Kay and Ash: Share Your Voice

We can’t believe it, but it’s our final episode of this season! This week we catch up on last weeks interview with the wonderful Gio.

We also have a festive Q&A, and discuss our Christmas plans.

Thank you to our lovely listeners for supporting this podcast, we have loved this Season, and wish you all a wonderful Christmas and New Year.

Our guest this week is Gio Paes.

Gio speaks to us about growing up in Brazil and knowing since the age of 5 that he was gay, but unable to tell his parents or wider family knowing that it wouldn’t be accepted.

Gio tells us how he lived life as a straight man for so long, how was he outed by a family member, and what his life is like now with his husband and their four beautiful children.

Thank you to Gio for sharing such a personal story with us, we really hope you enjoy the episode!

This week we review last week's episode with the amazing Franny Benali, MBE.

We also discuss our I’m a Celebrity favourites, our hidden talents, and whether a Yorkshire pudding should be part of a roast dinner or not. We ask the serious questions!

We Hope you enjoy it.

Our guest this week is Franny Benali, MBE. Franny is a former Professional Footballer with Southampton FC, a TV pundit, and a Keynote Speaker. 

He speaks to us this week about how important mindset is for achieving our goals; how he completed three ultra-endurance challenges ultimately raising over £1,000,000 for Cancer Research UK; and how on the days when your goal seems out of reach, the importance of having the right people around you to keep you going.

We both found this conversation with Franny so inspiring and really hope you do too.

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This week we review last week's episode with the fabulous Dr Doireann O’Leary.

We also answer some great listener questions like advice we’d give our younger selves, discuss TV shows we are loving right now, and a mutual love of the bath.

We hope you enjoy!

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Our guest this week is Dr Doireann O’Leary.

Wow, where do we start with Doireann, she is doing it all! Doireann is a GP and is passionate about women’s health and General Practice, she is a lecturer at The University College Cork School of Medicine, she is a regular contributor on The Today Show as well as on Radio, and as I’m sure you know if you follow Doireann online she loves to share her passion for health and wellbeing through her social media and her podcast, “Dr. Doireann’s Podcast”.

She is the creator of Supplements Made Simple, an evidence-based range of supplements designed to help people get a real health benefit from their daily supplement routine. She is also a mother to a beautiful little boy.

We chatted to Doireann about how she balances it all, what inspired her to be a doctor, and bombarded her with some of our own health queries!

We loved this episode, and really hope you do too.

This week we review last week's episode with the amazing Helen.

It’s safe to say Kay & Ash are firmly in the ‘we love Helen’ fan-club, and judging by the feedback we received we are not the only ones!

We also chat about social media, the pros and cons, and how to safely guide our children through the online world.

We hope you enjoy!

October marks Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and we are so grateful to Helen Long for being our guest this week and sharing her breast cancer story.

From diagnosis to treatment, and having to consider her future fertility in the midst of it all, Helen spoke so honestly and openly to us.

We hope you love this conversation as much as we did.

We are back!!

We’re delighted to be back with Season 2 of Kay and Ash Share Your Voice, join us today for a catch-up of what we got up to over the summer. We discuss Ash’s new baby, Kay’s summer holidays, paddle boarding, failed jet ski attempts, books and much more. We hope you enjoy it!

This week's episode is the last for this season before we take a summer break!

We review our conversation with Wedding Planner & Stylist Nessa Hurley in this episode.

We also chat with each other about what's going on in our lives, and this week we talk about a new chapter for the Long family, the girls summer plans, and where the name of the podcast came from.

Thank you to everyone who has listened to Season 1, we have exciting plans for Season 2 and cannot wait to be back with new episodes soon! 

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This week's guest on Kay and Ash Share Your Voice is Nessa Hurley.

Nessa is a wedding planner & stylist (Instagram @gabiandnessa) and the creator and host of the 'Nessa Loves Weddings' Podcast (Instagram @nessalovesweddings).

In this episode, we chatted about trends, traditions, and what brides to be can expect in 2024/2025. We loved this chat with Nessa, and really hope you do too.

In this week's episode we review our conversation with Brian McDermott and his very honest chat with us about his experience with addiction. 

After each review show, we also chat with each other about what's going on in our lives. This week we talk about pet hates, Ash's longing for Rock & Republic jeans to come back into fashion, and Kay's very confusing WhatsApp message she received while in Dubai!

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Our guest this week on Kay and Ash Share Your Voice is Brian McDermott.

Brian is a good friend of Kayleah & Shanes, and many of you will know him as a former professional footballer, and former Manager of Reading FC and Leeds United.

Today, Brian talks about those times in his life and also speaks so openly about addiction and mental health.

We loved this chat with Brian, and really hope you do too.

Thanks Alan chat soon,

TW: This episode contains discussions about baby loss that some listeners may find triggering. If that sounds like it might apply to you, please check the show notes below for more details to decide if you want to avoid this content.

Our guest this week on Kay and Ash Share Your Voice is Susan McMahon.

Susan is Kayleah's sister-in-law, and she kindly took the time to speak to us about the loss of her baby Holly, shortly after she was born. Susan talks about the grieving process, and how they keep the memory of Holly alive every day in beautiful ways. 

Susan also kindly shared the names of some books she found useful when dealing with grief:
Saying Goodbye by Zoe Clarke-Coates
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. Frankl
When Bad Things Happen to Good People by Harold S Kushner
The Choice by Edith Eger

Further resources available from Feilacain, A Little Lifetime (ISANDS), Stillbirth and Neonatal Death Society (UK).

In this week's episode we review our conversation with Shane, and discuss the incident that Shane described as one of the toughest parts of his career and how Kay supported him. 

After each review show, we also chat with each other about whats going on in our lives and some funny questions we pose to each other. This week we talk about Mother's Day, and baby brain, and Kay tells a story that tops the 'Mona Lisa' embarrassing incident from Episode 2! 

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Our guest this week on Kay and Ash Share Your Voice is someone very familiar to Kay, it's her husband Shane Long!

Many of you will know Shane as a professional footballer and Irish International. Shane shares with us the highs and lows of being a professional footballer, how it impacts family life, and who he turns to for support when needed (spoiler alert, it's Kayleah!). 

In this week's episode, we review Becki's fantastic Podcast and talk about some of the interesting facts about Cystic Fibrosis and Luca's story. 

After each review show, we chat with each other about whats going on in our lives and some funny questions we pose to each other. This week Ash challenges Kay to pronounce some Irish names and some of kay's most embarrassing moments. 

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Our guest this week, and the very first guest, on Kay and Ash Share Your Voice Podcast is the lovely Becki.

Becki shares her story about her little boy Luca who was diagnosed with Cystic Fibrosis shortly after he was born. Becki explained to us how she and her husband first found out about Luca's diagnosis, how life with CF impacts Luca's day-to-day life, and the resources she found helpful when navigating this new way of life for her family.

For more information on CF visit www.cysticfibrosis.org.uk in the UK, and www.cfireland.ie in Ireland.

You can also follow Luca's journey on Instagram at thelifeof.luca.

Welcome to our brand new podcast, Kay and Ash: Share your voice with Kayleah Long and myself, Aisling O'Flynn.

Join us for real conversations with real people about everyday life situations and sometimes just a good catch-up amongst ourselves.

We hope you enjoy the episode today.

You can follow the podcast on our Instagram account at @kayandashshareyourvoicepodcast

You can also follow our own Instagram accounts at

Kayleah Long: @kayleahlong

Aisling O'Flynn @mattersofmaternity

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