SharkPod Podcast

What is up SharkNation! This week Luke and Mark sit down with David Kindlon CEO and co-founder of Eppione and Screenin.me to chat about the changing ways companies are rewarding staff in 2021 and beyond.  Eppione provides software to manage all HR needs including benefit management for employees.  The way we all work is in flux at the moment. Nobody knows what's around the corner, but we do know t...

What is Up SharkNation!   This week Luke and Mark chat to Entrepreneur and Business Mentor Joe Costello. Joe Costello is a global expert in high performance, both on a personal and professional level. As a successful business mentor in Ireland and international speaker, Joseph devotes his life to helping others ‘waken up’ and live enriched, fulfilled lives by thinking into results, one thought at...

What is Up SharkNation! Today Luke and Mark sit down with Chris McGale, Author of "Million Dollar Irishman", to chat about his amazing life story, from orphan and boxing champion to star financial player in Merrill Lynch.  Biggest takeaways from this episode: 1. It doesn't matter where you start in life or the hand you are dealt, a mixture of determination and luck will often determine where you e...

What is Up SharkNation! This week the guys sit down in with Tom Dalton - Owner - TD Performance. TD Performance has been leading the way in workplace wellness in Ireland, creating evidence-based employee wellness programs for multiple companies across a number of industries.  The guys discuss: 1. How Tom got started in the industry and how the atmosphere in Ireland at the time was not conducive to...

What is Up SharkNation! This week on the SharkPod Luke and Mark continue their investing education and sit down to chat to Joe Doyle, Business Mentor and Property Investor (https://joedoyle.ie/). Joe tells his incredible story of how he is building a €100m property portfolio (€12m at the moment). With coaching programs and mentorship, Joe also helps tradesmen in Ireland get paid what they're worth...

What is up SharkNation! This week on the SharkPod, Luke and Mark sit down with the CEO of delivery giant DPD (https://dpd.ie/About-DPD/The-Company) to chat about an incredible year in the parcel delivery industry. DPD Ireland have been around under different names for about 35 years but during the Global Pandemic they have grown massively and it's a company that has probably delivered something to...

What is up SharkNation! This week on the podcast, Luke and Mark sit down with Conor Lynch - Founder - SelfMakers, to chat about his new venture. Conor is a Digital Business Designer, Educator, Self Maker and Connector. He has started ventures in a wide range of industries (from t-shirts to Digital Marketing) and has recently launched his education company - SelfMakers - after selling his Digital M...

What is Up SharkNation!   If any of you have attended a Bingo Loco event in any of the many countries they operate in, you'll know the level of creativity and execution that goes into the events they put on.    Luke and Mark caught up with Will Meara, Co-Founder of Bingo Loco, to chat business, travel and getting out of your comfort zone.    Will, currently in Mexico, is an adventurer, entrepreneu...

What Is Up SharkNation! Luke and Mark sat down with Norman Crowley, CEO - Crowley Carbon (revenue in the hundreds of millions) to talk about how he built a business from the foothills of Co. Wicklow that manages the energy of the worlds biggest buildings.  They cover: 1.  Building and selling his gaming business for $500m and how they missed out on a billion dollar payday. 2. Selling a WiFi busine...

What is Up SharkNation! It's seemed strange to have a podcast based in Greystones on business and lifestyle design and not have Stephen from the Happy Pear on!  Stephen and his brother Dave have build a great business in their home town of Greystones, they have build international notoriety with their message of positive eating/living and have appeared on some of the biggest podcasts in the world....

What is Up SharkNation! To celebrate International Hug Day, the guys sit down with Marian Carroll, CEO (volunteer) - Ronald McDonald house, Dublin. They chat about the important work the charity does and and how they provide a lifeline for parents with seriously ill children so that they can spend as much time with their child as possible. Although RMDH is a charity, it faced the same challenges t...

What is up SharkNation!   Luke and Mark continue on their journey of "Getting Their Money Right" in 2021 by sitting down with Owen O'Malley - CEO of The Investment Club Network.   Owen's company has been around for 20 years and has helped establish 1000+ investment clubs in 50+ countries.   They Cover:   1. How Tony Robbins helped Owen get started in investing and how trading in the early 90s was...

What is Up SharkNation!  2021 is here and it's time to get your priorities for the year in order! Luke and mark spend this episode going through the different goal setting frameworks and discuss their own goals and aspirations for 2021. They go through 3 different frameworks: 1. RPM - Toney Robbins  You can get a great breakdown  of the method the guys discuss here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v...

