<![CDATA[First Rooted]]>Honest conversations with women's wellness coaches about what growth actually looks like.

Every week, host Martin sits down with a coach who's building something real to talk about how they started, what's working, what's draining them, and what they'd do differently.

No scripts. No highlight reels. Just the real version.


New episodes every Week.

]]>https://riverside.comRiverside.fm (https://riverside.com)Mon, 29 Jun 2026 20:31:47 GMTSat, 04 Apr 2026 15:01:23 GMT60FirstRooted<p>Honest conversations with women's wellness coaches about what growth actually looks like.<br /><br />Every week, host Martin sits down with a coach who's building something real to talk about how they started, what's working, what's draining them, and what they'd do differently.<br /><br />No scripts. No highlight reels. Just the real version.</p><p><br />New episodes every Week.</p>episodicFirstRootedfirstrooted1@gmail.comno<![CDATA[ You're Not Burned Out. You're Unrestored.]]>Aoife Murphy is a wellness coach, Reiki practitioner, and sound healer based in Dublin, Ireland. She spent over 15 years in corporate and tech before leaving to build Empower Wellness & Coaching, a practice rooted in everything that has worked for her on her own decade-long journey of inner transformation.

In this episode, we cover:

  • What Aoife spent 15 years running from and what she found when she finally stopped
  • Why fulfillment doesn't come from careers, countries, or achievements and what it actually requires
  • What Reiki is, how it works, and how Aoife responds to the scientific skeptics (as someone with a chemistry degree herself)
  • The difference between sound healing and Reiki and why she sometimes tells clients to wear earplugs in a sound bath
  • The distinction that stopped Martin mid-conversation: most people know how to relax, but not how to restore
  • Practical tips for emptying the mind in a world that never slows down
  • What it's really like to build a wellness business solo, the content pressure, the operational overwhelm, and finding your rhythm
  • A message to wellness coaches who are questioning whether the work is worth it

Find Aoife: Instagram: @empoweredbyaoife Website: empowerwellnesscoaching.ie Substack: @empowerwellnesscoaching LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/aoifemmurphy

Connect with First Rooted: Instagram: @firstrooted Podcast booking: https://cal.com/otingamartin/first-rooted-podcast-session

Are you a women's wellness coach building something meaningful? Martin would love to have you on the show. Reach out via Instagram or book directly at the link above.

]]>2b17cc1e-8094-4be3-8432-48b8b46c16bdFri, 24 Apr 2026 02:43:52 GMT<p>Aoife Murphy is a wellness coach, Reiki practitioner, and sound healer based in Dublin, Ireland. She spent over 15 years in corporate and tech before leaving to build Empower Wellness &amp; Coaching, a practice rooted in everything that has worked for her on her own decade-long journey of inner transformation.</p><p>In this episode, we cover:</p><ul><li>What Aoife spent 15 years running from and what she found when she finally stopped</li><li>Why fulfillment doesn't come from careers, countries, or achievements and what it actually requires</li><li>What Reiki is, how it works, and how Aoife responds to the scientific skeptics (as someone with a chemistry degree herself)</li><li>The difference between sound healing and Reiki and why she sometimes tells clients to wear earplugs in a sound bath</li><li>The distinction that stopped Martin mid-conversation: most people know how to relax, but not how to restore</li><li>Practical tips for emptying the mind in a world that never slows down</li><li>What it's really like to build a wellness business solo, the content pressure, the operational overwhelm, and finding your rhythm</li><li>A message to wellness coaches who are questioning whether the work is worth it</li></ul><p></p><p><b>Find Aoife:</b> Instagram: @empoweredbyaoife Website: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://empowerwellnesscoaching.ie" target="_blank">empowerwellnesscoaching.ie</a> Substack: @empowerwellnesscoaching LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="http://linkedin.com/in/aoifemmurphy" target="_blank">linkedin.com/in/aoifemmurphy</a></p><p><b>Connect with First Rooted:</b> Instagram: @firstrooted Podcast booking: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://cal.com/otingamartin/first-rooted-podcast-session" target="_blank">https://cal.com/otingamartin/first-rooted-podcast-session</a></p><p></p><p><i>Are you a women's wellness coach building something meaningful? Martin would love to have you on the show. Reach out via Instagram or book directly at the link above.</i></p>no00:49:0512 You're Not Burned Out. You're Unrestored.full<![CDATA[This is how less sleep affects your chances of success]]>Jalene Szuba spent 20 years producing high-stakes corporate events, including the Olympics, before burnout and a personal health crisis forced her to stop and ask a harder question: what did she actually want her life to look like?

At 50, she went back to school, became a board-certified health and wellness coach, and built Happiness Anchor, a practice focused on sleep, energy, and sustainable behaviour change. She now works with Tulane University on clinical research into how people actually change their habits, not just their intentions.

In this conversation, Jalene and Martin cover the difference between a doctor and a coach and why you need both, the hidden commitment framework that explains why willpower is almost never the real problem, what your brain is physically doing while you sleep and why consistently skipping it is more dangerous than most people realise, why you can't make up for lost sleep on weekends, what sleep paralysis actually is and why it's nothing to fear, and a simple 30-second breathing technique that resets your nervous system anywhere, anytime.

Jalene also talks openly about losing her mother suddenly, navigating serious debt, and how shifting perspective, not positive thinking, but genuinely reframing the story, was what got her through.

Calm, grounded, and full of things you'll actually use.

]]>e2f0fce8-0d8c-4e61-9eb0-5b5e9eb6a97cThu, 16 Apr 2026 23:56:57 GMT<p>Jalene Szuba spent 20 years producing high-stakes corporate events, including the Olympics, before burnout and a personal health crisis forced her to stop and ask a harder question: what did she actually want her life to look like?</p><p></p><p>At 50, she went back to school, became a board-certified health and wellness coach, and built Happiness Anchor, a practice focused on sleep, energy, and sustainable behaviour change. She now works with Tulane University on clinical research into how people actually change their habits, not just their intentions.</p><p></p><p>In this conversation, Jalene and Martin cover the difference between a doctor and a coach and why you need both, the hidden commitment framework that explains why willpower is almost never the real problem, what your brain is physically doing while you sleep and why consistently skipping it is more dangerous than most people realise, why you can't make up for lost sleep on weekends, what sleep paralysis actually is and why it's nothing to fear, and a simple 30-second breathing technique that resets your nervous system anywhere, anytime.</p><p></p><p>Jalene also talks openly about losing her mother suddenly, navigating serious debt, and how shifting perspective, not positive thinking, but genuinely reframing the story, was what got her through.</p><p></p><p>Calm, grounded, and full of things you'll actually use.</p>no00:44:3811This is how less sleep affects your chances of successfull