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E197 - How to sell a dinosaur. You will never hear a business podcast like this elsewhere.

Paddy Meade, former Dep. Chair and CEO of worldwide auction house Bonhams, is probably the world's best known seller of dinosauria. Paddy was asked to sell a dinosaur that had been pledged by a Creationist property developer (they believe the world is just 6,000 years old) as collateral in a failed property deal. When things went bust the dinosaur headed for the salesroom.

This dinosaur, had spent five years being reconstructed, but still wasn't all there and needed some more bits to make him whole. And if your dino isn't whole, where do you go to buy bare bones? At the dinomarket of course (we kid you not!). What you learn on That Great Business Show.

And there was the red copper Chinese dish, used for serving crab legs, owned by the family that started the Pony Express, that was so valuable that it had to have its own seat in Business Class on an airline to London. Wait'll you hear what happened to it.

And then there was the original Lion's costume from the iconic movie 'The Wizard of Oz' that finally sold for..?

There's another fascinating story about Muhamad Ali's robe, worn for the George Foreman fight, and what the auctioneers found stitched into that robe...

And John Travolta's suit from 'Saturday Night Fever'...

What happens when you buy very expensive wine that has gone off..?

His third choice for his 'hire in a heartbeat' is Cassandra Hatton, currently working in Sotheby's.

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E196 That Great Business Show - Part II of III of the Paddy Meade interviews.

Paddy starts by explaining how to make money at auctions and explains that's there a question of time - how long can you 'sit' on your investment?

Then there's a question of fashion - objects, furniture, art all go in and out of fashion. Paddy sold a lot of 'nostalgia'. If you're 40-60, you're their target market. But, what's going to be the Next Big Thing.

Paddy worked in eBay (they bought the US's oldest auctioneers Butterfield & Butterfield) when it was a teeny weeny little company (in involved 12 interviews!) and the story involves the Ireland V Italy match in 1990. His fascinating story involves Carly Fiorina, Meg Whitman, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Peter Thiel (if you're too young, look them up)...who collectively now probably are wealthier than a combination of big European countries.

Then the Great Tech Bubble burst.

When Butterfields was sold by eBay to Bonhams, Paddy joined the smaller of the Big Three US auctions houses (Sotheby's & Christies being the biggies)

Paddy advises on what to buy and not to buy if you want to make your fortune and he tells us what auctioneering platforms he uses to find the items he likes to collect including work by a most curious individual Matthias or Matthew Buchinger, a circus performer who had no hands or legs who lived in Ireland. Matthew, with no hands, was a calligrapher. Mad.

His 2nd choice for a 'hire in a heartbeat'...Morgan O'Driscoll and George Mealy auctioneers.

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E195 That Great Business Show - the Paddy Meade Triptych - three episodes featuring Ireland's most successful auctioneer.

Paddy Meade is former Deputy Chair and CEO at Bonham Auctioneers, one of the most prestigious sales houses in the world. A born storyteller if you don't laugh out loud we guarantee your money back.

We love a good backstory on TGBS and Paddy has a terrific one, starting with how studying Welsh in University College Dublin (UCD) led him to the top of a worldwide business. He explains how he came first and last in Welsh in UCD. And, he says that one's first choices (including studying Welsh) need have no bearing on future career choices.

An obsessive collector, one of the early items he collected were small Tetra Pak type cream sachets from Aer Lingus flights (no, really).

Later he studied fine arts in Southampton where he came first in the UK in his exams.

Later still, when trying to convince a potential client to sell his goods, he drank the man's teeth. Well, in business, a man's got to do what a man's got to do...

1990 comes and he loses his job. Thanks to a Donnelly visa, the last one ever he says, he headed for the US without a job. Hustling for a job he got frozen to a public phone box.

He then hits a job dilemna. He got a job in Chicago, was there a week, when Christies, the auction house, called with a job offer. Did he jump?

Learn about 'auction school' where you have to learn a secret code. Why he had to be trained by RADA and how he saved a client $700,000 when selling the famous 'Maltese Falcon' cross from the movie of the same name, that starred Humphrey Bogart as investigator Sam Spade.

Paddy's 'hire in a heartbeat is Malcolm Barber of Bonhams.

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E194 That Great Business Show

The Republic of Ireland (pop. 5m) has 2.7 million Revolut users. Percentage wise Ireland is the biggest adopter of neobanks across the EU. Head of Revolut EU is Joe Heneghan who talks to us about what the future of banking looks like. Will we ever darken a banking hall again? Also biting the heels of the so-called 'pilar banks' are SME funders like Grid Finance whose founder, Derek Butler, also joins us to see what the sees now and what he sees looking into the future. Then, there's Financial Services Ireland that is hell-bent on making Ireland a fintech capital (as are the UK, France, Lithuania, Estonia...). Patricia Callan, FSI Director, gives us an overview of that the challenges and opportunities are for new and established fintech startups here.

As always we ask all our guests for their 'hire in a heartbeat' recommendation and here's this episode's line-up.

Lobbyist Patricia would like to hire Alastair Campbell, Tony Blair's PR when UK PM, for his lobbying prowess (and for his podcast 'The Rest is Politics')

Derek would like to have Mairead McGuinness, EU Commissioner for Financial Services on his team, for obvious reasons as he explains the surreal amount of regulation the industry is currently facing

Joe is an admirer of the Wayflyer model (a very clever Irish fintech unicorn) and he'd like if Aidan Corbett, founder, would drop into his office for a 'chat'.

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E193 That Great Business Show

David Broderick, Director of the SFA (part of IBEC), discusses the organisation's 'Four Just Demands'. David knows business as he was sent both to deliver cakes from his family business, and then also as a young boy, sent to collect the cash. Business in its rawest from an early age. He was also made redundant during Covid, that turned him to self-employment, as a consultant/mentor. He advises about not having the 'wrong' mentor, such as a friend, rather than someone who will tell you the unvarnished truth. Unofficially (not SFA policy he underlines), he wants an X and Y axis for high-speed trains to cross the country and go from top to bottom.

David discusses the real life cases he gets on the phone of businesses that are really, really struggling. He talks about energy, insurance, tax, labour (the living wage etc) and other costs. And, bad news, he says in some cases there's a further 30% rise to come.

The most immediate thing he wants is a targeted PRSI rebate for smaller businesses. He thinks MicroFinance Ireland are doing a great job, but like them to be allowed to lend larger amounts to businesses. He also wants more training vouchers to cover the costs to employers of having their employees taking time out for upskilling

His 'hire in a heartbeat' - his mother who is still out in Dublin Airport handing out samples of her own Broderick's cakes.

Barry Guiney, Headhunter, Odgers Berndtson who is also a Secretary of UCC Rugby Club - and also is a Certified Scrum Master - which has nothing to do with rugby, but lots to do with Toyota. They have launched the ScaleUp Collective - aimed at scaling (not start-up) companies. He sees a demand for executives who can build revenue growth as well as those who can bring a company to 'payday' - a successful exit. He references Scale Ireland and Endeavour Ireland networks, hoping to replicate the likes of Stripe etc. He discusses MBA differences between the US and the EU as well as the difference between the originating entrepreneur versus the commercial executive in salaries and other words. Irish tax rates he says can be a disincentive for attracting top talent to Ireland. He talks about ghosting in the industry - when a job is offered, the process is gone through...and then nothing. Why?

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? (He has hired 50 plus over his career so far). James Clear author of Atomic Habits.

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Episode 192 @That Great Business Show

Serial investor (but don't call him an angel!) Gianna Matera has backed some of Ireland's best known unicorns (value >$1bn) including Glofox and Flipdish.

On this episode we have a rare one-on-one with Gianni, a man with many strong views, but ones he normally keeps to himself. A former Italian army lieutenant he made his money initially via a digital marketing company he founded and IPO'd. He explains why he left the heat of his native Milan for life in Dublin where he has so far backed 28 tech companies (he only back tech companies). He's literally a one-man band so he does have time nor the resources for full due-diligence, relying on a combination of gut and sleep to make his decisions (he explains his modus operandi). His long term ambition is to make 3X his money but 'it's not easy' he says.

Most recently he has been appointed VC in Residence at UCD’s incubator, Nova UCD

This is essential listening for anyone raising money or wishing to learn how best to invest in very early stage companies.

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E191 That Great Business Show

We headed to the Fexco backed RDI Hub in Killorglin, Co. Kerry where we recorded one of the most curious people and business we have ever encountered.

Rarely on a podcast can you have a cast bigger of A-listers bigger than Glastonbury. But how about...Joe Strummer (The Clash), Neville Staple (The Specials/Fun Boy Three), Dave Wakeling & Ranking Roger (English Beat/General Public), Tracii Guns (LA Guns/Guns n Roses), Stephanie Rainey, Andy Summers (The Police), Donovan, John Ford Coley, His Holiness the Dalai Lama, Peter Gabriel, No Doubt, Ice Cube, Mack 10, Korn, Ben Folds, Bob Geldof, Green Day, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Pennywise, The Vandals, Ky-Mani Marley, Flea, John Frusciante, Rami Jaffee, The Blindboys of Alabama, Carmen Rizzo, Maroon 5, Steve Vai, Ozomatli, Moby, Spencer Davis, Quincy Jones, Incubus, The Waterboys, Peter Asher, Nancy Sinatra, Prague Philharmonic Orchestra...

OK, so they weren't all in studio but Jason P Rothberg was. Jason who? Well, wait'll you hear his back story. It's MAD. And no, we didn't understand half of what he's up to with his RDI Hub based business Xavatar, based in the Metaverse (as we say, don't ask us, ask Dr. Google). But if you understand it, we're told it's the future and there's clearly a business in it. As always, we've made it accessible, so do listen to learn.

Also on the cast of E191 are Bertie Murphy ('hire in a heartbeat'? Steve 'Fexco'), Chief Strategy Officer of Fexco and Kerry McConnell ('hire in a heartbeat'? - Sadia Nowshin), who markets the RDI Hub to the world (virtual membership available globally). Jason's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Hugh Reynolds, entrepreneur in chief at RDI.

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Barry McNerney, CEO of UnifyOrdering, doesn't want to be a 'busy fool' so he has co-created a new ordering platform for the wider food industry. He has a solid backkground in business, a former Davy stockbroker he's now CEO of Lotts & CO, co-founder of Pauli's pizza and Junior's Cafe and he was once involved with two renowned Dublin pubs, The Old Spot and the Bath. But now, it's all eyes on brining UnifyOrdering to the world, and to raising money on Spark Crowdfunding to make that happen. Barry says he's onto a 'world first' and dreams of a €200m plus exit.

On the wider food sector he says he's never seen a more difficult time for smaller businesses in the sector.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' is Michael O'Leary and Paul McNerney (nee James! - listen to understand)

Mary McKenna, Denise McQuaid are part of the founding team at AwakenAngels - funding women led businesses and raising awareness and knowledge of investing in businesses. They guide investors who can invest from €2,000 and when they commit that amount (or more!) investors join the community and get free training in angel investing. It's an ideal course as well for those who want to go on to be a founder, seeing it from the 'other side', for the investor's side.

Mary McKenna's 'hire in a heartbeat' is Olivia McVeigh, social influencer.

Denise McQuaid's 'hire in a heartbeat' is Serena Williams

On Business 101, our mini-series on setting up and growing your own business, supported by Big Red Cloud software, Tena Sheil, founder The Bookeeping Academy, is joined by Ian Hobbs, Sales Mangager at Big Red Cloud. Tena has some clever solutions for solving some of the 'difficult to fill' work vacancies in the economy. It's about upskilling and re-skilling and it's Tena's business. Worried about losing the staff you train? Richard Branson says 'look after your staff so they don't want to leave'. Tena's training courses are paid for by the State. Tena herself trained herself through an ISME Skillnet course that sent her on to further education. Her introductory course can be done in just eight weeks, part-time (2-3 hours a week). BigRedCloud.com/training will find the courses.

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E189 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain

Paul Connell, co-founder and CEO of Pure Telecom explains how his business model has changed over the years. He talks about Eir, the National Broadband Plan, SIRO and others in his sector. A lack of vision or ambition seems to be the message. Ireland is stuck at sub-IGB in most cases where broadband can be accessed. He says other countries are already at 5GB - essential when virtual reality and AI get a bigger hold on our digital lives. Not everybody may agree with what Paul has to say, but he'll certainly put a smile on every listeners' face.

His 'hire in a heartbeat', Steve Bartlett (Diary of a CEO). He may even pay to have lunch with him.

Jennifer Muldowney has been buried in business for fifteen years. Or more accurately, she's been in the broader burial business. A Dublin, she's known as the Glam Reaper and she organises some of New York's most prestigious remembrance services. Don't think your usual solemn church service. Think more a theatre turned into a forest. In fact, if you can think it (and afford it) she can do it for you (she works in Ireland as well). Hugely discreet we did find out that she organised a service for the late Jack Welch, Chair and CEO of General Electric, and an industry titan in his time. Let's say this is a very different business story.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? The entire Aldi Ireland marketing team because of what they did with the carrot.

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E188 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin

The Business Post (previously known as the Sunday Business Post) has changed its model to attract those elusive readers. Once a weekly print publication nowadays it's a daily digital bulletin with a slimmed-down Sunday print version. Colm O'Reilly, COO of The Business Post Group, (the newspaper, an events business, a market research company) explains what the current strategy is and what the plans are for the future.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Ryanair's Michael O'Leary (possibly top of the Great Business Show's 'hire in a heartbeat' charts), for his no-nonsense approach to business.

Skillnet Innovation Exchange matches larger Irish corporates with specific business problems with innovative SMEs with solutions. It's heavily government subsidised and it's a programme that gives smaller companies a real chance of grabbing business from larger corporates who ordinarily might give them the time of day. Conor Carmody, Director at SIE explains how it works, why it works and what types of companies he wants to get involved. Some of his case studies are very impressive indeed.

Conor's 'hire in a heartbeat'? US politician George Mitchell. If was able to help 'fix' the Northern Ireland issue who wouldn't want him aboard?

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Episode 187 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain

Tony Dignam, founder Agile Executives, bringing affordable C-Suite executives from top-end companies to your SME. He must be doing something right because he grew from five consultants to 80 (!) in just one month, He's now at 120 consultants. Previously he worked as a consultant to Bank of Ireland in 2008 trying to solve the massive problems of 1,000 SMEs following the financial collapse. Tony launched his search platform earlier this year that means you can put in a detailed search to find the perfect match (or close) to your exact skills requirements. He also has consultants on his books that will help bring your business globally, be that Malta, Pakistan, S. Africa and of course the UK and the US. He has big expansion plans and is already looking at funding options to pay for that growth. SBCI may help with their growth.

Tony's 'hire in a heartbeat' would have been his late mother, 'the best salesperson he ever came across' her word of wisdom 'always take tea or coffee if offered'. Another that he would like to join his team is Brian Buffini, a hugely successful Irish business person in the US..

Ray Ryan is founder of the Noledge Group, a merger of two companies, OSSM (pronounced awesome!) and Envisage. Ray is mad for sports and for walking. In fact, it was walking the Camino Way that may have changed his business life, due to very, very sore feet. Walking the Camino for your business is one of those things not taught in Harvard Business School. His father-in-law told him two things could put you out of business, cashflow and enthusiasm. Galway company, Corrib Oil, was key to changing Ray's business. He is now employing over 40 people, with ambitions to have 70 employees, and what he has learnt about why he 'has to' hire, is very, very interesting.

But, it could have all been so much more Hollywood. Ray comes from a strong acting background, palling around with Bafta nominee Andrew Scott when he was a kid...His dad was having none of it but did it cost him an Oscar?

Ray's 'hire in a heartbeat' is Gemma Webb. Who? Only probably one of the most successful Irish business woman. And you've never heard her? We hope to have her on That Great Business Show very soon. He also wants Ashley McDonnell as a mentor.

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E186 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin

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On this episode, 186, Dan Nugent of Amber Eyewear on why his company is now called EverAmbr. He explains why you should avoid selling 'vertically' where you can run out of headroom. His company was growing at 500% but then he hit the ceiling and sales dropped by 90%. What did he do? He went back into the ring again, but this time selling 'wide', finding sectors that he can keep adding products to sell to. Clever. If you have ambitions to sell Direct to Consumer (DTC) online, you have got to listen to Dan, who tells it 'warts and all'.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Jake Browne formerly of Peblo.

Stephen O'Dwyer was born and raised in the leafy suburbs of South County Dublin where there's ne'er a sign of a horse, let along a thoroughbred. However, eating chips with his grandad at Fairyhouse, as a five year old, left its mark and biomedical engineer Stephen has launched Trojan Track, a data driven system using an ordinary mobile phone, that will tell trainers, owners and vets if a horse is injured, even when not seen by the naked eye. His target market is the 800,000 thoroughbred horses in the US (as well as the 16,000 in Ireland, of course) and that's why he's raising €600,000 to bring his company on a worldwide gallop.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? It must be a bro-love thing as he's chosen PJ Maguire of Moonsyst who was on the same Agcelerator as Stephen at Nova UCD. And, PJ it was who recommended Stephen to us - the definition of a circular economy?

On our Business 101, supported by Big Red Cloud financial software, BRC sales manager Ian Hobbs and Sisgate Pro owner, Liz Lavin, have some great tips about 'taking away the pain' for SMEs, including one we hadn't heard before. Liz explains how she very, very cleverly checks out potential acquisitions that she's looking at. All legal of course. But very interesting. Your company will benefit from these 'hands-on' tips. Ian also says that if you ring Big Red Cloud for advice he'll answer the phone to you. That's service.

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E185 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain

Roseanne Longmore, CEO and co-founder, Coro - the world's first baby milk flow monitor. Founded seven years ago the company has recently become an 'overnight success' completing another successful funding around, bringing to over €6m funding the company has gathered to bring its unique product to the world's weaning mothers. The size of the market is vast. The work that it has taken to get to this stage is staggering, but as Roseanne says, when you're developing physical product it can up to ten years. This can make getting investment difficult, but the team has overcome this, investors tempted no doubt by the multi-billion Euro market possibility. The product, a flow meter that sits on a silicon nipple barrier, is patented and is being assembled in different locations to keep the IP away from prying eyes. Next stop for the company's growth is that Roseanne may have to head to the US for at least six months, to launch the product direct to the consumer there. They've brought Mary Harney, former Minister for Health, onto the board and she has already made introductions in the US, including to Hilary Clinton.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat', the Collison brothers. However, we recommended their mom, Lily Collison.

TJ Hegarty was half through tell That Great Business Show about his business, Breakthrough Maths, when he opened up about how anxiety had affected his business. It caused him to have a blackout as he drove his car. Never say business isn't tough. Fortunately nothing bad happened that allowed over-achiever (600 point Leaving Cert, 1st Class Honours Ag Science degree) TJ to continue his dream of establishing his business. At school he hated maths and was determined to 'fix the problem'. This week he'll be teaching maths to 4,000 school pupils. His two year old boot-strapped business is turning over €1.5 million already and he hopes to bring that to €5m by next year, at which point he wants VC funding to bring him to the vast US market.

His 'hire in a heartbeat', Michael O'Leary.

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Creganna is an outstanding Irish success story that not too many have heard of. Founded in 1980 by the late Ian Quinn, he started by making metal boxes that housed early desktop computers. With a couple of 'necessary pivots' along with way, Ian created what was one of the world’s largest maker of heart stents, eventually sold in 2016 for €820 million. Creganna's success was the seed that set Galway as Ireland's medtech capital.

PumpInHeart is the latest heart-related medtech company that's about to fund so it can 'go for growth' in Galway. This 2 year old company has world domination in mind for its tiny pump that fits in the human heart. But to get there they need funds and unusually they're starting to raise cash via the crowdfunding platform Spark Crowdfunding.

Donald Hickey is one of PumpInHeart's founders and he joins That Great Business Show to explain how this now tiny company is raising €3million, hoping to be bought out at €400m...Of course it won't be easy. Like life, there are no guarantees, but for a minimum investment of €100, it could be fun. DO TAKE PROFESSIONAL ADVICE.

Donald's 'hire in a heartbeat' is Galway girl Ellen Roche, a world heart pump expert, now based at MIT. Donald wants to bring Ellen home!

On That Great Business Show we know listener like ‘soft skills’ items like when we interviewed Dr. Brian Pennie about why just moving can change your mood. Brian McGeough took the bull out of team building for us while Dermot Whelan literally stopped us breathing to calm us down. And then the fabulous Dr. Jolanta Burke from the Royal College of Surgeons, had so simple advice (all scientifically verified) about putting a photo of loved ones on your desk to bring you blood pressure down.

On this episode Shane Cradock, one-time Bio-Chemical Engineer who worked with Bord na Mona and Pepisco International, says his subtractive methodology as opposed to the widely advocated ‘additive’ approach can help you take back control, boost your mood and confidence, and ultimately help achieve your full potential. Give him 20 minutes of your time. It could change your life.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Paul Cadden, MD of Saba Restaurants

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Emily Brick, founder, Athena Analytics wants to unlock the potential of every student in every classroom. Using machine learning they say they can help schools understand a student’s unique, individual potential and ensure that no student gets missed within the school system. It's a monitoring tool that creates a student’s baseline potential in each subject and highlights when a student falls below this potential, when they may need further support. This baseline is based on a statistical model built using the exam results of all of the previous results of students on the software. The software is already being used in 400 of the country's 700 second level schools.

Adrian Reynolds, founder, The Lemon Crepe and Coffee Company and Ian Hobbs, Sales Manager, Big Red Cloud

Regular listeners know that Big Red Cloud -Ireland's #1 Cloud accounting software for small business owners, are BIG supporters of That Great Business Show.

With their further support we bring you ‘Take The Pain Away’, a mini-series on how accounting software can transform your business, making it more profitable and giving you back time to grow your business. And the pain for Adrian's small business is altogether too real.

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Marion Cantillon, founder Pitseal, makers of a silage pit top-secret sealant (partly seaweed but ssshhh!) that stops the use of plastic. When the cattle eat the seaweed/silage mix so far there's a sizeable cut in the cattle methane's output. She's studying for a PhD in aspects of methane emissions. You can guess which ones.

And, PJ Maguire of Moonsyst, a company that has created a Fitbit for cattle. It sits in the beast's reticulum, a 25 litre sac in the cow's innards, that gathers lots and lots of strange stuff. And he's trialling his bolus on cattle on a 6,000 cow farm in Rwanda. Where else but on That Great Business Show?

And, Gary Ryan, director of AgtechUCD (part of NovaUCD at University College Dublin) explains the challenges of the farming calendar. Another factoid you'll learn is that the Lyons Estate where AgtechUCD is based, is home to Europe's largest man-made (hand dug!) lake. Next up is a programme aimed at 'mid-career' individuals who may have the itch to do something for themselves.

Hire in a heartbeats include Ned Harty, Sam Shine, Denis Brosnan, Conor Petersen and Bill Gates.

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E181 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain

Marketing Director of PUIG (they own many of the world's biggest perfume brands), Ashley McDonnell on getting a 'no' from PUIG HR ten minutes after submitting her job application. Find out how she got hired five days later.