What is up SharkNation!   2020 had a big impact on Luke and Mark. Now, during the last week of the year, Luke and Mark look back on the year with a positive lens.  They cover: 1. Achieving goals during the pandemic   2. Changes they have made in the way they work and how they are leveraging the new work from home revolution.   3. The new opportunities arising from the new distributed work force.  ...

What is Up SharkNation! John McGrane is Director General of The British Irish Chamber of Commerce, a private sector organisation which he co-founded in 2011 to represent businesses with interests in the two islands and their economies. He is a retired financial services professional having completed a 40 year career with the Royal Bank of Scotland / Ulster Bank Group in Ireland. Who better to chat...

What is up SharkNation! This week Luke and Mark sit down with veteran broadcaster Conall Ó Móráin to discuss his career, and his new Podcast venture "That Great Business Show" which he co-hosts with former Ireland rugby international captain - Jamie Heaslip. Conall has a long career in media and it was great for Luke and Mark to sit-down with a real pro to discuss how the media landscape is evolvi...

What is up SharkNation! Luke and Mark share their experience with going through their "Koch-tober challenge" Luke and Mark decided to skip the usual sober October, but wanted to run a self improvement challenge anyway. After listening to Richard Koch (Strategy Guru and Author of The 80/20 Principal) on Tim Ferris' Podcast, Luke and Mark decided they would read 4 of his best selling books in Octobe...

What is up SharkNation! This podcast is dedicated to all the listeners out there who are trying to design a life they love. For those who wish to take back the power and self-determine of their future. We are told we need to work until we are 65 and that our reward will be a financial freedom for a few years before the twilight of our lives kicks in.  What if you could retire in 5-10 years, no mat...

What is up SharkNation! This week the guys sit down with Serial Entrepreneur Fabio Molle.  Fabio is the Founder of  Functional Tennis, an Instagram community of well over a quarter million followers. He co-founded the iconic "Funky Christmas Jumpers" and has built and sold an ecommerce business within a year.    They cover: 1. How Funky Christmas Jumpers got started, how they used Gorilla Marketin...

What is up SharkNation!   This week Luke and Mark sit down with Lisa Quinlan, Owner of The Rolling Donut ( https://www.therollingdonut.ie/ ). The guys break down what it's like for a public facing business heading into lockdown 2.0, here in Dublin.   They cover: 1. The family story behind The Rolling Donut and the famed original store on O'Connell Street in Dublin.  2. How world travel led Lisa to...

What is up SharkNation! This week Luke and Mark sit down with this Real Estate Entrepreneur turned full time Artist - John Fitzgerald ( https://johnfitzgeraldart.ie/) . John is perhaps Ireland's best known and successful equine Artists.  This one will speak to any of our listeners who are looking to transition into making a business out of their passion and design a creative life that also financi...

What is up SharkNation!   This week Luke and Mark sit down with James Cluskey - Founder of High Calibre Collective ( https://hccollective.co/about-us/ ). James is a former tennis professional and former tennis coach of Sir Richard Branson.  We cover:  1. Step by step how to become a professional tennis player (and his personal journey) 2. Being a college athlete in the US (LSU) and what it was lik...

What is up SharkNation!   This week, Luke and Mark sat down with serial entrepreneur Garret Flower. Founder of Krüst Bakery and Cafés, Parkpnp (like airbandb for your car parking space), and ParkOffice - a rapidly expansing SaaS Business helping corporates manage their parking needs.  They cover: 1. Starting business straight out of college, working with SharkPod Alum Devan Hughes. 2. How he set u...

What is Up SharkNation! Recently the guys have spoken to a few startup founders that had gone through the NDRC accelerator program.  NDRC has to date built and invested in more than 250 companies, which have secured a total of more than €152m in follow-on investment.  The guys got a chance to sit down with David Scanlon (@dscanlon) (Venture Investment Leader) to dig into what investors are looking...

What is Up SharkNation!  Neil Lesher is the Founder and CEO of  LeshTronix Drone Systems. He has invented a drone device for your phone (The PhoneQuad). Serial Entrepreneur, Neil has developed and sold multiple Retail (Brick & Mortar) businesses as well as having decades of I.T. experience in the Investment Banking sector. His professional background as a Sr. Market Data Business Analyst encompass...