Nicola Connolly Byrne

Thank you all for the amazing feedback on last weeks first episode with Jamie Byrne. For two people who were very concerned about releasing it, we shouldn't have worried! All we ever want to do is positively impact just one person & we did that for sure because lots of you listened to it with your kids and I am told it was very helpful to them. Thank you all so much for your care & support!

Jamie Byrne is a student of Business and Irish (through the Irish language!), proudly plays Gaelic football for Oliver Plunketts. He is a fantastic cook, a wonderful brother, friend and son. 

NOTE: We apologise for the noise interference. We couldn’t use the popper mics on our first day of recording as there were technical challenges. We didn't realise that the clip on mics were buzzing off each other till post production! So Irish though that the whole reason for getting a studio was to improve sound quality! You live and you learn.

Welcome to my new podcast in my new studio! Well this podcast was very emotional for me for lots of reasons as it’s with my one and only son, Jamie Byrne. I was so surprised when he asked to be on my podcast because he is normally so private! But the reasons why he wanted to come on, transpire as we talk. I learned some hard home truths and things about my own son that I wasn’t aware of. There are so many lessons in this episode for all of us. Jamie is so emotionally intelligent, I am honored to be his Mam. He is one of my biggest teachers & I am blessed to have him in my life. Thank you for doing this Jamie and thank you for being true to you.

Jamie Byrne is a student of Business and Irish (through the Irish language!), proudly plays Gaelic football for Oliver Plunketts. He is a fantastic cook, a wonderful brother, friend and son. 

NOTE: We apologise for the noise interference. We couldn’t use the popper mics on our first day of recording as there were technical challenges. We didn't realise that the clip on mics were buzzing off each other till post production! So Irish though that the whole reason for getting a studio was to improve sound quality! You live and you learn.

Living with the nightmare of psychosis, narcotics & alcohol addiction - learn about Christopher's extraordinary journey to finding his true self, becoming the father his daughter needed & starting his own business.

In Lynda’s own words:

“I am Lynda Nolan, 49 years old. I currently work in our family business.

I am studying Psychotherapy and Counselling which is my passion.

I am a mother to 3 great kids and Grandmother to a beautiful little lady.

I had an interest in personal development and looking at ways to empower myself.

My message would be that we owe it to ourselves to find our true selves and be the best version we can be.”

Esther has always looked for her soul purpose in life, always questioned why she is here and for what purpose.She has a good insight into how to make others feel comfortable in voicing their concerns and giving them guidance and advice. Everyday is a learning day and we learn from the actions and thoughts of others. Esther is passionate about soul filling and Soulworks, working through the challenges we face and how we adapt and change.

Esther is fuelled by her passion to improve her confidence and ability for personal and professional development. She is both inventive and resourceful. Her motto and mantra is If you promise… you deliver!

Jeff is not a life coach, a guru, a preacher or a “thought leader.” He has not held a certification in years, and laughs about the times he put close to a dozen letters after his name on a business card and the agonizing time spent deciding which order they “should” go in. He is not a “#1 Best Selling Author on Amazon,” nor has he ever had his photo taken in front of rented mansions or exotic European sports cars. He does not sit on corporate boards and has never spoken at TedX

He has not appeared on the Joe Rogan Podcast, never been listed in any publications you can read at the airport, has never appeared on daytime television shows and does not sport a 6-pack of abs. He is not a millionaire, does not live in a house that would impress the right crowd and is definitely way behind the Jones’

Who Jeff Is:

Jeff sees the world in a different way than the masses. He started actively ignoring the corporate news over a decade ago, has never binged a show and doesn’t have a Netflix subscription. He believes that the mainstream is a bad place to be or think, conventional wisdom is overrated and tradition is simply peer pressure from dead people.

He is a passionate advocate for small businesses and entrepreneurs and regularly loses followers and friends for his opinions. He was one of the first handful of full time personal trainers in the Detroit area in the early 2000’s and spent the better parts of the next two decades as an owner and operator of gyms, studios and personal training businesses.

He carries a strong belief in himself and in the potential of others, along with the regular acknowledgement of his own failures and the inevitable humanity of himself and others. His outlook has been strongly influenced by a wide variety of sources from the Toltecs to the Stoics to Alder to Camus to Bukowski. He strives to hold strong opinions loosely and constantly be challenging the way he orientates and observes the world.

