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About Here's To Change
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! Here's To Change, a podcast by Drinkaware will introduce you to inspiring people who know how good life can get - when you make a positive change to your relationship with alcohol. From sober curious to understanding how alcohol can impact your hormones, your relationships & your mental health - plus a special episode with Dr. Brian Pennie on how change is possible, this podcast will inspire you to think about when you consume alcohol, why you consume alcohol and if (just if) it’s time to say, Here’s to Change. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Please join the conversation on our socials & learn the facts at drinkaware.ie (drinkaware.ie) This podcast was produced by The Brand Story in Collaborative Studios for Drinkaware. Email the show at campaigns@drinkaware.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
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- Drinkaware
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- health & fitness · society & culture
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- en
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- First episode
- 2 Oct 2025
- Latest episode
- 23 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
18 episodes in the feed.
23 Sept 2026
Why Alcohol isn't helping your Menopause -Catherine O'Keeffe
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! If you're a woman in your 40's the symptoms of perimenopause can sneak up on you. And all of the can be harder to navigate if you add alcohol and sometimes a crushing hangover into the mix. So this week we speak with Catherine O'Keeffe (https://www.instagram.com/wellnesswarrior.ie/), Ireland's first Menopause Coach, founder of Wellness Warrior (https://www.wellnesswarrior.ie) and author of the bestselling book, "All you need to know about Menopause". We talk diet, lifestyle, emotional and cognitive needs and why in this chapter, it's important to be honest and ask yourself; "Does this habit still serve me?" If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag your post @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie (https://open.acast.com/www.drinkaware.ie) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
3 Sept 2026
Creative Clarity: The Truth About 5 Years Sober - Liz Nugent
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! This week's guest is the Irish award winning novelist Liz Nugent, author of six hugely successful novels. Her latest title, The Truth About Ruby Cooper, centres around the lead character who is an alcoholic. But today we are here to talk to Liz about her personal story, and it is fascinating. Five years ago, Liz gave up alcohol in solidarity with her husband, who sought help and support when his relationship with alcohol became unmanageable. This is a story of triumph and hope and a reminder that there is so much help and support out there for those who want it. Enjoy. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag your post @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie (https://open.acast.com/www.drinkaware.ie) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
18 Aug 2026
Sobriety is a Lifestyle UpGrade - Kate Bee The Sober School
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! In this episode we are joined by Kate Bee (https://www.instagram.com/thesoberschool/) founder of The Sober School, (https://thesoberschool.com) a coaching platform that helps women stop drinking and start living without shame, labels, or deprivation. The Sober School was born out of the frustration that there just didn't seem to be a community for women in the messy middle. A former BBC journalist and certified life coach, Kate now empowers women across the globe to navigate alcohol free living with confidence and joy through her flagship programme Getting Unstuck. (https://thesoberschool.com/course/) Here Kate shares her support and knowledge for anyone wanting to create a life where you don't need alcohol. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag your post @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie (https://open.acast.com/www.drinkaware.ie) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
3 Aug 2026
I Replaced Alcohol with Running 5k a Day and My Life Changed - Mick Lennon
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! In this episode we meet Mick Lennon (https://www.instagram.com/micklennon/) co-host of Ah Stop Bro (https://www.instagram.com/aw_stop_bro_podcast/)podcast Mick swapped his habitual drinking with a challenge to run 5k a day for a full year. What followed was an entirely new life perspective and purpose. On his nightly runs Mick met a family living in their car who needed help, he has found his confidence and voice as an advocate for a sobriety journey and he appreciates now how much time, energy and purpose drinking alcohol was stealing from him. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag your post @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie (https://open.acast.com/www.drinkaware.ie) Show produced by The Brand Story (https://www.thebrandstory.ie/). Recorded in Collaborative Studios. (https://www.collaborative-studios.com/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
22 Jul 2026
High Performance And Discipline Can Change Your Life - Joe Clifford
