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The Standard Deviations podcast is a weekly production that looks at money, mind and meaning, all through a psychological lens. Each week, psychologist and New York Times bestselling author Dr. Daniel Crosby interviews a fascinating new guest, experts in everything from finance to literature to wellness. Each guest provides listeners with three concrete ways to apply what was learned that week, ensuring that weekly listening becomes part of a path to a richer life. Episodes are brief, resear ...
One bright summer morn, Ekman asked Hank, "Do you wanna do a theology podcast with me?" Amateurs in Divinity is the fruit of that fateful question. Topics: Variable Episodes: Weekly (hopefully) Quality: Debatable
The show that cuts through the nonsense about healthy living and tells you what you need to be doing to live healthier each and every day. Join Karl each week for tips and practical advice to help your real health journey. Plus, find out the science behind the advice and get some inspirational and honest stories for healthy living. To get in contact with the show email realhealth@independent.ie. The Real Health podcast is in association with Laya Healthcare.
Behaviour Lab CEO Magdalena Smith sits down with special guests to discuss how we can debias investment decision making through analytics and behavioural science.
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Jean-Michel Pailhon - The Case for Crypto
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Jean-Michel Pailhon is Vice-president at Ledger, the leading company in security solutions for crypto-assets, where he’s heading the company’s product initiatives. He joined Ledger in early 2017 when the company had 20 employees initially leading the finance, strategy and corporate development initiatives. Before that, Jean-Michel spent 15+ years i…
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5 Minute Therapy? Find out how with Sarah Crosby aka the Mind Geek
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We could all do with a bit of therapy right now but although stuck at home, we still seem to be time-poor, so how about some five minute therapy to help us all cope with the stresses and strains of life at the moment?My guest on this week’s Real Health is psychotherapist Sarah Crosby, aka the Mind Geek, who is a bit of an Instagram sensation with h…
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Eric Clarke - Driving Better Investor Behavior
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Eric Clarke serves as CEO for Orion Advisor Solutions (Orion), helping advisory professionals operationalize their vision for success by delivering cutting-edge financial technology and investment management solutions through the organization’s brand entities: Orion Advisor Tech, Orion Portfolio Solutions, CLS Investments and Brinker Capital Invest…
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Interview with Winston Holyfield - Part II
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The first part of this episode can be found wherever you get out podcast.By Elizabeth Ekman and Henry Widdicombe
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Interview with Winston Holyfield - Part I
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It's a good one! Ekman, Hank, and Chowder start off talking about belief, but from there the conversation varies wildly. It was such a long episode that, to meet file-size requirements, in had to be split in twain. The second part can be found wherever you get our podcast.By Elizabeth Ekman and Henry Widdicombe
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Performance Nutritionist Daniel Davey’s Tips for Success
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In recent weeks, the Real Health show has featured some great food experts from Neven Maguire’s cooking tips to the Happy Pear’s plant-based diet.Food, eating and your diet is one of the best ways to keep healthy and stay in control while so much is going on in the world outside and my guest for this week’s episode is a firm believer in food to hel…
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Dr. Clodagh Campbell's 7 Steps to Happiness
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January 2021 was a tough month, there’s no doubt about that. Continuing on from the previous year it’s been a tough journey for most people to deal with. But, we can still find happiness midst all the turmoil, stress and uncertainty.There are little things you can be doing every day to make sure you’re reaching your happiness quota and I’m delighte…
Ekman and Hank talk to Ben Crosby about his academic interests, life as a seminarian, and Ben and Hank spend a significant amount of time nerding out about their respective liturgical traditions. Plus there's some reflection about how the pandemic has affected our thinking and our prayer lives.By Elizabeth Ekman and Henry Widdicombe
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Kelly Eng & Lynsey Freeman - Women and Investing
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Kelly is a Wealth Management Advisor at WestPac Wealth Partners. Kelly works with her clients in all aspects of financial wealth advisory including: asset protection, wealth accumulation and financial coordination. Kelly previously worked in Institutional and Portfolio Management. Her experience in the corporate world provided her a deep financial …
