Best of The Women's Podcast: Joanne McNally
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Welcome back to the Women's Podcast. I'm Roisin Ingle. Hope you're all doing well. And if you want to get in touch with us, we're on social at IT Women's Podcast, or you can email us thewomenspodcast at irishtimes.com. Now, as I speak, I am off on my holliers and hopefully on a sun lounger with a... non-alcoholic cocktail lying by the beach or the pool. You know yourself reading some great books and just generally relaxing. So as a result, we decided to bring you a repeat from an episode that I know you all enjoyed and some of you might not have heard. So you can have a good listen again. It's Joanne McNally and she's hilarious. I hope you enjoy. Joanne McNally. I am so excited that you're here. We go back a long way, don't we?
I was only just, we were obviously chewing the fat before we started. And I was saying, I can remember your email address from back in the day. Can I say your email address? It was Ringle at Irish Times. Because I picked stuff to you. That's right. And you published stuff that I wrote. You're brilliant. You published stuff. I saw it even back then.
Thank you, Ringle.
Because I was, we were just saying, you remember, like Paul Howard was the same. When you're starting out. Yeah.
you really remember who kind of buys into you even a little bit because it means so much to you do you know what I mean so much and that's why I worry sometimes I'm like am I doing enough for people coming up behind me kind of I think you do though I get that impression I try I do try and speaking of which I have a message for you from someone else who's a big fan of yours who I was out with her during the week Marion Keys oh I love Marion Marion says I saw her in Cork in January she's an absolute superstar will you tell her hello and that I love her I love Marion Keys she's fab Yeah, sure, Louise O'Neill came down. Paul is always going on about you and how great you are and you are. We're just so proud.
I met you in 2013 because we have to remind people that in another life that you had before Comedian, you were in PR.
I was in PR. And do you know what's so nice about being back in Ireland that I can say PR? Because when I do English, they're like, you what?
And I'm like, PR. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You were in PR. And there was this competition with Vodafone called World of Difference. Oh my God. You remember? Well, I remember doing the competition. Well, me and Ray Darcy were the judges. You were. So people would come in and interview to get a year working with their favourite charity, with their charity. And I remember you coming into the Vodafone and sitting there and just being blown away by you. And that was when you were going through a really tough time. But I didn't know that really.
I think you were talking about that at the time, maybe even. So I was in a PR agency at the time and I was, as we all know now, I've obviously told the whole world, circling the plug hole of a pretty serious nervous breakdown. Sorry, you shouldn't laugh. No, it is funny. Madness is hilarious once you're out the other side. Even when you're in it, it's a bit of a crack. But then, so I thought to myself, I was like, OK, maybe it's the stress of the job because PR is, you know, you're working long hours. Yeah, yeah, yeah. You were looking for any excuses. I was like, I'll fix it if I just go into a different environment and I'll work for a mental health charity because I'm obviously like mentally ill. So this will be Grant, I'll be surrounded, you know, I'll be in the kind of like in the warm arms of a mental health charity.
So I pitched to Vodafone, World of Difference, and they pay your salary, wasn't that it?
For a year, yeah.
And it was with Spun Out, right? It was with Spun Out, we're a youth mental health charity. Yeah. And I got it.
I know because you were brilliant because I remember you coming in and me and Ray just go, this woman is amazing. You were just, you were everything that you are now, but obviously having a nervous breakdown at the same time. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I mean, yeah, that's the gas part.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:14–6:09
2
How did Joanne McNally move from PR to comedy and mental health work?
6:09–13:50
3
What was the turning point that launched Joanne's creative career (Una McKevitt and the 'mentee bee')?
13:50–18:29
4
How does Joanne describe her ‘midlife clarity’ and early midlife crisis?
18:29–28:02
5
What preparations and publicity went into Joanne becoming the first Irish female comedian to headline the 3Arena?
28:02–1:00:52
Speakers
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