To me, food is more than sustenance - it’s a profound connector.

Emigration was part of my generation a given…

and I was ready, with a humongous appetite for life and cake. It hasn’t waned.

I was born and raised in Limerick and now call Dublin my home after a few stops in Paris, Brussels and finally the U.S., where I spent 24+ years in advertising in New York, Chicago and San Francisco. It is fair to say, I picked up a thing or two about advertising and selling products. This is what I know for sure:  Products might perform exactly as they say on the tin, following a health trend or a niche, but not all ingredients are created equal. Spin is everywhere. Oh what a tangled web we weave, etc. etc. But as in life, brands are not just about the story but how you tell it.  I was very good at that.

For my second career, I came home and followed my passion for food by training as a chef at the Ballymaloe Organic Cookery School in Ireland. The Culinary Institute of America in California forced me to taste thousands of wines for months, turning me into a Court of Masters’ Sommelier. I studied integrative nutritional health in New York and culinary medicine and metabolic health in the UK.

Today, I work as a motivational speaker and a healthy food consultant for companies, delivering workshops and overhauling their canteens or businesses. So, while I might joke that I am the human version of The United Nations of Health (or just plain obsessed), I am deadly serious about the power of real food—the people who produce it, champion it and cook it, and the sense of connection and well-being it brings for everyone.

So until we meet, go out there and be fabulous and kind, the world needs more of that.

Interested in working together?

Contact me at heather@heathermcguire.ie