The 1% Podcast hosted by Shay Dalton

Today we’re joined by Gareth Hickey, Co-Founder & CEO of Noa (News Over Audio), an app that narrates written journalism from news publishers, including the FT, the Economist and the Harvard Business Review. Gareth launched the business in 2016 after a career in finance. He spotted a gap in the market with the way news was being consumed – and that audio could help consumers understand the news in...

What does it look like to deliver creative work on a consistent basis? Today we’re joined by Pat Stephenson, the Founder and Partner at Boys+Girls, to share the impact of harnessing creativity within your team and the power of storytelling. Boys+Girls is a branded entertainment agency founded in 2009 by Pat, working with clients such as Three, Smithwick’s, FitBit and the Irish Heart Foundation.   ...

Bread 41 is an organic bakery located in Dublin. It first opened its doors in September 2018, when they made 60 loaves of bread and 120 pastries – and were sold out in about 20 minutes. They have been playing catch up with demand ever since and on a busy day now, they can produce anything up to 5,000 pastries and many, many loaves of bread. We’re excited to have the founder and owner of Bread 41,...

That’s a wrap! Season 9 of the One Percent Podcast is now on all podcast platforms.   We pulled together a recap episode for you this week, featuring short clips from some of the great moments in the podcast’s seventh season. We were fortunate to have incredible leaders from across industries, disciplines, and fields share their stories and perspectives – and we wanted to share them with you as we...

Our guest today is Martin Brooks. Martin is a top communications coach, author and speaker who specialises in how to use your body language more effectively when communicating.   Our nonverbal behaviour or body language affects how others see us. But it may also change how we see ourselves, and therefore how we use our bodies can have an impact on our minds. Learning to decode nonverbal communicat...

In the second part of this interview with Ian Robertson we discuss confidence, and his most recent book ‘ How Confidence Works: The New Science of Self-belief, Why Some People Learn it and Others Don't ’.   We discuss how confidence empowers action and why it is a bridge to the future – we review the implications of this and if we can we learn to be more confident and manage overconfidence. We als...

Dr Ian Robertson is a clinical psychologist and neuroscientist. He is the Founding Director of the Trinity College Institute of Neuroscience, a Professor of Psychology at Trinity and Co-Director of the Global Brain Health Institute. Previously, he was a Senior Scientist at the MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit at the University of Cambridge.   Robertson is a leading expert on stress and wellbe...

Nir Eyal is an Israeli-born American author, lecturer and investor. He writes, consults, and teaches how psychology, technology, and business intersect. His science-based insights build healthy habits, improve productivity and focus, and manage distraction. He was a lecturer in Marketing at Stanford. He is a Wall Street Journal Bestselling Author of ‘Hooked’ and ‘Indistractable’.    ‘Indistractabl...

Lisa Feldman Barrett is a University Distinguished Professor of Psychology at Northeastern University. She also has research appointments at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital. Her research focuses on the psychology and neuroscience of emotion.    She is among the top 1% most cited scientists in the world. Her work has been described as ‘inspirational’, ‘transformative’ and...

I sat down with Billy Walsh, current USA head boxing coach and former Head Coach of the Irish Athletic Boxing Association (IABA) High Performance Team, to discuss the recent Olympics, his approach to performance and development, and the future of boxing in the Olympics in light of the McLaren report.    Billy shares his thoughts on a range of subjects, in what is one of the most in-depth conversat...

Born in Dublin, Ireland, Padraic Moyles emigrated to New York when he was nine years old. Padraic has danced in Riverdance thousands of times to millions of people throughout the world over the last 15 years. He has danced at the biggest venues and in front of the world leaders in business, sport and politics.   Dancing under the tutelage of Donny Golden, he joined Riverdance in 1997, going on to...

That’s a wrap! Season 8 of the One Percent Podcast is now on all podcast platforms.   We pulled together a recap episode for you this week, featuring short clips from some of the great moments in the podcast’s seventh season. We were fortunate to have incredible leaders from across industries, disciplines, and fields share their stories and perspectives – and we wanted to share them with you as we...