If you work in TV, wait'll you hear what's happening in China. TV in China is dead. Livestreaming 24 hours a day is the future. And if you're an out-of-work actor, good news. You'll now be working in sales. You'll be expected to sell one product every 90 seconds though. BTW, Influencers remain really, really important. So become an Influencer. The good news, your gifts from the brands will never run out. She's uses Workplace, powered by Facebook, to keep track of her five hundred plus marketers.

Her advice for best platform? The one you hate least! (She does recommend Instagram and the app CapCut)

And, if you're still with us, she says that Blockchain is the next big thing for the luxury industry. It proves your Chanel bag is a real Chanel bag.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'(s) are @Laoise O Connell and @Amy Jafari , two of her former interns. Hire them now.

We love accessible businesses. We're joined by founders of one such business. Pizza da Piero bases makers Piero (!) and Clíona join Team GBS to explain how they've managed to build a recognised Irish food brand and how difficult it was. Piero has been a baker since 15, he worked in London where he met Cliona 22 years ago, heading for Galway. He worked there for Jimmy Griffin, a man Piero still loves. Piero had the itch though, and had to, had to set up on his own, encouraged by his friends telling him his dough was exceptional. They were first with fresh pizza bases in the chilled cabinet but are now faced with copycat pizza makers. Cliona is a teacher, useful to keep the early stage business afloat, who have been hugely supportive by her school, St. Andrew's College in Dublin. The talked and talked to as many people who they could find. Tip: business people will always help, so long as you're not eating their lunch (or pizza in this case).

They want to get into all @Supervalu (they're already in all Tesco stores). Piero admits he's very conservative, but they are looking at exports. They are already into Indie Foods in Northern Ireland. They have ordered a bread oven, as focaccia making is on their horizon.

Cliona's 'hire in a heartbeat' is Síle Walsh, an 'inclusive leadership' coach

Piero's 'hire in a heartbeat' is his old boss, master baker Jimmy Griffin from Galway.

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John Tuohy of OohPod has just raised a further €5.4 million to expand his parcel locker business across Ireland and next to the UK. He has 120 locations at the moment and he wants to get to 300 in the next 12 months. Next he's going to help return items for online shopping companies.

His solution can help you get around those troublsome Brexit taxes. Buy in the UK. Ship to Jonesboro near Newry, collect and go home. Done. And all legal.

14% of the Republic's population go shopping in Northern Ireland. He's also working closely with Lidl and Tesco for space to place his parcel lockers. He talks PUDO as well. Listen and learn.

The BIG news is that OohPod has landed Philip Reynolds as chair. He's the former boss at C&D Foods, a business he sold to Larry Goodman.

And his 'hire in a heartbeat' is Rafal Brzoska.

Niamh Donnelly is co-founder of robotics company Akara. The lengths she has gone to to see how her robots are used, including spending 3 months in a US nursing home, watching how the residents interacted with her robot, and that included doing what the residents did - dinner at 8pm and off to bed at 10pm!

She's been working on her robot 'Violet' for the last three years, proving how effective 'Violet' is in cleaning medical facility rooms. The business is not about cutting out manual cleaners, but helping to turn around hospital beds much, much more quickly. They've already landed their first sale. Their Irish 'partner' at the moment is Donnybrook Hospital, where Niamh would like to live! There are two robots heading to NHS facilities in the coming weeks. The business is 'as a service', so clients don't buy the robots. After the UK, it's on to the vast US market, and maybe even an IPO. But first they need twenty hospitals to work with them.

Outside of health it seems that cannabis growers need UV cleaning for their products.

They have Enterprise Ireland backing and angel funding from Growing Capital. They're funding again, but not telling TeamGBS how much at the moment.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat', Liam Casey, CEO, PCH International.

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E179 That Great Business ShowGer Davis, managing director of Irish Life HealthA year and a half ago, on episode 90 of That Great Business Show, we had a special recording with Professor Martin Curley, who at that time was heading the digital transformation of the Irish Health System at the HSE. His insights were truly fascinating. Martin is no longer with the HSE but the problems remain. So, on this episode, we’ve asked Ger Davis, MD of Irish Life Health, how he would fix the Irish Health System...so no pressure then...His 'hire in a heartbeat', Gary Keegan, IRFU adviser.Ruth Cosgrave and Breda O’Dwyer, Munster Technological UniversityIf you attend your Local Enterprise Office or LEO, or Enterprise Ireland courses on how to grow your business, you’re often told to get expert help from a Third Level College to help with technical problems you may have. However, we’ve often wondered how that works in practice, is it that easy to find the right people to help you, and if and when you do find them, how much does it all cost??And, their hire in a heartbeat

Ruth McCarthy, Head of Compliance at Fexco

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E178 That Great Business Show

CEO Paul Merriman, Fairstone Ireland

A little over a year ago financial planning firm PAX was bought by UK wealth management company Fairstone, the first move for Fairstone into Ireland. And they have ambitious plans for Ireland. BTW, we believe Paul may have broken the Irish speech speed record during our chat! And if Gary Vaynerchuk is listening, Paul would like to hire you.

Gary O’Sullivan, Managing Partner at Sia Partners

The little known consultancy firms Sia Partners have 80 people working for them in Ireland, and going for growth…hoping to double again in the next two to three years. The Paris HQ’d multinational business claims specialisation including in new areas such as the metaverse and the space sectors. Doctor Drone, Bobby Healy of Manna, is Gary's 'hire in a heartbeat'.

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E177 That Great Business Show

This is simple.

You have to listen to all of the podcast to find out where to go to live, (and live well) and save tax. There are (plural!) answers from Waterford's Stephanie Wickham who knows these things. The answer may surprise you, but it's so good that Stephanie is taking her own advice!

Separately, Natalie Garland Cooke of NCCO.ie (and Waterford) has advised Stephanie about how to properly use a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) system that allows her to take two MONTHS off in the sun. And the cost starts at a very affordable €40 a month.

That Great Business Show - making your life a bed of roses!

BTW, they want Aisling Bea and Mary Portas to come work with them, to make your dreams come true.

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E176 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin

Luke Mackey is co-founder and CEO of Kota - aiming to be the Stripe of the insurance industry, allowing businesses from 2 to 200 to instantly set up pension, health insurance and life assurance providers globally with real-time enrolment, flexible contributions, and an employee app – all in one place. They've already raised €7.6m, and they're ready to take on the world. First Ireland, then the UK and EU...and then the mighty US. Listen to see if you're company could use his company?

And former Connecticut State senator, Brian McDermott, rounds off our BeachHeadUSA mini-series, with a request to US companies to set up in Ireland, particularly to his family’s hometown of Dundalk. Like Connecticut, situated neatly between New York and Boston, Dundalk he points out is beautifully located between Dublin and Belfast. You get the best of both worlds, all at 'the right price'.

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On E175 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin

Gerard Horn is the third generation of the Horn family that has been making gloves in Dublin. Back in the 1960s they were employing more than a 100 people, making gloves fro Christian Dior, Harrods, Bloomingdales and Saks. They also had a contract to supply 10,000 First Communion gloves. The disaster struck and their factory, along with 80 machines, burnt down. They eventually bought two machines from a UK glove maker that was closing down and they’re still in business making gorgeous gloves.

And Andrew Lynch, CEO Mason Alexander, always, always wanted to be an entrepreneur…so started selling ponchos….a business that didn’t last a wet day…but he’s now running his own international business…and he's part of our #BeachHeadUSA mini-series. Essential listening if the USA is a target market for your business.

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E174 That Great Business Show with Conall O Morain

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Brian O’ Donoghue, Director - AML, FinCrime, Risk, Governance, Regulatory @ Grant Thornton Ireland

Brian tells us about some brilliant, but well hidden, government funded upskilling programmes particularly in his own fintech area. He found his course by chance but is now spreading the love, and knowledge about them, on That Great Business Show.

Like so many, Brian was not a university graduate and despite his experience he was turned down flat for some jobs. He explains how he navigated his way around that deficit and why employers, should or must, recognise 'on the job training, or apprenticeship training as it used to be called, if those employers want to find the best talent.

Megan Clark Torrey is CEO of The World Affairs Council of Connecticut, a non-profit, nonpartisan organisation that promotes greater awareness and dialogue on important global issues, including business. This model has not been replicated in Ireland, so it might be an opportunity for one of our loyal listeners?

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E156 That Great Business Show - Conor McEnroy, Chair, Sudameris Bank, Paraguay's biggest bank.

Conor first joined TeamGBS on Episode 15 when he described shootings, kidnappings, bombings and how and why he bought his first bank in Paraguay. It's a truly extraordinary story, which is why it remains one of our top podcasts.

Well he's back. This time he's Paraguay's premier banker having bought the No. 3 bank, amalgamated his No. 5 bank to make the No. 1 bank. We have the backstory to the deal in his own words. And, did you know that it can cost up to $1 million to ship $50 million in cash from country to country? Neither did we. But banker Conor explains why and who has to be paid off (like the Rambo figures on board the helicopters bringing bags of cash to a Lufthansa plane). Everybody gets their cut. Fascinating.

He also predicts the end of plastic cards. But he thinks that 'cash, cash' (the crinkly stuff) has a longer lifespan.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Dr Ken Whitaker.

E155 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin

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Marc Cooper, CEO, School of Automation, knows the robots are taking over and he's recruiting people to help them do that! His company has teamed up with the Clare Limerick Education and Training Board (ETB) to run fully remote online courses (so you can learn from anywhere) in Robotics Process Automation (don't worry, all is explained) that can take absolute beginners (no education or age barriers) from zero to a basic understanding in just twelve weeks. After that they're set for a career in robotics that can lead to a €60k plus salary. Demand is big - 200 applicants for a fifteen person course. If you, or someone you know, would like to know more, this episode is a 'must listen'.

Marc's 'hire in heartbeat'? Simon Sinek for his most human values.

David Larkin Founder of DealCoach was once Head of Business Development at Sage and then served time as VP with Salesforce during which time he won the Peak Performers Prize for five years running. He's good. He knows sales and he wants to share his knowledge using his highly affordable sales tool that has come hugely recommended to TeamGBS from two separate users. He says he can absolutely transform the sales process at any sized company. That's why he believes his DealCoach is heading for world domination.

David's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Salesforce founder Marc Benioff, a man he has met on a number occasions and the man who was largely credited with getting all our businesses into the cloud.

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E154 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin

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Luke Hanlon is Chief Supply Chain Officer, Musgrave

Musgrave is big. It covers wholesale, retail, food production, food preparation. They cover the island of Ireland plus they have a growing business in Spain.

How do they second guess customers, large and small, and how many units of any product will be needed.

Find out how they keep their finger on the customers' pulse and how they supply what you want to their stores, within 48 hours.

Plus, Northern Ireland could be El Dorado for business and expansion into the UK and growth in the Alicante region of Spain.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' is Caroline Currid, performance coach and currently sports psychologist for the Limerick hurling team.

Eibhlín Gleeson, CEO Cork Opera House

They were shut down for almost 2 years during COVID but they're now back up and running, and going even faster (though it did take a while).

They're different to many large venues in NOT being owned by Live Nation (though they are a very welcome customer).

She also produced a gig in the White House. She explains how that came about.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat' is Paul Simon, so as he could do an Irish version of the Graceland album. Great idea.

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E153 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin

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Brian Donaldson, CEO, Maxol on the future of the forecourt and what they've learnt from their first EV charging stations

Plus why his company is backing HomeGrown at Maxol, encouraging early stage companies to sell in 70 Maxol outlets.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' is Alan 'Lord' Sugar of 'Apprentice' fame

Jo Davey, founder of Absolute Nutrition and winner of HomeGrown at Maxol on what it means for her business, hiring, growing, servicing and exporting...phew! She'd hire Hannah Tyrrel or Carla Rowe in a heartbeat, to help her expand further.

Keith Loftus, co-founder of All About Kombucha and winner of HomeGrown at Maxol, on why winning a prize was critical in keeping their company dreams alive, and he hints at a new product they're about to launch from their Galway base.

Keith would have liked to have hired Edward Bernays for his company's expansion, but unfortunately Mr. Bernays, a PR guru, is no longer with us.

E152 That Great Business Show with Conall O Móráin

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Enda Corneille, chair of Arab Irish Chamber of Commerce explains the many, many opportunities available across the Arab world (stretching from Morocco to the Middle East) where 450 million sophisticated and relatively wealthy consumers want your goods and services. Of course there are cultural nuances to be navigated but Enda shares many insights, gleaned from 28 years with Aer Lingus and a further 8 years as Country Head, Ireland with airline Emirates.

He also explains why his 'hire in a heartbeat' choice is Roy Keane

Brian Fitzpatrick is co-founder and CEO of Oriel Marine Extracts, based in Clogherhead, County Louth. Oriel is on a voyage to the bottom of the sea, to bring ashore nutrient rich sea salt that, fortuitously has some other incredible (and patented) minerals that they supply to the food, medical and skincare sectors. They're funding, but wisely they're looking for 'wise money', so if you know these sectors, internationally, and you know of the benefits of magnesium, then have the chat with Brian. He also gives a masterclass in sales on the podcast.

His 'hire in heartbeat' is singer Lewis Capaldi but to get to him he wants to enlist the help of the Midlands Maestro, Niall Horan.

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E151 - Derek Kehoe, CEO BNP-Paribas, Ireland

Corporate and Institutional banking is their main business in Ireland
They're not planning on opening branch banking in Ireland
He talks about issues around mortgages in Ireland - and the fact that some don't have to pay them back.
He explains how the CEO in Paris 'knocked people's heads together', to get units in different countries to work as one bank
People have to be judged on their quantitative and qualitative performance as part of the way to 'make' staff work together
He explains how expensive Paris is compared to Dublin...when all charges are included, it's very, very interesting
'We have benefitted from Brexit' - and he talks about the crack in the windscreen eventually shattering...and what that means to London as a financial centre
Automation means that trading is now handled by computers, rather than noisy traders but he says that there will still room for Arts graduates, not just mathematicians and their algos (algorithms!)
Sustainable finance could/should be part of the future for growth of financial services in Ireland
He is very positive on Ireland having a Minister for Financial Services within Government
Personal taxation and a 'general hostility' towards financial services are impediments to further growth of the sector in Ireland and in attracting international financial services to the country.
The Financial Regulator is tough but firm and he says the Regulator needs to be tough.
Hiring people at BNP Paribas is not a problem at the moment (having seen staff churn at 15% in Q2, 2022)
And who would he 'hire in a heartbeat' - Prof Luke O'Neill

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E150 That Great Business Show

A fishy tail. Bord Iascaigh Mhara (BIM) CEO Caroline Bocquel has a billion Euro to give to the fishing sector to try to ease some of Brexit's burdens. Of course Ts&Cs apply BUT the money is for waaaaaaaaay more than fish and fishing. There are grants for boat building, sea based skin care products, oyster rotating machines...She wants to grow the 'blue economy'. Listen for some terrifici opportunities.

Anna-Marie Turley is Manager Entrepreneurship and HPSU Operations at Enterprise Ireland (EI). She joins TeamGBS to tell us of an early company pre-seed fund that can be worth €100,000. EI is looking for 60 top-class companies in almost any sector (if you're in gambling or porn don't bother reading on). The fund has no closing date and she says there's a short ten week turnaround for successful applicants. Share this with relevant businesses you know.

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E149 That Great Business Show

Ivan Wahlrab, co-founder StrongBó, a weighing machine for cattle, 'set to revolutionise the cattle industry', that has been part funded by The European Space Agency. Yes. You read that right. Now listen to find out why.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Dr. Fiona Edwards Murphy

Grit Young, Strategy and Transactions Partner, EY wants to Government to update and upgrade the KEEP employee incentive programme to match what is available across the border in Northern Ireland. It's essential to keep great talent working in our small but perfectly formed tech startup community.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Arnold Schwarzenegger - but you'll have to listen to find out why.

E148 That Great Business Show

Chris Deans, newly minted CEO Portakabin, Ireland, former soccer-pro with Derby County AFC, then EMEA sales director with Crane Logistics now swapped to a wholly different sector at Portakabin. Why? To keep himself fresh, a new challenge and recommends it wholly.

Hire in a heartbeat? Phil Giles, director of football at Brentford AFC. Listen to why.

National Jealousy Day is on the 1st of November every year in Finland. That's the day every citizen's pay packet is opened up for public scrutiny and is described by one commentator as being a 'national orgy of financial voyeurism'. But, did you know that pay transparency is heading right across Europe thanks to a very recently passed EU Directive. Mike McDonagh is COO of Sigmar Recruitment and wanted to share all his knowledge and his salary with TeamGBS.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' is Pete Lunn at the ESRI and he sold him so well that now we want Pete to join us on That Great Business Show

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E 147 That Great Business Show

Presented by Conall O Morain

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Tersha Willis and Ed Hayes, two of three founders of Terrible (it's not them, it's their company name!) talk all things merch (andise) and how bands (including U2) can up their game to make a living. We even get an industry insider review of the best up and coming music talent in the country (CMAT anyone? - "Ireland's greatest pop-star")

It's not just T-Shirts and hoodies. They made a plush-toy coochie from Shygirl's Coochie Call single (over one million Youtube views to date). They have made air-fresheners for a client, however they only make stickers and T-Shirts for the music duo Jockstrap which is ironic as they make Y-fronts for Marika Hackman.

"Artists need to behave like entrepreneurs"

In Ireland they also work with The Murder Capital, For Those I Love, Yune Pinku...but they deny all knowledge of working with Hozier. However, listen to find out if they 'do protest too much'.

"U2 are really underselling their merch", "It's a waste when they're making 60 year old men wear band T-Shirts" (They've worked with Sparks)

Hire in a heartbeat Ivan Hayes (brother of Ed) and Phil Knight, founder of Nike

Gillian Harford, Country Manager The 30% Club, on how women can grab C-Suite seats and board directors' chairs

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Rachael Blackmore

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E146 That Great Business Show

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Which would you prefer, ten years in the slammer of a half million Euro fine...or both? Those are the choices facing company directors gone bad. That's what That Great Business Show will try to help you avoid. You're welcome!

David Duffy, founder of the Corporate Governance Institute, says we should be like Singapore and make a corporate governance license 'a thing' for company directors.

New Irish citizens setting up businesses here. Joanna Ceizka came to Galway from Poland for a wedding. She never went home and is now selling her Irish Socksociety socks from there to the world. She encourages more new Irish to set up businesses here. And this Polish lady explains why she uses Gaeilge as a marketing differentiator.

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E145 That Great Business Show

Mark Tottenham BL is the expert on experts, or expert witnesses at least. He has actually written the book about it. On this episode we take a more light hearted look at some well known, 'not so expert' experts and being a business show, we see if there's a business in being an expert witness.

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E144 That Great Business

Next time your 'kids' (3 - 30!) are sitting, playing video games that you think are a huge waste of time, DO NOT STOP THEM. Why? Because gaming is a truly massive business and they could become part of it.

To learn more about the industry and businesses within it we are joined on E144 by Stuart Dempsey founder and CEO of Gamerfest – a series of festivals aimed at the massive worldwide gamer community. Do open your mind. It's not necessarily business as we traditionally know it. Stuart believes Ireland can attract the big gaming companies to base themselves here, as the IT and medtech companies have done in the past.

But, as is often the case, this isn't Stuart's first foray into business and goes into great detail about the pain of a family business failing. We keep it real.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Bob Iger of Disney. He explains why.

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E143 That Great Business Show

OONAGH O HAGAN, OWNER MEAGHERS PHARMACIES explains how she competes with big, big international competitors -

Service is key. Business is about people and she explains how she competes on service and finds the best service providers for her stores.

At the end of the day they look for people with empathy. And she finds ways of finding out if her future employees have that empathy by asking incoming applicants 'what the most recent kind thing they have done.

They began online due to customer demand, but it didn't make money for a long, long time. However, Meagher's is now serving 70 countries online worldwide. And why did she stick with it? Because they survey their customers all of the time, and the customers said they wanted it. It was only a matter of time...and they have global ambitions. They will also open new stores in 'under-served' communities in Ireland

Her mother, her entrepreneurial inspiration, who ran a Courtaulds factory near Omagh making bras for Marks and Spencer, managing two hundred people.

She even offers a fix for the HSE! She says policy makers don't know the value of the community pharmacies - ''they need to be freed up from bureaucracy''

Oonagh is a mentor on the women based 'Going for Growth' programme and she says that a lack of confidence is the major thing that holds back women in business. She explains what she does to make their mentees more confident. She has mentored about 100 women and she thinks women like Aimee Connolly is standout.

HER HIRE IN A HEARTBEAT? Louise Phelan, ex-PayPal. A straight shooter according to Oonagh.

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E32 #BusinessBites

Business Bites is where we bring you the best bits of That Great Business Show, in bite sized pieces.

On E39, in just twenty minutes, Anthony Tattan, founder of Business IN South Africa details the opportunities and benefits of basing a branch of your business there. S. Africa is the place to find skilled, English-as-first-language employees plus, with only an hour's time difference, they're at their desks when you are.

IT outsourcing companies like Wicklow based VBT and mid-sized accountancy firms are finding South Africa is a perfect place to grow.

Anthony's business can hand-hold you from explaining the legals, accommodation, HR compliance...everything.

If you're having issues finding great staff this episode is a 'must listen'.

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It's just like the script from a soap opera

Former COO of MooCall John Larkin is winding down another business, finds a notebook where he has jotted down 'brilliant business ideas', sees that he had previously looked at the personal soap business and instead of talking and researching it further, he just went and did it. It being, he set up The Black Stuff,, as his soap is laced with...the other black stuff.

From humble beginnings in his South Dublin kitchen table, where learnt how to swill soap from YouTube videos, he now has 5 full time employees and has moved into new industrial premises. He sells mostly online and how he got his big US breakthrough will make you smile, as, in business, opportunities come from the most unlikely sources.

John was introduced to That Great Business Show by the good guys at Parcel Planet that we had on the show recently as he is using their Birmingham hub to ship to the UK (avoiding all the hassles of Brexit) and next he's heading for their new Parcel Planet hub in the Netherlands, serving the huge French and German markets.

Soap. Inspirational.

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E142 That Great Business Show

John Larkin, founder The Black Stuff. The ultimate pivot? Professional poker player turns soap star. He learnt how to make soap watching YouTube videos, starting making his Guinness infused soap, naturally called The Black Stuff, at home two years ago. He's now employing 5 full time, plus part timers and he's just moved into new premises, big enough to grow 10X. John plans on cleaning up with his business. He's also just launched a natural deodorant. Could the scent be the sweet smell of success. It's a great story. And John is great fun.

Anthony Tattan, founder Business IN South Africa got to know how to do business there whilst working for an Irish based telecoms company. Having left the Irish business, and realising what was on offer from an English speaking, highly educated workforce, he decided he could help Irish business navigate their way there, where they can find a terrific 'can do' attitude that conveniently is almost on the same time zone as Ireland. He's already helping companies in the IT and accountancy sectors....and with skilled workers in severe short supply in Ireland, it's time to see what Anthony can recommend.

E141 That Great Business Show,

Mandy Lamb, MD, Visa UK & Ireland explains how five female led businesses can receive a grant of €10,000 each plus access to international mentors, all part of Visa's ‘She’s Next’ initiative. There are five business categories to get an award; micro; early-stage; general small, changemakers and innovation & technology.

