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Project NarrativeEpisode 44: Jim Phelan & Kelly Marsh — Caryl Phillips’s “Growing Pains”
In this episode of the Project Narrative Podcast, Jim Phelan and Kelly Marsh discuss Caryl Phillips’s short piece of life writing, “Growing Pains: A Life in 10 Chapters,” first published in The Guardian in August, 2005. Kelly Marsh is Professor of English at Mississippi State University, and her areas of expertise include narrative theory and global fiction in English since 1950. Marsh is the author of The Submerged Plot and the Mother’s Pleasure from Jane Austen to Arundhati Roy, and of essays on Roddy Doyle, Helen Fielding, Marina Carr, Mary McCarthy, and others. Marsh is also an award-winning teacher and a storie...
2025-07-0247 min
The Arts HouseMicheál Ó Súilleabháin A Life In MusicWhat a legacy from just one man. Irish music was changed by his work, and he laid the foundations for so many more creators. Elmarie Mawe spoke to Professor Helen Phelan about the late Micheál Ó Súilleabháin, and the book published to celebrate his life's work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-12-1515 min
The LoveLaois PodcastThe Friday Panel returns - with a new guest and a quiz!The LaoisToday Friday Panel proved somewhat of a hit in the run-up to the General Election and it returns today for the postmortem. Previous guests Vivienne Phelan, Brian Phelan and Eoin Barry return but Helen Campion is unavailable and is replaced on this occasion by Gavin Deering, who was campaign manager for Independent candidate Aisling Moran. The guests chat about the election as a whole, the success of Willie Aird in Laois, Government formation talks, stories that caught their eye - and finish with a quiz, as host Steven Miller challenges them to name as many Sinn Fé...
2024-12-0659 minThe LoveLaois PodcastDebates, coalition options and predictions - our Friday panel is back!After a successful first outing, our Friday panel for our LoveLaois podcast for the General Election is back for another episode. This is once again comprised of Helen Campion, a Sinn Féin supporter from Rathdowney, Vivienne Phelan, a Fine Gael councillor from Stradbally, Brian Phelan, a Fianna Fáil supporter from Rathdowney, and Eoin Barry from Crettyard, who twice contested the Local Elections for Labour. They go through some of the stories from the week, chat about the TV debates and even make some predictions, a week out from polling day.
2024-11-2255 min
The LoveLaois PodcastGeneral Election discussion as we introduce our panelBy this day two weeks, all of the talking will be over and the people will be exercising their vote.But we have another two weeks of the campaign to go and have assembled a panel to discuss all that has gone on to date.Steven Miller is in the presenters chair and is joined by a number of political personalities.Fine Gael Councillor for the Graigueculllen-Portarlington area, Vivienne Phelan, is here.While Brian Phelan, who ran for Fianna Fail in the Borris-Mountmellick area in the Local Elections in June, also...
2024-11-1545 min
Live95 Limerick Today PodcastsLimerick's Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin remembered in new bookProfessor of Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, Helen Phelan sits down with Joe to chat about the new book Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: A Life in Music, honouring her late husband. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
2024-10-2408 min
YounifiedThe Irish World Music Café in LimerickIn The Social Scene, we meet Professor Helen Phelan, the Director of the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance at the University of Limerick, who is behind the Irish World Music Café, who use music as a tool to unify across differences.
2024-08-1411 min
The Official Manchester United PodcastLive in Malta with Mike PhelanFor the first time ever the UTD podcast has been filmed in front of a live audience! We're back in Malta but this time we've got the whole gang together plus our special guest Mike Phelan.Back in early February Sam, Helen & Maysie were invited by the supporters' club to celebrate their 65th anniversary and they had plenty of activities planned for us. Thank you to everyone at the Manchester United Supporters' Club Malta for your hospitality.Mike Phelan has been on the UTD podcast before talking about his coaching career, so this...
