From cult comedy fame to carving out a more grounded creative life, Owen Colgan joins the podcast for an honest, funny and deeply reflective conversation. Best known as Buzz from Hardy Bucks, Owen chats about live performance nerves, the highs and lows of comedy, stepping into solo work, and what success looks like now. This episode explores creativity, slowing the nervous system, and why laughter remains one of the most powerful tools we have.

Key topics we discuss:

• Life after The Hardy Bucks and navigating solo work
• Comedy nerves, performance anxiety and stage fear
• Why laughter is Owen’s anchor in life
• Creativity, imagination and staying playful as an adult
• Fame, ego and staying grounded back home in Mayo
• Social media burnout and focusing on the work instead
• Language, learning Irish and creativity in the brain
• Redefining ambition, success and a meaningful career

You can find Owen here: YouTube | Instagram | Facebook | TikTok

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From lecture halls to nightclubs, Professor Louise Crowley’s work is reshaping how we respond to sexual violence, harassment and harmful behaviour. In this episode, we explore how Louise developed the Bystander Intervention programme at UCC, why education is key to cultural change, and how ordinary people can safely step in when something isn’t right. Louise shares powerful real-life stories, practical tools like the “4 Ds” of bystander action, and a compelling vision for creating safer, more respectful communities - one intervention at a time.

Key topics we discuss:

• What bystander intervention really means and why it matters
• How the programme began at UCC and scaled nationally
• Recognising microaggressions and everyday harmful behaviour
• The “4 Ds” - Direct, Distract, Delegate, Delay
• Why safety is always the first rule
• Empowering men as allies and challenging lad culture
• Supporting victims through validation, not silence
• Education as the foundation for long-term culture change
• Louise’s work with universities, schools, sports clubs and workplaces
• The All Right, All Night campaign and keeping people safe in the night-time economy

You can find Louise here: LinkedIn | Bystander Intervention Website | Bystander Invention UCC IG | All Right All Night Website

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Key Links

Follow Hilary here: @thehilaryrose

Follow Live Wild here: @livewildpodcast

You can read more about us or contact us at www.livewild.ie

Thank you for listening to the show, I hope you found it fun and inspiring. Please help us bring you the best quality content by rating, liking and sharing the show with others.

If you’d like to show your support we would be delighted! You can buy me a coffee by following this link: https://buymeacoffee.com/livewildpodcast

As always the Live Wild podcast, its CEO and host Hilary Rose emphasis that this podcast is for entertainment purposes only.

Thank you! Xxx

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Rooted in ancient tradition yet profoundly relevant to modern life, Eimear Burke’s work as Chosen Chief of the Order of Bards, Ovates and Druids offers a powerful reimagining of spirituality, nature connection and inner peace. In this episode, she shares her unexpected path into Druidry, the moment she felt she had “come home”, and how this nature-centred practice can guide us through grief, change and the climate-anxious world we live in. Eimear explores Irish folklore, the soulful intelligence of landscape, the importance of inner stillness, and why all healing and peace must begin within ourselves.

Key topics we discuss:

• How Eimear became the Chosen Chief and her initiation into Druidic leadership
• Why Druidry is non-dogmatic, diverse and deeply empowering
• The role of ritual, ceremony and the Wheel of the Year
• Sacred places, landscape resonance and the soul of nature
• Reclaiming indigenous Irish wisdom after colonial erasure
• The revival of the Irish language and its hidden clues about ancient spiritual practices
• Inner peace, intuition and learning to trust the wisdom of the body
• The power of storytelling and bringing female voices back into myth

You can find Eimear here: Website | Instagram | Facebook | YouTube

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Key Links

Follow Hilary here: @thehilaryrose

Follow Live Wild here: @livewildpodcast

Catch Hilary’s TEDx talk Why Rest Is Not Lazy - Rethinking Resilience for more on this transformative approach to rest: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w9HAXNRSzE4

You can read more about us or contact us at www.hilaryrose.ie

Thank you for listening to the show, I hope you found it fun and inspiring. Please help us bring you the best quality content by rating, liking and sharing the show with others.

If you’d like to show your support we would be delighted! You can buy me a coffee by following this link: https://buymeacoffee.com/livewildpodcast

As always the Live Wild podcast, its CEO and host Hilary Rose emphasise that this podcast is for entertainment purposes only.

Thank you! Xxx

Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.