Win Happy Podcast

In part three of this three part podcast Dr. Orla Flynn reflects on her life, her career and the new role as President of GMIT after spending 33 years at CIT.

We chat about moving to Lismore from New York at the age of 11, adapting to life in Ireland, witnessing cruelty in the classroom, experiencing the joy of team sports and then leading teams through big transformation including her time as head of Crawford College of Art and Design.

Finally she explains the rationale of a huge life upheaval for her and the whole family to take on this huge new role,

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

In part two of this three part podcast Dr. Orla Flynn, the new President of GMIT (Galway Meath Institute of Technology) reflects on her 33 successful years at CIT.

In this episode we captured a huge (sometimes heated!) and very passionate conversation about Gender Equality, the role of ratios and how the 'Me Too' movement adds an extra challenge to this complex topic

Let us know where you sit with this huge issue.

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

Dr. Orla Flynn, has just left CIT after a fantastic career spanning 33 years at the college to take up the role of President at GMIT in Galway. (Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology)

In Part 1 of a three part podcast, Orla talks about her love of teaching, the early part of her career lecturing in Maths and Computer Science (at "The Tech") and her steady progression up the ranks to senior roles at the college.

We chat about the huge changes in Computer Science, women in STEM, developing the Multi Media programme, the increasing anxiety of students and the challenge of career and early motherhood.

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

Greg chats with Mary McGrath, Director of the First Cut Youth Film Festival about the sheer joy she witnesses first hand when so many young people get to express themselves each year through film, and the huge, lasting impact that this can have on their lives.

Mary chats about her life including teaching, community work and how a youth project, which ultimately led to First Cut rescued her from a very dark place due to a personal tragedy .

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

Greg chats with Mary McGrath, Director of the First Cut Youth Film Festival about the sheer joy she witnesses first hand when so many young people get to express themselves each year through film, and the huge, lasting impact that this can have on their lives.

Mary chats about her life including teaching, community work and how a youth project, which ultimately led to First Cut rescued her from a very dark place due to a personal tragedy .

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

In this episode we chat with Founder and MD of Digicom and former President of Dublin Chamber, Greg Clarke.

Greg is one of those rare breeds, those unsung heroes of the indigenous small business sector in Ireland.

No grants, no advance factories, no super cool App - this is a business employing 40 people, built on pure hard work and excellent customer service.

Greg chats about lessons from 23 years running his own business, about things he learnt from his dad and his fruit business, from selling in the Isle of Man, LA and Dublin, about how it is a game of confidence and how coaching GAA teams and cycling can refresh your head.

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

In this episode Greg chats with Dave O'Donoghue, who brought the healthy food franchise, Freshii to Ireland from Canada.

Dave who grew up on a small farm in Kerry has had a huge career working in food, from selling butter and cheese to supermarkets to managing the European operation for huge brands such as Cuisine de France.

A desire to do his own thing and to help Ireland to eat healthy led to him bringing the innovative, successful food business, Freshii to Ireland with his business partner, Cormac Manning.

We chat about food trends, business, learning, a crippling recession and what it means to be happy!

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

In this episode we take on the huge topic of our young vulnerable children, over 6,000 in Ireland who are in foster or residential care.

Greg chats with a who works tirelessly with her team to find suitable foster care parents, and to prepare them so that they can successfully provide safe, caring and loving homes to our most precious, vulnerable children.

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

From rapper, songwriter and tech fan, Garry McCarthy (aka GMCBeats) has turned into a teacher, a mentor, a friend, a provider of safe places and an inspirer of young people who are bursting to have their voices heard.

In this episode of the Win Happy podcast I chat with Garry about his career, his love of music and tech, his early rapping success and how he has found a special love for inspiring others, who in so many cases have gone on to success.

The Kabin, located in a disadvantaged area of Cork City is that special safe place for talented young voices thanks to Garry and the support of Music Generation.

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty

Greg chats with the fascinating behavioural scientist, Milo-Arne Wilkinson, who is in Ireland to launch the ELEVEN Executive Leadership Programme at Dublin Business School.

Milo, one of 16 children, originally from Hawaii and now living in Australia has had a fascinating career, which has led her to developing this very unique programme that focuses on the attributes of leaders and not their competencies.

Milo talks about her life, her family, her work with sports teams and the ELEVEN attributes of great leaders.

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This show has been brought to you by Fuzion Communications, a Marketing, PR, Graphic Design and Digital Marketing Agency in Ireland with offices in Dublin and Cork.

The show is produced by Greg Canty