The Laura Dowling Experience

Laura Dowling
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Aug 1, 2023 • 1h 25min

Overcoming adversity and pushing forward - Norah Casey # 44

Send us a textAn inspirational, profound conversation with Norah. We talked about life, love and her business career. There are learnings for everybody in this one! The Laura Dowling Experience is brought to you by fabÜ SKIN GLOW.Radiate Beauty from Within with fabÜ SKIN GLOWBased on the edible mushroom Reishi and blended with vitamins, antioxidants, amino acids and zinc, fabÜ SKIN GLOW was developed to nourish your skin from the inside out and defy oxidative stress.  This supplement supports normal collagen formation, skin function, cell division and protects skin cells from oxidative stress using a range of potent ingredients.Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jul 25, 2023 • 57min

Accessing safe & free surgeries abroad - Paul Byrne #43

Send us a textDid you know that you can access safe surgeries in Spain , paid for and vetted by the HSE,  if you can’t access affordable surgery in a timely manner in Ireland? Well, neither did I , until my friend Paul Byrne had his surgery. Here we discuss the ins and outs, the dos and don’ts of the EU Cross Border Directive.Believe me , you will not want to miss this.The Laura Dowling Experience is brought to you by fabÜ R&R RELAX- a beautiful blend of premium grade botanicals with magnesium and B vitamins for stress relief, calm and a more restful sleep. Formulated and developed by Laura Dowling, fabulous pharmacist. Read the reviews on www.fabuwellness.comThanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jul 18, 2023 • 1h 2min

Mary Harney #42

Send us a textOne of my favourite podcasts to date.  A wonderful conversation with former Tánaiste Mary Harney.  Mary spent 17 years in government and served as Tánaiste for no less than 9 years, became the first woman to lead a political party in Ireland and held many important ministerial portfolios.  She was also notably the longest serving female Government minister and TD in the state's history.The Laura Dowling Experience is brought to you by fabÜ SKIN GLOW.Radiate Beauty from Within with fabÜ SKIN GLOWBased on the edible mushroom Reishi and blended with vitamins, antioxidants, amino acids and zinc, fabÜ SKIN GLOW was developed to nourish your skin from the inside out and defy oxidative stress.  This supplement supports normal collagen formation, skin function, cell division and protects skin cells from oxidative stress using a range of potent ingredients.Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jul 11, 2023 • 1h 44min

Prof. Nicola Ralph #41

Send us a textJoin consultant dermatologist, Prof. Nicola Ralph and myself as we talk about melanoma, how to actually protect your skin from sun damage, the best treatment for acne and rosacea , hair loss and thinning ,fungal infections, anti ageing  (or pro ageing!) treatments and a whole lot more! Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jul 4, 2023 • 1h 38min

Lynn Mac - Psychic Medium & Healing Facilitator #40

Send us a textThis was a lovely conversation with Lynn Mac. She talks about her unique gifts, and how these have helped shape her life experience.The Laura Dowling Experience is brought to you by fabÜ R&R RELAX- a beautiful blend of premium grade botanicals with magnesium and B vitamins for stress relief, calm and a more restful sleep. Formulated and developed by Laura Dowling, fabulous pharmacist. Read the reviews on www.fabuwellness.com.Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jun 27, 2023 • 1h 22min

Dr. Anne Doherty, anaesthetist, just like flying a plane # 39

Send us a textDr. Anne Doherty talks about the intricacies of her job.  I learned a lot in this podcast. Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jun 20, 2023 • 2h