2024-04-1758 min
Rethinking WellnessBonus: Other People's Opinions, Rethinking Beauty Culture, and More with Helen Phelan-GuillemotThis is a free preview of a paid episode. To hear more, visit rethinkingwellness.substack.comIn this bonus episode, anti-diet Pilates instructor Helen Phelan-Guillemot returns to discuss workout selfies, the way people respond on social media to images of her body, Christy’s own experience navigating other people's opinions on social media, the lack of regulation in the fitness industry and why it’s a problem, how Helen is reexamining her relationship with beauty culture, and more.Helen Phelan-Guillemot is a comprehensively certified pilates instructor, prenatal and postpartum corrective exercise specialist, Institute for Integrative Nutr...
2023-09-2905 min
Rethinking WellnessLoving Fitness While Hating Toxic Fitness Culture with Helen Phelan-GuillemotAnti-diet Pilates instructor Helen Phelan-Guillemot joins us to discuss her history as a dancer and how that affected her relationship with food and her body, how she moved from disordered eating into wellness obsession, how she’s come to hate toxic fitness culture while still loving physical activity, how to know when you need to take a break from fitness, why we don’t need to constantly self-optimize, and more.Helen Phelan-Guillemot is a comprehensively certified pilates instructor, prenatal and postpartum corrective exercise specialist, Institute for Integrative Nutrition health coach, intuitive eating student, and founder of on dema...
2023-09-2559 min
Cup of Hemlock Theatre Podcast127. The Cup | Interview with Molly Dunn (Crab Mentality)Welcome back to the 127th episode of The Cup which is our a weekly (give or take, TBD, these are unprecedented times) performing arts talk show presented by Cup of Hemlock Theatre. With the theatres on a come back we offer a mix of both reviews of live shows we've seen and continued reviews of proshot productions! For our 127th episode we have a new artist interview. This particular conversation was hosted by our Co-Artistic Producer Ryan Borochovitz and Molly Dunn, director and co-creator of the new play, Crab Mentality, soon to be staged as part of the Alumni...
2023-04-1226 min
Fit LiterateThe Pilates EpisodeBuilding on our conversations about the rising trend of low intensity exercise and "hormone balancing" workouts, this week we are taking a deep dive into Pilates! We overview the history of Pilates, discuss the way it's represented on social media, and share insight from actual pilates instructors (because we don't really know what we're talking about.) Use the links below to follow our contributors on the socials!
Linds (@fatbodypilates)
Rachel (@radpilates)
Mychele Sims (@get2werk)
MoJo (@whatmojoloves)
Portia Boston (@portia.boston)
Helen Phelan (@helenvphelan)
Margaret E...
2023-03-161h 08
Wine FaceTop Gail! Best Day Ever with Gail SimmonsNational treasure Gail Simmons of Top Chef fame Zooms with me all the way from New York. She’s a fabulous chef, a judge on one of my favorite shows, and literally, pure joy exudes from her at every moment. Tune in while we taste some dope wine and dish on her life from Top Chef, to fashion, to recipe writing, to her favorite food cities around the world. Featured Wines: Phelan Farm, Cambria, Central Coast, California, Gamay, 2021 Visit Helen’s Wines for more information. Hosted a...
2022-12-0135 min
DJ Ben Hop "Best Kept Secret" Indie Artist ShowcaseDJ Ben Hop "Best Kept Secret" (5-2-22)"The Best Kept Secret" every Monday from 7 pm-9 pm (ET) with Host DJ Ben Hop and Co-Host Shai Will. We are showcasing Independent Artist from all over the world. Submit your music for airplay by going to www.excitementradio.com and clicking on the "Submit Music" tab for all the information. To request your favorite Artist or Indie song, call us at 305-749-6004. This episode features music from Karian Sang, Helen Counts, Phelan, Flyght, Ike Rhein, Alexis Seas, The Young Lordz, Xscar, J Rakks, Famoe, PeezyLala, Kurcy, Everyone Lies, and Marcolen Hayes. Tune in and support new music.
