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• Empeal
• 3 Oct, 2023

On September 29th, we all celebrated World Heart Day.

We are grateful to Brendan Crossey, founder and CEO of Data Innovation Hub, and our co-founder and director, Aurobinda De, for hosting this fireside chat about the importance of cardiovascular health and how technology can help improve it.

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• Empeal
• 11 Nov, 2022

This year the focus for World Diabetes Day is education and that is why we invited certified health coach Erin Dolan to join us to talk about diabetes. Erin offers advice and support to people with diabetes on mental health, nutrition, and lifestyle and this interview with Erin is no different.

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• Empeal
• 24 Sep, 2022

Empeal was featured in a recent Irish Independent article which gave us the opportunity to highlight a few keys issues that are occurring in the start-up and SME sector.

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• Empeal
• 27 Apr, 2022

Interview with Paula Lawlor – Workplace Wellbeing Day 2022

As National Workplace Wellbeing Day is this week, we were lucky enough to interview Paula Lawlor, CEO of Suicide or Survive, to talk about workplace wellbeing.

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• Empeal
• 15 Mar, 2022

For our final interview we are joined by Deborah Brock for our International Women’s Day series. Deborah is the CEO and Co-Founder of Nua Fertility, which is a pioneering, Irish, fertility health company which was created through Deborah’s personal passion for fertility health, supporting people and their communities.

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• Empeal
• 10 Mar, 2022

In part two of our International Women’s Day series, we are joined by Roisin O’Donovan who is a Postdoctoral Researcher at the RCSI Centre for Positive Psychology and Health.

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• Empeal
• 9 Mar, 2022

Take a look at this interview to learn more about Niamh’s experience navigating her way through the start-up industry and see the challenges and tribulations she has faced being a woman in tech.

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• Empeal
• 8 Mar, 2022

At Empeal we pride ourselves on maintaining a talented fifty-fifty team of both men and women. For this reason, International Women’s Day is such an important time of year for us to highlight.

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• Empeal
• 13 Dec, 2021

We welcome Laura McDonald for our next interview where the benefit and use of hypnotherapy is discussed.

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• Empeal
• 6 Dec, 2021

We are delighted to share our newest webinar with Diane Murphy who is the head of Human Resource and Talent Acquisition for Altada Technologies

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• Empeal
• 10 Oct, 2021

In this interview we are joined by Mike Mansfield for World Mental Health Day. Mike is the Director of Communications & Fundraising at Jigsaw which is a charitable organisation committed to changing how Ireland thinks about and supports young people’s mental health.

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• Empeal
• 27 Sep, 2021

Wellness technologies can be a game changer for organizations especially in hybrid worksforce as it can help with employee engagement along with access to health and wellness solutions that they need when they need and in total privacy.

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• Empeal
• 20 Sep, 2021

Today marks World Alzheimer’s Day 2021 and to highlight this day Empeal is joined by guest speaker Edelle O’Doherty who has trained with leading neurologist Dr. Dale Bredesen at the Buck Institute for Research on Aging in the Bredesen Protocol for the prevention of Alzheimer's Disease.

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• Empeal
• 15 Sep, 2021

In this next interview we are joined by Kara O’Donnell from East Cork Nutrition who is a qualified Nutritional Therapist based in Midleton, Co Cork. Kara is extremely passionate about personalised nutrition and functional approaches to health. In this interview Kara educates us about healthy eating while empowering us to make informed choices when it comes to diet & lifestyle.

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• Empeal
• 9 Sep, 2021

Today we are joined by Fiona Coyle who is the CEO for Mental Health Reform to mark World Suicide Prevention Day 2021. 10-September is global public health day for raising awareness and understanding about suicide prevention and mobilising local and international support for action.

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• Empeal
• 19 Aug, 2021

This next discussion is between our founder Sohini and Elysia Hegarty who leads the Future of Wellness service offering within Cpl's Future of Work Institute. As Empeal is the technology partner for CPL it is always great to get the opportunity to have discussions about the future of wellness technologies.

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• Empeal
• 4 Aug, 2021

In this next interview we are joined with Leona McDonnell who is a Mindfulness and Meditation Practitioner. Leona is also a qualified Tera-Mai Reiki Energy Healing Practitioner a qualified doTERRA Essential Oils Advocate, a qualified doTERRA Aroma Touch Technique Practitioner, along with having completed her IMMA Accredited Creative Mindfulness for Kids training. 

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• Empeal
• 14 Jul, 2021

Today is World Youth Skills day and to celebrate this our Market Strategy Evangelist discusses with us her lengthy experience with teaching young children of all ages. Madhumita has a strong passion for helping children learn, specifically in the areas of maths and science.

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• Empeal
• 24 Jun, 2021

Our next guest speaker Anne Sexton joins us for World Wellbeing Week 2021. In this next interview Anne reflects on her twenty-five years of practicing and teaching Pilates while sharing with us the impact this extraordinary method of exercise has had on both herself and on her clients. 

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• Empeal
• 15 Jun, 2021

Our next guest is Fiona Staunton who is a Ballymaloe trained Chef and also has a Degree in Education from Trinity. Fiona is passionate about healthy wholefood family cooking, and it is for this reason why Empeal sat down with her to discuss some tips and tricks for Nutrition and Hydration Week 2021. 

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• Empeal
• 26 May, 2021

For our most recent interview, we are joined with Deirdre Doyle who is a BTEC-qualified health coach and owner of The Cool Food School which was established to teach children the joys of healthy eating.

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• Empeal
• 20 May, 2021

As we celebrate World Meditation Day 2021, mindfulness and meditation expert Leona McDonnell joined Empeal for an interview to discuss some simple ways to introduce mediation into your life.