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! Joe Clifford is a world-renowned Dublin-born cutman, hand-wrapping professional, and combat sports educator. Rather than being a professional boxer himself, he is the specialist in the corner who treats fighter lacerations, swelling, and nosebleeds. He has worked with top UFC and professional boxing champions and runs a global cutman certification course. But life could have moved him in a different direction as he grew up where alcohol and addiction were common themes. This episode demonstrates why commitment can bring about enormous change and how exciting life is when you listen to the direction of your gut. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag your post @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie (https://open.acast.com/www.drinkaware.ie) Show produced by The Brand Story (https://www.thebrandstory.ie/). Recorded in Collaborative Studios. (https://www.collaborative-studios.com/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
6 Jul 2026
How Quitting Alcohol Was The Ultimate Flex- Hannah Joyce Founder of Flexera
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! If you have have big goals but something is holding you back - consider if its alcohol. In this episode we talk to Irish Wellness Entrepreneur Hannah Joyce (https://www.instagram.com/p/DTf7yjCjAln/) and founder of Flexera (https://www.joinflexera.com/?utm_source=google&utm_medium=cpc&utm_campaign=%7B22670178409%7D&utm_term=%7Bflexera%7D&utm_content=%7B766638591064%7D&tw_source=google&tw_adid=766638591064&tw_campaign=22670178409&tw_kwdid=kwd-24314381099&gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=22670178409&gbraid=0AAAAA-CyA-geIK33yCbazFBWb8zNyiLX0&gclid=CjwKCAjwgajSBhBEEiwASicJU8nyETm_xsfStCLCQAG-luFZzfZPnV8RiNv51wTPGqDRj2ew-yTYQBoCjJkQAvD_BwE), a premium connected fitness company that designs studio-quality, foldable Reformer Pilates machines for home use. Hannah credits many things to her success including her lifestyle habits and here shares her experiences as a "sober CEO" who deeply integrated Reformer Pilates into her mental clarity and physical strength routine after giving up alcohol. Named among the "Innovators to Watch" by the Irish times her brand has experienced massive growth this year. And it’s incredibly inspiring to hear her talk about how making a change to a sober lifestyle has helped her get here. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag your post @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie (https://open.acast.com/www.drinkaware.ie) Show produced by The Brand Story (https://www.thebrandstory.ie/). Recorded in Collaborative Studios. (https://www.collaborative-studios.com/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
22 Jun 2026
Do You Need Drink To Have The Craic? - Jarlath Regan
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! For most of us, we don’t need an extreme problem with alcohol to decide that it’s not working for us. Low mood, low energy, low on excuses is reason enough to make a change. Joining us today is Jarlath Regan (https://www.instagram.com/jarlathregan_irishmanabroad/?hl=en) an award-winning Irish stand-up comedian, writer, and podcaster widely celebrated for his viral clips and hit podcasts, he rose to international prominence through his observational stand-up tours. It’s here that he learned how alcohol wasn’t a benefit for his craft, relationships or mental health - it’s here he decided to make a change. We talk about how he gives himself permission to drink but chooses not to, the positives, the workarounds and the positive change in drinking culture in the comedy clubs. JARLATH REGAN - Craic Pot World Tour Tickets are NOW ON SALE for Jarlath's NEW show To find out where and when and buy your tickets visit the link below CRAIC POT TOUR (https://linktr.ee/IrishmanAbroad?utm_source=ig&utm_medium=social&utm_content=link_in_bio&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQPOTM2NjE5NzQzMzkyNDU5AAGnneVqvy9cftl0jjM5wqunX1UZdANhSU-UMSuQL_kxAhPpHbJirsrrw8eUUSU_aem_SGYi2QbxIe-VSZNu75IbsA) If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag your post @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie (https://open.acast.com/www.drinkaware.ie) Show produced by The Brand Story (https://www.thebrandstory.ie/). Recorded in Collaborative Studios. (https://www.collaborative-studios.com/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
27 Apr 2026
What's My Why? Motivation for Changed Behaviour with Pádraig Walsh
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! When thinking about making a change always ask yourself - What's my Why? Perhaps it's for health, for energy, for family or to live by your own values, but the answer reveals a powerful motivation for behavioural change. In this episode we are joined by Pádraig Walsh, behavioural psychologist and founder of ChangeAble Behaviour Solutions (https://changeable.ie/team/), with over 15 years of experience applying behavioural science to real-world challenges. He is a noted media contributor, lecturer at Irish universities, and focuses on human-centered design, motivation, and behavioural insights. We talk about our psychology and motivations around change, the rise in at home drinking post pandemic and the modelling impact our behaviours and drinking can have on our children living with us. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag this podcast @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie (https://open.acast.com/www.drinkaware.ie) Show produced by The Brand Story (https://www.thebrandstory.ie/). Recorded in Collaborative Studios. (https://www.collaborative-studios.com/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
13 Apr 2026
How Meditation Can Help You With Your Sober Goals with Sinéad Mooney
