“I would sooner shut the business down than do it the way everyone else does.”

In this episode, I sit down with Niamh Murphy, founder of Cailin Mining and Civil, to unpack a journey that’s anything but conventional... From arriving in Australia to fund acting school, to taking on one of the most broken parts of the mining industry.

We talk about:

🚜 Breaking into a male-dominated industry as a machine operator

💥 Building, and losing, her first labour hire business in Sydney

🔁 Starting again from scratch in Perth during COVID

🧱 The dangerous reality of “dodgy tickets” and poor operator training

🛠️ Why live-site, experience-first training actually saves lives

🔥 The backlash that comes with challenging a corrupt system, and refusing to back down

This one is raw, confronting, and deeply principled. It’s about resilience, integrity, and what happens when you care more about doing things right than fitting in.

🎧 Now live on Spotify, Apple, YouTube and wherever you listen.