Jeff believes in the power of the written and spoken word, original ideas and the strength of social media and technology to create connections with like minded people all over the world. He has coached and consulted with people on several continents and is known to turn on his camera and shoot a “one take” live video describing a lesson he’s learned or an experience he wants to share.

Jeff has “failed” more times than most would care to admit and has gone against himself and those he cares deeply about enough for several lifetimes. Those deep lessons have caused him to share his stories and outlook with the world in the hopes of helping others avoid the same behaviors and elevate their consciousness. He is a strong believer in mediation, cold therapy, breath work, float tanks and a number of other means of achieving altered states of consciousness as a means of self elevation

He lives in Detroit, Michigan, has 3 children and a very respectable collection of baseball caps. He has a wide variety of interests from fitness to golf to cooking to craft beers and spirits to reading. He will occasionally write about himself in the third person, tongue firmly planted in cheek and a smile on his face.

Jeff is available for private and group leadership coaching, as well as extremely limited business and marketing consulting.

Liz Valloor is the author of Taking Flight - The Caged Bird and co-author of We Summit Together.  She presents The Conscious Living Show Dublin City Fm 103.2.

Liz born and raised in Ireland is an international speaker. She has facilitated retreats and seminars at the Anthony De Mello Awareness centre, Sadhana Institute, India, the Theosophical Society, Auckland, New Zealand and Notre Dame USA.

Liz is a former Deputy Principal of a Deis 1 school and has 35 years teaching experience.

Her individual growth due to her years of practicing Awareness has contributed to her immense insight communicating with children. She helps you discover your emotional inheritance and how that impacts your parenting skills.

Traditional parenting methods will not prepare children for tomorrow’s world. Conscious parenting is the way forward and Liz is determined to create awareness on this topic.

In Eavan's own words: 

"When I first contacted Nicola, I was living life like a plastic bag blowing around in the wind. 

A 'Yes' person, fearful of disappointing people or criticism. I was living out the expectations of others but disconnected from who I really was and what I wanted. 

I was ready to make changes, and my new reality is one of awareness, daily spiritual growth and empowerment."

Gareth is an author, healer & potty mouth

In his younger days he was a bit of a naughty boy with a taste for various substance abuse. After a dose of the cancers and a near fatal asthma attack that he was luckily revived from, he got a bit of an inkling health might be important so off he went down that long & windy path.

Some may say he is still a naughty boy, just without the substance abuse. They would be correct.

Nowadays he specialises in getting primarily entrepreneurial women out of chronic pain, chronic health issues, & returning cognitive function so that they can operate with all the magnificence that a magical human being should be able to do.

He does work with dudes too, just less often.

His goal in life is to give as many people as possible the tools in life so that they can thrive in the modern world, without being dragged down by the ever increasing demands.

He does it all with love & rude words.

Favourite thing to hear from a client. "The Drs say there is nothing I can do"

You may have heard that he wrote an amazing book called "how to undo the sh!t the modern world does to us". If you haven't just take my word for it, or even better, buy it.

Website: https://garethriddy.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/TheGarethRiddy
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCY3hfA6yFUsnn29Wm6cT6mQ 

In Gus's own words:  

"Gus Byrne is my name. I'm a dad to two beautiful teenage girls and I'm also a retail manager.   

In 2016 I lost my dad and my way and not really knowing who I was, also not really knowing what personal development was.   

At Nicola’s first event I found out who I was not and from there I began to find out who I am. Call it timing, divine timing, the law of attraction, there were sooo many different places I should have been on the day of Nicola’s first event but I was drawn to it like so many others and soo glad I was too."

In Carmel's own words:
"My name is Carmel Egan and I am a strong woman who is well tooled up thanks to Nicola Connolly Byrne. I am also a wife to 1, mom to 5, grandmother to 1 and mom to 3 fur babies. I work full time also.

I wasn't always strong or as well tooled up, then I met Nicola. Doing this work changed my life."

Chris Cook is a former Double Olympian and Double Commonwealth Champion.

