Business Builders

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. This week I caught up with Norman Crowley, a successful serial entrepreneur who is doing remarkable things in business and in environmental awareness. Norman Crowley founded and sold 3 businesses with a total worth of $750...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. Lory Kehoe is an adjunct associate professor at Trinity College Dublin and Founder of BlockChain Ireland. Being an accountant, I thought I knew a little about blockchain and cryptocurrency before my chat with Lory, but as...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. This week I had an inspiring chat with Barbara Turley, Founder and CEO at The Virtual Hub. The Virtual Hub provides virtual, remote assistants to businesses all over the world.  Barbara has an astounding work ethic and dra...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. Vincent Carton’s story reaches back into the 18th Century, where the Carton family began a poultry business involving breeding, feeding and selling in the Dublin area. This is one of Ireland’s oldest surviving companies! W...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. Vincent Carton’s story reaches back into the 18th Century, where the Carton family began a poultry business involving breeding, feeding and selling in the Dublin area. This is one of Ireland’s oldest surviving companies! F...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. Jack Pierse is the co-founder and CFO of Wayflyer, a revenue-based financing service for ecommerce companies. Wayflyer’s business is a simple one, they lend money to businesses, so that they can buy more online advertising...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. Welcome to Season 2 of Irish Business Builders! On today's episode I chat with Mick Kearney, whose life in business has taken him down many paths since he started out in the early 1980's. Mick brought Snap Printi...

Hello dear listeners, Thank you for tuning in to Season One of Irish Business Builders. I'm very excited to return with Season Two on Monday the 21st of September! You can use this time to catch up on any episodes you've missed, and if you know an Irish Business Builder you'd like to hear from on the show, email me at conor@jetbooks.ie Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ir...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. This week I sat down with Mick Dawson, ex-stockbroker with Davy and Chief Executive of Leinster Rugby since 2001. I've never been a huge rugby fan and so in this chat, I was interested to hear what goes on behind the...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. Peter Burke is the kind of person who sees challenges as opportunities. His first business venture was a small gym called Crossfit 353, as an affiliate of the well-known fitness brand. Starting an affiliate business is a g...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. This week I sat down with Xavier Vidal, somewhat of a retail genius, which is probably why he is involved now in something that makes so many people happy - ice cream. We haven’t spoken about franchises in the show yet,  a...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. This week I caught up with Conor Hanratty, whose story is a little different than our other business builders so far. Conor was the managing director of Extraspace Solutions, a leading  specialist in construction of modula...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. This week I had a great chat to Gary Fox, founder of Host Butlers, which is a property concierge service for short-term lettings. What is that, you might ask? Well, picture comprehensive, professional management of your pr...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. This week I spoke to Will Sparks, whose journey towards becoming a successful financial planner contained big hurdles.  While at college in UCD, Will overcame immense challenges posed by Dyslexia. Having previously been an...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. This week I chatted to Tom Fox from Fifty-Three Six, a digital strategy agency for sport, with a focus on video. Tom shares his career story from working with Twitter, all the way to learning how to run campaigns on Facebo...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. Attention: There’s a twist at the end of this episode, so stay tuned!  This week I spoke to Molly McKeever, yoga teacher and founder of Sweaty Soul Studio, a slice of calm in Dublin’s busy IFSC. Throughout our conversation...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. Junior’s Deli & Cafe. Paulie’s Pizza. Lotts & Co. Can you see a pattern? Barry McNerney and his brother Paul have built all of these iconic Irish businesses, and I loved hearing Barry’s tales of determination and p...

Produced by Jetbooks , Chartered Accountants Ireland. Subscribe to the Business Builders Newsletter for the very best ideas I've discovered on business and personal growth. Brenton is a young entrepreneur and founder of WIZE Mentoring, an online business coaching platform. Initially intended  for accounting firms only, Brenton tells me how his model revealed strategies that all business owner...

Welcome to Irish Business Builders! I'm Conor Kearney, the one in the picture, and also the founder of Jetbooks, an online accounting firm for Irish businesses. In this show, I'll be chatting with the people who built Ireland's most loved businesses, from CEO's to restauranteurs, small businesses, big businesses and everything in between. You'll hear from a new guest each...