This week is my 7 year anniversary, in terms of the last time I took conventional medicine to manage my MS. On 16th April 2016, against the wishes of my medical team and almost everyone else, I stopped taking the disease modifying therapy, "COPAXONE" and all other medication I may have been taking intermittently. I had made the decision to transition to lifestyle medicine, with the view to trying to facilitate the healing process in my body. Thankfully, 7 years later, my health is...

I am delighted to bring you guys my 50th episode of the podcast, and even more delighted that in this episode I have switched the dial back to health and longevity again.  For me health is absolutely everything.  If I am fit, well and healthy, then I believe I can do and achieve almost anything, including be a good parent to my two kids, continue to grow my business, and in short, to stick to the plan of being the best version of myself.  If you can relate to all of the above, then you want...

I am absolutely delighted to introduce you guys to Mr Ben Hunt, on episode 49 of the show.  Ben Hunt has a Phd in political science from Harvard, an incredible entrepreneur who has co founded multiple tech companies, and has also managed his own billion dollar hedge fund.   He is one of the USA's most critical thinkers right now, and also the founder and publisher of Epsilon Theory, an extremely popular website, and newsletter, where he focuses on trying to understand the narratives that...

In this episode, we see the return of the original "Rogue Trader" Mr Nick Lesson, who I thought was the perfect guest to get back onto the show, in an effort to contextualise what is happening right now across the world in terms of the economics of it all, and projected recession. Recently I attended a Bank of England presentation in Belfast, and the bank is very clear - they are projecting a long (2 years) slow painful recession for the UK, with plenty of pain, particularly for UK businesses...

I have been following Michiel for a number of years and was delighted to finally catch up with him on Money & Plants earlier this week. For any entrepreneur, the holy grail is often to exit or sell your business. For Michiel he has achieved that now a number of times, firstly selling his on line classified advert business, the most successful in Belgium to EBAY in 2013, which was a huge success for him personally. Following some downtime, travelling around Australia drinking cocktails and...

I am delighted to be back with another series of the podcast, and what a way to kick series 4 off with such a wonderful guest in Dr Jeffrey Rediger. Jeffrey is a MD, physician, best-selling author, and well known public speaker in the USA. He is an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School, and medical director at Mc Lean Hospital. His research with remarkable individuals who have recovered from incurable diseases, has been featured on Oprah Winfrey and Dr Oz TV shows, amongst others. He...

It's been 12 months since I last spoke to Mickey, and a full 16 month's since the evening of the 29th March 2021, when he experienced a widow maker heart attack, and was minutes from death. With a survival rate of 6%, it is no surprise then to come away from listening to Mickey for a short period, how aware he is to be one of the luckiest guys in the world right now. In this conversation, I wanted to check back in with him, as alot can happen in 12 months. In what is another wide ranging...

I am delighted to welcome the first guest from the Hedge Fund world onto money and plants, in the form of the wonderful, Mr Hugh Hendry. Hugh is best known for being the CEO and founder of his Hedge Fund Electica Asset Management, which at it's height had $1.3bn assets under management. Born into poverty in the working class streets of Glasgow, education and a desire to get out of the environment he grew up in, was the catalyst for a young Hugh, to go on and build a ew very successful life...

In this episode I welcome back one of the shows most popular guests.  Jordan Buchanan is the Chief Economist of the property portal PropertPal, and it's been six months since I have had Jordan on the show.  So much has happened since our last conversation, I have become a little unclear as to where our property market is right now in N Ireland.  Interest rates for example reached their highest point in 1981, levelling off at just over 16%, which is pretty unthinkable in this day and age,...

In this wonderful episode of Money and Plants, I get to speak to one of the world's leading authorities on all things Brain Health.   Tommy Wood is an athlete, works with and coaches many elite sports people, but he is also a UK-trained Medical doctor, with a PhD in physiology and neuroscience.  He studied at Oxford and Cambridge, and is now based at the University of Washington working as an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics. I have been following Tommy and studying his work for a number...

Eoin Ó Broin is the SF spokesperson for housing in Dáil Éireann, and a TD for Dublin Mid West since 2016.  Arguably one of the most articulate politicians on the island of Ireland today, Interestingly in our conversation, Eoin prefers to describe himself as more of an activist, than a politician.   In this wide ranging conversation, Eoin gives us some background into the early part of his life, privately educated n Blackrock College Dublin, studying at Queens University in Belfast, and then...

I've had Niall on my list of guests to interview for quite some time, and this conversation didn't dissapoint.  Niall Harbison is an Irish entrepreneur, with no less than three business exits under his belt in the last ten years.  Following the sale of his last business, he did what so many of us probably think of doing, in that he upped sticks and moved to Thailand, to build a new life for himself in the sun, sounds terrible I know:(( What could go wrong, having achieved success after...

