guest is the brilliant Dr Laura Lenihan — GP, working parent of three girls and someone who speaks with rare honesty about the realities of modern motherhood. This conversation goes far beyond perfect parenting or tidy...
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Jennifer Wrynne on positivity, parenting and her cancer diagnosis at 10 weeks post partum
Hi there and welcome back to Everymum the podcast. I'm Aisling Keenan, your host. Today’s guest is the fabulous Jennifer Wrynne. Jennifer, many of you will know, is a milliner, online influencer and mum of four, who in the past year or so has been sharing a deeply personal and life-changing...
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Siobhan O'Hagan's SMBC journey to conceive her second child
Welcome back to Everymum the podcast, I'm Aisling Keenan your host, and today’s guest is someone whose story speaks to so many modern realities around motherhood, family, and the choices women are making when life doesn’t follow the 'typical' path. Siobhan O’Hagan who you might know from her life...
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Friendship and motherhood, with Louise Cody
Becoming a parent is often described as life-changing, and of course it is. But one of the shifts we don’t talk about enough is what happens to our friendships along the way. Today’s guest, Louise Cody, is an online influencer who’s been refreshingly honest about how having a baby reshaped not…
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Are you worried about what your kids are doing online? With Alex Cooney
Welcome back to Everymum the podcast, with me Aisling Keenan. If you’re a parent right now, chances are your child is spending at least some part of their day online, whether that's gaming, chatting with friends, watching videos. It’s just become part of modern childhood. But how much do we...
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Autism, PDA and why getting a diagnosis gives relief, with Caroline Foran
Welcome back to Everymum the podcast, I'm Aisling Keenan. When you imagine what parenting will look like, you tend to picture something linear: milestones ticked off, routines falling into place, a general sense that even when things are hard, they’re at least a bit predictable. But for many...
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Everything you need to know about your children's teeth, with Dr Abigail Moore
Today’s guest is Dr Abigail Moore, a specialist children’s dentist and the founder of Happy Teeth, where she works exclusively with babies, children and teens to make dental care calmer, kinder, and far less scary for everyone involved (including nervous mams and dads!) She has years of…
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Love, loss and moving forward with Suzanne Kane
Welcome back to Season 19 of Everymum, the podcast – I'm your host, Aisling Keenan and today’s episode is a deeply honest conversation about a subject that many families experience, but far fewer feel able to talk about openly: pregnancy loss. My guest is radio presenter Suzanne Kane, whose voice...
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From barely surviving to absolutely thriving, with Jennifer Carroll aka Jen's Journey
Welcome back to Everymum the podcast, I'm Aisling Keenan. My guest this week is the wonderful and always lovely Jen Carroll, who many of you will know as her online persona, Jen's Journey. Jen has lived more life than most of us and she's only in her 30s. She's gone from deeply unhappy and having...
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Schools and religion: Should the church still be involved? with Laura Cunningham
Welcome back to another episode of Everymum the podcast with me, Aisling Keenan. This week's episode is slightly different from our norm in the sense that we're covering a topic, a very important one, rather than discussing a guest's experience. The topic in question is that of religion as it...
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Different types of birth trauma, and how to start healing with Michelle Flynn
Welcome back to Everymum the podcast with me, Aisling Keenan. My guest this week is Michelle Flynn, a psychotherapist who specialises in perinatal mental health. We talk on today’s episode about birth trauma: something many parents will recognise, but not as many feel truly 'allowed' to claim.…
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Staying who you are through the fourth trimester, with Pamela Laird
Welcome back everyone, I'm your host Aisling Keenan and you're listening to Everymum the podcast. We're deep into season 18 now which is wild. This episode was a treat for me to record because the guest is a good friend of mine, the lovely Pamela Laird came on to chat to me about how she's…
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Raising boys to be good men, with Laura Dowling, the Fabulous Pharmacist
Welcome back to another episode of Everymum the podcast, with me Aisling Keenan. I absolutely LOVE my guest this week, and I was somewhat self-conscious to be interviewing her because she's such a great podcast host herself. Laura Dowling, otherwise known as The Fabulous Pharmacist, has so many...
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Three labours in under three hours with Deirdre O'Shaughnessy
Welcome back to another episode of Everymum the podcast, with me Aisling Keenan. My guest this episode is Deirdre O'Shaughnessy, a journalist and mother of three whose story of parenthood so far left me breathless. I'd always known Deirdre professionally, as we orbited each other on Twitter for...
