Season 5, Episode 8 – VALUES; Don’t Betray Yourself features gorgeous conversation between Molly and Katelyn Divilly, the only female Traitor from The Traitors Ireland Season One. Katelyn is an Organisational Development Consultant who works closely with teams to improve leadership, culture, and performance. In this episode, she brings both her professional insight and personal experience to a deep, honest exploration of values — how to identify them, live by them, and what happens when we betray them. At the very start of the episode, Molly also shares grounded, compassionate tips for navigating the Christmas season when you’re surrounded by dysfunctional family dynamics.
Together, Molly and Katelyn unpack why values are foundational to living a good life, making aligned decisions, and maintaining self-trust — especially in environments shaped by misogyny, poor leadership, or limiting beliefs. Drawing on psychology, real-life examples, and moments of humour and reflection, the conversation moves through identity, rest, nature, and relationships, asking what it really means to perform well as an individual and as part of a team. They also explore whether shared values are essential in romantic partnerships, how bad management can erode personal integrity, and why slowing down — through rest, walking, or even the Camino — is not optional but essential.
Topics covered:
Tips for surviving the Christmas season with dysfunctional family members
Having “special energy” and protecting it
The Aileen Wuornos serial killer documentary on Netflix
Misogyny and its impact on women
The Traitors Ireland: impact and lived experience
Limiting beliefs and negative vs positive self-talk
We are nature, not separate from it
VALUES: how to identify them and why they matter
The Peter Principle in leadership
Martin Seligman and Values in Action
Meeting a partner: do they need the same values as you?
Core values vs secondary values
Bad managers and managers who compromise your values
Tattoos as identity and meaning
This Is Not a Self-Help Book, But It Might Just Help You by Mark Mehigan
Rest as essential
Walking the Camino and slowing down.
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