2022-06-221h 53
The Allsorts PodcastHelen Phelan on why exercise is about so much more than what our bodies look likeHi all! Welcome to our sixth episode! (Un-be-lieve-a-ble!) Keeping in line with our theme of non-diet January, this week’s episode takes a critical look at how exercise fits into our lives.
Today’s guest, Helen Phelan, is an intuitive pilates instructor with an anti-diet approach to exercise. Since most of us have—or once had—a complicated relationship with eating and/or movement (thanks celeb culture, ugh), this episode will help expose SO MANY of those old beliefs and get us excited about the true purpose (and JOY!) of moving our bodies.
So want to kick...
2022-01-181h 02
Gayest Episode EverSmithers Has a Boyfriend (Interview with Rob and Johnny LaZebnik)“Portrait of a Lackey on Fire” (November 21, 2021) Either we traveled to the future or the showrunner of The Simpsons reached out and asked us if we want to preview a new Smithers-centric episode airing this Sunday. Maybe both? This new episode happens to be written by Rob LaZebnik (a straight) and Johnny LaZebnik (his son, a gay), and we spoke with both of them about how they write together, what it’s like growing up gay in the shadow of Smithers and what it means that Helen Lovejoy is down with the gays. Follow Rob and Johnny on Twit...
2021-11-161h 01
let's thriveLearn to Love Movement Again and Overcome Exercise Obsession with Helen PhelanSo many of us have struggled (or are struggling) with a toxic / obsessive/ addicting relationship to fitness thanks to diet culture. We're told that being "fit" means doing x, y, z and making our entire world revolve around when we workout, what we do, how many calories are burned, how much we sweat, and how we look in comparison to models and photoshopped bodies. In this episode with Helen you'll hear us break down what toxic fitness culture is and how to break free from it. With Helen's wisdom and the discussions we have, you'll see that it is...
2021-10-2553 min
Heavier Than I LookExercise IntentionalityStudy upon study proves that moderate, frequent exercise has many physical and health benefits. However, it is important to examine the ways in which diet and fitness culture are entangled and thus how exercise may be a toxic force in our lives. Why do you exercise: to confront your body in the brutal light of self-objectification and dehumanization in a ceiling to floor, wall to wall mirror? A discussion that is begun in today's episode...Bibliography (show notes):“7 Great Reasons Why Exercise Matters.” Mayo Clinic, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research, 11 May 2019, www.mayoclinic.org...
2021-10-1822 min
Our Nature: Conversations about the relationship between nature, spirituality, and well-beingEarth Medicines and Indigenous Wisdom with Curandera Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz (Season 3 Finale!)This week, (episode 50 and the final episode of Season 3), I’m speaking with Felicia Cocotzin Ruiz, a curandera, indigenous foods activist, and natural foods chef whose work is deeply rooted in the healing properties of all earth medicines. Her business name came to be after friends lovingly called her "the kitchen curandera", as she was often creating healing foods and remedies in her tiny adobe kitchen. Her work has been featured in Food & Wine, Spirituality & Health, and on Padma Lakshmi's Taste The Nation, among many other platforms. Felicia lives in the Sonoran Desert with her husband. Her firs...
2021-10-131h 25
SportsDazSportsDaz Camogie - Thursday, 2nd September 2021Darren Kelly and Killian Whelan present the camogie magazine show featuring the All-Ireland Championships.
Schedule:
Weekend Review inc. Mayo vs Tyrone (0:15)
Helen O'Malley (Mayo captain - 8:45)
Review - Cork vs Kilkenny (12:30)
Review - Galway vs Tipperary (27:15)
Roisin Phelan (Kilkenny intermediate captain - 46:05)
John Scott (Kilkenny intermediate manager - 47:50)
Brendan Skehan (Meath manager - 51:00)
Preview - Cork vs Kilkenny minor with Brian Brophy (1:08:10)
Preview - Antrim vs Offaly minor (1:25:05)
Darren and Killian look back on a dramatic weekend of camogie including Mayo's success in the Nancy Murray Cup, while Kilkenny, Antrim, Armagh and Wexford book tickets...