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! Joined by meditation, yoga and life design coach Sinéad Mooney owner of Moons Yoga Loft we talk about the connection to self and how when that feels uncomfortable we can choose disconnection and numb out - and alcohol is one of those numbing tools. Getting comfortable with ourselves is not always easy. It takes work and time and mapping out what you care about. But as Sinead explains - when we are still, we can listen to our intuition, hear what our body and mind is trying to tell us and hold space for the emotions we have pushed down. It’s here we find the power to make good decisions for ourselves. To live with intention. To make a positive change. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag this podcast @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie (https://open.acast.com/www.drinkaware.ie) Show produced by The Brand Story (https://www.thebrandstory.ie/). Recorded in Collaborative Studios. (https://www.collaborative-studios.com/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
30 Mar 2026
3 Years Sober, Shredding for the Wedding With Michael O'Malley
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! In this episode we are joined by Michael O’Malley (https://www.instagram.com/michaelomallley/), business founder, podcast producer, operations manager and groom - as he shares his Shredding for the Wedding weight loss goals - proving that real change really can happen. In this conversation, we talk about a huge positive life change Michael made as this week he celebrates 3 years sober. He has achieved more, experienced more and enjoyed more in the last 3 years than the decades before it. Getting honest about the life he wanted to live and seeing how alcohol was sabotaging it has freed Michael to chase after greater health, energy, self compassion and joy. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag this podcast @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie (https://open.acast.com/www.drinkaware.ie) Show produced by The Brand Story (https://www.thebrandstory.ie). Recorded in Collaborative Studios. (https://www.collaborative-studios.com) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
16 Mar 2026
Would You Be Well? With Clare McKenna
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! Clare McKenna is an Irish broadcaster, health coach (https://ie.linkedin.com/in/claretmckenna), and author who has worked in TV and radio for over 25 years. She is currently best known as the presenter of Alive and Kicking, a weekly health and wellness show on Newstalk (https://www.newstalk.com/podcasts/alive-and-kicking-with-clare-mckenna) Here we talk about alcohol in the context of wellbeing, Clare’s own relationship with drinking and the first moment she learned that alcohol can lead to losing control. If a glass of wine to wind down is what you turn to, too often, this conversation will inspire you to bring new rituals into your life. Our wellbeing touches every corner of our lives, and this episode is an invitation for you to reconsider what makes you feel good. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag this podcast @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie (https://open.acast.com/www.drinkaware.ie) Produced by Sinead O'Moore The Brand Story (https://open.acast.com/thebrandstory.ie) for Drinkaware. Sound Recording and Editing Collaborative Studios To contact the show please email campaigns@drinkaware.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
2 Mar 2026
Are you a Grey Area Drinker? with Olivia Farrelly
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! Are you a Grey Area Drinker? Find out with our guest Olivia Farrelly, creator of Grey Area Drinker (https://greyareadrinker.ie) Olivia is an alcohol free coach and mentor and holds an MsC in Health Psychology and diploma in alcohol studies. She is the host of No More booze podcast. Olivia is a wealth of support and knowledge and here shares her own personal journey from needing alcohol for social connection and relieving anxiety - to now helping others who are ready to make a change. Here she shares the first steps, the barriers people can struggle with and the real impact it’s had on her health, career and relationships. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag this podcast @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie (https://open.acast.com/www.drinkaware.ie) Produced by Sinead O'Moore The Brand Story (https://open.acast.com/thebrandstory.ie) for Drinkaware. Sound Recording and Editing Collaborative Studios To contact the show please email campaigns@drinkaware.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
16 Feb 2026
I Stopped Drinking and Life Got Better with Sam Kelly98
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! Influencer SamKelly98 (https://www.instagram.com/samkelly98/) joins us for our first episode of the new season to talk about the moment he knew it was time to make a change. 3 years ago he decided to choose a new way of living. He decided a sober life. Like many, he enjoyed socialising and alcohol during college, but when the nights rolled into one he had to cut alcohol from his life. And as he shares on our podcast, Here's To Change, it was the catalyst to the successful life he is thriving in now. With advice and support for anyone who felt the way he did, this conversation could inspire you to make a change. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag this podcast @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie (www.drinkaware.ie) Produced by Sinead O'Moore The Brand Story (thebrandstory.ie) for Drinkaware. Sound Recording and Editing Collaborative Studios To contact the show please email campaigns@drinkaware.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
1 Dec 2025
Changing in Midlife - What Women Need to Know about Alcohol & Menopause with Dr. Maire Finn & Alana Kirk