After competing for Great Britain for nearly 10 years, Chris hung up the trunks, retired from international swimming and began working with businesses/organisations to help inspire, mentor and coach people to embrace ‘challenge and change’ for their optimal performance.

Chris’s coaching, speaking and mentoring is centred around personal development. Whether it’s in the water helping swimmers or on dry land in business and life, Chris believes that success is something you attract from the person you become.

Part 1 of an interview by the amazing Liz Valloor of Dublin City 103.2 FM. She asked me the most layered in-depth questions about all things "empowerment" from adults to children. Liz did her research and brought me all the way back to where my journey began. I was 7 and I started writing. 

Liz brought me on a journey from there to how we are conditioned and end up sleep walking, Have a listen and enjoy...

I had a conversation with a beautiful woman who is so afraid of making mistakes with her children that sometimes she chooses not to discipline them for fear of making a mistake.

Emotional pain is our biggest teacher. Anxiousness is an alarm clock to let you know that something isn't sitting well with you and you need to give it the attention it deserves to process it properly.

It is our responsibility to teach our children the difference between physical pain and emotional pain.

There are not enough spaces for men in society to show up and be vulnerable.

I had a very interesting conversation with a young guy, who had fallen out with his father many years ago. He was struggling to find forgiveness for what his father had done to his mother.

Sometimes "one day at a time" is too much. Sometimes it's "one moment at a time".

People either want to change, or they want to want to change. There's no point in writing pretty words on a page, they have to be powerful words in action.

Do you take on and absorb things that people say about you - so much so, that you believe it?

People are either in your life for a reason, a season or a lifetime. If they leave, don't try to pull the deadwood back.

If we're all little people in little bodies, then so are the bullies. And they are unhealed people. The unhealed people are the most dangerous.

Perfection doesn't exist! Striving for it will kill you. Perfectionism is a coverup for control and fear of judgement.

If you love a narcissist, I feel your pain. Narcissists have this power whereby no matter what they do or say, you feel like it was your fault. Some of the things that happen in a relationship with a narcissist you wouldn't dare tell another person because it is just so unbelievably unbelievable! 

Narcs will lie through their back teeth to prove they are right. They would sooner pull the eye out of their own head and play table tennis with it than admit they were wrong. However, on the rare occasion if you do ever get to prove a narc wrong or even worse, get an apology you better watch out!!!!! They will dig even deeper now to try hurt you to even the playing field because they are ALWAYS keeping score and they refuse to lose. 

Getting an apology is the worst thing you can do to a narc (in their eyes) because you have gotten to the truth and narcs aren't interested in that. They are only interested in protecting themselves. Truth is kryptonite to a narc because they have to admit that they are wrong! Watch out here as it will just get a whole lot messed up!

We are all broken yet we are still purposeful. No one can fix you, only you can do that. There are no superheroes coming to save you. YOU have to save YOU! You also cannot force anyone else to change. The only person you can change is YOU.

Have you had or have a person in your life that was violent towards you as a child or an adult? If so, this will be useful to you.

Did someone ever talk to you so straight that it nearly knocked you off your feet!? It felt really shocking in the moment and it took a while to swallow the jagged pill they dished you? Were you grateful for the lesson in the end? I was.

Do you give way too much of your headspace to what others think of you? Do you feel judged and fly under the radar so as to not be the centre of attention? Stop thinking about them and they! Who are they anyway!? Last time I checked they weren't paying your bills!

Your self esteem, self care, self confidence, self belief, self worth, self image come from? You have guessed it! YOURSELF! If your confidence is on the floor reach down and pick it up! Other people's opinion does not define who you are. Your confidence is comes from the inside out, it starts with YOU!

Change is HARD! Avoiding, putting stuff off and procrastinating causes stress and anxiety! Change is coming, we can't avoid it. We can dodge it and get bruised in the meantime. We can either move with the chance or be left behind in our own developement. The CHOICE is yours.

Don't let anyone else decide what YOUR value is. YOU decide YOUR value! Get yourself out of the bargain basement and into the glass cabinet! Know your worth!

The story of a mother who is so isolated, has no friends, no tribe and very lonely. Turning 40 during lockdown brought many realisations about her current situation. Can you identify with this woman?