Win Happy Podcast

Greg chats with Deirdre Mortell , the CEO of The Social Innovation Fund . When her dad told her she was like someone with a permanent itch in her ass he was right..she never stays still!! Being "different" has her always challenging, changing what she can. A colourful career with senior roles with Oxfam, Barnardos , the 10 year One Foundation project with Declan Ryan and now the Social Innovation...

Greg chats with Deirdre Mortell , the CEO of The Social Innovation Fund . When her dad told her she was like someone with a permanent itch in her ass he was right..she never stays still!! Being "different" has her always challenging, changing what she can. A colourful career with senior roles with Oxfam, Barnardos , the 10 year One Foundation project with Declan Ryan and now the Social Innovation...

Greg chats with the famous fishmonger from The English Market , Pat O'Connell . Pat shares his story about his hardworking mum, Kathleen who started K.O'Connell Fishmerchants and how a typical market transformed into the huge Cork showpiece that it is today. He tells us the story of decades of regulars and what exactly he said to The Queen , that made her laugh in that iconic photograph. He talks...

In this episode of the Fuzion Win Happy podcast Greg chats with the softly spoken and quietly competitive CEO of Temple Street Foundation , Denise Fitzgerald . Denise shares her story about growing up in the North of Ireland during the troubles, taking a job with Bank of Ireland in Dublin and a cup of coffee with a friend that resulted in a colossal, totally unexpected change of career. 13 years l...

In this episode Greg chats with Deirdre Garvey, CEO of The Wheel , the support organisation for the vast non-profit sector in Ireland. She chats about her early days having a ball and working in Germany as an Electronic Engineer, her return to Ireland and taking up the role of Fundraising Manager with the Paul Newman charity, Barretstown . Five years later she became the first employee and CEO of...

In this episode Greg chats with Margot Slattery the Country President of Sodexo Ireland , a giant of company with a team of over 4,000 on these shores alone. Margot chats about her idyllic life growing up on a farm in Bruff, Co. Limerick and some early inspiration including her widowed grandmother, Annie Keane who managed her own farm. She also chats about her career path, challenges along the way...

Greg chats with young successful businessman, Ernest Cantillon who shares his personal story, which includes a brother with special needs and an early decision to give up alcohol. He talks about the early, fun and often naive days of opening his own businesses, including Sober Lane and Electric . He talks about other ventures that were not successful and how this impacted him and there is also a c...

In this episode Greg has a huge chat with fellow Dublin Chamber Council member and Head of Business Banking with AIB , Catherine Moroney . The chat explores her early days growing up in Dublin, part time work in a hospital for patients with long term illness, switching from Archaeology to banking and a successful career with AIB. She talks about the crash and the impact of this on her and colleagu...

In this episode Greg takes a deep trip into the darkness of mental illness with Jim Breen , founder of PulseLearning , star of the TV show Secret Millionaire and founder of Cycle Against Suicide . In this very open and honest chat, Jim shares his successful and inspirational story as well as his personal struggles with his own darkness, how he copes with this everyday and how he has turned this da...

In this episode Greg chats with Aodan Enright , the founder and CEO of leading coaching and training company Smarter Egg . We chat about an interesting career, which led to senior training and change management roles with the American multinational company, EMC and ditching all of this for self employment just as the wheels fell off the economy in Ireland. Was this a totally crazy time to start a...

In this episode Greg chats with newly appointed Director of the Crawford Art Gallery , Mary McCarthy . We chat about her life and career, working in a gallery in New York, director of National Sculpture Factory, Programme Director of Cork, 2005 City of Culture, Cultural Manager of Dublin Docklands Development Authority and a second term at the National Sculpture Factory. We chat about the current...

In this episode Greg chats with Professor Barry O'Sullivan , Director of the Insight Centre for Data Analytics and Computer Science at UCC . Barry who originally wanted to be a professional musician is now an award-winning academic working in the field of artificial intelligence, data analytics, AI and data ethics, constraint programming, and operations research, for more than two decades. In his...

