Win Happy Podcast

A seventeen year old, football loving young man from a small town in Kerry joins a seminary in Thurles.

Six years later at the tender age of 23, he reports for duty as a new parish priest to Salford in Manchester. What does he know about life?

In this episode Greg chats with Fr. John Ahern, an unlikely friend (He is a huge Manchester United fan!) about the challenges of priesthood, life in Salford, missionary work in Peru and what his father Dan said to him when he left Farranfore for this life - oh, we also talk about Matt Busby!

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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 Alan Foley, Founder and Artistic Director of Cork City Ballet.

The young dancer, inspired by Fame and Flashdance found his way to the Cork Ballet School, run by the renowned Joan Denise Moriarty and he thrived under her strict regime. He gives us a fantastic insight into this special woman, who he clearly adored.

His career brought him to London, New York and Russia and back to Ireland where he founded his own ballet company, which is still thriving.

Major heart surgery at the age of just 39 ended his dancing career but he still teaches, inspires and produces spectacular shows each year.

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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 I chat with author Clodagh Finn and Deirdre Waldron about the incredible life of Cork woman, Mary Elmes who passed away in 2002 at 92 years of age.

Clodagh is the author of "A time to risk all" and she tells us about Mary's unthinkable bravery as she rescued 432 children from prison camps during the Spanish Civil War and World War 2.

Mary, who has recently been honoured in Cork with a new bridge in her name was educated in Trinity College and then the London School of Economics. She volunteered to work in hospitals in Spain and France, which led her on a path that had her caring for children in camps and rescuing many. She was held in a Nazi prison for 6 months in 1943 and returned to work after she was released.

"Miss Mary never let us down"

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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 today's podcast I chat with Shane McCarthy, the Chief Marketing Officer of Sandboxx in the United States.

Shane, a UCC graduate from Killarney chats about how this young company is providing a lifeline to young military entrants through their messaging services.

The very passionate Shane connected with me as a young student and I was thrilled when he reached out again with me recently.

While I'm blown away by his really career success, I'm not really surprised - he's always been super focused and super nice.

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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

Today I chat with my good friend, Development Director with EFM, and former TD, Aine Collins.

We discuss her fascinating life and career from a farm in North Cork, to London, to her own accountancy practice and then five years in Leinster House during some of the most turbulent times in Irish history.

Her passion for getting things done, for helping people and for entrepreneurship has led her to her new role with EFM, which is new to Ireland and a unique model than can help indigenous businesses maximise their potential with the help of a team of experienced strategic financial experts.

Aine believes in seizing opportunities when they present themselves and her motto is "have no regrets".

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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

When the work that you do each day helps to make a huge difference to some of societies biggest problems, that must be at the heart of a Win Happy life.

In today's show I chat with the CEO of Social Entrepreneurs Ireland, Darren Ryan who has been with the organisation for 10 years.

Darren talks about about his mum the social worker and his sister who helped to guide him to a towards a "making a difference" career, which was sealed by a four year old child in India called Sabina.

Darren explains the work that the organisation does, bringing big social impact ideas to life such as Food Cloud, Men's Sheds and Grow It Yourself.

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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

I'm always blown away when I see Tidy Towns volunteers up early on a Sunday morning picking up other people's rubbish.

In today's show I chat with Tom Butler, who has been Chairperson of Ballincollig Tidy Towns for the last 20 years.

Tom talks about the influences in his life, lessons learnt from his scouting days, lessons from his dad, Jim, and what drives him to do what he does each day and the difference the awards have made to towns and villages all over Ireland.

Why does Tom do what he does? - it's simple, it's all about Pride.

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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 two part podcast, Greg chats with the Creative Director of Fuzion, Jonathan Leahy Maharaj, or JLM as many know him.

We chat about his passion for design, his love of typography and fonts, the creative process with design for clients, ghost signs in our cities and towns and his love of photography.

He also talks about how client's can help input proactively into the design process to help get exactly what they want.

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Growing up in Ireland with an English accent, as an only child, living with mum and gran and being a little bit darker than the rest of us can't have been easy!

In part one of this two part podcast I chat with one of the Fuzion gang, our Creative Director and Mr.Nice Guy, Jonathan Leahy Maharaj, or JLM as many know him.

We talk about the early days discovering a love for design, the challenges of having a family at a young age, working in the iconic Sir Henry's and as a chef in Cafe Paradiso and eventually getting back to his passion in design.

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In this episode we chat with the co-founder of Renatus Capital, Mark Flood, who grew up on a horse farm in County Meath.

This self confessed SME loving entrepreneur has had an interesting career, from his early training as an accountant with BDO to quickly switching to equity finance, which led to him taking a huge role with the Racing Post for many years.

Eventually he founded Renatus Capital, an Irish equity firm with his partner and old boss from BDO, Brendan Travnor.

Renatus operate a clever investment vehicle, which focuses on SMEs, enabling those with potential to realise this quickly.

Mark talks about Renatus and key portfolio investments in Boojum, Simtech, Rennicks and plans for the future.

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