Conversations With Rob

This week, I had the opportunity to catch up with Tania Rak. 

Tania is an entrepreneur and writer, and SFL local coordinator and a women's empowerment leader.  

Tania is the CEO of Vyunko which is an environmentally conscious delivery startup in Ukraine. 

They use only eco-friendly transport and aim to help reduce the amount of non-non-recyclable packaging.  

Tania is also interested in psychology and consciousness and we discussed this in the episode.  

I had the pleasure of speaking with an amazing and vibrant woman today who I have known for quite a while now.  She is making waves as an author and has used this bizarro period to be incredibly productive and follow her bliss!  

Amy lives in Dublin City, Ireland. She doesn't own a Kindle and loves Thai food. Amy is one part industrial designer, one part artist, one part content writer, one part career coach, one part blogger, one part hit & run survivor - too many parts?   Amy wishes she invented the Rubik's cube & it keeps her up at night that she didn't think of it first. Amy ate a deep-fried scorpion in Bangkok, has tasted paint from the bucket (not bad) & accidentally killed her tropical fish. 

If Amy is not writing or coaching or thinking about ET's landing on earth, you can find her singing Fleetwood Mac whilst out on her bike, swimming clumsily in the pool or gorging on Venezuelan food. 

Amy is a qualified personal development coach &  mentor to all age groups internationally and locally.   With a BA in Industrial design with business, a Diploma in Executive Coaching & 6 years’ experience as a Learning & Development Manager in the HR industry, she founded The Dublin Coaching Programme in 2018 which she runs online.   

Amy has independently published two books on amazon, one is a collection of stories and poems and one is an affirmations book that focuses on your stability and energy. Amy is super keen to have a publisher behind her on her projects as she really wants to improve the lives of people and younger adults and prepare them for the future. 

Amy is agent-less and is unsure where to start and wants to prove herself and add to the world as a writer and coach. Amy's motto in life is: 'We are whatever we feed ourselves, both mentally and physically - if we eat, think and act negatively or see ourselves as a victim, we will receive negative things in return. Being kind and patient with ourselves is something that we have full control over. We cannot control the world outside - but we most definitely can control our reactions & thoughts around things that happen and live and love ourselves responsibly. Living in the here and now is all that counts and the past is gone - there is no point in revisiting the past because there is nothing new to find there'  

Christopher Barnard is the President and Founder of the British Conservation Alliance. 

Before founding BCA, he was the Head of Campaigns for Students For Liberty UK.  

Chris was born in Belgium, to a Dutch father and an American mother. 

When he’s not doing environmental work, you can find him playing football, hiking the majestic English countryside, or entertaining his 2 border collies.  

Paul Meany is the Editor of Intellectual History at The Cato Institute.  

Paul is the presenter of the podcast Portraits of Liberty. 

I caught up with Ignasi Boltó this week who is a video producer and journalist from Barcelona.   

He has been involved in the liberal/libertarian cause since 2015, recording and editing conferences and interviews for liberal institutions and projects such as Students for Liberty, Club de los Vernes and Juan de Mariana Institute.   

Since 2018 he has resumed his activity with his YouTube channel Spanish Libertarian, doing more than 150 interviews to date.   

He has interviewed all the biggest media liberal figures in Latin America, as well as thinkers, entrepreneurs and the most heterogeneous personalities.  

This week I caught up with Vasilis Valatsos who is a member of the Students For Liberty team in Greece.  

Vasilis is a 23-year-old student from Greece. He studies Physics at the University of Athens.  

I caught up with my former colleague from Students For Liberty Andrés Moral Martín where we talked about his ideas for the best libertarian society. Andrés has recently taken over the position I used to have in Ireland & UK as Regional Director with SFL and has a very interesting perspective on liberty and I thoroughly enjoyed our discussion and I hope you do too.  

Paul has been working in tech for over 20 years and when a family tragedy occurred he was motivated to change course in life.  I hope you enjoy his story.  

This week, I caught up with Tor Erik Seppola in Norway who discusses his journey and battle with adversity. 

His new book 'F*ck, My Life', details his experience from going from $4,000,000 in debt to living a financially free life!  

Tor has kindly agreed to share his book to all of you for FREE.  

A fascinating discussion with Colin Megson who claims that the BWRX-300 model of nuclear reactor which GE-Hitachi is working on will revolutionise the energy industry.

Listen to why he says we won't need to worry about Chernobyl or Fukushima type meltdowns ever again!

He talks about this and more here.

Just before Christmas, I sat down for a conversation with Glenn Murphy about his experience with anxiety throughout his twenties. He shares what he did to overcome panic attacks and offers his views on how to overcome anxiety forever. 

A very inspirational man!