Listen to get full details and share with female entrepreneurs.

Aine Murray is Head of Marketing and Comms in Ireland at French company Veolia. And she's also President of the France Ireland Chamber of Commerce. She joins TeamGBS to talk about the huge potential to increase trade between Ireland and Europe’s THIRD LARGEST economy, France.

Oli Cavanagh wants to change tipping habits globally.

Covid meant people didn't carry cash. No cash meant zero tips for those who traditionally relied on tips for a living. Also, tax laws meant businesses didn't want to run tips through their electronic sales systems. That's the problem.

Oli's Strikepay is the solution.

However, be aware of 'Tip Creep'. There are companies trying to extract 20% 'tips' from you for using their vending machine. Yes, you press their buttons and you tip the machine for the pleasure! You heard it on E37 #BusinessBites first.

35 years a banker, then all change.

His company, IrishTrees.ie is planting trees to save the planet. He's helping businesses do that. This is a tangible exercise in greening the planet. You can go see, touch, feel your trees in the Naul in North County Dublin or at Dunsany in Meath. You can make a day of it, bring your staff, your clients of family to see 'your trees'. He'll plant one, a thousand or then thousand trees for you. Long after you and your business is gone those trees will be standing. A brilliant legacy. This is business doing good.

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E140 That Great Business Show

Buying a bottle from a New York Airport vending machine can cost $6. Now they want you to add a 20% tip for buying from a machine. Irish startup Strikepay has tipping by the scruff, they're already profitable, gone international, funding again, and with co-founder Oli Cavanagh's track record, they could be huge. A business based on the humble tip. His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Louise Phelan

Bob Hamilton is a BIG supporter of That Great Business Show. He joined us when the podcast was in its infancy to talk about his Irish Urns business. The 35 year veteran of Bank of Ireland now has a 2nd successful business on the boil. He's planting trees to save the planet and to help businesses show they really want to save the planet. His IrishTrees.ie will plant a single tree, or thousands of trees (they plant a tree for every episode of That Great Business Show for us). They have the land and the know-how. This is business doing good.

If you've a brilliant new product but don't know how to get it made give John O'Connell of CW Applied Technology a ring.

Following his participation on the Bord na Mona Accelerate Green Programme he's decided to build a team of experts that will take your idea and make it happen.

His business model is based on the hugely successful start-up studio, Idea Labs in California.

He's funding and he's looking for €2 million in smart funding to get this idea to take off.

Go for it. Get that better mousetrap built. The world will thank you for it.

E34 Business Bites, from E139 That Great Business Show

If you have an Irish business, based outside Ireland, maybe in Toronto, New York, Savannah, Chicago, Sydney, Melbourne or Dubai, publisher

Bobby Power, founder of Go Wild magazines, wants to know you. And he wants to feature your business.

He's defying publishing gravity by growing his numbers when so many others are failing. Listen to Business Bites E34 to find out how he's doing it.

E139 That Great Business Show

Bobby Power, founder of Go Wild magazines, talks about his latest magazine title, 'The Irish Abroad - Vancouver', celebrating successful Irish business founders. He has plans to bring similar publications to other major cities including Toronto, New York, Savannah, Chicago, Sydney, Melbourne and Dubai - AND he wants to hear from really interesting businesses in those locations.

He also explains how he keeps his production team together, though they're also scattered across the world, from Dublin, the UK, Spain and Canada.

He says he's become a serious phone salesman and has some top tips on how to sell over the phone.

His 'Hire in a Heartbeat'...everyone's favourite beard, Richard Branson

Think of the opening sequence of the TV series, Mission Impossible, when the 'good guys' picked a top team to take on the mission 'if you choose to accept it'. That's what John O'Connell of CW Applied Technology is doing following from his participation in the Bord na Mona Accelerate Green Programme. He's looking for marketing specialists, financial advisors, business development experts, all to bring his big idea, based on the hugely successful start-up studio, Idea Labs in California, to fruition.

He's funding so he's looking for €2 million in smart funding to get this idea to take off.

And John's choice for 'hire in a heartbeat' is Idea Labs founder Bill T. Gross to help him bring this great idea to Ireland.

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E138 That Great Business Show

Fergal Lawlor, founder of Laois gem, Alpha Wireless makes antennas for the world. Employing 100 and recruiting, they're busy in Ireland, the UK, the US, Australia, Canada and Israel. Next they're hoping to grow more in the Middle East and/or South America, so they're planning on funding for growth, later in the year.

Private networks is a big, big growth area for them.

Huawei's problems in the US are an opportunity Alpha Wireless.

Fergal explains what we'll see next from 5G (and then, later, 6G...)

Alpha had a major contract with US mega-firm Sprint, which was great until Sprint was taken over and their contract terminated...and that wiped out half of Alpha's business. So they had to regroup. Quickly.

Enterprise Ireland have been huge supporters and he has tips for people using their services, including how best to engage with the Development Adviser (DA's)

His 'hire in a heartbeat', Paddy Lawlor.

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ChatGPT may be about to transform your business. In seconds. But you have to give it the right prompts (yes, you're new buzzword du jour), and Maryrose Lyons, Brightspark Consulting, is on hand to explain everything your business needs to know about ChatGPT that will save you a bucket load of time and shedload of time...all in just 20 minutes. Thanks to Done Deal Motors.

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E137 That Great Business Show

Phone maker Apple ($165 billion in cash on balance sheet) and Goldman Sachs are joining forces to take on the US savings market - it's not quite banking, yet, but it does mean savers will have high yield accounts in their pockets, ready for spending. Who gets your spending pattern knowledge? Apple, with 2 billion devices worldwide, does of course. It's the future according to Moodys and Forbes. Independent economist and former banker Alan McQuaid throws a critical eye for us on what's coming down the banking tracks.

ChatGPT can take a lot of the donkey work out of your marketing AND your day-to-day admin. Maryrose Lyons, BrightSpark Consulting, explains how to prompt (it's the word du jour) your ChatGPT account to deliver a whole slew of marketing material. Don't pretend we haven't told you, because it's not going away and the sooner you learn about it and adopt it, the sooner you'll be ahead of the posse.

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Jason Bradshaw, Partner with JPA Brenson Lawlor, won last year's Deal of the Year. He is recognised as one of the top M&A experts and here he shares that expertise with us, explaining how to make your business more valuable when selling, and what to look out for when buying.

On Business Bites #32 he puts his spotlight on community pharmacies.

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Avril McCarthy, general manager, Derrycourt Cleaning Specialists is part of the management team looking after a team of 2,000 (yes!) but wants to hire more. How does one manage that many, across the country, and what are they doing to hire more...

Peter Leonard, barrister and co-presenter of The Fifth Court podcast, following the near $800 million settlement between Dominion Voting Systems and Fox News, explains how a court can put your business out of business

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Viva Green, started 25 years ago, headlining at Glastonbury. Sold worldwide including distribution by John Deere in the US they now want support from some of the Irish multiples who are not all listing their green products. Viva Green's Sean O'Haire makes his plea.

Jason Bradshaw, partner at JPA Brenson Lawlor, highlights the nationwide shortage of pharmacists, how that impacts on profitability and possibly pushing some community pharmacists to sell up.

Maureen McCowen, Soft Skills Success, says living on the edge makes you a better communicator and that in turn could lead to promotion and business success.

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John Donoghue, CEO of IFAC that has thirty offices and five hundred staff across the Republic of Ireland, talks about the co-op's (Yes!) expansion plans into Northern Ireland. If you know of suitable practice for sale, or likely to come up for sale, John is the man to talk to.

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You can buy a Wix (or similar) website, off the shelf. Or, you can go to a specialist firm like Social Tailor that gets your website really, really selling. Founder Louise Langton comes hugely recommended by TeamGBS super-supporter Bob Hamilton because Louise has done a job, like no other, on his IrishTrees.ie website.

Thanks to DoneDeal Motors we bring you Louise's fantastic insights gratis, for nothing, nada, faic. We like.

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You spend years building your business then the time comes to sell it. Not so easy. Hear how long time entrepreneur Richard Phelan decided it was time to pull down the shutters one last time and how he chose employee Brian O'Connor as the right person to buy it from him. One big takeaway is to know not to leave a sale to the last minute.

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Patrick O'Shaughnessy and Brian Nation explains how Keepers Heart is very, very different, being an Irish whiskey made in America...or is it?

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Sunday Independent columnist and contrarian Conor Skehan explains to all in business why it's vital they get involved in local democracy, both for their country but also out of self-interest.

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Louise Langton, Social Tailor, has a looooong history in business. She then chose to go out on her own, helping other businesses sell better through their websites. She gives us top tips on how to do it better, why you need someone like her to do it for you (naturally!) and shouts about some of her most hated things she sees companies doing on their websites.

She also wants Sonya Lennon to come work with her.

John Donoghue is CEO of IFAC, a curious co-op owned financial advisory service. With thirty offices nationwide, employing 500 people, IFAC's roots are deep in rural Ireland. But, as the economy cedes farming for pharma IFAC is planning on more non-farming related expansion, including looking at moving into Northern Ireland.

John would love if he could attract Paschal Donohoe to work for him (he reckons he's got an ace contacts book...)

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The State of Connecticut (CT) is the state above of New York city and below Boston. It's essentially the 'next parish over' from Ireland. Tony Sheridan is half way through building an exhibition centre cum co-working space in New London, CT, and the Meath man wants to populate it with Irish companies looking for a base from which to take on the US market. Better news for Irish businesses is that you can now fly directly into Hartford, CT from Dublin on the daily Aer Lingus service, that has taken off again after a three year (Covid) hiatus. Tony explains all of the advantages and how little it will cost.

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From E132 of That Great Business Show, US based entrepreneur Tom Byrne of Clear ERC explains how you could earn $40,000 plus as a bounty by making a simple introduction to him. Too good to be true? Listen to Tom and make up your own mind.

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E24 #Business Bites - the best bits of That Great Business Show E132 - Conor Skehan tells businesses why they should be involved in local democracy and he has a few bon mots for our public sector, and why the Irish system works quite well. He even names an outstanding senior public servant. Take a bow!

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Patrick O'Shaughnessy, who's great grandfather bought Killarney National Park for the Irish nation, has teamed up in Minnesota, USA with former Irish Distillers Master Distiller Brian Nation to bring us a new type of whiskey, part made in Ireland, shipped and blended in the USA and then shipped back, starting just this week, to Ireland. This pair and fun and highly informative as to what exactly they're trying to sell.

How Patrick managed to lure Brian to work with him in the States is a LinkedIn based story, writ large. And Patrick explains how his lack of familiarity with a 'stick shift' car introduced him to Dr. John Teeling.

Patrick wants to 'hire in a heartbeat' Brian's eight year old son, Briain.

Brian wants to 'hire in a heartbeat' his own father, Michael, who sadly died earlier this year.

Niall O'Connor, newly minted CEO of Dynamic Events, and Richard Phelan who recently exited as founder/owner of Dynamic Events, We had to find out why both did what they did, one to buy, one to sell? Richard is very interesting on the need for business owners to think ahead about eventually selling their businesses, but also not to leave it too late.

Niall O'Connor still wants to hire Jurgen Klopp

Richard Phelan wants to hire Johnny Sexton or Mack Hansen

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Tony Sheridan, President & CEO Connecticut East Chambers of Commerce wants you to base your US expansion in his new office coworking space. He's flown all the way to Ireland to make sure he gets the message across and the best news is that Meath man Tony, only 60 years in the US, will cut you a special deal.

Tom Byrne, Clear ERC, is looking for Irish bounty hunters. A simple introduction of an American business to him could be worth $40,000 - no further work needed. Too good to be true? Well you'll have to listen to E132 to make up your own mind

Conor Skehan, Sunday Independent columnist wants business owners to be more involved in decision making and explains why local government is where they should start. But, he's adamant that the heads of Google Ireland and Pfizer Ireland should not apply.

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Three great producers, three great winners of the Supervalu Food Academy, thirty three great top tips for getting to the top of the queue to get on the the coveted Supervalu programme....like applying right now, even if you're only starting out.

Hear from Erica Sheehan, Homespun (and check out their chicory sweetener - 'a revelation' - Ger Devin will sell you the West Cork Biscuits story and Gavin Cassidy has the recipe for success for his Porter & Nash vegan and seaweed gravy.

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Aidan Donnelly, Head of Equities, Davy explains what the collapse of banks could mean for interest rate futures. Always lucid.

Erica Sheehan, Homespun & Ger Devin, West Cork Biscuits & Gavin Cassidy, Porter and Nash are Supervalu Food Academy winners. They give the secrets of their succcess. They're so good they're coming back again onto That Great Business Show.

From E130 of That Great Business Show we bring you Proveye, with a technology that may transform the lives of crop growers around the world. There are opportunities here for those in agriculture, who sell agtech machinery and who invest in agtech. Have a listen, give Jerome a shout and tell him TeamGBS sent you.

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Years of academia (and pieces of paper to prove it) led to a Eureka! moment when NovaUCD based Proveye co-founder, Jerome O'Connell, brought together various pieces of knowledge to develop a software that can micro-analyse, from a drone, what's on the ground below. For example, how good the vineyard crop is, or if plants have heated up too much internally or whether the best grasses are planted in the best areas. The company has raised cash, is recruiting and has big, big plans for the US market. The software may have other applications your business could use.

Marguerite and David Lawlor, co-founders of Watermark Coffee that owns the Green Ocean label, wants your company to buy their Ireland roasted coffee so they can plant 180 hectares of ocean grass in Mayo's beautiful Clew Bay, so native oysters can survive. Both are accountants who frit met in KPMG, but that might not be allowed anymore? We bring you every aspect of business on That Great Business Show.

Business Bites, the best bits of That Great Business Show, E129.

Gary Wickham, founder, MagrowTec, magnetising world farming.

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Why 10,000 businesses are attending 800 LEO run Enterprise Week events.

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MagrowTec is addressing a massive worldwide caused by drifting of pesticide sprays that as well as making delivery inefficient means it can also lead run off of the chemicals into water courses. And that's only one of co-founder Gary Wickham's uses for the technology....

Also, Tom Rooney, head of enterprise at Dublin South LEO explains why 10,000 business owners and wannabe entrepreneurs are heading for some of the 300 events at National Enterprise Week.

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Musician turned entrepreneur introduces the award winning MyGug, the egg that creates cooking gas from your food waste. She says it's unlike most any other anaerobic digester and it allows food businesses, particularly restaurants, to up their green credentials, whilst using gas from waste to cook the next meals. She's looking for global partners.

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There are 4,000 haulage businesses in Ireland. There won't be soon. They're about to consolidate.

Corporate Finance 'Deal of the Year' maker Jason Bradshaw, Partner with JPA Brenson Lawlor, explains how to make your business more valuable.

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Conor Skehan, academic turned entrepreneur explains how greedy owners are destroying their own retail businesses and killing our main shopping streets. He also highlights 'Public Space Theft' where pubs, bars and restaurants are 'stealing' public pathways and open spaces.

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SME are unproductive and sorely need a 'kick in the pants', according to Conor Skehan,

SME's get in their own way, he claims and explains that business owners can be too greedy, trying to have their cake and eat it, that militates against a town or village being better for business. This applies to towns and villages right across the country.

He references 'public space theft', where pubs/restaurants to 'take' public property in front of their businesses.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' is entrepreneur Nicola Byrne, a woman he likes so much he recently married her!

Fiona Kelleher, founder of MyGug, based in Clonakilty, that turns food waste into cooking gas. Massive Fiona went through a massive pivot, from singing to selling her egg shaped anaerobic digester (designed by her husband, Ciaran Coffey) that has won awards and is selling internationally. She's raising €1 million to grow the business further internationally.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat' could be Deborah Meaden, but she wants Neven Maguire to join her team.

Corporate Finance Partner at JPA Brenson Lawlor, Jason Bradshaw, talks about how to increase the value of your business, if you're amongst the 4,000 haulage businesses across the country. If you're in that sector this is essential listening.

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Kate McLoughlin, MD of McLoughlin Butchers, a 3rd generation family butchers business talks about why the family shop had to go, how the multiplies are killing family butchers, which is why they are now concentrating on supplying quality restaurant and food outlets, where customers want to know the provenance of their food, and they're willing to pay for that quality.

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Caitriona Cullen of Hacketstown, Co. Carlow base Cullen's Nurseries, makes a welcome return TeamGBS after two years odd watching her garden (well commercial nursery) grow and grow. She tells us that one third of all the country's farmers want 'in' to a €1.5 billion government tree planting scheme, but despite everyone's best intentions, there's not a chance that tree supply will match demand. It's an ironic business problem, too much demand. BTW, you always learn something new on That Great Business Show, like a tree grown overseas, but put in the ground in Ireland for a year, becomes an Irish tree!

There's clearly a business opportunity right here.

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Caitriona Cullen, co-founder Cullen Nurseries in Carlow, explains that there's too much demand for her product - trees. She asks, 'is that a business problem, or a business headache'??

Kate McLoughlin, MD of McLoughlin Butchers, explains why reluctantly shutting her grandfather's butchers shop has helped her family business expand.

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Vincent Crimmins, founder Luminar Analytics, explains everything you need to know about ChatGPT and what it could mean for your business. P.S. he explains it in easy to understand English!

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BusinessBites #13 Jimmy Sheehan, CEO of Contracting PLUS, reveals all about 'Umbrella Companies' - absolutely essential information for all contract workers. It could save you $$$$!

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Sharon Farrell, founder of FACE, tells us Team GBS how to get paid for their work. Fabulous.

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Another cracker.

On E126 Sharon Farrell of FACE explains how to get paid for your work.

Data analyst Vincent Crimmins, founder Laminar Analytics, tells us what ChatGPT will mean for your business

Essential listening for contract workers - Jimmy Sheehan, CEO Contracting Plus, opens our eyes to umbrella companies...that don't make umbrellas!

Please share with your colleagues in business.

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'Move more, eat less' just won't cut it any more. Medical doctor Dr. Harriet Treacy wants the world to adopt her NovaUCD backed team, bringing their medical fact based solution to a weight conscious world. It's literally a massive opportunity.

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Alan McDonald, co-founder UnBanx wants you to take your data back from the banks (hence the name!) so that you earn money for it (not a lot, but better than having it 'taken' on you for free).

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Founder Dr. Harriet Treacy explains, when it comes to losing weight and dealing with the worldwide obesity problem, the old adage, 'move more, eat less', just doesn't it cut it any more. Her holistic medically based approach to weight loss sees up to double the weight loss achieved by other methods, and as it's a continual process, the weight should stay off. She has already raised over €500k, but will be raising further funds to take her NovaUCD backed solution to the rest of the world.

Your bank sells your data to third party companies. But, that data is yours. You own it and Alan McDonald, co-founder with his cousin of UnBanx, wants you to benefit, in an admittedly small way, from sharing the data with him, not the banks, and you might earn the price of a pizza a month from doing lots of nothing. Like the rest of us, Alan loves passive income. If you like what he's doing, Alan is funding soon.

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Simple. On Business Bites Mark Greene, Parcel Planet, explains how to make more money by concentrating on selling while he'll (literally) do the heavy lifting of packing and shipping your orders.

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BusinessBites #8 Marie Murphy, Homelink.ie, explains how to save thousands of Euro on your next holiday.

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Deal of the Year winner, Jason Bradshaw, Partner JPA Brenson Lawlor, can maximise the value of your business.

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Marie Murphy, founder Homelink.ie explains how to use your home for a free holiday, and a great cost cutter for retirees. Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Padraig O Ceidigh

Mark Greene of Parcel Planet shifts your parcels while you shift your products. His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Steve Bartlett (and David McWilliams!)

Jason Bradshaw values your business

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Business Bites #6 John Ryan, founder of Healthy Place to Work, seeks international partners for multi-million Euro opportunities.

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Sarah Naylor, Beauty Business in a Box, tells TeamGBS how one of her 14 year old clients makes €800 a week, in between going to school! Her best client, in her early twenties, is making €2,500 a week. Find out how.

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Sarah Naylor, founder of Beauty Business in a Box, shows young people how to make hundreds, or thousands (!) of Euro, from the comfort of their own home. She is also the recently appointed President of the Dublin branch of Network Ireland, helping women in business.

Drop shipping is the hot topic for solopreneurs and luckily for listeners, we had Digifly on the podcast previously who explained how to do drop shipping properly.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat', Norah Casey

John Ryan, founder, A Healthy Place to Work

How making your workplace 'holistically' (i.e. every part) healthier. It's used successfully by organisations like BT Ireland, Virgin One and the IRFU

And they're going global and they're looking for Series A funding from global partners that can deliver them to the types of companies who need to be healthier.

His 'hire in a heartbeat', two actually, the recently available former NZ Prime Minister, Jacinda Ardern and Dr. Mike Ryan of WHO.

Adam Ferguson, Chief Commercial Officer at Distilled Media talks about their plans for property website Daft.ie - listen for business opportunities.

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Top actuary Colm Fagan has a devised a revolutionary new approach to pensions for those about to be enrolled in the Government proposed auto-enrollment scheme. His scheme, he says, will give much higher returns for much lower costs. Win. Win. We say.

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Adam Ferguson, Chief Commercial Officer, Daft.ie tells us about Daft's expansion plans in the real estate business. He's also a man of many pivots as he explains how studying Ag. Science led to selling houses! Daft.ie has...300,000 people viewing online (in Ireland only) every day!!! He wants more transparency in online bidding so buyers can bid 24-hours a day - and buyers can also see what level the most recent bid is at. They have also introduced a valuation function that can, where possible, what a house should be worth. And, are they going to become a mortgage broker? Interestingly for auctioneers, Virtual Reality doesn't look like it's going to replace estate agents in the short term, he says. He also says they may have a tool that will help keep the tyre-kickers (and nosey neighbours) away from viewings. He wants renters to get credit for their history of paying rent over years.

His 'hire in a heartbeat', Henry Ford AND his boss, Brian Fallon, co-founder of Distilled Media

Colm Fagan, former Society of Actuaries President, shares his radical (and award winning) solution on how the 700,000 Irish citizens currently without pensions, can extract a much better pension at up to half the costs from the Government's proposed Auto-Enrollment scheme. It's so good he has tried to patent the idea! We keep it simple on That Great Business Show, so what he says is totally comprehensible. And why has he seen pushback from the State authorities in charge of auto-enrollment? Because, they say it hasn't be tried. But, as he also says, that's because he's only just revealed his idea and it hasn't been done anywhere else in the world. He quotes Homer Simpson's response, 'D'Oh!'. He wants the ESRI to check out the idea and to give it a thumbs up or down. We'll also be showing it to the Sage of Omaha, Warren Buffet.

Who would he 'hire in a heartbeat' - his co-worker on this idea, actuary Brian Woods.

And we formally launch the FaganWoods solution

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Business Bites #2 - #TeamGBS creators of That Great Business Show - bring you business opportunities in bite sized pieces.

Malachy Ryan wants his Bear Robotics robots to take over your restaurant.

