Win Happy Podcast

When Ken Gibson from The Mission to End Leprosy called our office two years ago we honestly thought it was a joke.

Sadly this ancient disease, is still isolating people in India, Brazil and Africa, but it can be cured by Ken and his team with the will and the right support.

St.Stephens Green, Leopardstown and Galloping Green in Dublin, Lovers Walk and Castlemartyr in Cork are just some of Ireland's history with leprosy.

In this episode, Ken Gibson, CEO of The Mission to End Leprosy shares some of his stories about some of the very special people he has met with the condition and how it can be cured.

This is dedicated to the memory of Mr. Gandhi.

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Greg chats with the Destination Developer, the Londoner who fell in love with Ireland, Roger Hobkinson.

When most kids wanted to go on another ride, Roger kept asking why was Disneyland in Florida!

What do you do with the Millennium Dome, how do you bring the Wild Atlantic Way to life, how do you revitalise Bunratty Castle and Folk Park, what do you with Cork Docklands and what is the Cork brand?

Roger has worked on these and many other projects bringing strategic thinking and adding long term value everywhere.

He is the Destination Developer!

p.s He also has a thing or two to say about Brexit!

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In this episode of the Fuzion Win Happy podcast, Greg chat's with the poetic wordsmith, the passionate Corkonian, the dreamer, the singer songwriter, John Spillane.

The young man who dreamt of being a forester, discovered music in his teens and a deep love of Irish and Irish culture.

After spells with various bands John went solo and a fantastic journey began with a unique songwriting style immersed in a love of places, a love of Irish and a special way of capturing the things and people around him.

He has enjoyed huge success with his songs and they have even been covered by some of the giants of Irish music such as Christy Moore.

We hope you enjoy the show as much as we did!

Greg chats with Siobhan O'Donoghue, CEO of Uplift, the organisation that takes on causes it believes in, including housing, climate change, racial injustice, the rise of the far right and gender equality.

As a young girl she stopped chickens from being killed on the farm, as a nurse she stood up for patients and patient care and as a community worker she stood up for the traveller community in Limerick and migrants in Dublin.

From all of these roles, Siobhan learnt how to protest and fight for change, which led to her founding Uplift four years ago.

Power never gives way without a struggle

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A young couple got married and had their wedding reception at the Imperial Hotel in Cork and travelled onto Shannon Airport to wave goodbye to their families and emigrate to New York.

They left New York, six years later on Valentines Day, 1963 on a ship to return home, after a fantastic adventure in the "City that never sleeps".

Working and living in New York, drafted into the American Army, the music of Paul Anka, Andy Williams, Johnny Mathis and the Rat Pack, Carnegie Hall, Madison Square Garden, playing soccer with the Newark Portuguese and a new young President called John F.Kennedy.

What an adventure...

This couple was my mum and dad, Ann and Michael Canty.

Ann Canty, tells the story.

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What does your face tell me about you, really tell me?

In this episode Greg chats with Joseph Maguire, author of Face Facts and Founder and Director of Clearsight Communications.

Joseph had an interesting life growing up in inner city Dublin, working in the UK and Hamburg in Germany, developing a unique expertise and skill set, including the ability to read people's faces.

This special ability can help you make better recruitment decisions and can help you with crucial negotiations.

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Greg chats with the now retired Professor, Michael Mortell who was the President of University College Cork from 1989 to 1999.

His father died when he was just five years of age and Michael found that he had to dig a little deeper, and try a little harder to succeed in every walk of life.

He succeeded on the hurling field and he succeeded in academia earning scholarships to UCC and the much revered Caltech in Los Angeles.

In Michael's time, he relentlessly drove UCC forward, raising the standards, the facilities and the profile of the university in Ireland and internationally.

When he walked into UCC as a student in 1958 it was effectively a large school and when he left it was the equivalent of a large town!

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Greg chats with Sister Bride Given, an Irish nun originally from Listowel in Co.Kerry and a Board member of Nano Nagle Place.

Sister Bride shares her fascinating story, joining The Presentation Sisters, a closed order when she was just 17.

In that time she has lived through huge changes, part of which has led to the creation of Nano Nagle Place two years ago in Cork city.

She tells the story of her life, the story of the original female Social Entrepreneur, Nano Nagle and how she founded the Presentation Sisters to educate the Catholic children of Ireland and she also shares what we can expect when we visit the very special visitor attraction, Nano Nagle Place.

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Professor Patrick O'Shea, President of University College Cork initially started off at the college studying physics on a scholarship.

After an illustrious career in the United States at the University of Maryland spanning 30 years he returned to UCC nearly two years ago to take up the role of President.

In this podcast he outlines his ambitions for the college and the critical role that education plays in a much changed Cork and Ireland.

We wish him the very best of luck.

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In part two of our podcast with the inspirational Chairman of CRY (Cardiac Risk in the Young), Tommy Fegan he shares with us how he and his family coped with the sudden death of his son, Kevin at the age of 24.

The initial shock, the grieving and then the losing of one's self in work, in various projects and getting involved in fundraising for the charity CRY are all things that helped Tommy to cope.

We even heard about the very special role that a certain Finbar Furey played in helping Tommy with his early dark days.

Tommy also shares with us the huge work that CRY are doing and the big projects this year that might just require your support.

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