In this episode Greg chats with Eleanor O'Kelly Lynch of Golden Apple Training about the most interesting career and a very challenging life. Eleanor who specialises in customer service training started her career lecturing in CIT, she realised her "vision" when she convinced a new radio station (which became 96FM) to employ her and she quickly rose through the ranks to Sales Manager and then star...

In this episode Greg chats with the super nice, super talented and soon to be superstar, singer songwriter, Lilla Vargen from Ballymena in Northern Ireland. Lilla shares her unique story of being obsessed with music from the age of three and some "accidents" that have brought her to today's successful career. She shares stories of open mic nights, first gigs, chance recording sessions and opening...

In this episode Greg chats with the founder of Fuzion Communications , Deirdre Waldron . From the early days of working in the family business in Kerry, reinventing herself in boarding school, moving to London and working in fashion and IT during the troubles and finally moving back to Ireland to work in various roles including Marketing Director of the famous, Rose of Tralee festival. Deirdre tal...

In this episode we tell the story of the 2018 IBYE ( Ireland's Best Young Entrepreneur ) Final, which is run by the Local Enterprise Office Network (LEO) and funded by Enterprise Ireland. In the podcast Greg chats with Sheelagh Daly (Project Coordinator and Manager of LEO Wicklow), some of the finalists including Brendan Boland (Loci Orthapedics), Jessica Kavanagh (Olann), Conor Leyden (Trustap),...

In this episode Greg chats to Eamon Curtin , Director of the UCC IGNITE Graduate Entrepreneurship Programme about everything from character forming summer jobs, working next to an Amish Community in the United States, the difference between work cultures in different countries and the characteristics of an entrepreneur. We chat in detail about the IGNITE programme, some of the many successful stor...

In this episode Greg from Fuzion Communications chats with Dan Mackey the co-founder of the global successful tech company, Teamwork.com . We chat about the hardworking journey, the different mistakes along the way, the challenges of building a global success from Cork city and the secret ingredients that have led to this success, including a powerful partnership with the other co-founder Peter Co...

In this episode Greg chats with  Gillian Keating , Partner of RDJ Solicitors , former President of Cork Chamber (the first female President) and co-founder of the I Wish diversity programme. We chat about the value of hard work, coping with disappointments, pushing yourself outside your comfort zone, gender equality, diversity and "Cracking the Cork Code" Thanks for listening! #WinHappy  

In this episode of the Fuzion Win Happy podcast, Greg chats with legendary Irish DJ, and passionate Corkman Stevie G about the important role of music to your identity and to our culture. We learn how important it is to be proactive about the things you want in your life, about running a large venue during the recession and coping with its closure, why you should work and support young people and...

In this Social Media Series episode of the Fuzion Win Happy Podcast , Greg chats with Alma Brosnan, one of the social media team about the phenomenon of "Tweetdecking" and how Twitter will no longer permit syndicated posting to more than one Twitter account. We discuss Tweetdeck and Hootsuite, two popular platforms that heavy duty social media users are often using to syndicate and schedule posts,...

In this episode of the Fuzion Win Happy podcast , Greg chats with one of Ireland's most experienced HR specialists, Frank Scott-Lennon . Frank has had a colourful life and career with many twists and turns including the early passing of his father, working in the family pub, studying to nearly become a priest, having a wonderful family and then becoming one of Ireland's most respected HR experts. ...

In this podcast Greg chats to legendary menswear retailer, Louis Copeland about the family business, succession, marketing, customer service and surviving a recession. We also chat about celebrity customers and yes, Greg did get Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray totally mixed up!  

What do you have to do to win an All Ireland Medal? What do you have to do to win seven! In this podcast Greg chats with Tommy Doyle, Kerry GAA legend about life as an amateur footballer and the challenges of running a successful food business 

Frustrated with Facebook - in this episode some of the Fuzion social media team (Greg and Alma Brosnan) discuss the recent changes with the Facebook algorithms that are affecting business pages. The recent changes are killing the reach of posts on Facebook business pages, which means you may have to change your tactics. Tune in to this episode to see how the Fuzion team feel about these changes an...