NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast This week I’m with a founder of one of my favourite skincare brands Niamh Ryan of Ella and Jo. Beyond the whole co founder success story - she is also a mother of 4 and the past decade has been a serious personal and professional stretch. And here at 41 she says for the first time she can feel herself drop into her body and live truly as herself. We talk about her spirituality, how she channels confidence, energy and discipline wh...
Jul 01, 2025•57 min•Season 10Ep. 4
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast Hello you’re listening to Stretch Marks with me your host Sinéad O'Moore. This week I’m joined by a friend, a woman who has nourished her grief into an empathy that is helping others through a modality known as Emotional Freedom Technique and now author of her first book Tapping into You - Sarah Tobin. I first met Sarah about 7 years ago as she joined me to share her story of losing her newborn Alice and explored what all this “ta...
Jun 24, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 10Ep. 3
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast Hazel Burton founder of The Home Reset joins me to inspire you to reset your life. I am obsessed with watching Hazel’s tips and transformations and fully believe that her business is not just about resetting someone’s home but it can reset their life - its a modern day therapy when life feels too much and you don't know where to start. We talk about the courage Hazel needed to resign from her high paying, safe, secure, corporate j...
Jun 17, 2025•1 hr 9 min•Season 10Ep. 2
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. Say Hello to Rebecca Ryan. Rebecca is an actress, viral lip syncer, and a fellow 1984 baby like me. We talk about coming out of the haze of early motherhood, how her creche closing changed her career path, taking back control of her health, weight and wellbeing and life with Ulcerative Colitis. We also couldnt get through this very warm and gorgeous open book of a conversion without ack...
Jun 10, 2025•50 min•Season 10Ep. 1
Celebrating SEASON 10! Hello - I’m Sinead O’Moore and I’ve got good news for fans of the pod. The 40’s Stretch is coming back on Wednesday June 11th thanks to my partner McCabe’s Pharmacy . In case you’re new - let’s catch you up Stretch Marks is a podcast that goes deep into the parts of life that are stretching us. And creates a safe community for us to heal, not hide the marks left behind. It very much started in Motherhood - but its grown to include relationships, career, health, the world l...
Jun 09, 2025•2 min
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. This season wraps up with a huge conversation with Maria Byrne also known as No Spring Chicken Maria is a mother of 2 about to leave her 40's behind - a decade where so much has changed for her professionally, personally and hormonally. From the grief of losing her mum to deep anxiety, redundancy and figuring out a childhood where the dad she saw once a week had another family, his “rea...
May 06, 2025•1 hr 7 min•Season 9Ep. 10
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. Today I'm joined by the first Irish woman to be included in the Forbes 50 over 50 global list of trailblazing women - Loretta Dignam founder and CEO of the Menopause Hub , Ireland's first dedicated menopause clinic. After three years of hot flushes, broken sleep, migraines, headaches, dizziness, weight gain, UTIs and dry eyes, energy levels on the floor, Loretta felt like her old self h...
Apr 29, 2025•50 min•Season 9Ep. 9
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. This week I'm joined by breath work facilitator Laura Carr. With over 16 years in this space, Laura integrates grounded coaching, somatic techniques, and spiritual insight to release blocks, restore balance, and guide you toward alignment with your true self. She is also calm, compassionate but good craic too… We talk about what led her to moving from the corporate hustle to these thera...
Apr 22, 2025•49 min•Season 9Ep. 8
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. Join me for this conversion with child and adolescent psychotherapist and play therapist Debbie Cullinane who at 42 is in her “no more holding back” era! We talk about aging, the lessons she has taken from her grandmother who is still a force at 92 and Debbie’s evolving relationship with her body. She is very open about her history of anorexia and bulimia and why now strong is better th...
Apr 15, 2025•1 hr•Season 9Ep. 7
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. Hello this is Stretch Marks Podcast. I’m Sinead O’Moore Lorna makes us laugh on the internet, but its not all fun and games. She has had a huge 5 years and since 40 is beginning to take care of herself - unapologetically. We talk about the impact of her son's Autism diagnosis and after 40 years of masking it all made sense as she received her own diagnosis of ADHD. TW: She also opens up...