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BUSINESS BITES - TeamGBS, the team that brings you That Great Business Show - brings you some great business opportunities

1 Sarah Murphy, newly minted CEO of family fashion business Jack Murphy, wants help to become a world brand.

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Sarah Murphy announces that she has been made CEO of her third-generation clothing brand, Jack Murphy. She discusses some bumps in the road in the past, and how she means to make her small Irish brand a world player. Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Patagonia founder, Douglas Tompkins as well as Spanx founder, Sara Blakely

Malachy Ryan, Sales Director EMEA with US robotics firm Bear Robotics, brings us a new word- cobot - (well we had never heard it before and neither had our Spellcheck!). A cobot is a collaborative robot and there are 9,500 Bear Robotics cobots roaming the planet already. The first Irish one lands in the Plaza Hotel in Tallaght in late January. After that, the world...Oh, and they're hiring.

Malachy's 'hire in a heartbeat', a #TeamGBS favourite, Michael O'Leary whose contribution to the Irish economy will be rank with Whitaker and Lemass.

The Easy Money Edition.

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Aidan Donnelly explains how to make easy money. But not crypto. Or any other nonsense investment options. He discusses The Greater Fool Theory...and how to avoid being That Fool. He explains in great detail what ETF's are and why they are a great way of investing if you're too busy to try to pick individual investment winners. He says that often trading shares actively doesn't add value.

He talks about Snap-On Tools having had a great, great year in 2022 and how electric cars could be brilliant for them in 2023.

He says capex is going to be a main theme in the coming years and says which companies could be winners from that theme, as well as from near-shoring, automation, workforce optimisation, Internet of Things and electrification.

Siemens, ABB, Schneider Electric, Sitech, Rockwell Automation, Cognex Corporation, Keysight Technologies and Parker Hannifin

BTW, there's an ETF for automation and others.

He also explains why he only has to get 55% of his stock picks right to make money. Easy.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'...Hal Lawton, the Tractor Supply Company CEO.

Anthuan Xavier arrived in Ireland aged 19. He had three weeks rent in his pocket and absolutely nothing else. No job, no training, no connections.

Learn how, along with colleague Dave Simpson, he built a professional firm, BDO Simpson Xavier, to a team of 550 people.

In 45 minutes we bring you the distillation of over 4 decades of business knowledge - an MBA in less than an hour, a smorgasbord of 'do's and don'ts' of business.

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E118 - Lorraine Marren, Head of e-Commerce at Irish owned success story McSport and Steve Mangan, co-founder of creative agency Ringers.

45 minute masterclass in how to use TikTok for your business for free. Every tip you ever wanted from both the creative and the practitioner sides (one McSport TikTok video has been seen by one million people so far!!!).

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On this episode we're joined by superstar business broadcaster Vincent Wall

Could Sandra Healy's Inclusio become Ireland's next unicorn? #TeamGBS thinks so. Find out why KPMG Canada think they're amazing ("Sandra, there's nothing in the world like your solution, and we've looked") and learn where Sandra and her team will bring her software solution next (hint; the rest of the world). An unbelievable story from an entrepreneur who took the plunge later in life. She's hiring, they're going to grow the staff numbers to 125 and triple the value of the business in the coming 24 months by internationalising the business Inspiring.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? - Simon Sinek

Dave Byrne, CEO, talks to us about ReaDI-Watch, and what they do for companies of any size about R&D. He says there's plenty of money out there but you have to know where to find it. They're making grant claims and tax claims for R&D more process driven. And they're growing, heading to Canada and the UK. And they're funding to grow.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? - Gary Wickham, MagrowTec (wait'll you hear about his range of businesses he's been involved in).

3.00" Henrik Wetter Sanchez, Principal at UK based Playfair Capital VC tells us about the Irish companies they have invested in, the types and sizes of the companies they will invest in, and those that they definitely will not. Cheque sizes start at €100,000 but can run to millions, they receive 2,000 website applications a year. He says that they read absolutely every one of them. The key is to keep it short, short and short (no more than TEN SLIDES as more will not be read). The tough news though is that only six companies a year make the final cut. But like TeamGBS alums ProtexAI, your company could be one of them. So long as your business is not into gambling (one of a shortlist of sectors they don't touch on ethical rounds). One of his favourite investments is RecycleEye (and we'd love to have them on the podcast).

Henrik's 'Hire in a Heartbeat' is Jurgen Klopp

22.00" Fenero software (they help self-employed solopreneurs with their tax and accounting) founder Sinead Doherty talks about why accelerator type programmes have been so good for her and her business. She encourages anyone to participate and join possibly the best team of supporters possible. She explains why she does the courses and how she, employer of 80 plus and hiring, can find the time to do these programmes. The programmes, the mentors and the friends she has met on these courses have added at least 1000% to her business. Interestingly, she says the company has reached an interesting growth crossroads, and she hints she may consider a funding round to go global.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat', executive coach Annette Burns Young

40.00" Ross Byrne and Michael Rogers, two of three co-founders of Starfol.io discuss the $16bn market opportunity in matching talent (sports stars etc) with businesses who want that 'star quality' to shine on their goods and services. However, before we got down to business, we had to ask Ireland rugby star Ross, what he thinks about when he's about to take a hugely pressurised penalty kick. Fascinatingly, if you're a spectator in the stand, he may be thinking about you! They are funding to grow, grow, grow in the UK - and then US is on their immediate 'to do' list after that. We find out if Starfol.io is Ross's pension plan?

Ross's 'hire in a heartbeat', Pat Byrne, CityJet founder and his dad.

Michael's 'hire in a heartbeat' is David Kelleher, founder of Outmin

We also give a shoutout for the founders of Bainisteoir Board Game, that has already outsold all of last year, just in the last four weeks. Buy not while stocks last, as they say.

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Paul Ryan CEO of The Auxilia Group runs a 'dating agency' for businesses and he wants more professional women on his books. Listen to find out what he's actually looking for, and how you can earn up to €2,000 a day. He also has a hypnotist for hire. If your business wants the services of a hypnotist, we at That Great Business Show would like to hear from you - 'cos we have got to know why??

A keen marathon runner Paul's 'hire in a heartbeat' is sub-2 hour marathon runner Eliud Kipchoge

Siobhán Ní Chofaigh is boss at an intriguing Galway based company, Mint Tek Circuits. Her small (they're hiring!), but perfectly formed company, will take your design (software or hardware) and turn it into a reality, and for far less cost than others in the field. Siobhán worked with a number of huge multinationals but finally decided to take the plunge and set up her own successful company, with international ambitions.

Siobhán's 'hire in a heartbeat', TV mathematician (if that's a thing?) Hannah Fry who makes maths fun.

Barry Walsh, an engineer turned business coach, has designed his own unique version of business coaching, creating what he calls 'The Power of Seven'. 7 non-competing business owners (actually you don't need to be the owner) meet every 6-8 weeks to have a hardcore chat, where hard but honest advice is given and taken by all participants. His Power of 7 comes very highly recommended by TeamGBS members.

Like all #TeamGBS players Barry doesn't see any borders to his business and is ready to bring it to the rest of the waiting world.

Barry's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Aidan Corbett, co-founder of Wayflyer.

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E114 That Great Business Show

3.00" Where else would you get a former Davy stockbroker discussing the phoenix-like rise of of avocado coloured toilet suites? Only on That Great Business Show. Harry Maharaj gave up a very lucrative career in equity sales with Davy to join, along with his brothers, his family run business, Kilkenny Architectural Salvage. There's nothing Harry doesn't know about a 2nd hand floor, a set of 'barely used' windows, or even that slightly soiled WC. The grim news though is that he tells us that avocado is back...Listen to Harry to hear about what's hot and what's not in architectural salvage, how he got to star in the RTE 'Build Your Own Home' series with Harrison Gardner, selling confessionals and stuffed horses, and his (kind of) special offer for TeamGBS listeners.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Gary Vaynerchuk aka Gary Vee, author, speaker and entrepreneur. (Harry, wants to hear some hard home truths from Gary).

24.00" Professor Martin Hayes of the University of Limerick wants to change the traditional 3rd level education model so as to provide more and better trained employees for businesses. He recommends the German model, much like old fashioned apprenticeships, where a school leaver is employed and then trained. The employee gets paid as they work and they get their education paid for too. Sounds too good to be true? Well it works brilliantly in Germany where dropout rates from those courses are practically non-existent, so it works for employer and employee.

Martin's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Patrick Collison, or his mother, or his father...

45.00" Mary and Sophie Leahy, mother and daughter founders of The Wine Opener, talk about where their oh so simple idea for a business came from, how their other products were spawned, how hard they work compared with when they weren't self employed, how they got featured on Ryan Tubridy's Late Late Show, what that did for their sales, their launch into the US and of course, we start with the age old question of the family business, what was the latest business row about...

Their 'hires in a heartbeat' (lots...)

Bobby Kerr

Ryan Tubridy

Aimee Connolly

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3.00" Ex-Google employee Síne Dunne couldn't sleep. She was stressed. She was living on 5 hours sleep or less. She did what all great entrepreneurs do. She made a business out of it. She worked with Enterprise Ireland and Trinity College to develop her product and now SiestSleep.com is a patented sleep 'pillow' manufactured in Ireland, sold directly to the consumer. She's solving a BIG problem. There is a 100,000 person waiting list for sleep consultants in Ireland alone. After Ireland he focus is on the EU - bypassing the UK for Brexit reasons.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Peachlyean founder and TeamGBS favourite (she's already been on the podcast twice) Sharon Keegan. Find out why.

22.00" Marc O'Dwyer, Darren Costello launch The Big Red Web on That Great Business Show. It's a first for the country they say, a website and ecommerce builder that has an integrated accounts software package. Darren runs a hygiene products company and explains how using Big Red Web that 'overnight' a third of his sales moved online, allowing him to watch his sales click in while lying in bed!

Marc O'Dwyer's 'hire in a heartbeat in entrepreneur Tommy Kelly formerly of eShopWorld, before he sold it for quite some money.

Darren's 'hire in a heartbeat' is Louisa Flanagan of Nsi Hair, Nail and Beauty.

42.00" Sinead O'Sullivan, Prof of Aerospace Engineering at the Illinois Institute of Technology.

She's a 'space economist' - as in an economist who specialises in the business of space, as in the space over our heads, and nothing to do with property or architecture. She talks about the shift from government to private funding for the space industry. Sinead explains who is using space to develop businesses and products, including biomedical testing. Incredibly she says that there are some companies trying to 'mine' asteroids...though it's not clear why and she says it's a complete nonsense. But Google co-founder Larry Page has invested!

That Great Business Show is probably the only place that you'll learn how to buy 'an orbit'.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat', - definitely not Elon Musk, but she does want is one of her former students, who seemingly has a brain beyond belief, Craig Sinclair

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2.00" How to save €5,000 when selling a home. Need we say more? You'll love this 'newish' (2018) business, Auctioneera that says it has sold, to date, €350m worth of property in Ireland and saved vendors €4.4m in fees to date. Great news for sellers, not so great maybe for the Sherry FitzGerald, Lisneys and DNGs of the world. The business continues to grow according to guest, and co-founder, Helen O'Keefe, who wants to find other agents across the country to join her expanding team. Interestingly the two founders, Helen and Eddie O'Driscoll had not background at all in the property business. They were marketeers who saw a gap in the market. But it wasn't all plain 'selling'!

What is it about Cork people and the way they stick together? Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Cork entrepreneur Pat Phelan, currently improving the world's aesthetics.

28.00" Paul Dunne, Director, EMEA, Poly talks to us about how Michael Collins spoke to us from the moon using Poly (formerly Plantronics) equipment. We refer to the astronaut, not the 'Big Fella', of course. Poly has recently been taken over by HP, whose products were used by Disney to bring us the original Fantasia movie, still an all-time classic. With such eminent tech lineage it's no wonder that Poly knows the future, and how we'll use it for our hybrid office work. Watch out for the tracking cameras...that we hope to have on our podcast eventually, bringing That Great Business Show to 'TV'...finally. FYI, Poly are hiring for their Galway operation. Talk to Joe (Goggins) about that.

Paul's 'hire in a heartbeat'? A new one for TeamGBS, but psychotherapist (and double podcaster) Esther Perel sounds fascinating on her insights into how people, co-founders or work colleagues, navigate the challenges in their work relationships. We'd love to have Esther join #TeamGBS

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Alyssa Stevens, Social Media Director at Boston based Connelly Partners, talks to us about why your business must use TikTok, how best to use TikTok and about the 3 million (not a typo) 'influencers' they have on the Connelly database. BTW, an influencer can cost you anything from a bottle of shampoo to $300,000 plus, plus, plus. Alyssa tells all.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Eva Chen, director of fashion partnership at Instagram

Emma Kennedy, co-founder of Grafter, tells us about what she says is 'Ireland's first work-style brand'. Grafter is primarily a collection of very fine looking temporary offices, mostly based in Dublin, with one unit in London. She has been looking at Cork premises as well, but nothing so far. She explains why, as more people turn their backs on the traditional office the more it suits her office business. The company has room for 300 'members' as she calls them, at the moment, but wants to grow that to 1,000. Soon.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? India Healy O'Connor, founder of Xelda

Gary Gallagher, co-founder Optahaul, says his early stage, but revenue generating, software company OptaHaul, can make money from working out the best route to bring milk to creamery, proving again there's the business in the most obscure of activities. The 2nd biggest cost in milk production can be haulage and he says he can save up to 30% of that cost. His software is applicable across Europe and he's had unrequested (but very welcome!) inquiries from the US and South America. He's currently funding, so if you know the industry, it's well worth a listen.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? TeamGBS supporter Bobby Healy, founder of Manna

Ruth Bailey, co-founder Vigo Health, has a long history in the health insurance market. This is her fourth start-up (not all successful she admits) but she has made some excellent exits as well. Vigo is taking aim mostly, but not solely, at the under-35's who aren't really engaged with the health insurance market. Vigo Health could be that sector's 'gateway drug'? Ruth is looking for employers who want to offer their employees a highly-affordable perk, looking after their health, always.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Her own brother, David Bailey - but she says she'd also kill him! Find out why. Gardai have been notified!

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EPISODE 110 posting21st October 2022

Ciaran O'Mara and Dan Hobbs, founders of Limerick based Protex AI, have completed the Y-Combinator programme (though they'll explain why they didn't make it to San Francisco) and have gone on to raise $18 million for their 18 month old (yes, fewer than 600 days!) company. They're going BIG in Canada and now heading for the US, to take on the US, from their 26 person HQ in Dublin. Their company all grew out of a terrible accident. That led to chats with 200 health and safety experts to see if their software, that can help avoid accidents, had an application. They say 'it's easy to think outside the box if you've never been inside it'.

How do they find potential clients? LinkedIn. (They took the 'free trial' to another level!). The two lads explain how not to have your thinking curtailed to Ireland. What they learned from Y-Combinator was view the entire world as your market - 'Why not?' they say. It forces you to think BIG.

Their 'hire in a heartbeats'? - Both their dads - Brian O'Mara, Leonard Hobbs

Dr. Mary-Liz Trant, Director of the National Apprenticeship Office on why she wanted to be a carpenter but was never offered that apprenticeship. She explains all about the 66 national programmes, including an apprenticeship in tree surgery - a growing business! There's also an apprenticeship that leads to a PhD in engineering (awarded by University of Limerick). Construction apprenticeships plummeted from 8,000 to 1,000 post the Big Financial Crash. Mary-Liz explains how SMEs can benefit from apprenticeship schemes. There's an online form that she says will respond 'immediately' and there are financial benefits. New apprenticeships being launched soon, will include immersive technology (AI etc) and another in cybersecurity as well as data analytics. There's also talk about an apprenticeship programme in clothes manufacturing.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? - Vera Pauw

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Episode 109 features three great women, three great entrepreneurs.

Tracey Moran talks about her family business, the oh, so famous Red Cow Morans Hotel (she even suggests where the name came from...), she talks about the new Wren Urban Nest hotel situated near Dublin's Grafton Street (and she says she welcomes pitches from local businesses with sustainable products or services that she may be able to use). And that's not all. As we often say on #TeamGBS, if you want something done, then give it to someone busy to do. That's why she also is heading up (with others) the Inside Out Camps, for young adolescents, to help them cope. Her first camp is based in Dublin, but she's keen to spread then nationwide.

The Local Enterprise Offices sent us two amazing women, and it's no surprise the LEO's are so keen on them. Both early stage companies have already gone international, and both sing and shout the praises of what the LEOs did for them, and what they could do for you. Sinead Crowther set up her business, Tonstix - they're sucky lollipops for sore throats -, over a Christmas period when she was going through a divorce, had quit her job and while one of her four children had suffered a serious accident. Her story, including being the first in her family to do her Leaving Cert, is AM-AZ-ING.

Equally, Lisa Geoghegan, founder of Sonallife, is life affirming. You can't but smile when Lisa talks the hind leg off you. She's a born salesperson - something it seems she learnt from car dealer dad who runs a highly successful business, 'based in the middle of nowhere' according to Lisa. Lisa's company specialises in 'making communities' and developers pay her to do it. It's a clever, clever idea, so much so that she's in talks with CBRE in Australia with a view to bringing her idea to the other side of the world. And she's developed an app to keep her communities together. She'll make you smile.

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Everything you need to know about Intertrade Ireland's Innovation Boost programme that includes mentorship, money and more, much more. Your business needs to know about it, as it will help you go global.

We have the programme co-ordinator Dominic Mullan with us, along with Liam Holton, co-founder of Offaly based Future Ticketing now selling to a majority of the world's countries. Jim Murray, Derry based XR consultant and Amrutha Ramanathan, who sent out 1,500 CVs before landing a job at Future Ticketing in just 8 minutes.

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2.30" Colin Saunders and Dave Geraghty explain how Open for Vintage is taking on the world of 2nd hand luxury goods. The secret is in the platform they developed themselves (Dave is ex-Facebook, ex-Wish, ex-Google...) that gives buyers, worldwide, dynamic pricing which means you see the price and that's it, in includes currency conversion, all relevant taxes and delivery charges. Clean. But it's not the only company selling 2nd hand handbags at €100,000 (that is NOT a typo!) so how do you take on others and win in luxury?

Their 'hires in a heartbeat'?

Dave wants to hire Colin Saunders (even though they're business partners) whilst Colin wants to 'hire in a heartbeat' the Net-a-Porter founder Natalie Massenet AND he wants Kim Kardashian who has worn some of OfV items...

42.00" We have a new podcast! Joining The Media Group stable with a new legal podcast is the team that previously brought you 'Law on Trial'. Barristers Peter Leonard and Mark Tottenham are launching 'The Fifth Court' aimed at everyone and anyone with an interest matters legal (FYI there are 25,000 solicitors and c. 2,000 barristers along with thousands of law students in the country). The team of legal-eagles were the recent winners of the Law Society of Ireland 'Best Legal Podcast' Award. Professional excellence is everything at The Media Group. BUT...there's always a but, when the Batman and Robin of Lawyers came into studio we didn't give them a free pass. We made them discuss the many legal quirks about contracts. For example telling somebody in a pub that they're hired could mean, well they're hired! They debunk that pub lawyer myth about mispriced goods in a shop and they explain how you can get out of buying that car you promised to purchase.

Their 'hire in a heartbeats' - Peter wants media giants Mike Bloomberg and/or Lionel Barber (probably to handle their libel and defamation suits) whilst Mark wants John Witherow, formerly of the London Times, (for reasons, see Mike Bloomberg and Lionel Barber above!?).

60.00" All about the new 'The Fifth Court' podcast including details of their first guest, Mr. Justice Gerard Hogan, talking about The Free State Constitution - and updates on the latest key legal news.

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Brian McGeough is adviser to some of Ireland's top business leaders. A masterclass on how to create a top-class corporate culture. How to empower employees by having a chat, dealing with moaners, in-office work or not, why others will still have to 'go to work', getting out of bed....and so much more. His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Socrates (No, not the soccer player who never played with UCD AFC!).

Rugby legend Andrew Trimble explains why he doesn't miss being beaten up every weekend, how he's building a worldwide sports tech business, Kaoiros. How an email to Chelsea FC opened the door to another club (the world's most recognised, but ssshhhhhh, we're not allowed to talk about it- but we do), the length of the sales cycle and why you just keep going. Typically professional players may be faced with up to 20 separate sources of communications within their club, but many of these people don't even have a laptop he tells us - hence the opportunity for the Kairos solution.

They've raised £2 million and he explains how to run on 'lean'. His 'hire in a heartbeat'? - Denis Leamy.

1.00" Shout out for AdvanceCT, the right people to talk to if your business is thinking of setting up in the US. Talk to us if you'd like to know more.

2.30" Tom Murphy is looking for distributors for his world-beating Mayo made shaving oil, De Facto, sponsor of our podcast. No matter where in the world you are, and if you know the grooming market intimately, then Tom wants to talk to you. However, only high-energy folk need apply.

3,30 Críona Turley, founder Capella, the platform for hybrid working. If you need your employees' home workplace assessed for 'health and safety' Capella can do big numbers in a short time.Críona and her co-founder Victoria Yanakos, based in Manhattan, are now set on building a global business, backed by Enterprise Ireland (she gives them a hearty shout-out). Incredibly during the thousands of assessments her company has carried out she has seen people working from their cars (a full 8 hour day) and another who was working from a wardrobe in an attempt to get quiet from kids at home. Another service they provide is making the workplace more exciting, to encourage people back to the office. She says that people are NOT going to work full time in the office, but they will be three days at home, two days in the office.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'. Margaret O'Brien, former RTE continuity announcer and star (and her mother)

25.00" Wasters. That's what people who waste food are. TeamGBS brings you Tuam based DigiTally, Patrick McDermott (also of Stocktaking.ie) says he can give businesses an 8% gross profit lift by making food hospitality management much more efficient. The company has already headed overseas, starting with the UK, but Patrick is quick to say that cracking that market was done with 'great difficulty'. He has decided to focus on Liverpool and Manchester rather than trying to cover all of Britain in one go. They find they can find leads through industry networking events such as those run by the British Irish Trading Alliance.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'. Brian Tracey, frog eater (oh and author of 'Eat That Frog') - getting more of the important things done today.

50.00" A cure for blackspots. Colin Cunningham, founder Cellnex and Caroline Hofman, CEO of Laois Chamber of Commerce join TeamGBS to discuss mobile phone blackspots that continue to cause problems to businesses across the country. However, Cellnex says that if they were given a relatively small amount of government funding that they could solve a big chunk of the problem. GetConnected.ie is a site we learn about that is available across the country - and that may be able to find and sort out wireless signals for mobile.(9 out of 10 problems can be solved). Alpha Wireless is a company based in Laois that gets a very positive mention.

Caroline Hofman's 'hire in a heartbeat' would be Michelle Obama (she mentioned a Michelle Obama Plaza for Laois!) and Colin Cunningham's 'hire in a heartbeat' is Michael O'Leary for what Ryanair's prices have meant for businesses trying to do business in the UK.

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1.00" A shout out for AdvanceCT, Connecticut's version of Enterprise Ireland, where we'll be directing the Fantastic Five companies featured on Episode 103, helping them on their commercial journey through the USA.

