Win Happy Podcast

In this episode Greg chats with Margot Slattery the Country President of Sodexo Ireland, a giant of company with a team of over 4,000 on these shores alone.

Margot chats about her idyllic life growing up on a farm in Bruff, Co.Limerick and some early inspiration including her widowed grandmother, Annie Keane who managed her own farm.

She also chats about her career path, challenges along the way and being a role model as a successful woman in business and a champion for the LGBT community n Ireland

And....Never forget where you came from

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Greg chats with young successful businessman, Ernest Cantillon who shares his personal story, which includes a brother with special needs and an early decision to give up alcohol.

He talks about the early, fun and often naive days of opening his own businesses, including Sober Lane and Electric.

He talks about other ventures that were not successful and how this impacted him and there is also a core philosophy of "It's nice to be nice" and how this works in a competitive business world.

Ernest gives back and does voluntary work including Cork Simon, with a goal of solving the homeless crisis.

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In this episode Greg has a huge chat with fellow Dublin Chamber Council member and Head of Business Banking with AIB, Catherine Moroney.

The chat explores her early days growing up in Dublin, part time work in a hospital for patients with long term illness, switching from Archaeology to banking and a successful career with AIB.

She talks about the crash and the impact of this on her and colleagues, the challenge of diversity, the impact of technology and preparing customers for Brexit.

Finally she shares a very personal story about being told that you just have six weeks to live.

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In this episode Greg takes a deep trip into the darkness of mental illness with Jim Breen, founder of PulseLearning, star of the TV show Secret Millionaire and founder of Cycle Against Suicide.

In this very open and honest chat, Jim shares his successful and inspirational story as well as his personal struggles with his own darkness, how he copes with this everyday and how he has turned this darkness into a unique strength.

A sincere thank you to Jim for giving us this insight into what it is like to live with Mental Illness.

It's ok not to be ok, and it's absolutely ok to ask for help

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In this episode Greg chats with Aodan Enright, the founder and CEO of leading coaching and training company Smarter Egg.

We chat about an interesting career, which led to senior training and change management roles with the American multinational company, EMC and ditching all of this for self employment just as the wheels fell off the economy in Ireland.

Was this a totally crazy time to start a new, quite original training business?

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In this episode Greg chats with newly appointed Director of the Crawford Art Gallery, Mary McCarthy.

We chat about her life and career, working in a gallery in New York, director of National Sculpture Factory, Programme Director of Cork, 2005 City of Culture, Cultural Manager of Dublin Docklands Development Authority and a second term at the National Sculpture Factory.

We chat about the current and future changes at The Crawford Art Gallery and the huge role that art and culture plays in society.

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In this episode Greg chats with Professor Barry O'Sullivan, Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and Computer Science at UCC.

Barry who originally wanted to be a professional musician is now an award-winning academic working in the field of artificial intelligence, data analytics, AI and data ethics, constraint programming, and operations research, for more than two decades.

In his fascinating role, he is at the epicentre of this powerful AI technology, which can be harnessed to solve some of societies biggest challenges but in the wrong hands it can be equally dangerous.

Barry shares his hopes and his concerns for AI and explains how the industry attempts to steer itself towards best outcomes.

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In this episode Greg chats with Eleanor O'Kelly Lynch of Golden Apple Training about the most interesting career and a very challenging life.

Eleanor who specialises in customer service training started her career lecturing in CIT, she realised her "vision" when she convinced a new radio station (which became 96FM) to employ her and she quickly rose through the ranks to Sales Manager and then started her own training company.

What most people don't know is that Eleanor's daughter, Lauren who is now in her twenties has a rare and very cruel condition called CdLS, which is hugely challenging.

How does she cope each day and stay bright?

Eleanor has the secret...

In this episode Greg chats with the super nice, super talented and soon to be superstar, singer songwriter, Lilla Vargen from Ballymena in Northern Ireland.

Lilla shares her unique story of being obsessed with music from the age of three and some "accidents" that have brought her to today's successful career.

She shares stories of open mic nights, first gigs, chance recording sessions and opening for James Bay in London.

She tells us some of the stories behind her popular songs including a very special song that is soon to be written.

Lilla thinks that her career is accidental, Greg reckons it is fulfilling her destiny.

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In this episode Greg chats with the founder of Fuzion Communications, Deirdre Waldron.

From the early days of working in the family business in Kerry, reinventing herself in boarding school, moving to London and working in fashion and IT during the troubles and finally moving back to Ireland to work in various roles including Marketing Director of the famous, Rose of Tralee festival.

Deirdre talks about starting Fuzion and explains her business philosophy, which has led to continuous growth and success even during a bitter recession.

The chat took place in Portugal, while Dee was on leave and even though on leave she was still "on duty", including taking time to chat to the BBC about the Belfast rugby case.

Finally she chats about what Win Happy means to her and she tells a special story about Chicken Maryland!

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