Síle Uí Chiaráin speaks with Donal O’Donoghue, Managing Director of Sanderson, about sustainable success, leadership and self-actualisation across work, life and matters of the heart. Together, they explore how organisations identify, attract and retain talent in an increasingly mobile labour market, and how resilient, human-centred cultures are built to endure.Drawing on Donal’s elite taekwondo career, the conversation reveals the connection between discipline, emotional regulation and performing under pressure, showing how these qualities shape exceptional leadership in business and deepen self-awareness across work, life and relationships.As we move through the chapters of our lives, new capacities for insight, perspective and connection become available to us. Life experience may explain us, but it does not define us. The story we tell ourselves matters. Success is an inside job.

Miriam Hussey is a pharmacist, integrative health and wellbeing practitioner, yoga and meditation facilitator, keynote speaker, author of Light Up, and co-founder of Soul Space.
Drawing on a unique background spanning pharmaceutical science, holistic health, human performance, and conscious living, Miriam has become one of Ireland’s most respected voices on the interconnected relationship between physical, emotional, mental and spiritual wellbeing.
Known for her ability to make complex health concepts both accessible and actionable, Miriam brings science to life through powerful metaphor and practical wisdom. Whether exploring nervous system regulation through her red and green zone framework, explaining stress through the image of a shaken bottle under pressure, or illustrating resilience through the balance of exertion and recovery required of elite athletes, she helps people understand not only how they function, but how they flourish.
In this conversation, we explore cost-free, evidence-informed practices for nervous system regulation, including breathwork, movement, swimming, connection and recovery. We discuss the relationship between stress and resilience, the importance of balancing performance with restoration and why sustainable wellbeing requires us to honour our softness as a strength.
On this note Miriam reflects on the importance of reconnecting with the power of feminine energy, exploring the often-overlooked strength within softness, alongside the role of self-awareness, personal growth and ever evolving belief-systems, in shaping how we live. Her insights offer a thoughtful and compassionate perspective on what it means to cultivate greater health, purpose, presence and fulfilment, in an increasingly demanding world.
To learn more about Miriam’s work and upcoming events:
Soul Sundays:
https://www.gerryhussey.ie/soul-sundays
Retreats and Events:
https://www.gerryhussey.ie/gerry-hussey-retreat-2026

Aoife Bradley is a wellness entrepreneur, coach, and founder of MyFuel, whose work is informed by a deep engagement with the realities of health, loss, adaptation, and personal transformation.
Her philosophy of wellbeing has emerged through experience critically reflected upon rather than experience merely endured. Through complex pregnancies, major surgery, hormonal transition, motherhood, and bereavement, she has developed an approach to health that recognises wellbeing as an ongoing relationship with oneself—one grounded in awareness, self-regulation, resilience, and care.
Rejecting narrow definitions of health centred solely on appearance or performance, Aoife advocates for a more integrated understanding of wellbeing: one that encompasses physical vitality, emotional resilience, nervous system regulation, hormonal health, and the cultivation of sustainable daily practices that support a meaningful life.
The sudden loss of her father marked a profound turning point in her personal and professional journey. In the years that followed, she encountered not only the complexities of grief but also the additional challenges that can arise when private loss enters the public domain. These experiences deepened her interest in questions of dignity, ethics, and compassion, particularly in relation to how bereaved families are represented and treated within public discourse and institutional processes.
Drawing upon these insights, Aoife has become an advocate for a more humane and trauma-informed approach to conversations surrounding loss, recognising that the impact of bereavement extends far beyond the event itself and into the systems, narratives, and social structures that surround it.
Through MyFuel and her wider work, Aoife continues to champion a vision of wellbeing that is neither performative nor perfectionistic, but rooted instead in self-understanding, personal agency, and the capacity to remain connected to oneself through life’s inevitable seasons of challenge, change, and growth.