3.30" Nicola Kearns, founder of Niks Tea, tells us about her journey from happy flight attendant to delighted tea entrepreneur, growing her ten-year old 'Irish' tea brand from a one person band to employing four and growing. She wants to sell more to more specialists shops, restaurants, hotels...and Kilkenny Design (which stocks only Irish made products - hat tip!). Typical of the true entrepreneur she already had done a lot of pirouettes on the day of the recording...as you do. But where did the idea of a tea business come from. It has something to do with tying up some legal bits and bobs in Spain.

She explains how one setting up in the tea business does it...including 'faking it until you make it'. Her first order was valued at around €1,500 and she had sleepless nights wondering if it all was going to work.

She gets great support from the Dublin Food Chain and she's about to join the 'Love Irish Food' Group. But who do Barry's Tea think about Nik's Tea?? To grow the business she bought a tea bagging machine, one of the few bagging in Ireland. She raised some loans via a company called Swoop. She has worked with the Aldi 'Grow with Aldi' programme thanks to that bagging machine.

Who would she 'hire in a heartbeat'? Paddy McKillen Junior.

29.30" How do sneaky retailers get us to buy more? Well, who better to ask then Mark FitzPatrick, founder of Q-Fitz, who you could say, queues for a living. There's a huge amount of science behind making us spend a couple of Euros more, while we pay for our original purchase. His family used to own the Shopping Basket chain of retail stores. Mark swore he'd never work in retail. And, guess what, he works in retail. And loves it.

He gives a surprise reason for why people buy chewing gum and gives a few insights into what he does and how and why it works. Clients they have include Circle K and they've just signed with Applegreen. DAA is another key client, along with the Aviva Stadium and the Guinness Storehouse. Because the company knows so much about queuing they have a separate division that sells queuing posts (the posts with retractable belts that we have to go around whilst queuing).

The Big Plan, is to break into the UK, maybe via Applegreen. And maybe North America, where Circle K has 14,000 outlets.

His 'hire in a hearbeat'? He'd hire his wife, Aga FitzPatrick. Find out why.

55.00" Branding. TeamGBS recommends the cheap and cheerful route to branding. That route involves two cheap bottles of wine, some friends and a room with a locked door. The door is only unlocked when there's unanimous agreement on a brand name. However, Gerard Tannam of Islandbridge, takes a considerably more scientific approach to his passion project, aka his work, which is branding. Gerrard spent ten years in Hong Kong as an Inspector of Police. He also won a School's Cup soccer medal and he explains that he put that up on LinkedIn to match those who post the same about their schools' rugby achievement. Niall Quinn was part of his team at Drimnagh Castle. He gives a list of 'do's and don'ts' - and he starts by asking 'what does a GREAT customer' for your business look like?

He says that Ryanair is a great brand (he doesn't like them by the way!). He thinks the banks in Ireland are very poor indeed. And if you work for Arramark owned Avoca, you'd better listen good because our expert says your brand is bad.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'. He gives a great answer. Hire a Ukrainian. Gerard explains why.

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Host Conall O Morain is joined by co-host Professor Martin Curley, head of digital transformation at Ireland's Health Service Executive, HSE, along with five companies leading the digital transformation of the the country's ailing health system.

Companies and their leaders include leading radiologists Dr. John Sheehan of MMD (mobile medical devices), Dr. Ronan Killeen of Xwave (algorithm led solution to get patients the correct tests and ending irrelevant testing). Dr. Ann Short and recent addition, her brother Dermot, both of Full Health Medical (empowering individuals to know and own their health) are addressing the global shortage of healthcare professionals. Former Silicon Valley star and ex EMC Senior Director Una Kearns, founder of myPatientSpace a worldwide solution for remoted patient management and disease management. Finally, Donal Morris of Red Zinc that was deployed well ahead of Zoom and Teams during Covid and that is now developing remote wearable video solutions for paramedics in the field.

These are a sample of 25 (soon to be 50) digitally led healthcare solutions that Prof Curley says will see the Irish health system climb from a lowly 80th place in the world, to 1st in Europe, over the next 36 months. Listen to hear how he plans to do it.

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3.00" We look at whether credit unions can replace departing banks, Ulster Bank and KBC Bank?

SAVVI Credit Union, that emerged from the ESB Credit Union, but that now serves its entire local community, is set to take on the world. Savvi's CEO Mark Beirne and Head of Business Growth, Conall O'Callaghan, join TeamGBS to tell us that they have loans up to €1 million available for businesses and that often (not always!) personal guarantees may not be required. Like most credit unions they are currently cash rich and very, very keen to lend - for mortgages, home improvements, green energy loans (solar panels etc), car loans....yes, we may have unearthed that pot of gold you were hoping for.

However, we also found out that the pair hadn't listened to That Great Business Show podcast - ever! - so once locked into the studio, we made them wriggle and squirm until they promised they would, would, would listen back to all previous 101 episodes. We like to 'do business differently'.

Have a listen to how Savvi will take on the world, how they want to become a competitor to AIB and Bank of Ireland and the inspiration they draw from the Sparkassen finance group in German that has grown from something similar to our credit unions, to a main pillar bank supporting SMEs in Germany.

Mark's Hire in a Heartbeat? Damien Daly, COO, Finance Ireland.

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3.00" We look at whether credit unions can replace departing banks, Ulster Bank and KBC Bank?

SAVVI Credit Union, that emerged from the ESB Credit Union, but that now serves its entire local community, is set to take on the world. Savvi's CEO Mark Beirne and Head of Business Growth, Conall O'Callaghan, join TeamGBS to tell us that they have loans up to €1 million available for businesses and that often (not always!) personal guarantees may not be required. Like most credit unions they are currently cash rich and very, very keen to lend - for mortgages, home improvements, green energy loans (solar panels etc), car loans....yes, we may have unearthed that pot of gold you were hoping for.

However, we also found out that the pair hadn't listened to That Great Business Show podcast - ever! - so once locked into the studio, we made them wriggle and squirm until they promised they would, would, would listen back to all previous 101 episodes. We like to 'do business differently'.

Have a listen to how Savvi will take on the world, how they want to become a competitor to AIB and Bank of Ireland and the inspiration they draw from the Sparkassen finance group in German that has grown from something similar to our credit unions, to a main pillar bank supporting SMEs in Germany.

Mark's Hire in a Heartbeat? Damien Daly, COO, Finance Ireland.

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Dr. Brian Pennie, PhD, (Neuroscience) gives us his 101 - simple tips and hacks (all evidence based) on how to live life (including your business) better. But he's no ordinary PhD. He has an incredible back story, like no other. You could say, 'he has lived it'.

He starts with the five second rule.....5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - GO!
Breath control - breath out to calm down, but lengthen the breath out - and then there's sighing. There's a reason why we do it. He also addresses anxiety.
Exercise - getting rid of the problem before it arises - he hated exercise but changed his habit.
Motivation is NOT within our heads, it's in the environment. He explains.
Mood follows actions. Take action to feel better. Motion drives emotion.
He uses the MAVIG technique as a programme for life. He starts with his morning routine...
Journaling is one of his magic tools. It helps you to think more clearly.
He uses a mantra, 'does it make the boat (can be the company) go faster?' It makes sense.
He asks himself, 'what am I avoiding?'
Make sure to have whitespace in your life.
How's this for simple? Be mindful when you're brushing your teeth. It's double jobbing, with a purpose.
'The words we speak becomes the house we live in'. Listen to what he means. It's important.
Visualisation. It works.
Control, what we can and can't control.
Gratitude - one of the most powerful states we can be in. Thankful and appreciative for what you have.
First and second darts.
His 'hire in a heartbeat'? - Niall 'Bressie' Breslin (amongst others!).

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This episode is made for sharing, with everyone.

Dr. Brian Pennie, PhD, (Neuroscience) gives us his 101 - simple tips and hacks (all evidence based) on how to live life (including your business) better. But he's no ordinary PhD. He has an incredible back story, like no other. You could say, 'he has lived it'.

He starts with the five second rule.....5, 4, 3, 2, 1 - GO!
Breath control - breath out to calm down, but lengthen the breath out - and then there's sighing. There's a reason why we do it. He also addresses anxiety.
Exercise - getting rid of the problem before it arises - he hated exercise but changed his habit.
Motivation is NOT within our heads, it's in the environment. He explains.
Mood follows actions. Take action to feel better. Motion drives emotion.
He uses the MAVIG technique as a programme for life. He starts with his morning routine...
Journaling is one of his magic tools. It helps you to think more clearly.
He uses a mantra, 'does it make the boat (can be the company) go faster?' It makes sense.
He asks himself, 'what am I avoiding?'
Make sure to have whitespace in your life.
How's this for simple? Be mindful when you're brushing your teeth. It's double jobbing, with a purpose.
'The words we speak becomes the house we live in'. Listen to what he means. It's important.
Visualisation. It works.
Control, what we can and can't control.
Gratitude - one of the most powerful states we can be in. Thankful and appreciative for what you have.
First and second darts.
His 'hire in a heartbeat'? - Niall 'Bressie' Breslin (amongst others!).

All of these great hacks are brought to you, thanks to De Facto Shaving Oil, the world's best best shaving oil. Buy it right now.

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On our 100th edition who better to have on as a guest but the man whose support via one of his companies, De Facto Shaving Oil, has made the podcast (Best Business Podcast nominated) possible. Tom Murphy has been in business 'for longer than he cares to remember'.

He set up his main company Pamex, a pharmacy distributor having been made redundant (very nastily) from his MD job...and the rest is history, as they say. He now has 27 people working for him across Ireland and more recently the UK (part of his retirement plan!). Tom gives a masterclass on how to look after the customer, why and how to write a letter, how to respond to job seekers, how to find business opportunities (mobile carwash anyone?), the importance of 'getting off the island' and queries why SMEs are so badly treated in his eyes.

Find out why his 'hire in heartbeat' choices are:

Lee Iacocca

Professor Martin Curley

Chuck Blakeman, author of 'Making Money is Killing your Business'.

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On our 100th edition who better to have on as a guest but the man whose support via one of his companies, De Facto Shaving Oil, has made the podcast (Best Business Podcast nominated) possible. Tom Murphy has been in business 'for longer than he cares to remember'.

He set up his main company Pamex, a pharmacy distributor having been made redundant (very nastily) from his MD job...and the rest is history, as they say. He now has 27 people working for him across Ireland and more recently the UK (part of his retirement plan!). Tom gives a masterclass on how to look after the customer, why and how to write a letter, how to respond to job seekers, how to find business opportunities (mobile carwash anyone?), the importance of 'getting off the island' and queries why SMEs are so badly treated in his eyes.

Find out why his 'hire in heartbeat' choices are:

Lee Iacocca

Professor Martin Curley

Chuck Blakeman, author of 'Making Money is Killing your Business'.

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3.00" Carl Murray, Kate Fullen, Elkstone Partners explain how your small start-up can access amounts from €500k from their soon to be announced €100 million investment fund. They talk decks. How to construct the best pitch deck (a PowerPoint presentation when you're looking for the cash). They want more female founders and they discuss what are the hot sectors.

Hire in a Heartbeat? Carl wants his godmother, Sister Pat Murray, a nun who recently pitched up at Davos. As you do.

Kate wants the entire team from the already Elkstone backed Galway based Luminate (to learn more, listen back to Episode 47)

38.00" Michelle Lawlor explains how to run an ecomms business, The Nude Wine Company, during Covid, whilst having a baby and when Brexit struck. She's still standing! She has been working in ecommerce since 2014, and she (reluctantly!!) shares her hard learnt secrets about how to grow and hold an ecomm audience, using simple devices like eFlyers, educational YouTube clips...all simple, doable, but can take time.

Her Hire in a Heartbeat - well two hearbeats, Gary Vee and Bobby Healy (of Manna)

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3.00 David Scrivens, co-founder with his wife Carmelia, of Willows Ingredients, an international food ingredients distributor. We like keeping it real. David says the original vision for the company was 'just to survive', an aspiration every early stage will identify with.

18.00 Love it, or leave it. We also keep it real for presenter Conall O Morain, who we make eat the food of the future, ground up crickets. See what he thinks, and whether he survived.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Bear Grylls - but he wants 1,000 of 'Bears'. Find out why.

31.00" Andrew Lynch, co-founder of office space provider, Huckletree. He runs ultra-marathons. That means he has run through the Sahara desert (56C) over 300k. And survived (not everyone did). He has plans for Huckletree to grow in Dublin, but where and when? Will he fund (again) or is there another model he's looking at (there is!). He discusses the hybrid working model, and says that Mondays and Fridays don't seem to be included in the office based working week anymore.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' - his dad. David Lynch. No. The other one, who is a corporate lawyer with OBH Partners.

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3.00 David Scrivens, co-founder with his wife Carmelia, of Willows Ingredients, an international food ingredients distributor. We like keeping it real. David says the original vision for the company was 'just to survive', an aspiration every early stage will identify with.

18.00 Love it, or leave it. We also keep it real for presenter Conall O Morain, who we make eat the food of the future, ground up crickets. See what he thinks, and whether he survived.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Bear Grylls - but he wants 1,000 of 'Bears'. Find out why.

31.00" Andrew Lynch, co-founder of office space provider, Huckletree. He runs ultra-marathons. That means he has run through the Sahara desert (56C) over 300k. And survived (not everyone did). He has plans for Huckletree to grow in Dublin, but where and when? Will he fund (again) or is there another model he's looking at (there is!). He discusses the hybrid working model, and says that Mondays and Fridays don't seem to be included in the office based working week anymore.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' - his dad. David Lynch. No. The other one, who is a corporate lawyer with OBH Partners.

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3.00" Larry Bass founder of Shinawil, the TV production company that gave us 'Dancing with the Stars', 'Last Singer Standing' and 'Home of the Year' explains all you need to know about how to make a fortune from creating a world-winning TV format. Did you know that TV series 'Masterchef' makes its makers €1 billion a year. And that's every year! So listen to Larry and get creating. He explains why Shinawil is funding to go global and he believes that Ireland can be a world centre of excellence in TV production.

His hires in a heartbeat? Writer of 'Peaky Blinders' Steven Kinght, Irish author and 'normal person', Sally Rooney and top Irish filmmaker Lenny Abrahamson.

39.00" Mark Barrett, GM the Harris Group, talks about the vision of group founder, the late Pino Harris. The rise and rise of electric delivery vans, in particular their Maxus brand. The future of charging, including hydrogen (he reckons we won't see widespread hydrogen adoption for another ten years), the problems of shipping 6,500 vehicles from China to Ireland and the UK, and the rise and rise of Gridserve.

His hire in a heartbeat? Comedian Kevin Bridges (TeamGBS would love to have him on board too!)

1.30" Mike McGrath co-founder of Kwayga - matching suppliers and buyers in the food industry. They have 50,000 suppliers on the platform, they have 1,000 active users, heading for 2,000 which Mike says is a tipping point on a platform. They're raising money and heading to grow big in the US. The good news is that small businesses can join for free. Aramark is a customer. They're very actively looking for Italian suppliers, something the Italian embassy may be interested in.

His 'hire in a heartbeat', Rachel Botsman, who makes complex things clear and has done a lot of work on creating 'trust' online.

20.00" Anne Butterly, founder of Louth based, Easydry - founded in 2005, that makes compostable fibre based towels. 'Hard work and dedication gets you places' she says. She explains how she cracked the hairdressing market, which brought her product worldwide. Market research is in her blood and she gives a masterclass on how to research markets and sectors. Not everything she has tried has worked, and she tells why. 'Keep innovating' is the way to keep ahead in terms of protecting your IP. BTW, a hair salon uses 12,000 a year!

Her 'hire in a heartbeat', Leonardo de Caprio, who funds environmentally positive businesses, but she also wants him to make an ad for Easydry

42.00" Eithne Sweeney, co-founder, Wires Uncrossed. In 2012 she and Myles, her husband, sailed from New Zealand to Mayo and this was the founding of her business, that aims to help technical teams to better understood, avoiding acronyms and colloquialisms. We love 'Top Tips' on That Great Business Show. Eithne gives us three of her top tips, all straightforward but all essential. They worked with Frontera amongst others in New Zealand.

Her hires in a heartbeat? Mindlab founder Francis Valintine, Dr. Michelle Dickinson, promoting STEM learning worldwide, Stephanie O'Malley, founder of DESTY.

63.00" John Bourdeaux, President AdvanceCT. John goes through all of the attractions of Connecticut for Irish businesses starting out to tackle the US market. He does business differently, and he gives his own personal phone number (+1 860 248 9880) to TeamGBS, that he will answer himself, to help Irish companies find their CT business. Irish company Nuritas is one of the most recent businesses to have chosen CT for their base.

His 'hires in a heartbeat', Indra Nooyi former boss at Pepsico and Jim Loree, CEO Stanley Black and Decker

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2.30" The future is now. Mechanic, pilot, barrister, founder Julie Garland (yes, we did ask) explains how her company Avtrain is leading Europe in training drone pilots. She says that, for sure, Ryder Cup players will travel by vertical take off and landing machines when next playing in Ireland. Julie explains how anyone can become a fully licensed drone pilot for a lot less money than you might imagine. There's a lot of world leading activity happening at the Future Mobility Campus Ireland in Shannon and she needs €1,000,000 to get some of her many, many ideas across the line. It sounds like science fiction. It is, however, science fact.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat' Herb Kelleher (RIP), founder of Southwest Airlines, Professor Martin Curley (she heard about him from Episode 90 of the podcast), Domhnal Slattery of Avalon.

34.00" Conor Sweeney, founder CLS Company Secretaries, explains why it is uber important to tidy up your dormant company accounts, to avoid ending in front to a judge, or the Revenue Commissioners or the Office of Corporate Enforcement. In other words, it is essential. He also explains the importance of keeping your share register up to date. Also, he says there's a massive shortage of company secretaries - and he explains how young people or those seeking a career change can become a company secretary, a qualification they can travel the world with. He gives De Facto a big shout out.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' Jurgen Klopp. Liverpool FC manager.

54.00" Padraig Power, Ireland manager of Austrian company, Refurbed. Businesses can make very, very substantial savings on fully and properly refurbed tech, including laptops, PCs, smartwatches, smartphones, all sourced from large companies that have policies to change their tech every 48 months or so. He explains how he was 'found' by Refurbed via LinkedIn. He also says that the company will be moving into 'refurbed' clothing.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Katie Kavanagh who works in 'People Operations' at Hubspot

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2.00" Monaghan man Sean McCleary explains how his company, Streat School, can have you up and running with your own street food business for just €10k and why his Monaghan made carts don't need a license. He also gives a glimpse into how much money those innocent looking food trucks can make and how to hustle the best pitches in town.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Naomi Cullen of Manna Aero because she delivers (boom, boom!)

32.00" Maurice Ryan, director of Ireland's largest forestry company, Greenbelt, that has planted half a billion trees in Ireland doesn't hold back about the massive hold up in issuing new planting licenses for forests in Ireland. In a digital age it's down to just one person to physically sign off on those licenses. Unbelievable. He also explains how you can make money out of trees whether or not you have land to grow them on.

His 'hire in a heartbeat', he kept it local, naming Mossie Ryan (dad) and Imelda Connolly (CEO) as his hires, though they already work in the business!

52.00" Peter Leonard, BL, 'award winning' (for his 'Law on Trial' podcast) explains how and why rock star Prince (RIP) is trying to copyright the colour purple, However, if like Cadburys and others you'd like to copyright your own colour, you'll have to find a bit of 'form'. TeamGBS's in-house lawyer explains in words of single syllables, with no fee note to follow!

His 'hire in a heartbeat' on this episode (he's a regular but has to come up with new people all the time), Richard Shakespeare who, despite Conall O Morain thing otherwise, didn't write plays and poetry.

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2.00" Dr. Andrea C. Johnson, director at Workhuman, one of Ireland's unicorns (valued above $1 billion) talks about how Workhuman, 'founded' in the Bleeding Horse pub in Dublin, became internationally successful, hiring their 1,000th employee, sharing the love every quarter with their 6 million users.

Her hire(s) in a heartbeat? Ciara Garvan, Work Juggle, and Susan Treacy, Healthtech Ireland and Maurice Whelan, Unleash Potential Ireland

30.00" Alan McQuaid, economist, has a good old fashioned rant and explains why he should be sent to war in Ukraine, why we're building houses for the wrong people, why Covid made us spend our money, why our inflation numbers may be incorrect...and so much more. It's good.

His hire in a heartbeat? His wife, Vivienne McQuaid

2.00 Laura McCarthy, founder, Drink Botanicals Ireland. Laura was selling since the age of 8. She founded her business, Drinks Botanicals, whilst still in college in 2017. Whilst her pals were heading overseas on holidays, Laura stayed at home to mind the shop. Literally. Botanicals is the fancy name for flavours, used in drinks like gin. Since getting listed in Redmonds off license in Ranelagh Dublin she went on to get a listing in 200 shops. But then somebody copied her product. So she launched more products. She is forever 'standing back from the business' to think up new products. And that brought her to her new opportunities, including a premium syrups for cocktails. She's now focussed on the 'on trade' - bars, hotel bars, cocktail bars. She's now heading overseas and she's looking for the right partners and distributors. She explains how she uses Amazon UK for product research. She gives some very useful insights into Amazon as well as the US website Faire.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat' PJ Rigney of Drumshanbo Distillery - obviously!

25.00" Maeve McMahon, CEO OFX Ireland and Europe discusses why banks charge around 3% to switch currency whilst OFX are 'considerably cheaper' to do the exact same transaction. Maeve explains why and how Australian company OFX has based itself in Ireland to take on the European markets. The OFX business model is very interesting and attracts talent by its openness she says. Brexit drove OFX to open in Ireland, and she explains why. Maeve explains how OFX can intervene and cut your costs if like Laura McCarthy, you're using Amazon to sell. The business started in Australia looking after student travellers to Australia and they do cover personal customers as well as businesses. She has met former Meta executive Sheryl Sandberg and she tells us what she's really like.

Her 'hires in a heartbeat' - Marshall Goldsmith, author

47.00" Andrew Walker, co-founder Beacon Business Commercial Services - BBCS

Why it's good to be nice to people in business, because it's like karma, it comes back on you. Here 'nice-guy' Andrew explains how to sell better.