Apr 09, 2025•1 hr•Season 9Ep. 6
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. Sabrina Hill is the owner of the award winning Copper Hair Salon in Cork and mother of two boys at either end of the age spectrum - one in his 20's and one under 2. She has had a transformational start to her 40’s: career shifts // divorce // a new relationship // engagement // pregnant at 42 //ivf // hyperemesis // perimenopause If ever there was an episode that proves that this decade...
Apr 01, 2025•54 min•Season 9Ep. 5
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. Kirsty Gallagher is a spiritual coach and Sunday Times bestselling author. She teaches you how to live back in alignment with your soul and divine purpose by reconnecting with ancient wisdoms and natural cycles. Her free meditations on spotify each monday are mow essential for my health, each sunday she gives me my weekly dose of sanity with her cosmic weather reports, and her workshops...
Mar 26, 2025•1 hr 8 min•Season 9Ep. 4
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. Tracy Clifford a leading 2fm broadcaster joins me to talk about figuring out life, finding her career confidence in her 40's - while also figuring out Silent Endometriosis and a complicated fertility journey. Painful periods are one of the first things as woman we are taught to “just get on with”. Unavoidable and unrelenting. And so begins a relationship with denying what our body might...
Mar 19, 2025•47 min•Season 9Ep. 3
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. Welcome my second guest Simone Gannon (Simone Scribes) - Beauty Editor at the Irish Times, Aesthetician and skincare educator & a very close friend, Simone was a guest on Stretch Marks in 2023 in an episode called the Almost 40 Stretch & talked about how she won’t descend quietly into hormonal change but will always advocate for her health. listen here Here we talk about anxiety...
Mar 12, 2025•48 min•Season 9Ep. 2
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. So I’m starting this season with a woman who inspires me to get off my arse on those low mood days, to move my body more and not with punishment as the goal but replenishment and vitality and joy. Lean with Lesley (Lesley Giltinan) has created a community a community of empowerment fit women - and i want to be one of them. Beyond her classes in cork she has developed a digital programme...
Mar 05, 2025•43 min•Season 9Ep. 1
NEW SEASON The 40's Stretch 2.0 Hello - I’m sinead O’Moore and I’ve got good news for fans of the pod. The 40’s Stretch is coming back on Wednesday March 5th thanks to my new partner McCabe’s Pharmacy . In case you’re new - let’s catch you up Stretch Marks is a podcast that goes deep into the parts of life that are stretching us. And creates a safe community for us to heal, not hide the marks left behind. It very much started in Motherhood - but its grown to include relationships, career, health...
Mar 02, 2025•2 min
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. So let’s drop our shoulders and take a breath and welcome my guest - Emily Norris Emily is one of the original youtuber moms - she now has over 850k subscribers to her channel where she has shared vlogs on her life, home and health. In this episode Emily opens about a recent panic attack and how it led her to realising that she was in perimenopause and needed to support her hormonal hea...
Feb 05, 2025•56 min•Season 8Ep. 12
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. So let’s drop our shoulders and take a breath and welcome my guest - Liz Dwyer . As Liz turned 40, her marriage ended. We talk about that moment when her husband told her it was over, how putting all her energy into Future Beauty with her sister Nikki not only became a passion project but something that has gone on to help connect thousands of women with the right clinics for them and g...
Jan 29, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Season 8Ep. 11
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. So let’s drop our shoulders and take a breath and welcome my guest - Clare McKenna Clare hosts Newstalks health and wellbeing show, Alive and Kicking which has inspired her to qualify as an Integrative Health Coach and launch Nourish Yourself - where she supports her clients on a transformative experience through holistic living. Clare wants more of us to rediscover our vitality, to emb...
Jan 22, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Season 8Ep. 10
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. So let’s drop our shoulders and take a breath – and welcome Suzanne Kane back to the pod. Suzanne is a broadcaster on 98fm, a mother of 3 and 6 months ago she opened up here on Stretch Marks podcast about her perimenopause era. The response was a collective sigh of relief and gratitude from the thousands of women that had the same symptoms and had no idea what was going on for them. Suz...
Jan 15, 2025•56 min•Season 8Ep. 9
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. So let’s drop our shoulders and take a breath – it’s time to meet my first guest of 2025, Sinéad Brady @thecareerpsychologist Sinéad is a Career Psychologist and best selling author of the book Total Reset - Quit Living to Work and Start Working to Live . She is a mother of 4, in her mid 40’s and has dedicated her career to helping us achieve career success with evidence-based psycholog...
