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Catherine Brady

Dundalk-based world champion kickboxer and Type 1 diabetes advocate; founder of TYPEONECLUB and diabetic fitness coach.

Oct 9, 2026

23:40
Tell us what's happening.
23:41
Yeah.
23:42
So I'm bringing together women with Type 1 diabetes to speak about us as women first and Type 1 diabetics second.
23:50
So what we, we would find is a, a lot of, a lot of appointments that we would go to, we're spoken to only about our, our diabetes, and we're not spoken to about the big things in, that happen in women's lives, fertility, menopause, pregnancy, aging through the decades, and what way our bodies and our lives change, but also, uh, uh, the impact that that has on our Type 1 diabetes and how we should manage that alongside these changes as life goes on.
24:44
All that area is massive, isn't it?
24:45
Yeah, sure.
24:46
Yeah, it's huge.
24:47
And it, it's the, it's the, the, the mental load that, that having this, uh, is, and, and that, again, is something that's never really touched on.
6:44
Tell us what's happening.
6:45
Yeah.
6:46
So I'm bringing together women with Type 1 diabetes to speak about us as women first and Type 1 diabetics second.
6:54
So what we, we would find is a, a lot of, a lot of appointments that we would go to, we're spoken to only about our, our diabetes.
7:01
Um, we're not spoken to about the big things in, that happen in women's lives, fertility, menopause, pregnancy, aging through the decades and what way our bodies and our lives change, but also, i-i, the impact that that has on our Type 1 diabetes and how we should manage that alongside these changes as life goes on.
7:48
All that area is massive, isn't it?
7:49
Yeah, sure.
7:50
Yeah, it's huge.

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