He served a year work experience with Penneys at one stage and has decades of experience in selling with major UK companies. He explains how those companies use focus groups and how a tiny company can do the same research, for free. He says you have to ask the question 'why' five times. He loves Zoom and has been hugely useful for him and his business to grow. He swears by network groups. LinkedIn has proven invaluable for growing his business and he says SMEs must, must use it. SMEs should use tablets for customer feedback. Referral marketing is essential, get a referral and testimonials now. And make sure to have an 'ask'.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' - Kingsley Aikens, master networker

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Host Conall O Móráin is joined by business broadcasting legend Vincent Wall on Episode 91

We start with a tribute to the late Ray Coyle, former owner of the Tayto and Hunky Dory brands, a larger that life business figure and a man who who always wanted to have a bit of fun

2.00" Evelyn Moynihan, CEO Kilkenny Design, goes on safari ahead of Christmas. A deep dive into one of the biggest backers of Irish designers. 'The tourists are back' she says. In April tourist numbers were touching a 80% rebound (they were expecting a 50% jump). The safari we reference is the top team's trips abroad to see what their Christmas theme in their shops could / should be. If you're interested in retail or in design (she's on the hunt for new Irish designers) this is the one for you. And, if you are in the US or the UK, they have just launched new websites for those markets, including the Irish diaspora in Texas (which we learn is a big opportunity). Evelyn, who has previously worked at Diageo and Musgraves gives her suggestions on how main shopping streets, missing many stores post-Covid, could be repaired.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat' - Aimee Connolly of Sculpted by Aimee

38.00" Niall O'Connor, who sports 'Ireland's best beard' - but sshhhh, don't tell De Facto Shaving Oil owner Tom Murphy - is a director at a Blessington, Wicklow based company - an events company that literally hit the buffers when Covid hit. Niall talks about the day when all the office phones rang...with everyone of them cancelling. A few months later however, they had pivoted, and using technology created team building experiences that have attracted world brand names - helping bonding multi-location teams as they find more and more clever ways of working together whilst apart. Yet again, a great example of a business world without borders. He does also explain how much tech and diesel is needed to keep the worldwide show on the road, when based in rural Wicklow. BTW, if you like the sound of this great little business, they're hiring.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Jurgen Klopp

1.08.00" Barry Corr, CEO Irish Australian Chamber of Commerce is leading a business delegation to Ireland very shortly and they want to meet your business (we even got you an invitation for a beer and barbecue at the Australian Ambassador's residence!). The group travelling include Australian businesses, including mining and digital health as well as an arts company. And, they're looking for 'talent'. Barry specifies some of the hot opportunities in Australia, and he highlights infrastructure projects. Full details on wwww.IrishChamber.com.au

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Medical knowledge is doubling every 79 days!

Martin Curley, former Intel Vice President, now in charge of the digital transformation of Ireland's health service says we will have the best health service in Europe by 2025. Yes, you read that right. In under 36 months Ireland could go from 80th in the world for its health service to 1st in Europe. He is so confident he has brought Tourism Ireland on board as he sees a massive business opportunity in health tourism.

He says that medicine, with the amount of data it produces from patients, is made for digital interrogation, a process that is going to revolutionise day-to-day medicine in a matter of a couple of years. He explains how the 'diagnostic waiting list' can be eliminated in less that a year (yes, you also read that correctly!)

He explains what the Irish Digital Health Leadership Steering Group is doing.

Using a Medtronic made camera 'pill' that he had in studio, he says that colonoscopies can be done ten or maybe twenty times faster - again eliminating queues. This is already deployed in Tallaght hospital.

Using a different technology they have managed to cut the level of hospitalisations of a group of heart patients by 10X as Professor Curley likes to say, so one tenth the number of hospitalisations in other words.

He explains how an app called 'Patients know best' works and he explains that 90% of European hospitals DON'T share data with the patient (that owns it) but that will have to change now.

His Group now has 50 proof points (live examples) of how digital is revolutionising medical care in Ireland. He talks of the two clinicians in Our Lady of Lourdes hospital who adopted an Irish made piece of tech that has cut bed night numbers by a staggering 170,000. Another Irish made app, 'Balance' can predict in 30" how likely someone vulnerable is likely to fall. Avoiding falling means avoiding hip operations or worse. He was also wearing a smartwatch developed by Wexford based Tunstall that knows when someone falls and intervenes in 20 seconds. Cork based PMD has developed the world's first continuous respiratory rate monitor, respiration being the first vital sign the starts to deteriorate. Another innovative company he references is Bluedrop Medical in Galway that works with diabetics.

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Any business, no matter what size or how old it is, should always be ready for sale. If your business is 'sale ready' you're on the right track for making your business even more successful. Take a cold, clinical and hard look at your business and ask, are we doing the best that we can? If not, what could we do better. Why would someone want to buy us? Why would someone NOT want to buy us? Waterford accountants FitzGerald Power brought brand experts Totem into their business to give it a 'once over' - and lessons were learnt. Colin Byrne, Creative Director with Totem and Stuart FitzGerald, managing partner at FitzGerald Power share their insights about the process and why and how any business would benefit from doing the same.

Their 'hires in a heartbeat'. Colin wants business coach Marty Neumeier and Stuart opted for another business coach, his choice was Jim Collins.

Mary Walsh is co-founder with husband Shay of what is now Ireland's largest pallet maker. Former banker Mary joined TeamGBS to share her passion for pallets. She even admits on air that she 'LOVES pallets'. So that's a first! Every business has its little quirks and we learn that to make pallets you have to heat them to 56 degrees Centigrade to ensure the death of the dreadful bark beetle. Mary's business was transformed when she entered the 'Going for Growth' programme, run by Paula FitzSimons and she encourages anyone who can, to get involved in that programme. Mary is also volunteer lead entrepreneur on the wonderful Acorns programme that encourages women in rural Ireland to get involved in business and Mary also shares her passion for that.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Ryanair's Michael O'Leary - a popular choice amongst TeamGBS members, but he'd have to start at the bottom.

Pamela Laird of Moxi Loves and Tammy Darcy of The Shona Project joined TeamGBS to encourage women entrepreneurs to get involved in the Visa (Card) 'She's Next' programme that will give five women led businesses €10,000 in cash each, plus mentoring that last year's winner Tammy, said was absolutely invaluable - opening doors right around the world. The Shona Project is fantastically successful in getting young women to be more confident and the social enterprise is now reaching around the world.

Pamela's 'hire in a heartbeat' is Kim Kardashian (but of course!) whilst Tammy wants three hires, Gillian Maxwell, Orlaith Carmody and Michelle Obama (sure, why not?)

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Sarah and Tomás Kenny, of the iconic bookshop (it's really much, much more than that) talk about how they're winning against Jeff Bezos's Amazon through personal, expert service (Jeff doesn't answer the phone, the Kenny's do!) and giving a specialist service to many of the world's best known libraries. It's fascinating business, trying to keep track of literally hundreds of thousands of titles they ship to customers across the globe. They talk about taking controlled risks to extend their reach in the highly competitive world of finding and selling major book collections. And their 'hire in a heartbeat', world-renowned author Stephen King, who could attract thousands to their shop. Find out how.

30.00" Paul Byrne, CEO, Currency Fair / Zai. If you have any ambitions for your business, tiny or massive (though he'd prefer massive) here's a masterclass in what's needed to achieve success. With three successful exits under his belt, Paul is now working on No. 4 and he's hoping to achieve a valuation of...€10,000,000! Just another Irish unicorn so. This is compelling listening, a no-holds-barred explanation of how to achieve success - what to aim for, what NOT to do, If you have friends in business, or who would like to get into business, do share this with them.

1.00.00" The Brothers Ward. We had Kevin Ward join TeamGBS on Episode 17 when he told us about the early days of his Reward Catering business, that makes fabulously designed and crafted food catering trucks, designed in the style of the 1950's Airstream caravans, all glitz and chrome. He starts by telling us that since that time that business has grown to become one of Europe's largest catering trucks makers, make in Rathnew Wicklow, and sold as far away as Los Angeles. BUT, that's not they came to talk about. The three brothers, John (CEO), Kevin (COO) and Thomas (CTO) are now also on a different road, this time having developed a blockchain dependent software that should make drug discovery cheaper. But we'll leave the explanation to them. If you know what they're talking about, they're looking for money and would like to talk to you!

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3.00" Colette Twomey, founder of Clonakilty Black Pudding talks about her new project, her own golf club. As you do. She was trained as a brain technician but married a butcher which led to what is now a worldwide Irish food brand, known from Clonakilty to Sydney, Australia.

She explains how a Dunnes Stores tea lady led to their hugely successful 'gluten free' range.

She talks about producing 'white label' black pudding for other butchers.

She gives a history lesson about the rise of supermarket multiples and what it meant for the Clonakilty business.

Colette talks about how hard she worked, traversing the back roads of West Cork.

She and her late husband, Edward, never wrote down a business plan but they had a vision. That was 'we love the pudding so much we'd like if people could buy it wherever they live'.

The story of how they expanded into Australia is very revealing.

She also reveals her plans for the US and for the soon to be launched vegetarian puddings.

And she explains why it's all about attitude.

She was a finalist in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year competition which she says gave her 'global vision'.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? She chose a few - Norah Casey and Paula FitzSimons

42.00" Kevin Maughan, CEO, Urban Volt talks about solar energy as a service.

Serendipitously the EU has just announced a big move for Europe to move away from Russian fossil fuels.

Curiously Ireland has a lot of daylight, which is all that is needed to make solar energy viable. But Urban Volt also has its fingers in another ten international markets.

He talks about the 'battery first' future where businesses will produce their own solar energy and then store it in their own batteries.

He mentions a perceived conflict of interest where State led utilities may be causing distortions in the energy market.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' - Shane Lanigan of Beach Point Capital

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John Jordan, CEO, Ornua - the co-op owned co-op behind the Kerrygold brand. He predicts some further, VERY chunky price increases coming the consumer's way. He reveals his hard earned secrets of successfully selling a pretty basic product (butter) in the US. He confirms that Tony O'Reilly was the man behind the Kerrygold name and concept. but also that it could've been called Leprechaun!

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Conor Crowley of US based Arbor Investments.

Clionadh Martin, founder of Odense, Denmark based CM Robotix (curiously the company name has nothing to do with her name). The engineering and robotics double graduate had a 'Eureka!' moment when one of her pals, working in a massive supermarket, said her job - the night stacking of shelves - was 'shitty'. For the last four years she has concentrated on robots that do one thing. Carry food pallets around very large sized supermarkets. Her robots can save three full time jobs per supermarket and the market is worth €billions. She's looking for €10 million to 'buy into' that untapped market.

Her hire in a heartbeat? She's in awe of word wizard writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie - as word wizardry is essential to sell your concept.

1.00" IMPORTANT ADVICE to TeamGBS about the urgent need to switch from Ulster Bank and KBC Bank now, as each switch takes at least an hour and there are hundreds of thousands of accounts to be transferred as both banks exit the Irish market.

3.00" Dr. Ken Germaine, Funding Master, on who/what/how to apply for some of the €150 billion (over seven years) of Horizon funding available from the EU. Spoiler - the success rate is around 6% - but he tells #TeamGBS how to maximise their chances. His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Ireland based consultant (and one of his collaborators) Diane Richmond.

31.00" Kerry and Alex Sheeran, co-founders TalySubscriptions.com explain why they need to raise €1.5 million for a massive subscription landgrab in Ireland, the UK and the US...because no one else has thought of it. Their 'hire in a heartbeat'? Patrick Collison (they already use Stripe).

55.00" Peter Leonard, BL, explains all about trademarks, including Supermac's 'war' with McDonalds, and speaking of The Donald, how Trump failed to trademark 'You're fired!'. Peter's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Joe Biden's sister, Valerie Biden Owens.

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On Episode 84 we start by highlighting a US initiative - open to Irish people (we've checked!) - that is trying to improve the PPE experience (personal protective equipment) firstly for the US market, but then presumably, worldwide. The US authorities have posted a competition, in conjunction with crowdsourcing platform HeroX.com and it's well worth TeamGBS to check it out.

Then we have Patrick McCarthy, BA long-haul pilot and also founder of the Digifly agency that specialises in Shopify. Shopify allows anyone to be up and running on its platform for just €29. After that Patrick details all you need to know to sell (and buy your products) on the platform. He's had a few duds himself and he explains what to avoid, and he tells us of the one that worked and why it worked.

This episode is an absolute 'must listen' for the Shopify-curious, for anyone who has thought of setting up a side hustle, for someone who is unemployed by who has a retailing dream, for existing bricks and mortar stores that must (TeamGBS says go digital) face the inevitable, if they haven't done so already, and create an online presence. Patrick also explains where there is State cash available to help any business, no matter what size, along the way.

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Patrick's 'hire in a heartbeat'? - Wise man, he chose FOUR heartbeats!

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Gerry Breen, former Lord Mayor of Dublin, asks politicians to let the proposed flexible working time bill to 'wither on the vine' and to get out of the way of business doing its thing.

He references the work done by politicians in setting up the PIAB and how that is now showing results. The next step he says is to 'hammer the insurance companies. He also wants politicians to take on, finally, the legal system, and he describes the legal process in his own floral way. He's in favour of a full-time Lord Mayor and as a former Lord Mayor himself, he shares his inside knowledge on why. He talks about the Drumcondra Business Group that he's involved in and recommends the model to others in business. He advises on how to get SBCI funding at 3% - "where would you get it" and he gives his two top tips on running a business. His 'Hire in a Heartbeat'? Michael Burke of Loughrea, Galway based Chanelle.

35.00" Elaine Berkery, director of Castletroy, Limerick base Eastway Tech. They're a company that monitors critical machinery for some of the world's best biggest industrial names, all done from their Limerick base. They have units in Singapore and California, USA and are about to expand into the Eurozone, specifically the Benelux countries. Her ambition? 5% of the $1.78bn global machine monitoring business. In one case she cited their business saved a client $250,000 via preventative downtime, cost the client just a fraction of that amount. The company is hiring and you can hear all the details straight from Elaine.

Her 'Hire in a Heartbeat'? Rendela Wenzel, Global Maintenance and Reliability Leader at Eli Lilly

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1.00" Leo Clancy, CEO, Enterprise Ireland talks in detail about EI, its role in the business ecosystem / funding / Elkstone / US venture capital / attracting new external investors / seed funds / emerging areas for future growth including food and agritech / the need for earlier education in digital and STEM subjects. The future of 'work from home' - when home may be Poland or Lithuania. The value of the workplace for collaborative business. He talks about the housing crisis and the lack of housing being a roadblock to hiring staff. He talks about what's coming our way with Brexit, possibly in July. He says that the direct shipping to Europe has been a gamechanger. He says that Irish companies should concentrate on the Eurozone that is underexploited. He says we have one of Europe's most culturally diverse workforces. He says EI will do more to crack the US market. He talks about EI's relationship with the LEOs, the Design Council and Udarás na Gaeltachta. He talks about the Israeli approach to doing business and whether Irish business could adopt that approach. Inflation is a huge issue, but is all over the world. He says twenty year olds should have a mentor. EI is hiring and they'd like to hear from TeamGBS members who would like to earn 'an MBA every day'.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' - his brother Denis, 'the kindest individual he knows'.

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2.00" Jane Maher, Head of Marketing, FreeNow explains the name changes (plural!) from Hailo, to My Taxi to FreeNow and how the Mercedes/BMW (yes!) company has chosen to go into 'mobility solutions'. The app can be used by taxi owners across the island and it has recently been made available on scooter service Zipp Mobility, (a company headed by TeamGBS member Charlie Gleeson). For someone wanting to be their own boss Free Now is #Hiring and they're having roadshows (pun!) to promote the app, across the country.

Non-football fan Jane's 'hire in a heartbeat' - Jurgen Klopp. You'll have to listen to find out why.

27.00" Ciara Troy, founder Oishi Sushi, sixteen years in business. Ups, downs and most recently ups again as, after a year and a half of negotiations the company has finally been listed in Tesco AND Lidl Northern Ireland...and the response has been simply astonishing. Wait till your hear the central Dublin based company's sales figures for their first couple of months in NI, supplied from Smithfield, Dublin. But she only believed she had actually secured such fantastic contracts when she shipped her first pallet up the M1. Her eye is on the next prize...breaking into Britain. Go for it TeamGBS!

Ciara's 'hire in a heartbeat' - Michael O'Leary, Ryanair boss

51.00" Clare McSweeney, international athlete and founder of Kuul Play, aiming to get those kids who don't enjoy physical activity, to change their ways. Curiously the company has attracted serious international attention, particularly on funding, but at the moment they are too small for US (where childhood obesity is running at a whopping 60%) and UK funds who have said they want to invest, so at the moment they want what is called in the the investment business, 'wise money' - investors who can bring more than just their cash to the party. They want to raise €750k before the end of April.

Clare's 'hire in a heartbeat' - uber athlete and now serious investor, Serena Williams. Now she would be 'wise money'!

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2.00" Susan McGarry has been CEO of Ireland based Ecocem, makers of environmentally friendly cement for just over two years. She talks about the lean years before the business found traction because, as founder Donall O'Riain previously explained, 'they were too early to the party'. But Ecocem's time has now come. They're looking for industry partners across the world to help bring Ecocem to building projects, big and small - but all with a massive 90% cut in carbon footprint.

Susan graduated in engineering in 2011, the absolute nadir for the construction industry at the time. Having sent out many, many hundreds of CVs she was working behind the counter in a pharmacy (great fun, tea and chat) when this engineer saw a marketing job for an eco-friendly cement company. She applied, she worked hard and is now the Ireland CEO. With a €22.5 million warchest the company is now gungho for growth.

She's passionate about getting more women into engineering and her reasons for founding an Engineers Ireland forum for women engineers is very interesting indeed.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat' was anyone who participates in the Female Forum (she thinks they're all fantastic) but when pressed she opts for Leonardo de Caprio to make film short extolling the virtues of a career in engineering and allied trades for women. Why Leo? For some reason she says it might get the right audience!

30.00" What a great backstory. Out of school early having been sat through a 'careers' class once a month when he, and all his classmates, were told how to prepare for long-term unemployment! Very encouraging - NOT!. John Tuohy took the circuitous route in life before investing Ir£10,000 in a business he, and a friend, called Nightline / Parcel Motel that they eventually sold to UPS in 2017 for €30 million. As you do. Five years post-deal John is back with OohPods - Out Of Home (of course!) pods. We didn't have time to explore the full backstory but the future is fascinating. John, already hugely successful, wants to do it all again, but this time he has a worldview and wants worldwide partners. Have a listen to see if you have ideas what you could do with his pick up/ drop off pods...goods, food, chilled, frozen, laundry...and so much more.

John's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Ukraine and world hero, Volodymyr Zelenskyy. Class act.

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2.00" Some of the simplest (and most obvious on reflection) ideas are the best business ideas. For example, the social enterprise Experience Gaelic Games, that brings visitors to Ireland an opportunity to learn about and to play our national games - Gaelic football, hurling and handball - and all to the benefit of local GAA communities who deliver this half-day visitor experience. Co-founder Cormac O Donnachú joins TeamGBS (he's already very well-known in his own club, Na Fianna, in Dublin) to explain how it all works. He'd like our listeners to spread the word about what could also be a great corporate day out.

Cormac's 'hire in a heartbeat'? The man who brought O'Neills knicks to the world, Paul Mescal aka Connell (shame about the spelling!) from the hit TV show, Normal People.

24.00" Denis O'Flynn, former MD of Pernod Ricard in both Ireland and the UK, now a director of the Clonakilty Distillery tells TeamGBS why, with 41 distilleries already in business (there were only 4 or 5 distilleries left in the country when Denis joined Irish Distillers), that there's still plenty of room for growth in the market. Denis made it to the top of the tree in the booze business having left UCD with a science degree, applied for a job as a brewmaster, graduated to the HR department and headed on up the greasy pole...as you do. The Cork distillery is just about to have its own whiskey having passed its third birthday since it was distilled and may now be referred to as Irish whiskey. He tells liquor start-ups heading for the US to go to where the 'unloved' are.

Denis's 'hire in a heartbeat' - rugby star Joey Carbery - and he offers him a job on air when he ends his rugby career!

50.00" David Horgan, Chair, Petrel Resources, the Irish based explorer with interests in Iraq and Ghana, gives TeamGBS some hard-nosed insights into what could happen if Russia turns off the oil and gas taps. What he says is not easy listening, but it is absolutely essential to understand how bad (very!) things could get.

His 'hire in a heartbeat', Loman Begley (he'd hire him ahead of Elon Musk and/or Michael O'Leary). Find out why.

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2.30" Joe O'Connor, CEO, 4 - Day Week Global

A dream come true or an employers nightmare? The Four Day Week is coming our way and Joe O'Connor is studying what the economic benefits and downsides may be, at Cornell University in the US - and he joins TeamGBS to tell us why a four day week is probable in many, but not all, industries. The not-for-profit he works for no longer promotes the idea of a four day week, as the concept has reached a momentum of its own, but they advise companies and organisations, including governments, on how to achieve a four day working week. Apparently we are 'truly productive' only for 3 hours a day, the rest of the working day taken up with unnecessary or over-long meetings etc. If you work in the hospitality sector you'll learn that the lay out of your bar or restaurant can be very important in making your outlet more productive, cutting the time from till to customer etc.

His hire-in-a-heartbeat Professor Adam Grant of Wharton College

Also mentioned are

Andrew Barnes

Four Day Week Ireland

Toyota

Volkswagen

Advanced RV

Irish Hospitality Group, Sacramento

Auckland University of Technology

Yala

Boston College,

University College Dublin

Tuchi Restaurant Chain

30.00" Philip Macartney, Chief Commercial Officer, IRP Commerce

Philip brings TeamGBS the latest in eCommerce including the latest stats that shows some major sectors where online spending has jumped from less than 10% to over 30%...and growing. If bricks and mortar retailing is declining so rapidly, would he buy commercial retail property. Philip suggests that ecommerce should be done in the same way as day traders look for profit all day, every day.

His hire-in-a-heartbeat is Gary Vaynerchuk

Also mentioned are

Chris Dean Crane WW

Chain Reaction bicycles

WayFlyer

Klarna

Ann's Cottage

Newbridge Silverware

Collective Clothing

Camping World

Shopify

Build for Growth

Brian O'Driscoll

Bebo

56.00" Dr. Robert Johnson, David Hartigan - Hemp Co-Op Ireland

If you're a farmer, eking a living, well TeamGBS has a crop for you. Have you considered growing hemp (cannabis without the hit)? According to Hemp Co-Op Ireland (who'll sell you the seeds) the crop will grow itself and two companies who will process the hemp are literally crying out for the 120-day crop. The Co-Op also makes a plea for legislative changes so legitimate growers won't be classed as criminals when they harvest the crop (listen to the interview and it's all made clear!). Our two co-op board members give details of some of the business opportunities in hemp. BTW, now is the time to sow the seed. Go for it! Oh, and they're looking for a project manager. You can find out more at the upcoming Hemp Event

Their 'hire-in-a-heartbeat' is actor and cannabis promoter James Belushi

Also mentioned are

Arigna Fuels

PWC

Health Products Regulatory Authority

Dept. of Agriculture

Teagasc

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A special edition of That Great Business Show - Episode 77 - in that host Conall O Móráin was joined, as co-host, by Vincent Wall, former Business Editor with Newstalk.

3.30" Brian Donaldson gives a comprehensive and candid account of where he thinks the garage forecourt is heading - and interestingly, it sounds like his bet is on hydrogen in the future - though there's going to be a longish transition from the internal combustion engine, first to electricity, then possibly to hydrogen, particularly for heavier vehicles. Initially Maxol (as it became) was run separately in the RoI and Northern Ireland, but under GM Tom Noonan the two were brought together to make one all-island company. However, Brian discusses some peculiar differences that still remain, including a different taste for coffee! He says that purchasing fuel is a 'distress purchase', because there's no upside, no joy, just a necessary cost.

