The Career Scoop

A day visiting InishMore, west of Ireland September 2023

Maeve talks about her job as Project Manager at MYDAWA, a Kenyan end-to-end online healthcare solution. Kenyan e-health startup MyDawa has raised $20 million from private equity investor Alta Semper Capital to expand its regional reach and product offerings with the aim of becoming an all-in-one health platform for users. MyDawa, which launched in 2016, has diversified from an e-pharmacy to includ...

Aberdeen is known for several things including its granite architecture which gives the city a distinct silver-grey appearance, its significant role in the North Sea oil and gas industry which has earned it the nickname ‘Oil Capital of Europe’, its universities, its maritime history and its lively cultural scene. Doric is the local "Scots Gallic" dialect.

Simon Bewley, International Tag Federation Board Member, Entrepreneur and "power house" behind the upcoming Tag Rugby World Cup in UL Limerick, Ireland, 2nd to the 5th of August 2023. Tag Players ( c 2000) from Ireland, UK, France, Australia, New Zeeland, Japan, Lebanon, Vietnam and Hong Kong will participate. Women's and Men's Teams from U/21's to Over 60's will particip...

Ryan was born in Greenwich, and grew up in Westport, CT. He attended Chemical and Biological studies at Roger Williams University in Bristol, RI.  He discovered his passion for wine after numerous trips to Napa Valley, specifically the Spring Mountain AVA located just north of Saint Helena. He worked extensively with producers on Spring Mountain, but most closely with Cain Vineyards. Upon returnin...

Italy played Ireland in Rugby (6 Nations) on Saturday 25th of February 2023. This episode will give you a feel as to what it is like to be in Rome on the day Ireland play against Italy. Words to summarise the day: energy, craic/fun, music, laughter, Pizza/Pasta, rugby ambience, friendship. A must event to attend every 2 years.

Introducing a new sub series of The Career Scoop, the Travel Scoop, hosted by James Fitzsimons. Tune in to hear outtakes from James' travels around the world. Listen to some stories from the people James meets along the way and pick up some tips and tricks of what to eat, where to go and how to make the most out of your short trip!

Michael Grier is the Commercial Director of the Royal Gazette in Bermuda. 

Peter O’Reilly is the rugby correspondent of The Sunday Times Irish Edition and has been writing about rugby since the sport went professional in the mid-1990s. He was previously an international cricketer, English teacher and a student of art history. Peter has collaborated on books with Anthony Foley and Johnny Sexton.

Morgan is an independent nutritional therapist who provides one-on-one consultations for men and women with a wide variety of health struggles. She takes a holistic approach to nutrition to help clients struggling with weight loss, chronic fatigue, digestive distress and more. Morgan gives her clients the tools they need to improve their overall health, support any health concerns and find the roo...

Nick began writing and directing award-winning short films in 2003, culminating in his third short Shoe being Oscar-shortlisted at the 2011 Academy Awards. Nick’s debut feature The Drummer And The Keeper premiered at the Galway Film Fleadh 2017, where it won Best Irish First Feature. The Drummer And The Keeper went on to win 18 awards on the international film circuit, including Best Film at the C...

Jon Ferrara, has been recognized for pioneering innovation in the customer management category. He's the founder and CEO of Nimble, an award-winning social sales, and marketing CRM for individuals and teams. It's Ranked #1 in Overall Satisfaction by G2 Crowd and integrates with Microsoft Office 365 and Google G Suite. Learn more at Nimble.com. Ferrara was the creator and co-founder of the award-wi...

David Tucker is Chairman of The Board of World Currencies and a former fighter pilot with the RAF. He shares with our listeners his career journey from joining the RAF, learning to fly fighter jets and then moving through the world of financial services. 

Shauna’s story really began when she said NO to terrible leadership She is an accredited and award-winning transformational coach to founders, leaders and teams of fast-growing remote companies, a speaker, emotional intelligence practitioner and remote team researcher. She helps remote organisations sustain their engagement, productivity and wellbeing so that they can focus on the innovation and c...

Our guest today is John Boylan who is CEO of Arcadian Risk Capital in Bermuda. He previously served as Global Chief Casualty Underwriter at Max Capital and Markel. Before that, he served as Chief Casualty Underwriter at XL Europe. John has over 30 years of experience in the insurance sector, with an exemplary track record of building and leading global underwriting teams. John, hails from county M...

Mick is currently Managing Partner of Grant Thornton, after previously leading the firms Advisory Services offering. He has specialised in all forms of insolvency and corporate recovery across numerous industries including: construction, retail, telecoms, banking and aviation amongst others. Mick shares with James his career journey to-date from leaving school, studying accountancy by night to cur...

Fiona has spent the last 20 years in Bermuda and is originally from New Zealand. Fiona currently serves as an Independent Director of four publicly listed companies.  Those companies are listed on the NASDAQ, the London Stock Exchange or the Australian Stock Exchange respectively. These companies operate in the infrastructure, technology and telecommunications, customer experience or private...

Appointed in January 2020 as Bermuda’s first Privacy Commissioner , Alex White supervises all Bermudian organisations for compliance with the Personal Information Privacy Act (PIPA). His work includes establishing the office and building the foundations for a successful data protection environment on the island.

Gavin is a Director of Earlsfort Group he has been involved in the development of commercial real estate and corporate workplace solutions for more than two decades. He is responsible for operations at East Point, a large, award winning office campus developed by Earlsfort back in the 1990’s. East Point is home to 50+ corporate occupiers including Oracle and Google. The occupiers employ close to 9...

Brian Desmond is the EVP Head of Fund Services at Horseshoe Group (“Horseshoe”). He is in charge of the Group’s fund administration operations and responsible for all business development activities related to Fund Services.  Brian was one of the principal founders, a director and COO/CFO of Horseshoe Fund Services Ltd. (“HFSL”, formerly IKONIC), a fund administration company, acquired by Hor...

Mitch Blaser has more than 40 years of accomplishments in international insurance markets and co-founded next-gen specialty insurer Mosaic, launched in 2021. Previously, Mitch joined Robert Clements as a founding executive to launch Bermuda-based Ironshore with $1 billion in private-equity capital in 2006 and helped drive its growth to become a global property & casualty insurer with over 800...

Derek is Affiliate Professor of Organisational Behaviour at INSEAD. His interests include leadership development, burnout and resilience, the impact of emotionally demanding tasks on work groups. His research and practice in these areas are informed by a systems-psychodynamics approach that takes into account how group tasks, organizational structures and cultures are affected by, and affect, indi...

This week's guest is David Ryan, Sales Specialist at Lamborghini Vancouver- Canada. David is a car-obsessed, former farmer from the West of Ireland who moved to Vancouver during Covid to realise his dream job of selling Super Cars for Lamborghini.

This weeks guest is David Ryan Sales Specialist Lamborghini Vancouver Canada. David is a car obsessed former farmer from the west of Ireland who moved to Vancouver during Covid to realise his dream job of selling Super Cars for Lamborghini. James sits with David to discuss his career journey and the importance of chasing your dreams.

This week our guest is Aideen Jones - Aroma -Reiki Healer.  Aideen runs a local business in Blackrock, Dublin where she is dedicated to offering her clients Aroma-Reiki treatments.  Combining essential oil massage and Reiki healing, Aideen welcomes a broad range of clientele from students struggling with the stresses of life to more senior people looking for a gentle nurturing treatment…...