Come with me on my personal journey as I try to make peace with the land on which I grew up, with insight and help from others through conversation. This podcast explores our understanding of “home” in the hope of finding common ground for connection, starting with an exploration of my own personal experience returning “home” to Ireland. Through this lens I explore themes of lifestyle, work, identity and how our understanding of “home” might shape the way we move through society and our relationships with each other.
Music by Josh Reichental
Design by Arantza Belmonte
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In this episode I try and articulate a feeling of being lied to by the world, by society, by my own mind and belief systems and what I have tried to do to disentangle myself from it all and reclaim some agency.
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18 Nov 2025
Ep13. A Sick Society
The host explores society's current framing of depression and shares personal insights on navigating this complex mental health challenge.
14 Oct 2025
Ep12. A Change in Landscape
The host discusses reorienting themself after moving from the West Coast of Ireland, expressing thoughts with the help of Eva Gore Booth's poem "The Mystic."
26 May 2025
Unheard Moment with Edmund: Navigating the cling film
Edmund discusses navigating modern life and his deep love for nature, further exploring how to connect with individuals who may not share the same appreciation for the natural world in this interview.
19 May 2025
Ep11. A Forgotten Ireland
This spell of good weather has me out of kilter. This is not the Ireland that I remember. In this episode I explore how we often pursue the future at the expense of the present and how we might miss the gifts of our immediate environment as a result.
12 May 2025
Ep10. A Conversation with Ellie: Living From The Heart
In this episode I talk to Ellie, a psychotherapist who would describe her work as sitting on the boundary between traditional therapy and spirituality. Our conversation led us to explore the differences between religion and spirituality and how living from the heart can be both liberating and challenging.
I met Ellie a number of years ago on a visit to the Krishnamurti Centre in Brockwood Park, UK and we also chat a little bit about our experience there.
28 Apr 2025
Ep9. A Conversation with Connor: Finding Home Through Music
In this conversation I chat with Connor, a dear friend from Australia. Connor is a double bass player and our conversation led us to explore his own journey with becoming comfortable with the unknowns of improvised music. The conversation offers some insights for our every day lives about moving with intention while not being attached to the outcome.
21 Apr 2025
Ep8. A Search for Purpose
In this episode I discuss my own struggles, both with my own sense of purpose and with my health. I delve into how this has affected where I place value in the "professional/working" world, with money and where I feel it is necessary to channel our time and energy in order to feel whole.
It is an episode about where we place our sense of self-worth and questions how much responsibility we have to change things.
14 Apr 2025
Ep7. A Conversation with Dairíne: Coming Home to Yourself
In this episode I chat to my friend Dairíne. We touched on home in the context of feeling free to be yourself and the place that she might find home in Ireland if she was to return.
7 Apr 2025
Unheard Moment with Arantza: Can there be "Home" without "Love"?
This week I'm interrupting the usual format to bring you a part of the conversation I had with Arantza that didn't make it into the final episode. We reflected on "love" and its relationship to our sense of home. Arantza then went on to describe the place she feels most at home in nature.
To listen to the full conversation follow the link below to Ep5. A Conversation with Arantza: The Language of Home.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7tvVKkLjwuk04XWBCxxvpL?si=ZhaO5Vf5SxiX9d1b2hzXRw
31 Mar 2025
Ep6. A Question of Identity
In this episode I explore the question "Who are you?" and the use of the phrase "Where are you from?". I look at the assumptions we might make based on the appearance of others, through my own experience as a non-quintessentially Irish looking person and how identity is shaped by our experience of home.
24 Mar 2025
Ep5. A Conversation with Arantza: The Language of Home
Alongside me on my journey home has been a supportive presence throughout this new phase. In this second conversation episode, I speak to my partner Arantza. She describes her experience of home and of Ireland. We discuss how language can shape our sense of home and the importance of sustaining languages that are in decline.
17 Mar 2025
Ep4. An Exploration of Quiet
In this episode I explore the difference between rural and city life in terms of noise and how the sounds of the present moment can bring us into deeper connection with ourselves and our environment, regardless of the location.
10 Mar 2025
Ep3. A Conversation with Edmund: Befriending Nature
In this, the first conversation episode of my journey through rediscovering home, I chat with my childhood friend Edmund. We reminisce on the parts of us rooted in the landscape of our past, what nature might be able to teach us and explore our mutual appreciation for Irish philosopher and storyteller, John Moriarty.
3 Mar 2025
Ep2. A Scattered Mind
Recorded on the West Coast of Ireland in February 2025. Withmy mind trying to catch up with my body after returning to Ireland, in this episode I try to make sense of why I’m on this journey. I reflect on Irish Trad music and wildlife, Irishness and what’s it’s like to return to Ireland with the backdrop of the slightly unfamiliar landscape of the West Coast.
24 Feb 2025
Ep1. A Journey Home
Recorded in Brisbane, Australia in September 2024 before returning to Ireland.
In this episode I invite you to join me at the beginning of my journey to rediscover my homeland, Irishness, myself in the context of familiar landscape and how we might look to the ground under our feet for deeper understanding, meaning and connection.
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