Reflecting how Maxol has repositioned itself Brian says that only 20% of customers pull onto his forecourts just for fuel. A whopping 80% are there for 'other purchases'. They will be transitioning more towards electricity over the next eight to ten years. He says the recent sharp rise in fuel prices has led to car-pooling. Given the cost of electric vehicles 'early adopters' are from a wealthier demographic. This in turn determines where Maxol will be locating their E-hubs, where they'll have chargers to charge cars to 80% charge in 25 minutes. Whereas he thinks many people will still choose to recharge at home, their research shows that 60% of homes in the Greater Dublin Area do no have driveways, which in turn begs the question as to where they'll find charging points.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Irish rugby legend Paul O'Connell plus he wants his own late father on his 'subs bench', Terry Donaldson.

50.00" Maeve Mullin, Director of Finders International, who will find you your inheritance, should it exist. She says on some rare occasions, particularly with American probates, that the quantum of money involved can run into two or three million dollars! She talks about the process that, typically but surprisingly for TeamGBS, can take just a couple of months to complete a search (other searches can go on for much longer). It's a fabulously niche business that Maeve, who had a lengthy career in IT projects with the Bank of Ireland, was wooed into by her father, who founded the business.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Mairead Mackle, founder of Tarasis Enterprises

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What a start to a Episode 76 of That Great Business Show, when Steve Connelly, principal of Boston MA based Connelly Partners that has recently bought Dublin, Ireland based creative agency, ZOO Digital, explains why his company avoids buying companies in main cities like New York, Toronto or London opting instead for Boston (obvs!), Vancouver and Dublin. Despite having his feet held to a raging fire Steve refused to reveal any price paid, but he did offer some invaluable and FREE advice on marketing for Irish SME's - how to choose a company name, how to listen to your customers, the best copy he's seen (he has been a copywriter for many years) and so much more. As we like to 'do business differently' another thing Steve delivers is some good old-fashioned humour. He'll put a smile on your face while you learn.

Steve's 'hire in a heartbeat'? - Jerry Seinfeld

Ní neart go cur le chéile (co-operation leads to strength) could be the strapline for IDEAM, a Limerick Institute of Technology promoter of clusters for precision manufacturing. Whether this is your business or not, listen to Dr. Jamie Meehan of IDEAM explain how it works, why it works so well, what his (recent PhD) research has shown are the benefits of businesses clustering, and most importantly, possibly, for TeamGBS, how to find funding for clustering that could lead to worldwide expansion of your business. If Jamie doesn't know where that EU money is hidden, it very likely doesn't exist!

Jamie's 'hire in a heartbeat'? - author Simon Sinek

Sign right here. Did you know that you could use your nose (or any other part of your body) to sign a legal document? Remember, you sign for your home, you sign your employment contract, you sign business deals...and you could, in theory, rub your nose on it. TeamGBS resident legal counsel, barrister Peter Leonard, joins us for our occasional foray into the legal minefield that is business legal advice. TeamGBS likes FREE. On this episode, E76, we give TeamGBS free advice about the role of signatures in business including the background to a forged signature that may well have been the most expensive signature in Irish legal history.

Peter's 'hire in a heartbeat'? - League of Ireland soccer manager Damien Duff AND RTE Primetime's Paul Murphy

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4.00" We started by asking co-host and Softco co-founder Susan Spence that sponsored the Ireland Women's hockey team, that won a World Cup silver medal, if she and Softco just got lucky when they decided to sponsor the unfancied Irish side?

Ireland captain, Katie Mullan, describes what it was like when the team learnt they were being sponsored.

Katie also describes what it was like for their homecoming with thousands on the streets to greet them.

Katie talks about the benefit of having 'big hairy audacious goals' for a business is a huge positive.

Hannah explains how she's learnt to put her hand up more often, more determinedly

Katie encourages sponsors to engage far more with those that they're sponsoring.

Hannah, as a Davy ambassador, explains how Davy uses her with their business.

Susan says that Softco are now sponsoring the Ireland men's hockey and she'd like to hear new ideas how Softco could extract value out of it.

For a world class team Katie Mullan explains that the Irish hockey team doesn't have a 'home stadium' and that is what she really wishes to see for her sport.

Katie tells us why she'd love to go to Argentina

Katie's 'hire in a heartbeat' is Olympian, Mary Peters

Hannah's 'hire in a heartbeat', Stephen Bartlett, Diary of a CEO, podcast

We give a shout out for Nick Mulcahy, editor of Business Plus magazine, who has commissioned a monthly column based on That Great Business Show podcast.

Also mentioned are Axial3D Davy UCD Jim Coffey Dan Carter Littlewoods, Lidl Leona Maguire KPMG

37.00" Horse trainer, Paul Nolan, of Toberona Stables in Enniscorthy, on how to make money out of national hunt horses. His stables are sponsored by Softco, something of a revelation to TeamGBS that stables can be sponsored. Paul explains how he attracts better horses, more owners and competes with bigger, better known trainers. We do ask the hard questions as to where the margins are in the business, but we're not sure if we got an answer! He does explain what sets him apart in particular the meticulous standards he sets. He talks about his best buy ever, a horse that was fifth in Cheltenham.

This year Paul has six runners at Cheltenham but he says that the prize money is better in Ireland. He also explains the problems of both Brexit and VAT issues around buying and selling horses in the UK. He names his potential winners as well. He explains what a squeak is regarding a horse and he talks about what is and isn't allowed in naming horse and he was surprised that a horse called Micheal Mor got through the naming system.

His 'hire in a heartbeat', his younger father for his exceptional work ethic.

Also mentioned are Wexford GAA, Dogpatch Labs and Irish Tech Hub Network Google Hubspot DC Cahalane

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Paul Keogh, author of new book, The Family Business Book.

Paul has an incredible CV. He was barman for Michael Smurfit (the normally reclusive businessman wrote a very positive note about the book), help launch Budweiser in Ireland for Guinness (Diageo) while it was still a Guinness family held business, headed Polygram Music in Ireland when he brought world stars like Luciano Pavarotti to these shores.

He worked for the Bamford family, owners of the JCB multinational.

Since 2006 he has been involved with the Mulryan family, owners of Ballymore Properties.

Paul starts by telling us about the role of 'the mammy' in the family business, where she brings a wholly different dynamic to things.

In his very wide experience Paul says that how fathers and mothers deal with their family in a business setting is very different, whether the mother or father run half or the whole of the business. He says the younger generation of business owners communicate much differently (and better) but his thesis still applies, he says, because the majority of businesses, worldwide, are still owned and run by that older, less communicative, generation.

He says that when the father runs the business the 'children' (younger generation) go to the mother for mediation. However, when a mother runs the business the same does not apply. The next generation does not go to the father for a mediation role.

He talks about the importance of gender balance, particularly at board level, because of the necessity to have both female and male perspectives for business success.

Paul has a very interesting take on dyslexia in business and why dyslexics make good entrepreneurs.

He has an excellent perspective for those joining a family business to consider, or whether they'd be better off in a PLC or more structured business environment.

He says Sunday lunch in a family business can mean a total change in the business strategy by Monday morning, but only those who attended the family lunch might know about it.

He explains how large family owned companies, like Musgraves in Ireland, deal with 'shareholder updates', and he tells us why they're important to do.

Amongst many other anecdotes he talks about having to explain a negative newspaper headline to Luciano Pavarotti who thought it was great!

When pressed he says the Hughes family owned Portwest is a fabulous exemplar of what a family company should be like.

Paul's 'hire in a heartbeat' - footballer Roy Keane (Paul was a director of Sunderland AFC when Roy was there). He has a very interesting perspective on Roy and his future.

45.00" Sean Higgines, MD of Future Proof Insights, joins TeamGBS to talk about the future of advertising, how their neuroscience based analysis (which he explains) can tell how effective advertising is. He says his 18 month old business is not so much interested in what people say (in response to an ad) but how the feel about what they see and hear - emotion being a far, far more powerful catalyst to act.

We like insights on That Great Business Show and Sean gives us some very simple, but effective, ideas on what works best in SME advertising.

He's pretty damning about the annual New Year press releases from creative agencies as to what the future holds, in this case Generation Z. Bunkum is one word for what he thinks of it.

And in keeping with the 'family business' theme, Sean's 'hire in a heartbeat'? - Pat McDonagh, founder of Supermacs.

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James Flahavan, International Business Development Manager at Flahavans Oats, explains how the Waterford based company has grown its exports to over a third of its turnover, starting with the UK, where they entered the market via a Tesco buyer who moved from Ireland to the UK, how they cracked the US market, home of their arch rival Pepsico owned Quaker Oats and how Trinity College Dublin opened up the South Korea (yes!) market for them.

James' 'hire in a heartbeat' - John Jordan, CEO, Ornua

Shane Hassett, co-founder, WAZP - the Tralee based 3D printer that has world domination in its sights. Shane tells us how their 'start-up' (seven years old!) has big name clients - Specsavers, Clarks Shoes, Ikea, and others - who are using WAZP technology to cut out massive production runs that need storage and distribution. WAZP can produce one off items or many thousands of items and ship them directly to the customer, from their Tralee base. Next stop is to populate Europe (starting with Germany) with their small 3D printing factories. TeamGBS thinks it could be a world business changer.

Shane's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Liam Casey, CEO of PCH International

Kate Scott and Declan Fahy, co-founders of HoloToyz (holo as in hologram!) - a VR/AR company, born out of a tattoo convention (crazy where business ideas come from), and only 18 months old but already doing business with VIACOM (owners of Nickelodeon), Sega, Paw Patrol and so many more on the way. Their toy has just won 2nd place at the London Toy Fair - the same prize that was won, once upon a time, by Lego and Pokemon. Their toy brings books, wall decals, non-permanent tattoos (for kids) all to life. TeamGBS was gobsmacked by the technology.

Their 'hire in a heartbeat'? Fabulous choice, Barbie - as there may be more news coming soon concerning her maker, Mattel

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Rossa Mullally, Director with Sigmar Recruitment (150 staff across five offices nationwide) joins TeamGBS to instigate 'National Jealousy Day' - celebrated in Finland when, on the 1st of November every year, EVERYBODY'S taxable income is posted for all to see. Team GBS wanted to find out what the neighbours were earning so we recruited (see what we did there) Rossa, who has sixteen years industry experience, to tell us who's earning what...like the software sales reps, who are under 30, and earning €250,000 plus! He then moves the dial up and talks about some who are earning €1/2 million... in Ireland.

He says he has never seen the recruitment industry busier, including IT recruitment that has seen more openings in January than in all of 2021... and the IT industry didn't see any big fall during Covid.

He cites examples of people who have seen their salaries jump from €90k to €140k by 'not leaving their jobs'.

Recruitment is another hot sector, where entrants can pick up a high salary from the get-go.

Marketing is NOT the hottest sector salary-wise, but many, many people are choosing to get into marketing.

We of course go down some rabbit holes, like how a recruiter could tell venture capitalists if an app could work...

His 'hire in a heartbeat', chef, businessman, TV personality, Rick Stein

John Saunders is MD of the Honda, Fiat, Alfa Romeo, Jeep unit of the Gowan Group.

He explains why we choose the cars we do, and how we're now focussing on technology.

But how do you differentiate cars that are made on the same chassis, but effectively the same company? John explains.

He talks about Opel being the biggest car sponsorship for the Ireland rugby team, but he wants Jack Charlton back before they might sponsor the soccer team again.

We asked him for a discount on his cars. His answer is great...if typical!

We were a little rude about the Jeep, but John came out fighting and explains why it's actually a great car - because of its four wheel drive.

He explains the changes in customers buying cars. Salesroom visits have dropped from 5 to just one, where customers have done all of their work online before deciding what they want. They only go to the showroom to kick the tyres.

His hire in a heartbeat was going to be Ayrton Senna, but he eventually opted for his boss, Brenda Saunders - his wife!

Kevin D'Arcy is co-founder with his fiancée, Alannah, of OrcaBoards. They design paddle boards as well as Blubber robes and Belooga swimwear. But both founders have 'real' jobs as well. Kevin is an auditor, and we had a world-first on That Great Business Show when Kevin gave us a cracking business one-liner. An auditor telling jokes, you heard it here first folks.

He explains how they differentiate their robes and boards from others - the secret is a lower margin.

They've decided to create different brands in case one has problems, the Cadbury model according to Kevin.

They were selected by Arnotts to sell their products in the run up to Christmas, which proved hugely successful. Every day they were selling in Arnotts was a like the best market research they could carry out. he talks about the new range, due out this side of summer.

One of their clever products is Christmas togs to match the Christmas jumpers, hugely popular in Ireland.

Alannah has also created her own design for women's swimwear, that includes sleeves on the swimsuit to counter the cold of Ireland's seawater.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' is Gym Plus Coffee co-founder, Niall Horgan

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2.00' Dee Coakley, co-founder of Boundless HQ explains how you can easily hire people no matter where in the world they are located, allowing them to continue working from there. She tells us of her early career organising tours for Beyonce and other world superstars and how she got fed up with that and decided to go on her own tour of the then nascent tech industry. She's now three years with Boundless, has already raised €5 million backed by VC Brian Caulfield (E 67) amongst others. She gave us an exclusive about her future funding and hiring plans. Boundless is boundless.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat' - Sarah Friar of NextDoor

30.00' Conor Duggan, co-founder of Box of Wine, told us about three men and a van full of wine. His early stage company has already turned over €500k, they've recruited two 'brilliant' investors and have plans to enter the much, much larger (and more competitive) market in the UK this year. The concept is simple, a monthly fee will see three bottles of wine, unique to Box of Wine, delivered to your door. It's the ideal year-long present for a client or special friend. Conor also tells us about winning Entrepreneur of the Year at just 12 years old...unfortunately not the EY competition of the same name, but one organised by a truly progressive teacher in his secondary school, CBC Monkstown in Dublin.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' - Amy Huberman (and he's willing to pay her with a three pack of rosé!)

50.00' Peter Leonard BL, will be joining TeamGBS for an occasional slot on the podcast bringing us free legal advice on business matters (tell us where to send our fee note!). This week he talks about a landmark High Court case regarding 'protected disclosure' or whistleblower legislation. The case involved frozen, defrosted and refrozen pizza sold to kids and 1,700 emails received in just one day. It's an essential listen for employers and employees because a successful claim under this legislation could mean compensation of up to FIVE years salary.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' - Virginia Giuffre (re Prince Andrew) lawyer, David Boies

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Builders can't find builders so they can't build. That's the conundrum.

Barry Prost, co-founder of international recruitment company Yala has reworked a famous phrase to fit the current situation. He says 'If they come, we will build it'.

Barry discusses the Great Resignation, coming back for business (he spent a decade in the Middle East), where companies can find talent, his very different model to make the recruitment process more affordable for SMEs and his ambitions to crack the USA. And we at the Ireland Connecticut Business Council are going to help him on that journey.

Barry's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Irish international entrepreneur, Andy Mackin

Alice Carroll is co-founder of Foxes Bow whiskey. Based in Limerick it's named after one of the city's well-know side-streets. Alice is entering the wonderland of the world whiskey market with her eyes wide open. She's served her time, via the Jameson marketing programme, ending up working with Pernod Ricard in Toronto, Canada, all the time honing her knowledge of the whiskey market. She and her co-founder believe they have found the perfect niche in what is a fast growing market and wants to raise up to €350,000 to put a Limerick based whiskey brand on the world map.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Lee Clow chairman of TBWA\Worldwide,who is referred to as "advertising's art director guru. Looking forward to you joining TeamGBS Mister Clow.

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Episode 69 That Great Business Show brings you one hour of insights about the past, present and future of Ireland's music industry, from legendary veteran promoter Pat Egan, the man who brought acts including Queen, Elton John, Bob Marley and of course Billy Connolly to Ireland.

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To start with, ever modest, he says he's not a legend and that the word is overused.

Given the sometimes meagre returns (and he's had a couple of disasters that he discusses) he agreed that music promotion could be seen as a form of gambling.

He talks about the enormous appetite there is in Ireland for live music events. He discusses the Garth Brooks phenomenon and his concert promoter in Ireland, Peter Aien. That leads into complaining about some of Ireland's best known country & western artists, including Daniel O'Donnell, Margo

He says it's very hard to make money from big events now because artists are taking up to 100% of ticket sales. Mid-sized acts, attracting 1,500 people, find it almost impossible to make money.

Then he discusses Live Nation, who own/manage or have an involvement in thousands of venues, including all the major Irish venues, plus they own Ticketmaster that sell the tickets for those venues, and they manage 500 major acts who appear in those venues. He is effectively locked out of the bigger venues he implies. A California based law suit, launched this week, makes claims of monopolistic behaviour against the Live Nation.

Down, but never out, not being able to access some of his favourite venues like the Olympia or the Gaiety Theatres meant that he has recently struck a deal with University College Dublin to run up to 100 nights of gigs in the magnificent O'Reilly Hall in UCD.

His mentor was Oliver Barry, who was also his silent partner.

His biggest financial disaster was courtesy of Julio Iglesias whose concert bombed and cost Pat £185,000 of a loss. Ouch.

Pat has some interesting views on the future of radio and its importance in promoting new talent.

Another woulda/coulda/shoulda moment was when he had the chance to sign U2and he talks about Larry Mullen offering to play for free to support the Stranglers at the Top Hat venue on Dublin's southside.

His 'hire in a heartbeat', Garret Delaney and Caroline O'Neill, both who have worked with Pat for years and who helped make it all possible.

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Farmer turned robotics experts, Harry Goddard, who doubles up as Deloitte Ireland CEO, talks to That Great Business Show about not being an accountant. How working with a small software company introduced him to sales, to understand what their clients wanted and needed, and a consultant was born!

As CEO (he explains why not Managing Partner) of Deloitte Ireland he's now in 3,000 people (and another 600 if the can find them) - worldwide Deloitte employs 330,000 people. There a hundred partners running the Irish firm (27 of them female), so how long does a partners' meeting take so everyone has their say?

He explains the Deloitte model for pitching for business and if or whether Deloitte will split up in different parts, leaving audit behind?

Harry is passionate about the use of robotics to remove the mundane from everyday work. Deloitte has advised Garda vetting on the use of robotics and has double decimated the time taken to vet someone, using a robot called 'Bertie' (really!)

An 'extraordinary' change in business, Harry says, is the transition to 'cloud'. He explains what the future of that will bring.

If you haven't heard of 'cognitive intelligence' in business, you will. You may have already come across it in the Terminator movie, and for Harry the future of this tech could be a little worrying. The Deloitte workforce is also on the move. 35% of them have moved in the last two years, the vast majority outside of Dublin.

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Deloitte has put a lot of work into getting gender balance in their business. Today it's at 51:49, but as Harry says, that takes a lot of work and he details how it was achieved and some of the continuing hurdles, particularly around their 'experienced hires' where he says men are more mobile, women less so. They have also developed a very interesting idea called the 'inclusion passport', which could be applied across other organisations.

As head of one of the country's largest employers he gives his views on how to fix the 'interlinked' problems of infrastructure and housing.

He talks about how 'newbies' into Deloitte no longer see themselves competing for their jobs with friends and neighbours within the island of Ireland. They are now competing with others around the world.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Mark Zuckerberg. But NOT Richard Branson, but do we find out why??

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An hour long special with Ireland's best known venture capitalist, Brian Caulfield, venture partner with Molten Ventures (fka Draper Esprit).

Brian explains why Manhattan is his favourite (cocktail!) and we discuss some TeamGBS alum including Natterjack Whiskey, Glendalough Gin, Coole Swan and one that Brian hadn't heard of (because they haven't joined TeamGBS yet!) Dúlamán Gin, based in Donegal.

He explains why he believes most entrepreneurs are NOT focussed on money, but being grumpy people their focus is on fixing things they see that are being done badly.

He tells us why he has gotten involved with social enterprises like ChangeX

He says a friend of his describes Brian as being 'very good at making money, but f**k all good at spending it'.

So, how does Ireland's best VC choose his winners? He gives TeamGBS his A-Z guide but says that often that the final use of a technology may not be all that apparent initially. He also explains that Ireland's approach to share options is driving top talent abroad.

If you want to contact Brian do not contact him via LinkedIn. He explains all.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? ex-Salesforce, ex-Marketo, Fergus Gloucester...based in Ireland.

2.00" We start with an amazing simple, but amazing successful, business - making sandwiches in Warrenpoint, Co. Down. From one sandwich bar Brian Reid and his wife Jackie have built an international business supplying sandwiches across the island of Ireland, the UK, Europe, the Middle East and now they have their eyes set on the USA - where Jackie initially got her sandwich making idea. But sending sandwiches to the US - the world capital of sandwiches - sounds a bit like shipping coals to Newcastle. However, Brian has made DeliLites into something very special and incredibly, with their secret ingredients, their sandwiches have a shelf life of up to a year. So that's why he's looking for business partners in the US along with someone with deep pockets (and industry knowledge ideally) to fund that expansion. And we're not talking about loose change...they're looking for tens of millions of Euro. AND, they're developing their business to become a B Corporation.

Of course, all of this didn't happen overnight, and speaking of overnight, listen to Brian about how, for ten years, he left his Sandwich HQ at 1am every morning, headed to Dublin dropping off sandwiches on the way, avoiding Dublin's gridlock by travelling in the middle of the night, and then home to Warrenpoint by 9am. That's what TeamGBS calls a gruelling schedule.

DeliLites has expanded from a two person team now, employing 250 people currently and having just got £500k funding from InvestNI they're looking for another 50 people across all disciplines to help with their push into the UK where there's a Brexit opportunity as UK sandwich makers can't find workers to make sandwiches there. It's a fantastic story, including Brian's explanation as to what motivates him, and why Gary Vaynerchuk is his 'hire in a heatbeat'.

25.00" Aonghus Shortt has a PhD in Power System Engineering, which led him initially to work in wind energy. However, Aonghus's career took a complete about turn when he tried to help his then girlfriend, now wife, with digestion issues, as she suffered from irritable bowel syndrome, or IBS, a condition that affects about 1 billion people worldwide. Out of this concern for his girlfriend, FoodMarble was born to make a small palm sized device, not unlike a personal breathalyser. FoodMarble analyses the gases on the breath and can help 'read' what foods are causing digestion problems. It could be a world-winning business and having already sold 30,000 devices, and raised €5.5 million, the FoodMarble team are looking for fresh funds to bring the product, along with further planned innovation, to the waiting and suffering public.

Aonghus's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Grace Gifford Whittle aka his wife, the reason the whole business was started initially. Awww, that's nice!

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3.00" Chris Deans, Director of Sales, Crane Worldwide Logistics, talks what's happening in worldwide supply chains. He says it's softening a bit....but there are new problems. But, he says that the slow train from China is the new highway to Europe. 16 days on the train is replacing 28 days at sea. Crane WW is also hiring its own planes to ship product from China to US and EU. Chris's big tip? Use Amazon Germany to ship product via Amazon to Ireland, avoiding the UK. Chris's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Brian Penny. Do listen to his amazing story to understand why.

25.00" Alison Campbell, Director of Knowledge Transfer Ireland, tells us how KTI can help your business, no matter what size, no matter what sector. She also tells us where the gold is, where there are pots of money across Europe to help upgrade your business or business processes. She says it all starts with a simple phone call. And her hire in a heartbeat? Well scientist Alison chose scientist Luke O'Neill, of course!