Jan 08, 2025•1 hr 3 min•Season 8Ep. 8
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. So let’s drop our shoulders and take a breath – it’s time to meet my last guest of 2024, Emily O’Donoghue @Fashionablyfortyish If you haven’t discovered Emily yet she is a mother of 2 girls who started her instagram 5 years ago to share her love of fashion which has grown into this really engaged community of women sharing and supporting each others growth, passions and health. She is 4...
Dec 18, 2024•56 min•Season 8Ep. 7
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. There comes a point for many of us where we slide into this “sandwich” generation of caring for young and caring for old. And somewhere between the weight, worry and love for them all, we can ignore our bodies whispers - but as my guest today Kellie Billings explains, you can only ignore them for so long. Kellie is in her early 40’s, she's the Beauty Editor with Social and Personal Maga...
Dec 11, 2024•1 hr 10 min•Season 8Ep. 6
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. Please welcome women's pelvic health physio specialist Aoife Harvey - from @ womenhealthdublin to the pod. Aoife has her own physio practice plus she is co founder of mocohealth an app that shares birth recovery support. Like me she turned 40 earlier this year and like me she felt the stirrings of perimenopause - the brain fog, fatigue, and pms kicked in. We talk about her decision to g...
Dec 04, 2024•45 min•Season 8Ep. 5
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. It’s ALL TOO MUCH - written by Psychologist Allison Keating who has worked in her private practice for over 20 years. And she has never seen anything like the levels of anxiety, panic and overwhelm that women are experiencing today. She is warm and fun, honest and fair. And a balm for my nervous system because she gets it - she knows life right now, and her book is an essential resource...
Nov 27, 2024•1 hr 2 min•Season 8Ep. 4
NEW! "The 40's Stretch" - A new season from Stretch Marks Podcast We are stretching - this time into our 40's. Meet Áine O'Donnell - one of my closest friends and favourite humans. At 27 she was diagnosed with MS, Multiple Sclerosis, an incurable neurological condition that interrupts communication between the brain and the rest of the body. Eventually, the disease can cause permanent damage and loss of power. At 40, she lost her dad, got married and learned that her hero drugs have failed her. ...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 9 min•Season 8Ep. 3
NEW! The 40's Stretch - Stretch Marks with Sinéad O'Moore Please welcome my second guest, Laura Nolan Horgan, founder of LNH Edit, mother of 3 and BRCA gene warrior who in her early 30's said no thanks to Ovarian and Breast cancer and underwent a Salpingo Double Ooverectomy, full hysterectomy which removed her ovaries, fallopian tubes, cervix, womb and double mastectomy - and while this saved her life, it also plunged her straight into surgical menopause. Laura shared her story on Georgie's Good...
Nov 13, 2024•48 min•Season 8Ep. 2
NEW! The 40's Stretch with Sinéad O'Moore This season is a deep dive into the 40's stretch. Physically/mentally/emotionally/hormonally/professionally/ this is a profound decade and one that I hope to live well. And just like in early motherhood - there is so much left unsaid, so much to learn and so much to gain from connecting with and sharing the real experiences of women. Supported by Key For Her Use the discount code STRETCH for 20% off your first order across all products on keyforher.com M...
Nov 06, 2024•51 min•Season 8Ep. 1
NEW SEASON We are stretching - this time into our 40's. I’m Sinead O’Moore host of Stretch Marks podcast and If you're a fan of that podcast, you'll know it started in motherhood but over the years has grown to discuss all the ways life continues to stretch us. And this season is a deep dive into the 40's stretch! I really believe that our 40’s is a powerful decade where we can grow into the women we are here to be. There can be a bit of liberation, reclamation. we could take over the world – if...
Nov 04, 2024•2 min
Final Episode - with Comedian & now Author, Emma Doran. It’s the final episode of the summer and the season. So to cheer us up I’m joined by one of the most successful irish comedians Emma Doran - who as it happens I booked 6 years ago for a brand launch I was leading so hang on to the end for all the reminiscing of a great night had. Emma has a new book “Mad isn’t it” available on presale - a memoir in fact. At 18 just before 6th year Emma got pregnant on a trip to Courtown. What began as h...
Aug 21, 2024•1 hr•Season 7Ep. 10
