In Afghanistan, I sat across from a suicide bomber.
He had been handed a story about who he was, and almost died for it without ever questioning it.
It took me fifteen years to understand why that conversation stayed with me.
I work with founders who know that they can create a better life at home and in business
and I help them achieve that better version of themselves
Enda Quealy was adopted through a mother and baby home in Cork. For years he could not answer two questions: who he was, and why he was here.
At 16 he found alcohol, and it gave him relief. For the next 16 years it also cost him relationships and opportunities. He stopped drinking at 32, then spent fourteen years sober trying to understand why he had been so set on working against himself. The answer did not come from talking it through. It came in 2019, the first time he listened to a hypnosis audio.
Enda now works directly with the subconscious to help people stop sabotaging themselves. Ben and Enda talk about outgrowing labels, the difference between healing something and managing it for life, and why the real work after any breakthrough is integration. Ben shares his three weapons for winning the war in the mind. Enda talks about raising his son with enough space to make his own mistakes, and to come to him when he does.
What are you still maintaining that you could resolve?
If this feels relevant to where you are heading, book a call with Ben: https://bit.ly/15minswithben (https://bit.ly/15minswithben)
In this episode
00:00 Introduction
00:05 Adoption and the question of who he was
01:59 Walking into his first AA meeting
03:27 Outgrowing the label
04:24 Dublin, and the wheels coming off
05:51 Fourteen years sober and still asking why
07:19 The first hypnosis audio
07:43 Working with the subconscious
10:43 Working with his son
14:04 Guiding by giving space
15:23 Fathers, sons and initiation
18:34 Falling out with his own father
20:00 Wired for anxiety before birth
27:28 Why your story is rarely the real problem
27:58 Labels and diagnosis
32:19 Burnout in the music industry
34:46 Isolation in the west of Ireland
37:59 When your body stops being subtle
41:19 Escape, and what it showed him
44:48 Energy healing after his mother died
48:04 Finding the subconscious
50:05 Ben’s three weapons for the war in the mind
53:11 Enda’s mission
56:43 Healed, or still managing it?
57:40 Would you live it all again?
58:26 When talking goes in circles
1:04:22 Do men respond differently to talk therapy?
1:08:11 Psychedelics and the work of integration
1:10:25 Breakthroughs between sessions
1:12:18 A free taster audio
1:14:58 Curiosity, conditioning and refusing to be a small cog
1:17:07 How to find Enda
Connect with Enda
Website and free 22-minute taster
Website: https://endaquealy.com/ (https://endaquealy.com/)
Group: https://stop.endaquealy.com/ (https://stop.endaquealy.com/)
One to One: https://wired.endaquealy.com/ (https://wired.endaquealy.com/)
LinkedIn: Enda Quealy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/endaquealy/)
15 Oct 2026
Lesley Thomas | How You Do Money Is How You Do Everything
Most financial decisions are not made from strategy. They are made from emotion, and few of us are ever given permission to look at that.
Lesley Thomas is the founder of the Money Confidence Academy. She works with organisations on how financial pressure affects judgement, decisions and culture. A founder’s relationship with money, she explains, shapes how comfortable he is with debt, scaling, hiring and trusting other people’s judgement.
Ben and Lesley talk about where money stories begin, often with something we saw as children and misread. They discuss how comparison erodes what you have built, whether a man’s income has anything to do with his worth, and why men take longer to start this conversation but tend to commit fully once they do. Ben also shares the story of the car he bought to raise his own status, and what it actually did for him.
For fathers, there is practical guidance on talking to children about money. That includes why it is fine to say you do not know the answer and go and find it together.
What would change if your sense of worth no longer depended on the number?
If this feels relevant to where you are heading, book a call with Ben: https://bit.ly/15minswithben (https://bit.ly/15minswithben)
In this episode
00:00 Introduction
00:38 How financial pressure affects judgement in organisations
02:06 How a founder’s money story shapes business decisions
04:12 Why financial decisions are rarely just strategic
05:47 Money as a forbidden topic
06:41 Good or bad with money is a story, not a fact
11:20 The need to be liked
12:27 How you do money is how you do everything
13:34 Awareness first, then accountability
16:46 Worry, catastrophising and controlling the controllables
20:17 Do men inherit their money story from their fathers?
22:17 What children pick up from what we do not say
25:14 Teaching children about money in a digital world
27:14 Games, goals and finding answers together
32:58 Why men find it harder to start the money conversation
40:25 Does a man’s income decide his worth?
43:44 The neighbour’s garden: comparison and self-worth
47:42 Crying in a Ferrari or a Fiat
49:06 Ben’s Tesla story
52:43 Attachment, need and your relationship with money
55:49 Beliefs about money worth challenging
1:00:24 If it is humanly possible
1:03:27 Is there a spiritual side to money?
1:08:49 Radical responsibility
1:10:03 How to find Lesley
Connect with Lesley
Website, free resources and socials: themoneyconfidenceacademy.com
Book: Parents, Let’s Talk Money
14 Oct 2026
Sarah Piddington | Mental Health First Aid Is Not a Wellbeing Strategy
Episode description
Sending your team on a mental health first aid course is a good instinct. Sarah Piddington argues it is not a strategy.
Sarah draws on her time with British Transport Police, where she used trauma risk management with officers, to explain what most businesses miss. Who is suitable to volunteer as a first aider, and who decides? Who supports them after a difficult conversation? Where do their notes end up? And where does someone go when the problem is their own manager?
She also shares the story of a first aider who supported a colleague in crisis without knowing what her employer expected of her, and what changed once she did.
If someone in your business reached a crisis tomorrow, would everyone know what to do next?
In this episode
00:00 Why mental health first aid needs more than good intentions
01:39 Supporting your first aiders and protecting what is shared
02:48 Plans, escalation routes and what to do when the manager is the problem
04:39 Lessons from trauma risk management in policing
06:14 Wrapping up
Connect with Sarah
https://safeandwelltogether.com/how-we-work/ (https://safeandwelltogether.com/how-we-work/)
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahpiddington/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarahpiddington/)
Connect with Ben
www.initiators.co.uk (https://www.initiators.co.uk)
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