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Life, lockdown and cooking tips with Neven Maguire
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Neven Maguire is someone whose approach to cooking and food I’ve admired for a long time. From his hugely popular restaurant to his TV shows and books, his focus is all about healthy and wholesome recipes for the entire family.He joins me on this week’s episode of Real Health to talk about life during lockdown, having to close the restaurant and wh…
Chau Lai first found her passion for finance as an Economics Major at the University of California San Diego. At the advice of her professors to “invest early,” Chau pooled her savings to invest half and the rest independently at the age of 17. Real-world experiences and early childhood struggles taught Chau important lessons regarding building and…
This week’s guests certainly need no introduction, as famous for their morning swims as they are for their healthy produce - and they’re back in January focusing on a Happy Health Plan using a plant-based diet. The Happy Pears, David and Stephen Flynn, join me to explain all the benefits and bust some of the myths about it.They also have some great…
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Samantha Russell - Marketing for a Better World
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Samantha Russell is the Chief Marketing & Business Development Officer at Twenty Over Ten. Utilizing her background in Public Relations, Marketing and Client Relations, Sam focuses on helping new clients understand the value of their online presence and connecting them with the marketing tools and digital solutions they need to effectively manage t…
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Improve your Financial Health with these tips from Eoin McGee
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If your finances are all over the place and out of control, it’s very difficult to focus on other aspects of your health. You can get tied up in your financial issues letting your health and diet suffer as a result.With that in mind, my annual Financial Real Health episode is back this week and I’m joined by Eoin McGee, the financial advisor, TV pr…
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Feel Great, Lose Weight with Dr. Rangan Chatterjee
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It’s January and with many of you making resolutions for change over the coming weeks and months, one of the most common is around weight loss and looking and feeling better.My guest on this week’s Real Health is Dr. Rangan Chatterjee who is a hugely successful broadcaster, author and influential GP in the UK and Ireland with his Feel Better, Live …
Happy New Year to you all! It’s 2021 and fingers crossed we can all put the tough year that was 2020 behind us with more hope for the year to come.And if you’re thinking of making changes to your life – be it personal, professional, physical or mental, then this week’s Real Health episode will set you on the right path. James Clear is a world-renow…
It’s Christmas Eve! This week’s episode is another in my Life Lessons series and it is with one of my favourite radio presenters and someone I’ve been wanting to interview for a long time.John Creedon has been a mainstay on RTE Radio 1 for the last thirty years with his mix of music and chat and he has also presented TV shows and written books duri…
So, Christmas has been and gone and I hope you’ve had plenty – but not too much – turkey, ham and stuffing and been able to put your feet up and enjoy some downtime.We’re nearly done with 2020 and can put it all behind us but before we do, I’m joined by someone who has a very particular challenge for 2021.,From the Den to TodayFM and back to RTE on…
With a week to go before Christmas, I thought, we could either do a show on fitness tips, getting healthy or how to work on your mental health but then I decided why not just have some craic and enjoy ourselves in the festive run-up?Who better to interview than two Tipp lads who have taken over the Irish podcast charts by storm and with TV shows, b…
Ekman and Hank interview their friend, and Hank's former boss, Daniel about his experiences in liturgical ministry. Not one, not two, but three mentions of Oprah. Special Guest: Daniel Dangca.By Elizabeth Ekman and Henry Widdicombe
Between Covid, lockdowns, Christmas and what 2021 has in store for us all, it can be hard to keep your spirits up and focus on the positive that is still out there.In the same way that you have to build good exercise habits and good food habits, you also need to build a positive mindset habit as well.Just how can you do this and how will it expand …
He’s the world’s fastest-growing online, personal trainer, is a global fitness sensation known for his no-nonsense approach to health and fitness training and I’m delighted to say that James Smith is this week’s guest on Real Health.His book in 2019, Not a Diet Book, was a huge best-seller and James is back with another hit called Not a Life Coach …
