Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchPhilippa Perry: What You Wish Your Parents Knew and What Your Children Hope You Learn
Episode 27
Parents like to feel they are independent individuals making their own decisions, but in reality parenting is hugely influenced by our own experience…
4 years, 11 months ago
Michael & Christy: Facing Infertility and finally celebrating the birth of our baby
Episode 26
As well as producing weekly episodes of The Meaningful Life, our podcast engineer Michael Dooney is a brand new dad. This week, Michael and his wife …
4 years, 11 months ago
Lisa Marchiano: Being a Mother: A journey of self-discovery
Episode 25
It isn’t hard as a parent to find advice on breastfeeding, your child’s education or managing their behaviour. What’s rarer is insight into how the p…
4 years, 11 months ago
Angus Barge: Getting it up: What every man and woman needs to know
Episode 24
The relationship between a man and his penis is rarely discussed except as a joke. Men don’t often talk to each other about erection issues, and wome…
5 years ago
Terry Gaspard: Daughters of Divorce: the long-term impact of a marital breakdown
Episode 23
Our parents’ divorce can have so many ramifications, some of which don’t become apparent until well into adulthood. How do we face up to and understa…
5 years ago
Tom Vanderbilt: The Beginners Mind: How to get out of a rut
Episode 22
When did you last learn to do something totally and utterly new? Tom Vanderbilt, author of Beginners: the Joy and Transformative Power of Lifelong Le…
5 years ago
Philip Carr-Gomm: Stop Living the Provisional Life and Start Creating an Authentic One.
Episode 21
Are you living a life you really believe in, or are you filling in time until your “real life” begins? Are you waiting on marriage, a better job, a n…
5 years ago
Fenella Hansen: Dealing with Trauma
Episode 20
Fenella Hansen brings her own life experiences of grief, loss, mental health and trauma to her counselling work. After losing her mother to cancer, s…
5 years, 1 month ago
Caroline Madden: Infidelity: How to Rebuild Trust
Episode 19
We all think of infidelity as something that happens to someone else. When betrayal enters our own safe universe, it comes as a terrible shock. Many …
5 years, 1 month ago
Dena Justice: Why Women Burn Out and How to Recover
Episode 18
Dena Justice’s lifelong interest in mentoring and coaching began at age seven, when she took her first social-emotional training program. At 15, she …
5 years, 1 month ago