{"id":423117,"date":"2026-04-29T08:31:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:31:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423117\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T08:31:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-29T08:31:09","slug":"life-lessons-from-marriage-to-setting-up-your-own-business-take-advice-from-those-whove-been-there-and-done-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/423117\/","title":{"rendered":"Life lessons: From marriage to setting up your own business \u2013 take advice from those who\u2019ve been there and done it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">\nThere\u2019s nothing like lived experience to give us a better understanding of how to deal with things, as these people from all walks of life found out after one, 10 and 20 years\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Discover some golden nuggets for life, from everything to marriage, parenting and recovering from illness. Image: Clare Meredith\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/0ef8b982-fda7-47a1-82b3-45b1618f0b72.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Discover some golden nuggets for life, from everything to marriage, parenting and recovering from illness. Image: Clare Meredith<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">Catie Beth Bowman, originally from the US, but now living in Kilkenny where she runs a marketing company, called K. Hope Creative, has been married to Kevin for a year and says she is really enjoying the journey so far. <\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">\u201cWe married at the registrar\u2019s office in Dublin with just three witnesses, after spending the morning sipping Champagne and eating charcuterie on the terrace at The Shelbourne. We then hopped around to different pubs: the sun was shining and it was perfect.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There\u2019s nothing like lived experience to give us a better understanding of how to deal with things, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":423118,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[93,61,60,6361],"class_list":["post-423117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-life-magazine"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=423117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/423117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/423118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=423117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=423117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=423117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}