This week’s guest is maybe not one you would normally associate with Real Health, but I’m delighted to be joined by Lyra, the Cork singer-songwriter who is making serious waves in Ireland, the UK, and America.Lyra’s song Falling was featured in Grey’s Anatomy and nominated for Single of the Year at the RTE Choice Music Awards, while her hit single …
For this week’s show I wanted to focus on your gut. Not your gut instinct or going with your gut, but gut health. It’s a topic I’ve covered before on Real Health but for this episode I wanted to focus the 10 myths around gut health.There are a lot of misconceptions and misinformation around the issue, so to find out more and to get some advice on h…
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Nick Saleem - Immigrants + Finance (Pt. Three)
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Nick Saleem is the Co-Founder of United Wealth Group and has been in the Financial Services Business since 1997. Nick focuses his practice around the Medical and Physician market and specializes in retirement and estate planning, insurance and employee benefit plans. Nick currently works with over 500 clients, and he is passionate about creating in…
For this week’s episode of Real Health I’m delighted to welcome Dr. Jason Fung back to the show. Dr. Fung is a Toronto-based nephrologist and a world leading expert in intermittent fasting and low-carb diets and when he spoke to me a few weeks ago his insights into the truth about calories in-calories out were a huge hit with our listeners and so h…
For this week’s Real Health I’m joined by gym owner and fitness instructor Leeanne Moore to get some winter fitness tips to help in the coming weeks and months.The cold, dark evenings can make it hard to get motivated to go for a run or work out, but by keeping active in some small way every day, it will do wonders for your physical and mental well…
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Our vitamin D deficiency and why we need to boost it for the winter months
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With the clocks going back, winter and the dark nights are closing in, and as we prepare for six weeks of Level 5 lockdown, I thought this would be a good time to find out how we can help boost our immunity and increase Vitamin D levels or the ‘sunshine vitamin’ as we spend more time indoors.This week’s guest is Helena Scully a registered nutrition…
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Maddie Quinlan - Unearthing and Sculpting the Self
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Maddie has a Masters in Behavioral Science from the London School of Economics. She is the co-founder and director of Salient, which is a behavioral science consultancy, and she is head of membership at the newly formed Global Association of Applied Behavioral Scientists. Maddie also enjoys teaching yoga whenever she can.Tune in to hear:- Western p…
Show Notes: Holy Envy - https://g.co/kgs/fTnEpN Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras - https://g.co/kgs/sgLnNQ Another Name for Everything - https://cac.org/podcast/another-name-for-every-thing/ Universal Christ - https://g.co/kgs/6o2dXk The RobCast - https://robbell.com/portfolio/robcast/ Inspired: a Production of Interfai…
This week’s show is part of a series I like to call ‘Life Lessons’ with some of Ireland’s most respected and most famous personalities and my guest, Francis Brennan, is certainly no stranger to Irish television screens having shot to fame on the RTE series At Your Service and of course Francis Brennan’s Grand Tour.Francis is also co-owner of the Pa…
Hank and Ekman discuss their exposure to Jesuit education. In this episode, they share their experiences and how Jesuit education contributed to their formation. Also, Ekman provides a little spoken word in the introduction (we support the arts).By Elizabeth Ekman and Henry Widdicombe
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Healthy Living with Fitness Expert & Former Olympian Derval O'Rourke
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This week’s Real Health is focusing on healthy eating and healthy living with one of Ireland’s leading fitness experts, Derval O’Rourke. Derval is a three-time Irish Olympian and former World Indoor Champion and after retiring from athletics she has become a best-selling author and also developed her own digital platform on health, nutrition and se…
Maxine Gray is the Business Strategy Development and Implementation Manager at Investec Wealth, South Africa. She is an ambassador for the United Nations Global Compact of young SDG innovators. Maxine has also been a board member of imagine.nation (NPO) since 2015, and she is the founder of Winter Warmer drive (2010-2020), helping over 20,000 peopl…
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Amanda Byram and Overcoming the Pressures of Perfection
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This week’s Real Health guest needs no introduction to TV viewers having graced Irish and international TV for more than two decades from Ireland AM to the Big Breakfast, the Swan and Dancing with the Stars.But, as a former model and TV presenter, that brought with it its own difficulties and pressures to look ‘perfect’ on screen.Now aged 47, Amand…
Ekman and Hank, just chatting and whatnot.By Elizabeth Ekman and Henry Widdicombe