2021-09-021h 30Our Nature: Conversations about the relationship between nature, spirituality, and well-beingHow to Develop a Kinder, Compassionate Relationship with Your Body Featuring Pilates and Movement Instructor Helen PhelanThis week, I’m speaking with Helen Phelan, a body neutrality pilates and movement instructor who believes that everyone deserves to feel good in their body. Helen’s approach to fitness and health is one centered around how exercise makes you feel, versus how it makes you look. She uses conscious breathing techniques to enhance bodily intuition and high repetition sequences that encourage body awareness and mindfulness. As a former professional dancer, Helen developed disordered eating and exercise habits that caused a lot of self-criticism and harm. It was in her recovery that she realized just how often the bout...
2021-08-111h 03
Elevate Your VidaIntuitive Movement and Rejecting Diet Culture with Helen PhelanToday’s episode with Helen Phelan is super powerful. I knew early on that I wanted to ask her to share her story because she has given me an empowered, fresh perspective of the relationship I am building with myself through my movement and fitness practice. Today we are discussing things that impact us all including triggering language, diet culture, comparisonitis, body neutrality, and intuitive eating and movement. This episode is packed with value and I couldn’t think of a better person than Helen to bring it all to you. Breathe, listen, and enjoy.
2021-04-2745 min
Too Smart For This30. Helen Phelan on Intuitive Exercise and Building a Digital Business in a PandemicHelen Phelan is a body neutral intuitive pilates instructor and founder of digital pilates and mindful fitness platform, Helen Phelan Studio. As an ex professional dancer and eating disorder survivor, Helen's approach to exercise is based on her lived experience that diet culture and the no excuses mindset keeps people stuck in a bad body image loop that makes them dread movement- despite its mood and energy boosting benefits.She refined her methodology so that it could not only fit into her life in a non-harmful way post recovery, but to support others heal their relationships with movement and their...
2021-04-2032 minToo Smart For This30. Helen Phelan on Intuitive Exercise and Building a Digital Business in a PandemicHelen Phelan is a body neutral intuitive pilates instructor and founder of digital pilates and mindful fitness platform, Helen Phelan Studio. As an ex professional dancer and eating disorder survivor, Helen's approach to exercise is based on her lived experience that diet culture and the no excuses mindset keeps people stuck in a bad body image loop that makes them dread movement- despite its mood and energy boosting benefits.She refined her methodology so that it could not only fit into her life in a non-harmful way post recovery, but to support others heal their relationships with movement and their...
2021-04-2032 min
The Official Manchester United PodcastMick Phelan - "This is United, anything is achievable"This week we finally sat down with former Manchester United midfielder and long-serving First Team coach Mick Phelan. He revealed some of the inner workings at the training ground, why it's important for this club to bring through youth from the Academy, and how he still watches the Under 18s & Under 23s train so he can occasionally impart some wisdom. In particular, Mick reflected on Marcus Rashford's rise through the ranks and said the Man Utd striker is a prime example of how players should approach their career. Helen, Sam and Maysie also...
2021-03-221h 15
LET IT OUTintuitive movement, change, eating disorder recovery, and romance with helen phelan ✨This week I spoke with my friend Helen Phelan, a body neutral intuitive pilates instructor and founder of digital pilates and mindful fitness platform, Helen Phelan Studio. As an ex-professional dancer and eating disorder survivor, Helen's approach to exercise is based on her lived experience that diet culture keeps people stuck in a bad body image loop that makes them dread movement despite its mood and energy boosting benefits. Her methodology is movement in a non-harmful, post-recovery form. We met when I took a class of hers in NYC and have collaborated on events and digital workshops (available here). Sh...
