Belfast Men's Health Group

Podcast with Paul Smyth

Paul Smyth is the  Executive Director at Politics in Action. He works with young people on issues related to the conflict and training youth workers, teachers and others to do the same. He has also worked closely with colleagues in conflict regions around the world. He believes in being creative and tries hard to adapt these to his work.

Podcast with Eoin Kernan

Eoin is from Dublin: is a water sport enthusiast and is living with an eating disorder. Eoin will talk about eating disorders and where you can get help.

Podcast with Naomi Thompson

Naomi Thompson is a world authority on smoking and vaping and has been helping smokers quit for more than 20 years. She works for Cancer Focus NI.

Podcast with Gary ”Spike” O’Sullivan

Gary "Spike" O'Sullivan is a professional middleweight boxer from Cork. Spike will talk about how he got into boxing and how he deals with the highs and lows of being an elite athlete.

Podcast with Professor Robert West

Robert West is Emeritus Professor of Health Psychology, University College London and a world authority on smoking and addiction. He has been a key player in the UK's Stop Smoking Services and has also written a number of books on stopping smoking and addiction.

Podcast with Joe Donnelly

Joe Donnelly is the CEO of Tackling Awareness of Mental Health Issues (TAMHI), which is a mental health charity based in Northern Ireland that works with sports clubs and groups who use sport to raise awareness of mental health and resilience. TAMHI works with sports clubs, schools, and youth groups to make mental health fun and engaging. They are based in North Belfast

Podcast with Matt Shields

This Podcast is with Matt Shields. Matt is a retired civil engineer who has now indulged himself in his lifelong hobby of running by volunteering at Parkrun. This has maybe grown beyond his expectations and in 2012 he became Parkrun Ireland Country Manager, a position he has fulfilled to this present day. Matt will talk about Parkrun, Counch 2-5k and also some of his interests.

Podcast with Cate Conway

Cate Conway is a Radio, TV, Webinar and Podcast presenter. She works for BBCNI and U105.

Radio presenter Cate Conway is also an ambassador for AWARE, the depression charity for Northern Ireland.

Cate become involved having experienced the impact of poor mental health following the loss of her former Q Radio co-host Stephen Clements in 2020.

This is a special podcast with Cate talking about herself and how she became involved in the media world.

 

Podcast with Dr Breanna Gentile, Ph.D.

Breanna Gentile, Ph.D., completed her bachelor's in psychology at Gonzaga University. She went on to receive two master's degrees, one from Golden Gate University in Counseling and the second from Palo Alto University in Clinical Psychology.

Dr. Gentile founded Dr. G's Lab, an incubator for teens that serves as a feeder to top accelerators in California. She has authored studies that have been published in peer-reviewed journals and has been an invited speaker about trauma-informed practices and design at multiple national conferences and symposiums.

Dr. Gentile has spent over 10 years working to improve outcomes for children, teens, and their caregivers working through Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) and toxic stress. Her work with behavioural health providers, communities, and families has allowed her to develop a keen insight into the challenges of supporting resilience through trauma-informed practices.

Podcast with Robert O’Brien

The true story of a stuttering homosexual and his car. (just one more drive)

Robert O’Brien loves cars. Being behind the wheel was a refuge from bullying, insecurity, anxiety and confusion. His father’s race car, a BMW E30 M3 Sport Evolution nicknamed the Beast, became his alter ego – powerful, admired, confident – and Robert began a quest to become a worthy owner, a “real man.”