Siobhan Murray - Psychotherapist & burnout strategist #38

Send us a textSiobhan Murray discusses how we can support our physical, emotional, mental and social health to achieve a sense of overall wellbeing. Siobhan shares her unique life experiences as a neurodivergent person.  A perpetual "people pleaser", this led her to constantly push herself to prove her worth to others, ultimately resulting in burnout. This continued for 20 years, with burnout becoming a reoccurring throughout. To cope, she self-medicated with alcohol, thinking it was a way to destress. However, the reality was she was emotionally, physically, and mentally burnt out. In this podcast, she tells us how she finally broek this cycle and chose a different path.Siobhan has a wide range of qualifications - BSc (Coun and Psych), ProfDip. Transformational Coaching, Certified Personal Trainer, Dip. Mindfulness, Master Practitioner NLP and ProfDip Positive Health (RCSI Centre for Positive Health Sciences).Sponsored by Alter Ego a luxury Italian haircare brand distributed in Ireland by Kreative Salon Supplies.  Alter Ego haircare range has been re-designed and re-formulated using high-performing, sustainable ingredients to address the specific needs of the scalp, lengths and colour in keeping with the brand’s ‘Beauty & Kindness’ philosophy. The new range focuses on a natural, sustainable approach, with 90% of ingredients of natural origin and over 85% biodegradable ingredients used.   Alter Ego offer a range to suit every hair type: coloured, dry/damaged, blonde as well as specific scalp treatments to target common scalp issues.  Their new Alter Ego Densifying shampoo and lotion targets fragile, thinning hair using fermented oats and rice which provides a calming, soothing action as well as thickening the hair.  Use laura10 for 10% off the range on alteregoshop.ieThanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jun 13, 2023 • 1h 9min

Fr Peter McVerry - a candid discussion and critique of government policy covering homelessness, drugs and criminal justice # 37

Send us a textFr Peter McVerry is social activist and a strong advocate for those who have no voice in society.  He is a critic of government policy on issues such as homelessness, drugs and criminal justice.He founded the Peter McVerry Trust over twenty years ago, which has progressed from a three-bedroom flat in Ballymun to becoming one of the country’s largest organisations responding to the issue of homelessness. By 2020, the charity was supporting over 7,800 individuals experiencing homelessness.Peter has written widely on issues relating to young homeless people such as accommodation, drugs, juvenile justice, the Gardaí, prisons and education.The Laura Dowling experience is brought to you by fabÜ R&R RELAX- a beautiful blend of premium grade botanicals with magnesium and B vitamins for stress relief, calm and a more restful sleep. Formulated and developed by Laura Dowling, fabulous pharmacist. Read the reviews on www.fabuwellness.com.Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Jun 6, 2023 • 1h 3min

Dr Vicky O’Dwyer - Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist #36

Send us a text***CORRECTION ***The cut off of 23 weeks gestation does NOT apply if the fetus  has a life limiting abnormality which will result in the death of the fetus either before or within 28 days of birth . Women CAN avail  of a termination and there is no upper limit of gestation in these cases. We discuss this point at 4:37 mins **The abortion process is different after 22+6 days.🤰 Dr Vicky O’Dwyer is a Consultant Obstetrician and Gynaecologist at the Rotunda Hospital.  ⚠️We discuss the limitations of abortion care in Ireland and what needs to change. 👩🏼‍⚕️We also discuss the high c-section and induction rate, episiotomies how risks associated with pregnancy and childbirth increase as we age. #pregnancy #childbirth #baby #induction #csection #caesarean #termination #top  #obstetrician #gyne #gynaecologist #pharmacistThanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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May 30, 2023 • 1h 56min

Kathleen Chada, her heart-breaking story, told in her own words #35

Send us a textA poignant, heart-breaking yet also inspirational story.  In her own words, Kathleen tells the story of her life before and after her two sons Eoghan, aged 10, and Ruairi, aged 5, were killed by their father ten years ago.The Laura Dowling Experience is also brought to you today by fabü SHROOMS MENO & PERI. Formulated and developed by Laura Dowling, fabulous pharmacist, to support you though your perimenopause and menopause journey. This is a unique blend of Lion's mane mushroom with vitamins and minerals. Lion’s Mane mushroom has been used for thousands of years in Traditional Chinese Medicine to alleviate menopausal symptoms and brain fog. It is known as ‘Natures Nutrient of the Neurons’ on account of its ability to stimulate nerve growth factor. This was blended with chromium for metabolism and blood sugar regulation, vitamin D and K2 for bone health, vitamin B12 for psychological function, magnesium for tiredness and fatigue and B6 for hormonal regulation. Available on fabuwellness.com and pharmacies and healthfood stores nationwide.Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Thanks for listening! You can watch the full episode on YouTube here. Don’t forget to follow The Laura Dowling Experience podcast on Instagram @lauradowlingexperience for updates and more information. You can also follow our host, Laura Dowling, @fabulouspharmacist for more insights and tips. If you enjoyed this episode, please subscribe and leave a review—it really helps us out! Stay tuned for more great conversations. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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