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! Sometimes change is unavoidable - especially if you are a woman in midlife. And these changes can bring huge personal liberation and crushing hangovers that never used to be there. How a woman’s body processes alcohol changes in perimenopause and menopause and it is one more thing to figure out. To help, we’ve brought Doctor and women’s health specialist Dr. Maire Finn and Midlife coach Alana Kirk here today to explain what’s going on, why we need to protect our sleep, energy and wellbeing and why in this chapter of life, it could also be time to make a change to how much or how often you drink alcohol. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag this podcast @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange For more visit drinkaware.ie Produced by The Brand Story for Drinkaware. Sound Recording and Editing Collaborative Studios To contact the show please email sinead@thebrandstory.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
17 Nov 2025
Change is Possible with Dr. Brian Pennie
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! Change really is possible - we just have to learn how to make it happen. Joining us in this episode is Dr. Brian Pennie Dr. Brian is a writer, corporate speaker, mental health advocate and lecturer in Trinity College and University College Dublin. He is the author of the best selling book Bonus Time and most recently brought us the heralded documentary series 'Hooked' on the science of addiction from drugs to gambling and smartphones. Something he knows a lot about from personal experience - as Brian turned his life around after a 15 year heroin addiction. Here he explains why we are creatures of habit, why we chase pleasure and push away pain and how real change happens when we learn to live not by our habits but show up protecting our values and what matters to us most. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag this podcast @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange Produced by The Brand Story for Drinkaware. Sound Recording and Editing Collaborative Studios To contact the show please email sinead@thebrandstory.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
3 Nov 2025
Changing How Men Deal with Stress, Anxiety and Alcohol with Justin Caffrey
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! We all need ways to destress, switch off, destress and reconnect. And we all know how easy it is to allow alcohol to be at the centre of it. But protecting your energy, mental health, physical resources and relationships are more important. In this episode we talk to Justin Caffrey, high-performance coach, entrepreneur, and thought leader, helping people deal with their anxiety and nervous system regulation. Justin has been through a lot - a very stressful career, heavy travel load and the loss of a young child, and throughout it all he powered on pretending and using alcohol among other things to mask his mental health, until a panic attack in a boardroom forced him to make a change. This episode is compelling, nonjudgemental and as Justin shares more common than we may realise amongst men. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag this podcast @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange Produced by The Brand Story for Drinkaware. Sound Recording and Editing Collaborative Studios To contact the show please email sinead@thebrandstory.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
20 Oct 2025
Changing "Mummy Wine" culture - Why it's not serving us with Debbie Cullinance, Pat Kane and Sinead O'Moore
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! Mothers are some of the most overwhelmed people in the world - and instead of functional support there is a trend to encourage “Wine O’Clock” as the solution to her very real physical, emotional, hormonal and mental challenges. Maybe instead of wine, she just needs some help? Joining me to share their own relationship with alcohol in motherhood is child and adolescent psychotherapist and play therapist Debbie Cullinane, Host of Stretch Marks podcast Sinead O’Moore and Sustainability Advocate Pat Kane. Each of them has felt the need to reach for that glass and individually have found ways to make a change. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag this podcast @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange Produced by The Brand Story for Drinkaware. Sound Recording and Editing Collaborative Studios To contact the show please email sinead@thebrandstory.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
2 Oct 2025
Here's To Change - Nealo shares what we need to know about a life without alcohol
Here’s to more energy, better sleep, positivity, and health - here’s to a mindful drinking movement - here’s to change! Joining us on Here’s to Change is music artist and host of the "Light Work for Dark Days" podcast, Nealo. Nealo made the decision to stop drinking alcohol and here shares the benefits, the challenges and the change it’s made to his relationships with his son, his friends and with himself. We talk about the impact alcohol was having on his mental health and how since no longer drinking, Nealo has had to meet parts of himself that alcohol numbed away. This hasn’t always been easy but over time he has found greater contentment, energy and a new way to live life. If you learn something important from this podcast please leave a review, share with a friend or across your social media and don’t forget to subscribe. Tag this podcast @drinkaware_irl #HeresToChange Produced by The Brand Story for Drinkaware. Sound Recording and Editing Collaborative Studios To contact the show please email sinead@thebrandstory.ie Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy (https://acast.com/privacy) for more information.
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