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Babies, beauty and business with Suzy Griffin Dunne
Hello everybody, welcome back to another episode of Everymum the podcast, I'm Aisling Keenan and my guest this week is beauty entrepreneur, owner of beauty brand Hildun and mother of three, Suzy Griffin Dunne. This episode was basically me trying to find out what makes Suzy tick, how she manages...
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"Like night and day" - Kelly Donegan on her two different experiences of birth and early motherhood
Welcome back to Everymum the podcast, I'm Aisling Keenan, your host, and my guest this week is a returning guest, the lovely Kelly Donegan. Many of you will know her from her Tallafornia past, but that's very far in the rearview for Kelly now. And as we chat today, her 12 week old son Jesse makes...
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Do you need a doula? With Heather Condren
This week on the podcast, my guest is Heather Condren, founder of Flowerpop, a brilliant, creative and unique flower business based in Dublin (and delivering everywhere). Heather and I cover a lot of ground: what it’s like to start a business with a tiny baby, the realities of parenting while...
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A billion views on motherhood content: What's behind the scenes, with Rebecca and Fiona Ryan
Welcome back to Season 18 of Everymum, the podcast, the place for people who love their kids deeply but also occasionally fantasize about running away to a quiet hotel room with room service and no one saying “Maaaam” for three to five business days. Today’s guests are two women who understand…
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A miracle baby against all the odds, with Ariana Dunne
My guest for this episode is Ariana Dunne. Ariana is a columnist, a life coach and has many other professional strings to her bow, but the one role she always wanted was 'mammy'. Her story, which she originally wrote for Irish Country Magazine, was one of the most read pieces ever for them, and…
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"Late talkers", language and the importance of connection with your child, with Sarah Kelly
Today’s guest is someone who knows that play is far more than just fun, it’s one of the most powerful tools we have for helping children learn, connect, and thrive. Sarah Kelly is a Speech and Language Therapist, a Montessori teacher, a mum of boys, and the founder of PlayEasy, an educational toy...
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Learning to parent again when your co-parent and soulmate dies, with Nicky Wake
My guest this week is entrepreneur Nicky Wake. Nicky's story of grief and love and parenting is one that I was immediately inspired by when I first heard it. After meeting her soulmate Andy Wake back in 2002, Nicky went on to live her best life, and after a long journey to conceive, welcomed a…
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Child free by choice, with Vicki Notaro
This week, I wanted to do something slightly different, in the sense that – most of the guests I have on are parents themselves. This week though, I wanted to explore a motherhood choice of a different kind: Choosing not to become a parent. And when I polled listeners to see who to speak to on...
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"It has been a long journey" – from chronic illness to healthy pregnancy with Rachel Purcell
My guest today is someone who’s lived through more than most of us can imagine, and yet meets the world with such calm, strength, and self-awareness, you’d never know it at first glance. Rachel Purcell might be best known to some as Roz Purcell’s sister, but she is very much her own person. A...
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You don't have to martyr yourself for motherhood with Ursula Quinn
If you've ever found yourself standing in the dark at 3am, gently rocking a baby who absolutely refuses to sleep, or you’ve spent hours negotiating with a toddler who suddenly needs water, a story, and three extra hugs, you are definitely not alone. Sleep deprivation is one of the hardest parts…
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Keeping your children safe online, with Dr Afif El-Khuffash
My brilliant guest this week is Dr Afif El-Khuffash, a neonatologist and professor of paediatrics who has also just completed a degree in Cyberpsychology too. Afif is also a fellow podcast host, and has a huge interest in how we all interact and engage online. Even though my little girl is only...
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Getting it right with your child's nutrition, with Emma Shafqat
Welcome back to Everymum the Podcast, I'm Aisling Keenan your host and my guest this week is Emma Shafqat, or as she's otherwise known, Dietitian with a Difference. One of the first things I wanted to ask Emma was – what's the difference between a nutritionist and a dietitian, because when it…
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Finding the light in challenges of motherhood, with Jess Redden
Today’s guest is someone many of you will know and love - the gorgeous Jess Redden. Jess is a pharmacist by profession, a wellness advocate, and mum to her beautiful son Bobby who she shares with her husband, former Irish rugby international Rob Kearney. I have to say, I found Jess's episode so...