2021-03-191h 04
The Blair Badenhop ShowTrailblazing A Different Conversation In Wellness with Helen PhelanHelen Phelan is a Pilates instructor and integrative health coach with a specialty in intuitive eating and exercise. She is the founder of Helen Phelan Studio, a mindful fitness app and online Pilates studio designed to emphasize how movement makes you feel, not how it makes you look. Her workouts are designed to be shame free, calm the mind, nurture the body, and cultivate self-compassion. Her work has been featured in publications like Gotham, Mind Body Green, In Style, and Bustle. In the episode, we chat about, her journey to becoming a professional...
2021-02-141h 00
The Twelfth HouseIntuitive Exercise and Body Neutrality with Helen PhelanNew year, new diet? No, thank you. At Holisticism we're all for goal and intention setting, but so often capitalism and pop-culture aim to convince us that being healthy has a very specific look that frankly, we feel is just BS. Today we're sitting down with Helen Phelen (@helenvphelan) a body neutrality pilates and movement instructor, to shine some light on the darker sides of the diet and goal-setting discourse that is spamming our inbox at this time of the year. Michelle and Helen discuss their shared backgrounds growing up as dancers and their experiences with disordered eating habits...
2021-01-0551 min
This Thing Called MovementBody Neutrality & Sensation-Focused Movement with Helen PhelanWe are so excited to share our interview with Helen Phelan! Helen is a certified pilates instructor, integrative health coach, and prenatal/postpartum corrective exercise specialist. She is a former professional dancer who struggled with body image and disordered eating for years- and when she became an instructor she was determined to find a way to share the empowering aspects of a movement practice without diet culture's toxicity, and her method and online studio, Helen Phelan Studio was born. Inspired by the intuitive eating movement, Helen's method is designed to enhance your self trust and intuition by creating workouts that...
2020-12-251h 00
Good BodiesIs There Such A Thing As Intuitive Exercise? Ft. Helen PhelanThis week Sami and Aleen are joined by Helen Phelan, fitness instructor and founder of Helen Phelan Studio, to talk all about intuitive exercise. They start with a conversation about why it’s time to cancel “shedding for the wedding” and the cultural context that pressures us into wedding norms. Next, they discuss the concept of intuitive exercise, how it relates to intuitive eating, and why it might be the workout answer you’ve been looking for. Plus, they talk about why people exercise to punish themselves and how that leads to unhealthy outcomes. Finally, they read an insightful listener...
2020-10-041h 02
The Social Impact StartupBuilding a legacy of body love with Helen Phelan, Founder - Helen Phelan StudioHelen Phelan is a body neutral pilates instructor, Usui Reiki practitioner, intuitive eating coach, prenatal + postpartum corrective exercise specialist, and the creator of the Helen Phelan Studio app. Featured in Well + Good, HuffPost, Bustle, InStyle, Gotham Magazine,and more, Helen specializes in breath centric, high sensation, athletic workouts that strengthen every type of body and calm the mind. She began her movement journey as a dancer and received a BFA in dance performance and psychology from Elon University. After college, Helen moved to NYC to pursue dance professionally. Teaching pilates started as a side job while attending audition...
2020-08-3154 min
WANTcast: The Women Against Negative Talk Podcast111: Building Healthy Body Image with Helen PhelanThis episode is for anyone and everyone who wants to rework their relationship with their body - maybe after years' worth of body-shaming the skin you're in. Helen Phelan is a Health At Every Size aligned pilates instructor, intuitive eating coach, and Reiki practitioner, who works with women to heal their body image and find joy in movement and food. Her approach is creative, anti diet-culture, and designed to enhance your intuition to feel better on and off the mat. Helen is dedicated to improving the collective body image and diet culture issues within the wellness industry...
2020-08-2459 min
ShrinkChicksJoyful Movement and Intuitive Eating with Helen PhelanThis week, the ShrinkChicks are joined by fitness and wellness instructor and body positivity advocate, Helen Phelan, to answer your questions about navigating the struggles of practicing self-love, healing from disordered eating, and managing society's "one size fits all" view of body types.
