Keeping it Real with Erin and Terry
Entrepreneur Erin McGregor and musician Terry Kavanagh talk honestly about modern family life beyond the polished feed. Their conversations cover marriage, mental load, money, parenting an autistic child, and the pressures couples often feel but rarely discuss. The tone is funny and reflective, with no gloss. New episodes are released every Thursday and produced by Magic Door Studio.
Episodes
Episode 14 - Breakdown or Breakthrough: Harry’s summer of pain
In this week’s episode, Erin and Terry open up about a summer that was one of the hardest times of their lives. Their beautiful son Harry was in pain he had no way of explaining, crying for 12 hours on end and hurting himself, and the whole summer felt like lockdown.Erin talks about refusing to accept it was ‘just autism’, filming and writing down everything so the professionals would finally beli
Episode 13 - Your comments - Autism parenting
In this week’s episode, Erin and Terry look back at the many comments left by autism parents following the release of Episode 8, “what happens to Harry when we’re gone”.That episode touched a nerve with so many SEN parents all dealing with the same terrifying problem of how to prepare for a future where they’re not around anymore to take care of their beautiful children.Emotionally raw and angry i
Episode 12 - Hot Takes - Keep it or Cut it out!
No specific topic this week and no guest. Just hot takes, two very different opinions, and nowhere to hide. Keep it, or cut it, and neither of them is allowed to say ‘it depends’!Erin and Terry go through the lot. It starts with a harmless warm up round; then veers through dangerous territory for any couple; the house, the airport, screen time, food, dating, and going out, big occasions, little oc
Episode 11 - Two Autism Dads - Jake Suleman
Erin’s off this week, so Terry brought in his friend and fellow musician Jake Suleman, and it turned into one of the most honest conversations of the series. Both of them are autism dads. Terry to Harry, Jake to his 8-year-old daughter Esme. Two totally different kids of the same age. Despite the differences, Terry and Jake share the same lifestyle and same highs, lows, and hard days.Terry shares
Episode 10 – Playing with Fire: Micro cheating and online flirting
If your partner put a fire emoji on a photo ofan attractive person on Instagram, would you care? Most people have an answerimmediately. Almost no couple has ever actually discussed it. This week Erin and Terry get into the grey areathat every couple navigates but almost none of them talk about out loud. Themicro cheating spectrum, from a liked photo to a deleted DM, and what it isthat actually tip
Episode 9 - Man Down: Andropause and What Men Won’t Admit
They did the menopause episode. This is the other side. Because men’s bodies are changing in their 40s too! Testosterone drops roughly one to two per cent every year after 30, and the symptoms look like depression, burnout, or just getting older. Most men never find out what it actually is.So this week Erin and Terry get into andropause. What it is, what it does to mood, energy, libido, and body c
Episode 8 - After Us: What happens to Harry when we’re gone
Most parents of children with additional needs have not made a formal plan for what happens after they’re gone. Not because they don’t love their child. Because sitting down and doing it is one of the hardest things you’ll ever have to face.This week Erin and Terry face it properly. What the conversation actually involves. The cliff edge that comes at 18 when school ends and the adult disability s
Episode 7 - Going Inward: Finding peace in the chaos
Erin has been going on retreats for years. Silent retreats, breathwork, mindfulness. It’s not a phase, it’s part of how she functions. Terry got into mindfulness, did the work, and then came back the other direction. Genuinely.This week they get into what going inward actually does, and whether it survives contact with real life. What Erin gets from retreats that she can’t get anywhere else. What
Episode 6 - Work Life: When home life can’t wait.
Between them, Erin McGregor and Terry Kavanagh have a clothing brand to run, pantos to rehearse, gigs in different countries, brand deals, photoshoots, etc etc etc. And running through the middle of all that: a son with significant additional needs whose appointments, therapies, and school days don’t move for anyone’s diary. This week they get into the real cost of two parents working when home do
Episode 5 - Sex & Menopause: Terry doesn't get it
Erin asked thousands of women how often they’re having sex. The results were so far from what anyone would post on a grid that she had to bring them to the podcast.This week she and Terry get into the full picture: what menopause actually does to a marriage, the libido changes nobody prepares you for, the things Terry didn’t understand until Erin explained it, and the relationship between what’s h
Episode 4 - Autism Dad: Terry's journey with Harry
Terry sits down with Erin to talk about Harry. The autism diagnosis. The day Erin told him. What he thought it meant, what it actually meant, and the long road from there to here.He takes Erin back to the early signs, those scary first few years, and the questions he didn't know how to ask. They get into where he and Erin weren't on the same page, and how they found their way to it. And Te
Episode 3 - Money & Power: When one partner earns more
Not so long ago, women in Ireland couldn't open a bank account. Couldn't take out a loan. Couldn't keep their jobs once they got married. Now Erin earns more than Terry most weeks. Somewhere between then and now, something shifted, and most modern couples are still figuring out what to do with it.This week we sit down with money. Not the spreadsheets and savings tips version. The versi
Episode 2 - Mental Load: Terry on trial
This week Erin puts Terry on trial for the thing every household quietly fights about... who actually tracks what's going on. The appointments, school stuff, the where-is-it-now, the do-we-have-milk. The invisible, unpaid job of running a house, and what it does to a relationship when one person feels they're carrying more than the other.We get into the funny side, the things Terry asks for that a
Episode 1 - Perceptions: You think you know us
Erin McGregor and Terry Kavanagh kick off Keeping it Real by pulling back the curtain on the life people think they're already watching on social media.The myths. The mean comments. The pressure of feeling like you can't make a single mistake in public. They take it all on with the kind of brutal honesty most couples save for the kitchen at midnight... and laugh through the bits they can.I
