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“Don’t feel bad when in a normal day you feel happy and unhappy. We’re not called the high happiness index, we’re called The Happiness Index, and all of your emotions are there to teach you something. They are data points.”  - Matt Phelan

Boniface brings us a thoughtful chat with author and co-founder of The Happiness Index, Matt Phelan, to help us give a critical analysis of happiness through a non-judgmental lens. The Happiness Index has collected data from all around the world to help organisations measure the key employee engagement and happiness drivers to power their people strategy. 

We sat down with psychologist Megan Kennedy Woodard and co-author of Turning The Tide on Climate Anxiety in our latest episode of The Oona Series Podcast.

Boniface digs in deep with the question ‘How do you change your habits and feelings involved in ‘knowing’ yet still not ‘doing’ what you should in changing yourself and planet for the better.

Years ago, Megan met her ‘patient zero’ with anxiety sourcing from the worry and care for the state of the planet. Many more soon followed and she saw there was real need for Climate Anxiety support, but the coping resources and actions to put in place simply weren't available. Working with people, corporations and nonprofits, Megan now provides insight and focus on how to understand the mental impact and what to do when faced with the anxiety of climate change.

Our compassionate Oona Series co-founder, Boniface, is back with a fresh podcast to pose the question, Are you engaged by your work or consumed by it? We live in a world where we are only beginning to heal from our addiction to high performance and high achievement. Let’s put our cards out on the table and connect together for this challenge so many of us mutually face in our life and career.  

Take a page of wisdom from Oona Series Co-Founder, Catie, to grasp the reality that it is a juggle and it is never balanced.  

‘I find joy in the chaos…but you have to find your boundaries. When I notice I am lacking in motivation or hearing the voices of self doubt that are constant, its again reaching into your back pockets, and how I do that is I tap into conversations that I know I have safety in my voice, safety in hearing critiques back from somebody I feel I trust and can give me some clear perspective because we do need that.’

Oona Series co-founder, Boniface, welcomes Valerie Gabail to the Podcast! A Singing, Voice and Presentation Skills Specialist, Valerie works with all walks of life to access the power of the voice (and in multiple languages too)! Curious about singing? Nervous about public speaking? Navigating a language barrier? This episode is a must-listen for building confidence in communication and self-expression. Finding harmony within ourselves and the outside world around sometimes feels like a never ending journey. Tune in to find more awareness and strength through tapping in to your voice.

“With Long Covid, you’re constantly putting the work in, and then you get hit with another relapse… It’s forced me to adapt.”


Our latest podcast episode features special guest:Dr. Tamsin Lewis. Medical Doctor, Registrar Level Psychiatrist, Adventurist, Educator, Former GB Athlete, and Ironman Triathlon Champion. In this candid conversation with Boniface, she offers insight into the COVID-19 recovery process, and the important life lessons she has discovered in her own battles with Long Covid. Dr. Lewis dedicates her work to 'human flourishing,' and is the Medical Director of Wellgevity; a medically-led wellness service that brings the science of longevity and health-span to the individual.

How much do you know about the Perimenopause? If you're only thinking 'hot flushes,' you're fallin' out of the loop. Let's not have that. "There are things that we can do to really help to reduce the impact of [menopausal] symptoms. Making that change - that transition - much more manageable.” Dr. Federica Amati is back in the building and covering some serious ground with Boniface in this latest episode. Tune in to learn about the scope of physiological changes that occur in the body, and the best tips and tricks to manage the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause.