Emma Flynn is a mother, a midwife and a successful artist. Her hugely popular Instagram page showcases her illustrations about her experience of motherhood, the highs and the extreme lows. In this interview Emma talks candidly about her experience with post-natal depression and how she used art to help herself get better.
Lily Ramirez-Foran has called Ireland home for the past 18.5 years. In this interview we learn about her route here. Why she is passionate about Mexican food and why the history of it is so important.
Laura Molloy is a Latvian native that made the move to Ireland well over a decade ago. In this interview she talks about how she graduated from working in a factory to running an award winning cocktail bar in south Dublin.
Just a browse of Maria Tapper’s CV will have you in awe. She is a costume designer that has worked with Ikea, the Wexford Opera Festival, Macnas and John Rocha to name but a few. In this interview she explains how she broke into the industry and what entails staying relevant in it.
The Cupcake Bloke aka Graham Herterich talks about how he went from working in high end kitchens to studying to become a priest, to dropping out to create his own business. This interview details how a series of lucky breaks took him to where he is now, a successful business owner with a regular TV slot.
Paul O Connor and Stephen Clinch are cousins and owners of Trouble Brewing. In this interview they talk about their desire to get away from working for someone else so that they could own something of their own. They also chat about not chasing targets and their love of a good pun.
Hugo Camacho Romero is the owner of Café Azetca in Dublin. He’s from Mexico City and has lived in Ireland since the 90’s. In this interview he talks about his passion for real Mexican food and his mission to teach people about it. He shares his love of Irish culture which led him to learn the tin whistle and flute. He also talks about his other love, water polo.
Bethan talks about how her son’s unexplained illness spurned her on to develop a compassion based training targeted at children. She also expresses her skepticism about the mindfulness movement.
Rachel Lee set an Irish record when she swam the English channel. She also rescued a man from the river Liffey in the course of her job as a Dublin firefighter. In this interview she talks about how to train for the channel swim with a family and full-time job.
Brian Kenny, founder of Silverskin, details how his first job in coffee at aged sixteen determined his career. He shares his experience of opening up a coffee-shop in Dublin’s most expensive property, to getting nudged out by Starbucks. Read how he get to where he is now, owner of a coffee roastery.