The Essential Training Podcast

How can we listen to our body’s messages? How can we approach life with more intentionality? In what ways can we create a life with a fulfilling career, children, family and success? These are some of the questions that we explore in our conversation with Eva Nash. Eva spent 20 years in the creative advertising agency space in Ireland, growing from Office Manager to Agency Director. She now consul...

How can we bring more of ourselves into our roles? Where can we find more joy and fulfilment by being more aligned with our true nature at work? What are some of the ways we’re unconsciously affecting those around us? Dad and I reflect on our first 20 episodes of the podcast and some of the conversations we’ve had. Also, Dad shares some of the aphorisms that he often uses with his clients. We ment...

This week we sat down with Steve Crosbie, the Founder and Owner of Fad Saoil Sauna‘s in their location in Greystones Co. Wicklow. I’m a regular customer of Fad Saoil and love sea swimming and having the sauna so close to the cove in Greystones. I bring friends and clients there and it’s an amazing way to catch up, have coaching sessions and enjoy the sea all year round. In this conversation, we ex...

This Week I sat down with Ross Keating, the founder and owner of The Lennox Academy, the number 1 live sales training platform in Europe. We discuss starting his business, the multiple attempts to get going, finding product-market fit, building and leading a team and writing on LinkedIn. I loved learning from Ross and getting an insight into his motivation, passion for building his business and hi...

On this week’s episode I sat down with Connor Emeny who’s the youngest person to complete 6 Ironman races on 6 continents 🏊🏻‍♂️🚴🏼‍♂️🏃🏽! Connor recently did his 7th Ironman on Antartica, where he spent multiple days with his team living on a boat and faced multiple financial, physical and mental challenges! This conversation is all about mindset, motivation, drive, passion, vision, purpose an...

Check out this week's podcast conversation with Meditation and Mindfulness Teacher Becca Mehigan! In this chat we discuss: - Helpful techniques to understand and reflect on our emotions. - Becca's extraordinary story of grief and her route to Yoga and Meditation. - The work Becca does with her clients and on social media to help alleviate suffering and help people come to greater levels of self-aw...

This week we talk with Mark McDonnell who was most recently CEO of Soar.ie for the past 5 years and has been in leadership roles in Soar.ie for the past 10 years. We discuss the workshops they do in schools with teenagers. We chat about understanding Gen Z and leading them effectively as the newest additions to the workforce. Ian sat on the board of Soar for a few years and knows the work they do...

On this episode, we finish our conversation with David Walsh, and dive even deeper into his insights and wisdom from founding and leading multiple companies. I enjoyed this in-person conversation and got a lot from it personally, about not needing to be perfect before starting something, leading with a human-first approach and being passionate about what we do. As always, reach out to us at Essent...

On this episode I chat with David Walsh, the CEO of Limelight, a B2B marketing company, connecting business influencers with brands. I was fascinated to hear about David’s journey into sales. He tells an amazing story about getting funded with his startup idea in an internal incubator at Indeed, presenting to the C-suite of a then 10,000 person company, only to be let go for visa reasons on the sa...

On this weeks episode I sat down with a Jasper Walshe, the founder and CEO of TRIPS Tank a collective of performance coaches who help people and teams to reach more of their potential.  We had a wide-ranging conversation about the future of leadership in business, the joys and frustrations of working within businesses, and the pleasure in experiencing leadership done well. Jasper shared about...

I really enjoyed this conversation. It feels like we’re finding our groove and getting more comfortable in front of the microphone and the camera. It’s a wide-ranging conversation where we cover perception and one of Dad’s favourite sayings: “Monday doesn’t know it’s monday”. We cover the stories we carry about ourselves and the work we do with Indreni.org. We touch on the work we do with our clie...

On this week's episode, I sit down with David Duggan from Below The Line, who provide executive coaching and leadership development for teams, individuals and organisations. Rather than an interview, this is more of a two-way conversation which was really enjoyable to record and there's lots of interesting nuggets throughout. It was a wide-ranging conversation about facilitating team workshops, se...

On this episode of the Essential Training Podcast, Dad and I discuss working with business leaders, running workshops with our clients, and working together as father and son doing these podcasts. We discuss therapy, coaching, succeeding and failing fast when running a business and working with entrepreneurs. We discuss self-awareness, fitting in, and making our own mistakes on our journeys. We ho...

On this episode we reflect on themes that have come up with our clients and for us this week. We chat about changing jobs and releasing the attachment to our old stories. We also discuss tools to improve our self-awareness: Belbin.com: https://www.belbin.com/ Myers Briggs: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test Insights: https://www.insights.com/products/insights-discovery/ Values:...

On this episode of the Essential Training Podcast, we reflect on what's come up for our clients and ourselves recently. We cover Self-Esteem and Self-Confidence, the stories we carry about ourselves, and communication coaching. We also discuss how as people, often our personal lives affect our work lives along with musings and thoughts from the week. Links with more information on the topics that...

On this episode, I speak with Damien Woodfull, who runs his own company, training and educating Sales professionals on the importance of meditation and mindfulness to bring more success into their work and their lives. Damien and I worked together as salespeople for Thinkific.com for 3 and 4 years respectively, and were part of journey of growth from $8m in revenue to over $50m and a successful IP...

On this episode, we discuss the internal narratives we tell ourselves. Dad discusses how he sees these narratives affect our lives, in ways we sometimes can’t see, until they’re expressed. We chat through how even just noticing our internal narrative, can change how we bring ourselves to work, life and living. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On this episode I share a story that I picked up recently from a book written by Ulick O’Connor. We also explore themes of storytelling at work, burnout prevention tools and working smarter not necessarily harder. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

I chat with Sam McArdle about his upcoming show, "The Manny" coming to Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin this November 13th-18th. "The Manny" centers around an Irish male nanny working for wealthy single mothers in West London. Sam also shared his experiences about his journey to this point in his life and career, particularly his transition from Dublin to London for drama school 13 years ago, his stu...

On this Episode, I explore some themes that came up with our clients in the past few weeks. Together we’ll explore how these stories can apply to our work, life, sport, art and/or anything that we're working on. How can we tap back into the flow state? Where can we apply mental models to bring us back into the present moment? How can we benefit from shifting our perspectives and transforming our m...

Chat with Business Owner and Entrepreneur, Dean Smith on location at his premises: OffGrid Recovery and Wellness on the main street in Bray. In this conversation we touched on Dean's personal journey to running a wellness business, the personal development taken to find success and the magic in creating a space for people to health, grow and transform through his work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

Thanks to Claire for being our first official guest. Claire gives a beautiful account of starting the Fat Fox, how she got into baking and cooking and the service industry, and useful ways to switch off from work when it’s our passion. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Get to know a bit more about our intentions for this podcast, why we’re excited and how we envision it taking shape. Meet Ian Kingston, my aul fella, and learn more about what he brings to his work with clients and what he’ll be bringing to this podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Welcome to the Essential Training podcast. We’re a father/son team and work with corporate teams, organisations and executives to help them unlock more of their potential. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.