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• Empeal
• 19 May, 2021

This user feature video was conducted between Sohini De and Sigita Ekuse who came first from the Louth Branch in the Network Ireland fittest branch competition in February.

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• Empeal
• 12 May, 2021

This past year has been a difficult time for everybody as the pandemic has made a deep impact on the Irish economy. Unemployment rates have risen to an all-time high and people have been struggling to manage their finances as a result.

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• Empeal
• 23 Apr, 2021

Last February Empeal and Network Ireland collaborated to complete the NI Fittest Branch Challenge. Rosemary was awarded a special prize as the most engaged motivator in the competition.

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• Empeal
• 7 Apr, 2021

We partnered with Network Ireland this year and in February ran a competition to see who NI Fittest Branch really is.

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• Empeal
• 9 Nov, 2020

Did you catch our founder Sohini De's chat with Dominika Stoppa from Studio Eleven - Creativity and Wellbeing Centre?

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• Empeal
• 9 Nov, 2020

Our CEO and Founder, Sohini De appeared on That Great Business Show Podcast with Conall O'Móráin and Jamie Heaslip.

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• Empeal
• 27 Jul, 2020

Brian Barnes like Empeal, has a HUGE passion for Health and Wellbeing!

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• Empeal
• 14 Jun, 2020

'Obesity and mental health' is emerging as one of the most common concerns these days.

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• Empeal
• 20 May, 2020

Dr. Wafaa Abdel-Hadi is the First Certified Functional Medicine Doctor in Egypt and The Middle East.

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• Empeal
• 17 May, 2020

About Siobhan

Siobhan graduated as a nurse from Cork University Hospital in 1987, worked in the pharmaceutical industry to senior management level and is a qualified coach.

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• Empeal
• 26 Apr, 2020

Excellent parenting tips for controlling stress and anxiety of children during uncertain situations.

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• Empeal
• 22 Apr, 2020

Dr Siobhán Murphy graduated from UCC in 2005 after which she completed a two year scheme in general hospital medicine before training as a GP on the SE GP training scheme.

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• Empeal
• 13 Apr, 2020

Kaberi Das works in a global IT company as a business analyst.

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• Empeal
• 1 Apr, 2020

I wanted to share my experience with Life Coaching. I had my fourth life coaching session last week and I have to say it is an extremely enjoyable experience.

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• Empeal
• 27 Mar, 2020

Moira holds vast knowledge in Product Consultancy, with Transformation, HRD and Programme Management experience gained during 30 years in the Pharmaceutical, IT, Regulatory and Financial Services sectors.

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• Empeal
• 24 Mar, 2020

Supporting ourselves nutritionally during the Covid 19'

Liz Gale is a nutritional therapist specializing in digestive health, autoimmune disorders, diabetes and anti-ageing.

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• Empeal
• 19 Mar, 2020

We had a very informative podcast session with Dr Angana De Bhattacharya. She spoke about how stress and anxiety are increasing among both adults and children in the current situation.

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• Empeal
• 13 Mar, 2020

This year’s International Women’s Day slogan calls us to be conscious in terms of inclusive design and approaches towards innovation.

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• Empeal
• 12 Mar, 2020

Ankitha, is a miniature artist and has been into the profession for approximately 5 years now.

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• Empeal
• 10 Mar, 2020

Yashaswini Srikanta works as a Senior Software Development Engineer. She is originally from India and moved to Dublin in order to pursue her Master’s degree from Trinity college Dublin. She has been working in the technology sector for close to five years now.

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• Empeal
• 9 Mar, 2020

Katarina Antill is the founder and CEO of Bonafi – a RegTech startup in the pharma industry. She has a 10 year background in pharma and 10 years in aviation in various roles.

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• Empeal
• 18 Mar, 2019

Ann Carrick is an IT Project Manager with a large organisation who she has been with for 25 years, working in a number of roles. Ann has been in IT for about 20 years. Let’s see what Ann had to say.

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• Empeal
• 16 Mar, 2019

Siobhan McCarthy is a Quality Assurance Specialist in the Pharmaceutical industry. Siobhan works full time in a highly regulated environment.

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• Empeal
• 15 Mar, 2019

Kamala Rajan is a retired banker. Kamala retired in 2014 as a Chief General Manager from the Reserve Bank of India.

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• Empeal
• 14 Mar, 2019

Sharmila BasuThakur – M A in Philosophy and Gold Medalist Sharmila is a Professor of Philosophy and taught in a college in Kolkata for 15 years before taking up journalism as a full time profession.

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• Empeal
• 13 Mar, 2019

Today we got up close and personal to a lovely lady called Linda Mulholland. Let’s find out what she had to say.

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• Empeal
• 12 Mar, 2019

Moira is a Productivity Consultant with Transformation, HRD and Programme Management experience gained during 30 years in the Pharmaceutical, IT, Regulatory and Financial Services sectors.

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• Empeal
• 9 Mar, 2019

As promised, next up in our International Women’s Day series is another beautiful lady called Elina Majumdar. Another cracking interview, lets check out what Elina has to say:-

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• Empeal
• 8 Mar, 2019

As promised, as part of International Women’s Day, we got up close and personal with some beautiful ladies in their field. Let’s check out what Ann-Marie has to say:-

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• Empeal
• 4 Jul, 2018

In this week blog, our heath coach Morena Magnanini, explains why Intermittent fasting is one of the simplest strategies that can help you lose fat, gain muscle and live healthy.

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• Empeal
• 14 Jun, 2018

This Men’s Health Week, we decided to talk to our well wisher Rob Cullen from Dublin Chamber, to get his take on the subject. In this candid interview, Rob talks about his own successful wellness journey and gives valuable suggestions for individuals and businesses.