In this episode I was delighted to welcome back my old friend, the rogue trader himself, Mr Nick Leeson. Always one of the more popular guests on my show, this has to be my most wide ranging conversation with Nick to date. It is 30 years this year, since Nick was headhunted by Barings bank, to go to Singapore, to run their Far East operation. I start of the conversation by asking Nick how he thinks about time now, and how he values and looks upon time. From that we move through the gears and...

This really is a special episode of Money and Plants. Who knew, there are 375,000 new cancer diagnosis every single year in the UK.  1 in 2 people will get cancer in their lifetime, and breast, colon, and lung cancer account for 50% of all cancers. In this episode I get to speak to the wonderful and hugely passionate Dr Shireen Kassam, a consultant haematologist and honorary senior lecturer at the Kings College in London, about all things cancer. Dr Kassam has been working in this field...

In this episode I get to speak to former Tottenham hotspur, Norwich, Burnley and Northern Ireland International, Paul Mc Veigh about his life to date, and how over the last ten years he has went through his own incredible transformations, from the Premier League in England, to being one of the most highly sought after public speakers in the field of mental performance. Having left West Belfast for the dizzy lights of London as a 16 year old kid, Paul found himself playing with some of the...

Dr Gemma Newman is no ordinary doctor. A GP now for over 17 years, she entered into the medical professional with one main goal, which was to help people. Over the years she has grown to understand how wonderful, yet how limited the conventional medicine model can be. Chronic modern medicine is fantastic, and when we have a car accident, and need emergency surgery or a life saving course of antibiotics, the advances in modern medicine has been extraordinary. However the same cannot be said...

In this episode I welcome back one of my most popular guests to the show, PropertyPals Chief Economist, Jordan Buchanan. Over the last fifteen months, the housing market, almost everywhere right across the world, has outperformed everyone's expectations. In Northern Ireland, personally I felt the market would cool significantly as a result of the pandemic, however the opposite has occured. In this conversation Jordan sets out what has happened in the laat year, why it happened, what...

In episode 34 of series 3, I get to speak to one of my great friends Jack Kavanagh.   I have been pretty open over the last ten years about my own trials and tribulations in life, and I accept I have made incredible progress, however one of the reasons I have been able to make so much progress is that I have surrounded myself with absolute warriors, who have encouraged and inspire me to keep moving forward in life.  Jack is one of these people. A few years ago Jack and myself met up for the...

In this episode I get to speak to an old friend from Tyrone who has been building a new life for himself and his family over the last 10 years in New York City.   On 29th March at around 8pm, Mickey Coleman came back from his usual run in the city, only to experience an excruciating pain in his chest.  He told his wife he needed an ambulance as he knew something was badly wrong.  What Mickey didn't know at that time was that he was experiencing what is known in the medical world as a "widow...

In this conversation I get to speak to one of the world's leading cardiologists about all things health related.  Dr Khan is an interventional Cardiologist, who literally saves peoples lives every day.  As some of my listeners already know, I have went through my own incredible health transformation over the last 15 years, and therefore it was amazing to speak to Joel and ask him directly about a number of things that are really crucial to understand, if we really want to avoid meeting people...

In this episode I speak to a senior Ulster Unionist Politician, Philip Smith about some of the arguments for N Ireland to remain in the UK. Over the last twelve months we have seen a range of people, podcasts and events talking about the benefits of Irish Unity, but we haven't seen much energy from the Unionist side in this regard. Enter United UK, a Pro Union campaign group, and one of it's founding members Philip Smith. One of the objectives of United UK, is to package up the benefits of NI...

For the last few years I have become very interested in this central part of any Irish Unity discussion - the UK subvention to NI.  Northern Ireland relies on the UK exchequer, to provide a subvention (grant) so it can pay it's bills every year.  In essence we run what's called a fiscal deficit, in that we don't generate enough money in the NI economy to pay our bills. If NI was a business it would be labelled as insolvent, but in relation to the UK, it is not the only region that is...

In this episode I get to speak to one of the UK's brightest economic thinkers, economist, and central-bank specialist, Mr Dario Perkins, Managing Director of Global Macro, TS LOMBARD, the Global Investment think tank, with 30 years experience on key issues in Economics, Politics and Markets.  The two main topics of discussion in this conversation are INFLATION and MODERN MONETARY THEORY (MMT) Inflation - do you understand it, what does it mean, and why is it important?   Dario spells all of...

In this episode, I take the podcast to South America, to speak to Rodrigo Benaden, the founding partner of Crypto Investment Fund Moonquant.Capital Rod was actually speaking to me from Miami earlier this week, as he is attending one of the world's biggest crypto conference's. This is a really fascinating conversation and a real treat for all of you guys who tune into this episode. Rod is a super intelligent, super interesting crypto expert, who has committed the last nine years of his life to...