Lorna Lawless is a coaching psychologist with over 10 years corporate coaching experience. She manages her own coaching business, Next Level Coaching. Lorna has a passion for positive psychology, specialising in emotional intelligence, mental toughness and flow state. She helps her clients focus on their strengths in order to achieve more. Lorna has presented her research on emotional intelligence...

My guest today is Brian Pennie. Brian battled a 15 year addiction with heroin and overcame all obstacles to completely transform his life. He is a qualified psychologist and is a final year neuroscience PhD student and lecturer in Trinity College and UCD, where he lectures on the topic of the neuroscience of addiction.    He is a keynote speaker and consultant to some of Ireland’s leading corporat...

Tony Griffin is an athlete, charity activist, speaker and author.   He is a former All-Star hurler with Clare, retiring in 2009. After that he went on to extensive charity work. His work has included setting up his own charity, Ride for the Cure, and raised €1.1 million for cancer research and hospices.   Tony launched a sports management business called Sports Academy International - which organi...

Karl Moore is a true expert when it comes to introverts, extroverts – and ambiverts. He is an associate professor at McGill University and previously on the faculty of Templeton College at Oxford University for five years, where he remains an Associate Fellow. He has also taught on MBA and executive programs at Harvard Business School, Stanford, Duke, Oxford, Cambridge, LBS, to name a few. His mos...

Our guest today has a footballing life story that may be familiar in some senses and unique in others. His passage through the various tiers of the UK footballing world can tell us a lot about the pressures and dynamics on players during their short sporting career.   He has tasted ambition, excitement, dejection and success across both sides of the Irish Sea. This wide range of experience has lef...

That’s a wrap! Season 7 of the One Percent Podcast is now in all podcast platforms.   We pulled together a recap episode for you this week, featuring short clips from some of the great moments in the podcast’s seventh season. We were fortunate to have incredible leaders from across industries, disciplines, and fields share their stories and perspectives – and we wanted to share them with you as we...

Patrick McKeown is a world-renowned expert in breathing with nearly 20 years clinical experience. He has written eight books, three of which were bestsellers. Patrick has also been published in numerous publications and journals.   He studied at Trinity College Dublin and went on to study breathing with renowned Dr Konstantin Buteyko in his Moscow clinic. He became a practitioner and proponent of...

Pat Byrne has pioneered sleep and fatigue programs for athletes, sports teams and workplaces. He is the co-author of ‘Inconvenient Sleep: Why Teams Win and Lose’, where he uses his expertise to outline the impact of sleep on performance using history of sleep science and decades of research in the area. The book explores the facts and myths behind sleep, sleep science, and sleep monitoring.    He...

Dr David Coleman is a clinical psychologist who specialises in children, teenagers, and emotional and psychological development. David is also an Adjunct Associate Professor in the School of Psychology in UCD.   He has over 20 years experience in child psychology and has used this expertise in his regular parenting segment on Today with Claire Byrne on Radio 1 and his column in the Irish Independe...

Dr Dan Hill an internationally recognised facial coding expert and author of 5 books on the topic, who unlocks emotional attributes through face reading and has gained performance and communication insights for professional sports bodies in addition to corporate organisations through his consultancy Uppercut.    Some of the work he is best known for is his extensive and fascinating study into the...

Today’s guest was a driving force behind previously unseen success for Irish teams and athletes on European, World and Olympic stages. Gary Keegan is the Founder and CEO of Uppercut, a High Performance Consultancy, with a unique advisory service that helps transform how individuals and organisations achieve high performance in sport, business and leadership.   Gary has spent most of his career imm...

That’s a wrap! Season 6 of the One Percent Podcast is now in all podcast stores.   We pulled together a recap episode for you this week, featuring short clips from some of the great moments in the podcast’s sixth season. We were fortunate to have incredible leaders from across industries, disciplines, and fields share their stories and perspectives – and we wanted to share them with you as we wrap...

Damian Brown, former professional rugby player talks to us about the exploration of his physical and mental limits, rowing the Atlantic and conquering the Seven Summits. Damian played elite rugby with clubs such as Leinster, Connacht and Brive. After retirement, he embarked on a life of exploration and adventure successfully defeating the Marathons des Sables, single-handedly rowing the Atlantic a...