Episodes

  • #85 Aoife Bermingham On How Grief Forced Her Change Her Life For The Better

    #85 Aoife Bermingham On How Grief Forced Her Change Her Life For The Better
    May 15 2025

    ***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.

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    51 mins
  • #84 Katriona O'Sullivan On Poor, Privilege And Paying It Back

    #84 Katriona O'Sullivan On Poor, Privilege And Paying It Back
    May 8 2025
    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.

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    1 hr and 4 mins
  • #83 Kate O’Driscoll On Why A Home Doesn’t Make A Family

    #83 Kate O’Driscoll On Why A Home Doesn’t Make A Family
    May 1 2025
    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.

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    42 mins
  • #82 Justine King On Her Home Birth And Finding Her Style After Babies

    #82 Justine King On Her Home Birth And Finding Her Style After Babies
    Apr 24 2025
    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.

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    40 mins
  • #81 Clare McKenna From Burnout In Motherhood To The Best Of Days

    #81 Clare McKenna From Burnout In Motherhood To The Best Of Days
    Apr 17 2025

    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.

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    44 mins
  • #80 Harrison Gardner On Changing The World With His Ballerina Builders

    #80 Harrison Gardner On Changing The World With His Ballerina Builders
    Apr 10 2025

    On Episode 3 of Season 7 of A Little Birdie Told Me Rebecca talks to Harrison Gardner.


    Harrison is a builder, tv presenter, author and teacher and the proud father of two little girls with his wife Erin. Harrison is originally from Australia and is passionate about self-building and creating communities where people can thrive and live self-sufficient lives with their families. He is educating people on to build their own homes, learning the skills to build everything from a wall to a kitchen table.

    Harrison grew up north of Sydney in Australia to his South African parents. He discussed his childhood which was both lonely and adventurous at the same time, he discussed the culture in Australia at the time, his parents separation when he was 16 and the want to get out of Australia and travel and escape the life he was living.

    Harrison worked in Africa and Asia before coming to Ireland and meeting his wife Erin on a chance encounter while serving coffee in the Fumbally Café in Dublin.

    Harrison and Erin have since bought a cottage in Clare and Harrison has been adding to it and improving on it for years, the couple have two daughters who call themselves the ballerina builders and who they want to be able to be self sufficient and resilient and be able to build their own homes.

    This is a conversation about following your heart and where it can lead you.

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    55 mins
  • #79 Dr Aoife Durcan On Helping Our Sensitive Children Thrive

    #79 Dr Aoife Durcan On Helping Our Sensitive Children Thrive
    Apr 3 2025
    On Episode 2 of Season 7 Rebecca talks to Dr Aoife Durcan. Dr Aoife Durcan is a Senior Counselling Psychologist who has penned the wonderful new book, Your Highly Sensitive Child. Aoife also works as a Chartered Psychologist in The Mental Health Hospital. Aoife is raising two young boys and is pregnant with her third child and gives Rebecca an insight into what a Highly Sensitive Child feels and how to help them thrive in a busy world.

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    39 mins
  • #78 Georgie Crawford On Leaving The Last Decade Behind Her

    #78 Georgie Crawford On Leaving The Last Decade Behind Her
    Mar 27 2025
    On Season 7 and episode 1 of A Little Birdie Told Me, Rebecca is joined by Georgie Crawford. Georgie is a wellness coach, motivational speaker, business owner and podcast host. Georgie had her second baby via surrogacy in Georgia last year and openly discusses the journey to bring Tahlie home with Rebecca. Georgie also discusses turning 40 and the decade she has left behind - from recovering from cancer, starting her empire, The Good Glow, having her daughters Pia and Tahlie and the surrogacy experience her and her husband went through.

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    48 mins