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Finding out who you are (again) with Charlene Flanagan
Welcome back to Everymum the podcast, with me Aisling Keenan back for another season – season 17! Where does the time go? Thanks for joining me, and what better way to start the season than with an amazing and inspirational guest. Entrepreneur, makeup expert, business founder and mother Charlene...
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"Society has let us down as women and mothers" with Daniella Moyles
My conversation this week with Daniella Moyles is one that will stay with me. Daniella is a former model, radio DJ and presenter who didn't take her foot off the pedal for close to a decade, resulting in a period of intense physical and mental anxiety and burnout. When she realised her life…
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What you need to know about living with ADHD, with Claire Quigley Ward
This week, I spoke to the fascinating and passionate Claire Quigley Ward, a UK-based certified ADHD coach. Claire is also host of the All Aboard ADHD podcast, she's a Microsoft Accessibility Champion, and the founder of an organisation called ADHD Winchester, which supports those in her city who...
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Mothering four Autistic children while being Autistic yourself, with Amanda McGuinness
My guest this week is Amanda McGuinness from LittlePuddins.ie. Amanda is a truly inspiring voice in the parenting community and a powerful advocate for autism acceptance and understanding. Amanda is a mum of four beautiful children, all of whom are neurodivergent, and her journey into the world…
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Raising self-compassionate children with Louise Shanagher
My guest this week is author and mindfulness educator Louise Shanagher. Louise is also the founder of the Creative Mindfulness method, a programme that introduces mindfulness and self-compassion to children through creative activities like storytelling, art, and meditation. She has authored…
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Your thoughts are not your actions, and healing from trauma with Emma Flynn
This week, I spoke to returning guest Emma Flynn. Emma was first on the podcast with the lovely Sinead more than three years ago, but her story was so compelling and so important that I wanted to catch up with her and see how things are for her now. Emma's story can be difficult to hear and can…
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"You just wait!" and other advice no pregnant person wants to hear, with Niamh O'Sullivan
The lovely Niamh O'Sullivan is my guest this week, and although I've known Niamh for a good few years, and she's always radiant, she was absolutely GLOWING with the joy that only arrives when you're expecting your first baby. At the time of recording, Niamh is about half way through her…
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Having children doesn't mean you stop following your passion, with sports star Louise Galvin
I absolutely LOVED this week's episode. Not only was Louise Galvin extremely sound to chat to and I left wanting to be her pal, she was so open and honest and candid about how she and her husband manage parenting. Louise, for those unfamiliar, is one of Ireland's most successful sports stars –...
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Avoiding mastitis, fed is best and a breastfeeding Q&A with Orla Dorgan
My guest this week is award-winning lactation consultant Orla Dorgan, who is the founder of mylactationconsultant.ie. Orla is a nurse by profession, but when she breastfed her children and had a good experience, she wanted to bring the tools and advice she had to as many parents as possible. This...
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Travelling with toddlers, work/life balance and more with Ailbhe Garrihy
This weeks episode was just such a pleasure to record from start to finish – Ailbhe Garrihy is my guest this week and she is just the most engaging and warm person to chat to, and I know it's such a podcast cliche but I really could have talked to her for hours. Ailbhe is not only the general...
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Baby incoming! 39 weeks pregnant and going from 2 to 3 with Grace Mongey Gernon
My guest for our first episode of season 16 is the lovely Grace Mongey Gernon. Grace has been working full time as an influencer for the past nine years – there was somewhat of an urgency with getting Grace's episode recorded, because when we spoke she was 39 weeks pregnant and eagerly awaiting…
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Meet everymum… discover Ireland's largest parenting community with over half a million followers across social and email channels.
Hosted by Aisling Keenan, everymum the podcast promises to talk about the parts of motherhood we just don't hear enough about.
Reassuring words, support on your motherhood journey, and authentic honest chat. everymum is here to let you know that you’ve got this, even when you feel like you don’t!
Insane highs to anxious lows, we're here to remind you that every pregnancy, birth, baby and mum is unique, and every feeling along the way is completely valid.
#everymumthepodcast is sponsored by WaterWipes - the no. 1 baby wipe in Ireland. Their wipes are made with simply two ingredients, 99.9% water and a drop of fruit extract. Together, we are committed to reassuring
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