The Colin Rooney Podcast

Why can an entire nation tear someone to pieces online in April, only to sob with national pride and wave flags for them in May? In this episode of The Colin Rooney Podcast, Colin breaks down the historic and chaotic Eurovision 2026 victory of Bulgarian singer DARA with her track "Bangaranga." But this isn't a music review. It's a deep-dive look into a psychological horror show—a...

Twenty years ago I read a book called Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway. I can't remember a single word that was in it — just the title. And it turns out the title was the whole book. This episode is about fear. Not lions and heights — the quiet stuff that actually runs our lives. The fear of failing. The fear of what people think. And the fear of a future that hasn't happened and, it turns o...

A few years ago I had one of the best jobs of my life — Head of F&B for Mad Monkey, running hospitality across 20-odd locations in 6 countries. And every Monday there was a group call with the founders and the senior team. The panic would start the night before. By the time it came round to me, my face was so hot you could've fried an egg on it. Pure panic. And it was never about being sca...

This one was supposed to be about marketing. It's not. I went down a hole researching fear, came out the other side with something better, and I'm doing the whole episode backwards — giving you the answer first, then spending the rest proving I'm not mad. The answer: my mentor is me. Not me now. Future me. The man I want to become. I've made him real, and now when I'm scared, o...

Three thousand years ago, the wisest man who ever lived had seven hundred wives. And three hundred concubines on top of that. The man wrote the book on wisdom and couldn't apply a word of it to himself. His name was Solomon. And he's the reason this episode exists. This one is the most personal one I've done yet. It's about the gap between giving advice and taking it. Between knowi...

I owe you an apology. Episode one was me hiding behind an AI voice. Eleven Labs, recreating my voice, because I was too scared to sit down and record myself. Funny reasons aside, the real reason was fear. So this time I thought, fuck it, this is me. Like me or not. Here we go. This episode is about procrastination. And I'm qualified to talk about it because I've been one of the worst procr...

First episode. Here we go. This one's about the gap between being a boss and being a leader — and why most of us, myself included, have been the wrong one at some point without realising it. I talk about where our management style actually comes from (spoiler: usually the boss we hated ten years ago, or a parent), why accountability is the hardest skill nobody teaches you, and what the research ac...