For this episode, Ekman and Hank are joined by their friend Renne! We talk about what it's like to be non-religious in religious spaces and also about how retreats are occasionally emotionally manipulative. Ekman and Renne also talk about which of Hanks friends they've had crushes on. All the names have been censored, so as to avoid boosting too ma…
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The Truth About Calories-In Calories-Out with Dr. Jason Fung
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It’s fair to say that weight loss tips and weight loss interviews are some of the most popular episodes we have done on Real Health over the course of our three years. People are constantly struggling with their weight, lifestyle and exercise.Continuing my international masterclass series, the guest for this week’s show is Dr. Jason Fung who is a w…
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Jess Von Bank - The World of Work in the Age of Covid
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Jess Von Bank (also known as JVB) is the head of marketing at Leapgen and the founder of the global world of work community Now of Work. JVB is proficient with, and passionate about, HR tech and connecting talent to opportunity. She lives in Minneapolis, MN with her three daughters and enjoys obstacle races and dark chocolate.Tune in to hear:- What…
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Healthy cooking that’s not boring or time-consuming with Nicola Halloran aka the Wonky Spatula
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Since the Covid lockdown have you been one of the many, many people who have taken up bread making and are spending more and more time in the kitchen?Healthy cooking and healthy eating are a key mantra of mine here on Real Health and for this week’s show, since you’re getting to do more home cooking, why not find out how to do some healthy cooking …
Ekman and Hank are indebted to this article, shared by Dr. Kevin Brown while recording the previous episode, for their righteous anger regarding the redemption of Darth Vader. Better Hermeneutics through Star Wars: https://dailytheology.org/2011/11/17/better-hermeneutics-through-star-wars/ Buzzfeed Lightsaber Quiz: https://www.buzzfeed.com/igrace97…
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How to be Ten Times Happier with Owen O'Kane
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My guest for this week’s Real Health wants to help you with what’s holding you back in life.Owen O’Kane is a psychotherapist, former NHS Clinical Lead and best-selling author who takes me through the ten tips that he says will not just make you happier, but ten times happier in yourself.From letting go of the past, having no regrets and stopping ov…
Roger is the host of the Retirement Answer Man podcast and Roger That! YouTube series where he helps hundreds of clients secure their ideal retirements. He has worked as a CFP for more than 25 years and is passionate about making sure people are prepared for retirement while living their best lives along the way. He authored the book Rock Retiremen…
As we deal with a lot of uncertainty with regards to the future, it’s important to learn more about our minds and how to keep them fit and healthy and so for this week’s Real Health I’m focusing on the importance of mind over matter and why having the right mindset really can make all the difference in living a healthy life.Cognitive Behavioural Th…
Dr. Brown's Twitter Reccomendations: @gregorykhillis @nimperatori @MaryAnnHinsdale @DanHoranOFM @JessicaCoblentz and a note from Dr. Brown: “I also recommend following my spouse Megan McCabe [@megankmccabe]—a great theology twitter follow—whom I should have mentioned in the podcast with the other theologians to follow, and not just because she’s my…
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Here's How You Can Develop Luck as a Skill
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What if being lucky was a skill you could master? Can you create smart luck and even make ‘accidents’ more meaningful? Wouldn’t this be something that you’d try and develop to enrich your life?This week’s Real Health episode finds out about how you can develop this skill with Christian Busch, Director of the Global Economy programme at NYU and auth…
Now in his 31st year as a financial professional and Partner of Strategic Wealth Group, LLC. John is a Chartered Financial Consultant and member of MDRT's Top of the Table. SWG's mission is to help clients establish goals, make efficient decisions and implement macro strategies to reach those goals.Tune in to hear:- Why is it potential a mistake fo…
Ekman and Hank chat about things.By Elizabeth Ekman and Henry Widdicombe
In this episode, Hank and Ekman interview data journalist and current Columbia graduate student, Alyssa Lukpat. Alyssa shares her background in the field, the significance of data journalism, and the portrayal of religion in the context of reporting. Special Guest: Alyssa Lukpat.By Elizabeth Ekman and Henry Widdicombe
It’s hard to believe, but September is only days away one of the strangest of summers is coming to an end.It’s also back to school time and it’s probably one of the most fraught and nerve-wracking returns to school that we have seen with Covid cases on the rise and no end in sight to the pandemic.So, with an increase in cases, the fall-out from Gol…
