A Little Birdie Told Me

On the penultimate episode of Season 7 of A Little Birdie Told Me, Rebecca speaks to Danielle Garner. Danielle is the founder of Wildflower salon in Ranelagh and founder of Wholehearted space, she is also a mum of two young boys. Danielle talks to Rebecca about her formative years with her separated parents and what a wonderful man her father was and she also discusses travelling to see him every week and her strong bond with her mother. Danielle opens up about her journey into hair-styling at a young age at The Sugarclub and how at the time she was enduring a very abusive relationship with her partner. Danielle escaped this man and spoke to Rebecca about meeting the love of her life and going on to having her happily ever after with him. Sadly Danielle suffered a second trimester with her baby and talks to Rebecca all about that loss, the trauma, the isolation and healing herself after such a horrendous loss. Danielle now has two young boys and is a hugely successful businesswoman in her own right.

On Season 7 Episode 11, host Rebecca Horan talks to fitness coach Adrienne Murphy. Adrienne is one of Ireland's leading fitness influencers, trainers and business women. Adrienne is one half of Flow State and the Flexi-App and is married to High Performance Coach, John Belton. Adrienne spoke to Rebecca about her stint in modelling, eventual job in marketing and how she discovered her true calling as a personal trainer and her home in Number 17 Personal Training. Adrienne and John moved to Portugal during Covid and had a turbulent time bringing their daughter Indy into this world and Adrienne charts the journey. She is also half-way through her pregnancy with her son and has had some medical procedures to ensure this pregnancy runs smoothly too.

On Season 7 Episode 10 of A Little Birdie Told Me, host Rebecca talks to Emma Manley. Emma is a designer and mum of three boys. Emma talks to Rebecca about her busy home-life and how she makes it work alongside her successful design business Manley. Emma and her husband raise their boys through Irish and Emma spoke about her initial nerves at taking on the language and how now it has become second nature. Emma also discussed being a businesswoman and a nurturer and how they compliment each other beautifully.

On Season 7 Episode 9 host Rebecca Horan is joined by author, model and mum of three Rosanna Davison. Rosanna is a former Miss World and well-loved personality in Ireland and her fertility story has been well charted, but on this episode Rosanna talks about the impact the multiple pregnancy losses had on her marriage and body, her surrogacy journey and subsequent pregnancy. Rosanna is now a busy mother to three children including twins. Rosanna also talks about her twenty year relationship with her husband Wes. Rosanna now works with a number of big brands including Human Collective, is studying to be a nutritionist, is an author and influencer.

***Trigger Warning - on this episode Rebecca speaks to her guest about her stillborn baby, please seek help if this subject matter affects you or is distressing***On Season 7 Episode 8 of A Little Birdie Told Me, Rebecca sits down with Aoife Bermingham. Aoife is a Content Creator and mother of three. Aoife talks to Rebecca about her original life in New York and meeting her husband, her decision to move back to Ireland and her career in the financial services and how she felt creatively stifled. Aoife suffered a devastating stillbirth with the loss of her son Oisin and on the back of this trauma she decided to put the needs of her family first and she left her stressful job. Aoife wears many different hats and described to Rebecca how her and her husband built their house, set up the business they run, how she began content creating and taking students in to make a living and enjoy a lifestyle with her family. Aoife makes wonderful travel and lifestyle content and is one of the leading parenting and travel bloggers in Ireland, creating relatable and engaging content whilst also keeping it real. Aoife is very honest about her grief journey and how she suffered a lot in the aftermath of her stillbirth and has a wonderful message of hope for other women.

On Episode 7 of Season 7 of A Little Birdie Told Me Rebecca talks to bestselling author, academic, activist and mother of three, Katriona O'Sullivan. Katriona talks to Rebecca about her best-selling book Poor and the incredible global response to her story. Katriona grew up in poverty and charts her childhood, adolescence and adulthood in her book on the back of the most incredibly challenging upbringing. Katriona is now a professor, activist, author and mother of three and believes we as humans could do a lot more good with the privilege we have than we do.

On this episode Rebecca talks to Kate O’Driscoll. Kate is otherwise known as VictorianRathmines because of her instagram page which is devoted to renovation and DIY hacks. Kate turned her back on her corporate job after winning Home of The Year for her Victorian home in Rathmines and has never looked back - after finding peace and joy in renovating homes and raising her two small children with her husband. Kate opens up to Rebecca about her childhood in Limerick, her enterprising spirit, her shock at having a girl and how she doesn’t think a home makes a family.

On Season 7 episode 5 Rebecca talks to stylist Justine King. Justine has been working in the fashion industry in Ireland for years and has a wealth of experience and she also runs a number of businesses. Justine spoke to Rebecca about her two very different pregnancies with her boys and very different births. Justine gave birth to her second child at home and details the incredible birth experience to Rebecca. Justine also has some brilliant words of advice for any pregnant ladies or new mothers on keeping their identity and finding their feet when it comes to fashion and not feeling in a rut.

On episode 4 of season 7 Rebecca talks to Broadcaster and Health Coach Clare McKenna. Clare and Rebecca worked together in their early days in radio and have stayed in touch since. Clare enjoys a successful radio career in Newstalk where she hosts her own show, she also MCs corporate events and is a health coach on NourishYourself.ie.Clare opens up to Rebecca about the price of success, a time when burnout hit her hard when she was pregnant with her second child and working in breakfast television. Clare got back to herself and has flourished since and spoke to Rebecca about the boundaries she set when embarking on her successful freelance career.Clare also discussed parenting teens and the wonderful way children make time so much more relevant, how her and her partner work as a team and her more challenging moments in media.