# Laura Dowling

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How Non-Speakers Are Finally Being Heard with Anna Lechleiter #184

Anna Lechleiter works with people who have never been able to speak, and who have spent their lives being treated as though they had nothing to say. She is a Spelling to Communicate practitioner, and her job is to give non-speakers a way to tell the world what has been going on in their heads all a…

Bitesize Moment: "Laughter in the Darkest Room." — Dympna Little on carrying grief with humour

In this bitesize moment pulled from the Laura Dowling Experience back catalogue, comedian and content creator Dympna Little shares how humour helped her family carry her mother's terminal illness and final days. She describes laughing together even in the palliative care room, the moment her mother…

ADHD, Marriage & Growth with Daniel Buckley #185

Daniel Buckley was thirty-two before he had a name for what was going on in his head. For as long as he could remember he had been restless, discontented, unable to sit still or hold his focus on anything that didn’t grip him - and he had simply assumed that was him. That was the way he was, and th…

EE521 - Mentor Moment: Laura Dowling - Why Consistency Beats Virality

Building a trusted brand rarely comes from one viral moment. It comes from showing up consistently, solving real problems and earning people’s attention over time. In this Mentor Moment, Laura Dowling shares how she built credibility by making complex health information easier to understand and cre…

World Bodhrán Champion on Music, Belonging and Motherhood with Aimée Farrell-Courtney #186

Aimée Farrell-Courtney was six years old when she saw three girls playing the bodhrán in her school yard, the sun behind them and the sound going round the walls. She went home and announced she wanted to learn. Her mother's reply - "Oh my God, smelly pub" - is the first clue that this instrument a…

From Moving One Toe to 6 Million Steps with Fergus Farrell #187

In this episode, former Connacht rugby player Fergus Farrell tells Laura what happened after he lifted a metal bench in his own yard in October 2018 — and severed his spinal cord by ninety per cent. He was paralysed from the ribcage down and told he had a five per cent chance of walking again, on t…

Most People Don't Need Surgery for Haemorrhoids with Dr Cillian Keogh #188

Laura is joined by Dr Cillian Keogh, a GP and co-founder of Dublin City Clinic, for a frank and surprisingly funny conversation about haemorrhoids — what they actually are, who gets them, and why almost nobody wants to say the word out loud. Cillian explains that haemorrhoids are anal cushions that…

Ireland Has 60 Vegetable Growers Left with Kenneth Keavey #189

Kenneth Keavey has a PhD in chemistry and spent his early career in pharma and biotech. He now grows organic vegetables on twenty-five acres outside Galway, and he's the first to point out the irony: he was an organic chemist, and now he's an organic farmer. In this episode he takes Laura through w…

Bitesize Moment: "It Has No Boundaries." — Dr Denis O'Driscoll on Addiction and Recovery

In this bitesize moment pulled from the Laura Dowling Experience back catalogue, Dr Denis O'Driscoll, pharmacist working in the HSE addiction services gives a straight, compassionate answer on how hard it is to come off drugs and stay off, and why staying stable on treatment counts as success too. …

The Vitamin D Warning He Raised at the Start of COVID with Dr Dan McCartney #190

In early 2020, before COVID had properly reached Ireland, dietitian Dr Dan McCartney noticed that the groups the virus was hitting hardest were the same groups most likely to be low in vitamin D. Within weeks he and consultant Declan Byrne of St James's Hospital had a paper in the Irish Medical Jou…