2020-07-1351 minLET IT OUTfood, sex, & creativity with Stephanie Danler 🥬In this conversation I got to speak with one of my favorite writers, Stephanie Danler. She is the author of the international bestseller, Sweetbitter, and the creator and executive producer of the Sweetbitter series on Starz. Her work has appeared in the Sewanee Review, Vogue, The New York Times Book Review, and The Paris Review Daily. I loved her latest book, Stray, a memoir that came out recently. In this episode we discuss many of the themes of the book including inheriting trauma, boundaries, relationships, motherhood and more. We also talk about writing, her process, creativity, and food.
2020-07-091h 23
Music and the Church with Sarah BerezaSinging, Hospitality and the Sacred Stranger, with Helen PhelanHow can singing foster our relationships with strangers? And how can singing not just foster relationships, but be a powerful means of hospitality? Dr. Helen Phelan draws on her ethnographic work with a Congolese-Irish choir to show the potential of "sonic hospitality" through singing together.
About Dr. Helen Phelan
Helen Phelan is Professor of Arts Practice at the Irish World Academy of Music and Dance, University of Limerick, Ireland. She is an Irish Research Council recipient for her work on singing, ritual and new migrant communities in Ireland. Her most recent book, Singing the Rite to Belong: Music, Ritual and...
2019-12-1042 min
the purpose of mvmt001 | Cultivating Body Neutrality with Helen Phelan"I don't want anyone to ever make anyone feel bad for having a goal, but I do want them to not place all their worth on that goal being achieved." - Helen Phelan
In the (very first) episode, Lauren sits down with Brooklyn-based Pilates Instructor and Health Coach, Helen Phelan, to discuss the evolution of her disordered eating which began in her childhood shortly after she set her sights on a career as a professional dancer. She carried it with her through her transition to a career in Fitness, masking her eating disorder through leading a "healthy l...
2019-09-0543 min
Giant Gnome ProductionsStar Trek: Outpost – Episode 21 – Shades of the PastGiant Gnome Productions presents…
Star Trek: Outpost – Episode 21 – Shades of the Past
Release Date: January 5, 2011
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A long-anticipated message arrives from Starfleet Headquarters, but all is not as expected, sending Captain Buchanan down a path of self-reflection.
Cast and Crew (In Order of Appearance)
In order of appearance, the cast for this episode featured the voice talents of:
Gareth Bowley as Yeoman Avery Tovar-Smith
Edward Gore as Captain Montaine Buchanan
Helen Quigley as Imelda Tovar-Smith
Cary Ayers as Admiral Lafayette Halliburton
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2011-01-051h 26Giant Gnome ProductionsStar Trek: Outpost – Episode 21 – Shades of the PastGiant Gnome Productions presents…
Star Trek: Outpost – Episode 21 – Shades of the Past
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Listen Now
A long-anticipated message arrives from Starfleet Headquarters, but all is not as expected, sending Captain Buchanan down a path of self-reflection.
Cast and Crew (In Order of Appearance)
In order of appearance, the cast for this episode featured the voice talents of:
Gareth Bowley as Yeoman Avery Tovar-Smith
Edward Gore as Captain Montaine Buchanan
Helen Quigley as Imelda Tovar-Smith
Cary Ayers as Admiral Lafayette Halliburton
...
2011-01-051h 26Giant Gnome ProductionsStar Trek: Outpost – Episode 21 – Shades of the PastGiant Gnome Productions presents…
Star Trek: Outpost – Episode 21 – Shades of the Past
Release Date: January 5, 2011
Listen Now
A long-anticipated message arrives from Starfleet Headquarters, but all is not as expected, sending Captain Buchanan down a path of self-reflection.
Cast and Crew (In Order of Appearance)
In order of appearance, the cast for this episode featured the voice talents of:
Gareth Bowley as Yeoman Avery Tovar-Smith
Edward Gore as Captain Montaine Buchanan
Helen Quigley as Imelda Tovar-Smith
Cary Ayers as Admiral Lafayette Halliburton
...
2011-01-051h 26