45.00" The secret of the saxophone is revealed. Phil Codd, MD of French owned digital transformation company Expleo explains why he made a video sitting beside a saxophone, which he never touched or played. All very strange. He also explains where the future of digital will bring businesses, that he's hiring but that the big problem for (all) business is finding skilled employees. Phil went wild, 'hiring' three people in a heartbeat - he chose former UK PM David Cameron, former Ireland President, Mary McAleese and finally, Larry Ellison, still boss at Oracle.

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2.00" Maria Dickenson, MD of Dubray Books, talks about being acqurired by Easons, Dubray's expansion plans, and of course - her five favourite business books for Christmas that are;

• Start with Why by Simon Sinek

• Smart Tips for SMEs, Understanding the SME Environment in an Irish Context by Jim Power and Cormac Fitzgerald

• Leading Change by John Kotter

• Atomic Habits by James Clear

• Thrive by Ariana Huffington

And being That Great Business Show we drift into her favourite book of fiction this year and Cork University Press get a big shout out for their 4kg blockbuster.

Maria's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Ryan Tubridy - a one person bookseller already!

25.00" Hugh Sheehy, co-founder of Go Eve, winner of the NovaUCD 'Start Up of the Year' has what could be a world-winning solution to charging electric vehicles. Their project is in association with Imperial College London and they've drawn on the resources of both colleges to make sure there's nothing like it anywhere in the world - and they're in the process of protecting their solution with worldwide patents. They're raising €3m so they can supply paying customers by Q4 2022 (so very soon!). Hugh's 'hire in a heartbeat', for obvious reasons (power, scaling, electricity, funding) is Mainstream Renewable founder Eddie O'Connor.

46.00" Niamh Cooney, The Big Idea, is looking for mentors for their hugely successful Transition Year schools' programme (10,000 on the waiting list). They need another 200 plus mentors from across disciplines who need only give around 4 hours their time to guide young students with their TY business projects. It's a laudable thing to do, you 'pay it forward'. That'll make you feel good about yourself and you can also claim on your LinkedIn profile that you're a 'startup mentor'! Niamh had a couple of people she'd like to get on board her team. Her 'hire in a heartbeat' were Ariana Huffington, former President Mary Robinson and everybody's favourite (!) Richard Branson.

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2.00" Mark Henry, author of 'In Fact, an optimists guide to Ireland' tells us 100 reasons to be positive about Ireland and its economy. And he starts by telling us we're no longer a nation of begrudgers. What would Brendan Behan make of that! He'd also be fascinated by the substantial drop in alcohol consumption over the last couple of decades.

Mark's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Bob Geldof

23.00" Dr. Lollie Mancey, who is 'not fragile like a flower, but fragile like a bomb', talks about women being underrepresented in business, what the UCD Innovation Academy where she works, is doing to help, Imposter Syndrome and what can be done about that, and of course she has a 'hire in a heartbeat' or two, or three...

47.00" Paula FitzSimons, founder of Going for Growth, the Enterprise Ireland and KPMG backed six month course to help female entrepreneurs 'go for growth'. It's been running for fourteen years and has proven to be exceptionally positive for participants, many who have joined TeamGBS since the podcast started. Paula details how best to get on the programme and she reminds listeners that the closing date is coming up very soon.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? She wouldn't say. Find out why.

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2.00" Katie Knight, Revenue Growth

Generator

A

'must listen' if you want to know the dirty secrets of the US food and drinks

markets. You'll also learn some great new ideas for maximising your food

kitchen output and she has suggestions about what Irish food and drinks could

make it big in the US.

US based for thirty years, Katie Knight has some CV. She has

worked with food and drinks companies right across the US and currently is

hired by restaurant chain TGI Friday, based in Dallas, Texas. She has also very

recently joined the board of one our own TeamGBS favourite companies, Meath

based liqueur maker Coole Swan, to help them crack the US market.

Katie's 'hire in a heartbeat is Denis Morton, founder of

Peleton.

26.00 Dave Byrne, Founder, co-founder

Dualtron of the future of cash.

Do you remember in business when cash was king? Well, that was

pre-Covid, and it didn’t take long for us to switch almost totally to card or

phone payments.

That’s good news for my next guest Dave Byrne, who founded his

company, Dualtron thirty years ago, so back in the days of crinkly pound notes,

and for younger listeners, before the Euro there was The Pound.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' Feargal Quinn

51.00" Ged MacDomhnaill Climbing Hangar

Lisburn

born Ged has big plans for his UK based climbing or bouldering business. He was

a reluctant entrepreneur, wanting to do nothing else but go climbing. But he's

now turned that into a very successful business, raising £10 million to date,

with possible plans for a outlet in Belfast, his first in Ireland.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Mary Portas, the ethical

entrepreneur.

70.00"

Rani Dabrai, co-founder NyrahBeauty.com

Queen of Pivots. Rani Dabrai was one time Miss Moneypenny, then

served as director with the World Trade Centre in Dublin.

Nowadays she is one of fewer than 400 people in the world,

qualified in the Entrepreneurial Operating System or EOS.

But, as well as another handful of things she’s involved in she

also has launched a new skincare range…as you do!

Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Former FBI hostage negotiator Chris

Voss

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On Episode 61 of 'Ireland's best business podcast' with Conall O Morain, we bring you...

2.30" David Russell, CEO, of Host Ireland joins TeamGBS to explain why he took a speedboat to his first job, why he hired a charity collector from outside his office, how his CTO went from butcher to running the company's entire technology platform, what he's willing to do to find and train people who want to become network engineers (like most of the country's businesses, 'he's hiring', why wireless broadband has to be part of the national broadband mix. The much maligned staff implementing the National Broadband Plan get words of encouragement from David who says their job is nigh on thankless, and implementing nationwide broadband is tough no matter where in the world you are.

For his 'hire in a heartbeat' he went looking for an entire team (he is desperate to hire people after all) and he chose Barbara Humpton, CEO, Siemens Corporation, PLUS Stewart Butterfield, co-founder of Flickr and Slack (so no slouch!) AND Bob Iger, President at Walt Disney. If only!

27.00" Lisa Haskins, International Marketing Director EMEA for VidMob, one of the cleverest ad analytics companies we've come across. Their company research, that they make freely available, goes into the most minute detail of when, where, why, how people interact with ads, across all digital platforms AND what is called static ads...so non-digital ads as well. Lisa tells us that you'll get a 53% greater purchase rate from your 'call to action' in an ad if yo use the word 'GET' rather than saying rather than saying 'SHOP NOW'. She had so, so, so many tips including to use the word 'LIMITED' (as in 'limited offer') rather than saying 'BUY NOW' (this tiny change can increase sales by 20%!). Like all our podcast guests, VidMob is hiring so she's looking for multiple disciplines and she wants them now, for this incredibly fast growing New York HQ'd company.

47.00" Eamonn Sayers, CEO, Guinness Enterprise Centre, talks about the huge expansion at one of Ireland's first business incubators. He explains why, though mainly tech focussed, that they also want a diverse range of businesses to 'incubate' at their James' Gate based centre because businesses learn from each other. But, if you think you'd like to base your business at the GEC, as it's called, you'd better be quick because Eamonn reckons he'll be putting up the 'House Full' sign in Q1 of next year.

57.00" Eamonn is joined by one of his protegee companies, Kinia CEO Marianne Checkley, who gives the GEC three (!) thumbs up. She explains what her own education focussed social enterprise is doing and why working in the GEC is so, so helpful for her team to keep fully abreast of what's happening in the digital space, knowledge that her team of 20 then can pass on to the company's clients. One other good thing, they do their business in English and 'as Gaeilge'.

Eamonn's 'hire in a heartbeat'...after naming most of his native County Kerry, he plumped for his own dad.

Marianne's 'hire in a heartbeat', Elizabeth Churchill, Director at Google. Find out what makes her such a star pick.

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2.00" Paul Galvin, Kerry GAA legend, as you've never heard him before. He tells how his continuing 8 year collaboration with Dunnes Stores started, how he hand delivered his autobiography to Dunnes supremo Margaret Heffernan. After ten years of teaching he grew tired of the repetition, he was no longer enthused. He was, however, always enthused by design, even a simple Mitre football he looked at as a 'lovely object of design'. He says he's probably a frustrated architect and he has a BIG interest in 'bio-architecture', something he learnt about from a Netflix series called 'Abstract' and Israeli architect called Neri Oxman. based at MIT. He looks at stadia on Google Maps, and draws inspiration from their beautiful shapes.

He he makes a connection between the GAA and Dunnes Stores, as part of the Irish cultural heritage. The first connection was made when he sent his book, 'In my own words' to GAA fan Margaret Heffernan on the instigation of Irish Independent journalist Bairbre Power.

Comparing Paul Galvin with another Dunnes Stores brand, Paul Costello, Paul G. says he has no plans to expand outside men's clothing and footwear, where he says there's plenty of space to expand. However he does mention 3D mugs and references Kerry based 3D printers WAZP who previously joined TeamGBS.

19.00" Paul talks about 'his club', his newly launched 'side hustle', the Keohane Athletic Club. He explains how the concept works and how GAA clubs may be able to make money from selling Keohane designs to club members.

Another, recent, source of inspiration for Paul is the art of former Roscommon GAA player, turned artist, Neil Patrick Collins.

His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Ashley McDonnell of Barcelona based Puig the he met through film maker Perry Ogden. Find out why.

And 'Ireland's most bearded man', Paul, has some very nice things to say about podcast sponsor, De Facto Shave.

33.00" Des McCarthy, CEO of MicroFinance Ireland wants micro-businesses, (sub 10 employees, sub €2m turnover and/or self-employed) to know that MFI has cheaper money available, to a maximum of €25,000 in unsecured lending. But first he discusses poor financial literacy in Ireland amongst both small and medium sized firms. Mentoring is part of the lending package, paid for by MFI. Covid loan performance is better than expected, he says. He was very encouraged that MFI saw a lot of new companies being started during Covid, across all sectors. He explains how they deal with unsecured loans. He also talks about MFI's future. His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Elwin Groenevelt CEO of Netherlands based Qredits

58.00" Rosemary Steen, CEO, Design and Craft Council of Ireland.

On Episode 15 of TGBS Tony Smurfit referenced the number of designers that his company, Smurfit Kappa has inhouse. Rosemary makes the pitch for other businesses to hire more designers, 'good for business'. She discusses 'Pylon of the Month' . According to a Grant Thornton report design employment could recognise significantly, by up to 40k, by 2025. She explains what supports the sector needs to ensure this growth. She tells us about what design did to an incinerator in Denmark.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat', an incredible woman called Teresa Elder, former Vodafone Ireland CEO

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3.00" Peter Stringer talks about ankles, what elite athletes know about business, his BodyPlan business, his F45 gym expansion plans, what a 'Person of the Match' earns, what he thinks of Donncha O'Callaghan as a businessman...and so much more. We do business differently.

33.00" With a claimed 40% of workers worldwide considering leaving their employers, Ken Finnegan, CEO of TCD Tangent, tells us of a myriad of courses available to individuals and companies, across the country, to help upskill, reskill or retool their businesses and their careers.

53.00" James Fallon, Éanna Byrne, co-founders of www.BainisteoirBoardGame.ie explains why making a Gaelic Games board game wasn't as easy as the two primary school teachers thought it would be and what they learnt about design, production problems, protecting IP rights, and so much more about business. But, after two years, they got there and Santa Claus will have 3,000 copies of the game in his sack for Christmas.

2.00" This story is nothing short of extraordinary. And it's real.

Jason Lynch, COO of startup Equal1, based at NovaUCD. Their business is quantum computing and if, in the next two years, they achieve their targets, we may have quantum computers as laptops. And, if you don't know anything about quantum computers, all you do need to know is that they are MILLIONS of times more powerful than what's sitting on your desk today.

Jason explains how 'the band got back together' to form this exceptionally exciting small company that may be about to revolutionise personal computing. The team is vastly experienced, sporting PhD and Professor badges, so there's nothing flaky about them. They've also been scrutinised by some serious investors including Atlantic Bridge, btov Industrial Technologies, 808 Ventures and Enterprise Ireland, who have pitched €10 million at the company to date. Jason explains what their expansion plans are (they're hiring) and over the course of the interview the true magnitude of this project is revealed. We may be looking at something akin to a new Apple. In Ireland. Really. They're already in talks with IBM.

Not surprising so that Jason's 'hire in a heartbbeat' is the Woz, Stephen Wozniak, co-founder of Apple.

25.00" Mary McKenna, founder of Tour America

We had invited Mary on to That Great Business Show to tell us how she and her company keep winning any 'best managed' awards available, and have done so for many years now. But that invitation was sent before President Biden announced the opening of the US borders, allowing your business to start the necessary travel to sell your goods and services to the world's largest economy. So, opportunistically, we decided to ask US born Mary, who has made a highly-successful career from 'selling America' to tell us her many top tips on how to best to travel, where to find the best airline deals (not necessarily booking directly!), using Revolut to save up to 2.5% every time you buy something, upgrading your hotel for $20, the benefits of various airport loyalty schemes...and so much more. And of course we asked her about winning those awards and also, the elephant in the room, what it was like not to have ANY BUSINESS AT ALL for the last year and a half. Top listen.

Mary's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Journalist, panellist, barrister and Tour America video maker, Aileen Hickey. Find out why.

51.00" Marc O'Dwyer and Catherine Lockhart, Big Red Cloud

TeamGBS likes FREE so when Big Red Cloud offered free gifts to TeamGBS listeners who choose to use their services then, naturally, we had to have them on. Marc and Catherine explain how your business can get free transaction costs on your first €5,000 value of business done, if you use their new Square integration and if you are a first time buyer of their accounting software then you'll also be getting a free tablet. All because Big Red Cloud backs TeamGBS.

And, of course, being That Great Business Show we also head down a couple of rabbit holes, such as what it takes to be an Iron Man, the wonders of IADT College in Dublin, tips for women to climb the greasy corporate pole, and so much more.

Listen and save your business money.

Marc's 'hire in a heartbeat' is John Purdy, non-executive chair at Ergo

Catherine backed a woman, choosing Marissa Carter, founder of Cocoa Brown Tan, as her 'hire in a heartbeat'.

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Phil Martin, founder Blanco Nino

Michael Hynes, Joint Managing Director, Quintain (building 5,000 homes at Adamstown)

Michelle O'Keefe, Head of Wealth Advisory at Goodbody Stockbrokers

This is Episode 56 of 'Ireland's best business podcast', posting on the 8th of October 2021.

3.00" Peter Turley www.PeterTurley.ie tells us how to hire great sales people.

35.00" Chris Burge, Co-Founder & CEO at Spark Crowdfunding, who wants to give Irish investors access to new investment opportunities that would previously only have been open to Venture Capitalists or Private Equity firms.

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45" Catch up with AwakenHub, shout for further applications for the SheGenerates Accelerator Light...Listen to Episode 54.

3.00" Diarmaid Mac Colgáin, co-founder Concept Dairy, on his new app, useful for dairy farmers and processors to see, and lock in, the best market prices. The app uses Diarmaid's extensive knowledge as a commodity trader in the UK for many years. Self funded to date, he's keen to talk to 'smart money' (must have serious connections into world dairy and other food commodity markets) but more so, he'd like introductions to processors across Europe and eventually the US. Intriguingly he also says his app can be adapted to trade other farming commodities, so we may see Cavan pig farmers selling pork belly futures, a la Wall St.? Diarmaid also rowed for Ireland, with medals to prove it!

Two 'hire in a heartbeat' choices for Diarmaid, McKenzie Scott, philanthropist, ex-hedge fund manager, ex-Jeff Bezos and Bill Winters, a former wunderkind at JP Morgan, the man who matured the derivatives market.

Update on Stephen McPeake and Civic Dollars (Episode 45).

23.00" Dr. Luke Kelly and Dr. Declan Kelly, of Eolas Medical, a software that "allows hospitals to have a single source of truth for their medical knowledge". The IgniteNI backed company has already raised £2 million, but that won't be the end of it, as they have world ambitions. They're already in 40 hospitals, they're generating revenue, and they want TeamGBS to introduce them to other hospital groups around the world.

Their 'hire in a heartbeat'? Bob Brisk, cardiologist plus a PhD in AI - as you do!

45.00" Trinity College Dublin has left Dublin 2! They've opened up operations in Wexford, Athlone and Galway...all is explained. Gillian Roddie explains what TCD Tangent is doing and who should pop onto their courses that gives you a TCD parchment on completion, plus the opportunity to throw a mortar board skyward!

Courses can be free and you'll have to listen to find out who gets to get on these free, business related, courses. Marie Vahey, an alumna, sings the praises of the courses and explains how Tangent has changed her business fundamentally.

Eventually they chose John Rocha and David Attenborough as their hires in a heartbeat...

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THAT GREAT BUSINESS SHOW EPISODE 54, AWAKEN HUB SPECIAL, BONUS ISSUE, posting on 25th September 2021

AwakenHub founders, Sinead Crowley, Mary McKenna, Mary Carty and Clare McGee, join Conall O Morain to talk all things AwakenHub, a not-for profit /social enterprise that already has 1,200 members, was founded in 2020 and aims to support and amplify women founders across the island of Ireland.

Their next event is on 28th of September at 5pm Irish Time, as they launch the AwakenHub SheGenerate accelerator light.

4.00" Keavy Ryan, partner at law firm A&L Goodbody and an Irish Proshare Association (IPSA) board member joins Dalata Hotels company secretary, Sean McKeon to discuss why the withdrawal of Ulster Bank from the Irish market may throw current Save As You Earn Schemes (SAYE) into disarray. They join co-host Susan Spence (founder Softco) in discussing talent attraction and retention problems due to an inadequate share option scheme that does not match a similar UK scheme, available to companies in Northern Ireland.

22.00" Geraldine Jones, founder Skin Formulas, talks about her brand that is sold in Dunnes Stores, Shaws (almost nationwide), Meaghers Pharmacies etc. She has bootstrapped the business herself and she's now hoping to head for the UK market without further investment - unless 'smart money' wants to join her. So how do you take on the might of the big brands (her products are not make up, but nutraceuticals, an important differentiator. Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Well she chose two (wise woman!). She wants the sectoral knowledge of TeamGBS alumna, Aimee Connolly, as well as the unstinting encouragement of her uncle, also a TeamGBS alumnus, Peter Byrne, CEO of FRS.

39.00" Glimpse software founders Oran Mulvey and Shane O'Sullivan (both 26) entertained us with their youthful enthusiasm as well intriguing us with what could be world beating software to help small and large retailers find out who's shopping with them, in store (they compare their software to Google Analytices for bricks and mortar stores). They're currently raising €2m to help with their assault on the UK market and when (not if!) that's successful, they're heading for the US of A. Just listen to their exuberance. It'll lift your day. Their 'hire in a heartbeat', Werner Vogels, CTO and VP at Amazon.

59.00" Roisin Carroll, Sales and Marketing Manager, Carroll Estates tells us how she works with her dad, her sister, her brother-in-law, and how they keep the peace. Her real reason to be on That Great Business Show was to try to tell the world about their houses for sale in Malahide, Dublin, but they're already selling like hot cakes so we chatted to her about the family business, Japanese toilets and the TV show, Grand Designs. As we say, we do business differently. Roisin's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Helena Morrissey, mother of nine, former boss of Newton Investments and campaigner for greater female presentations on company boards.

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Episode 52 That Great Business Show - Eamonn O'Reilly, CEO, Dublin Port Company

Eamonn discusses every aspect of Dublin Port, handling 84% of the country's container and trailer traffic.

Dublin Port (DP) has 4,000 people working within its walls, but not working directly for DP (165 people are directly employed).

The majority of workers work for companies like Stena, P&O, ICG etc.

DP had turnover of €89m last year and he explains how DP makes its money.

He explains why ships lie offshore DP for various reasons, over weekends.

Eamonn tells us the history of hobblers and how that has changed with regular slots for ships.

Ferries have fixed slots, based on best times for them commercially.

DP is beginning to reach constraints capacity, and rail won't play a major role.

They're going to try to squeeze more activity within the port, particularly cut down the dwell time of goods within the port.

You can stack containers up to about six to be efficient.

He cites Valparaiso in Chile, which is the most efficient port in the world, which passes about three times more goods through than DP.

Biggest containers into DP can carry 1,200 containers but ships can carry up to 22,000.

Brexit has changed the profile of the business at DP, as trade flows, like water, follows the line of least resistance.

They've seen an enormous growth of goods coming directly from continental Europe.

He says that trying to build houses on the DP land is an appalling idea and he explains the history of Bremore Harbour.

One metre of quay wall can cost €100,000 and a quay might run 300 metres.

To build Bremore he reckons might cost €4 billion plus and doubles when lands have to be remediated. The quickest all of this could be built would be 20 years.

DP is the 'single most important transport infrastructure in the country'.

3D printing will replace some traditional manufacturing which will have an effect on trade and therefore port volume.

There will be a decoupling between port volumes and GDP growth.

Cruise ship bookings are allocated two years ahead.

He discusses road access to the port and the need to introduce road pricing, to help manage the capacity of our roads infrastructure.

DP plans will mean a new private bridge next to the East Link or Tom Clarke Bridge. Pre-application discussions have already started with an Bord Pleanála.

They're working on a 4km greenway from East Point business park, down the Tolka estuary, to the most eastern extreme point of DP, where the boats enter the port.

And Eamonn's 'hire in a heartbeat' is Peter Rice, a structural engineer, who made possible the Sydney Opera Centre, the Lloyds building in London and others.

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Episode 51 of 'Ireland's best business podcast' -

Westport, Mayo, based entrepreneur, Fidelma McGuirk, founder of Payslip

She explains how she attracted world backers for her rural Ireland based, but globally focussed, business

She was previously involved with the TaxBack company where she set up operations across 21 countries. She moved to Westport in 2015.

Her global customers don't mind where her business is based, as her own customers are multi-located so they don't even think (or ask) where Payslip is based.

They have a strong bias to draw people to the western seaboard to work from there.

They are creating 150 jobs, 30 of which they filled in just two months.

They've raised €12.3 million which should last them for at least two years. She says fund raising is never easy, but they managed to raise their money in just 7 weeks.

She says, "A VC isn't there to run your company" and she explains the importance of finding the right investors, and how to do find them.

The best model for a funding is to get a 'load of no's' early on - rather than having the process long-dragged out.

She talks us through the nitty-gritty of a funding round, warts and all.

Conall and Fidelma chat about how difficult it is to set up your own business and why being in business means it's 'always on'

She wants to build Payslip into a global leader in payroll operations.

She talks about the need for more women role models in business and the need for changes in taxation for founders.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat' - Mark Simons, but she's already hired him. Eventually she opted for Lexi Reese, COO of Gusto and/or she says she'd be 'honoured' if the team at technology investment firm Base 10 would join her team.

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Episode 50 That Great Business Show - 'Ireland's best business podcast' - posting on 3rd September 2021

2.00" Rachel Reidy, Head of Allbright Ireland, promoting women in business

She knew the Allbright organisation from her latter years spent in London. When she moved back to Ireland last November she thought there was an opportunity to found an Allbright location in Dublin.

Allbright in Ireland, (the organisation is named after Madeleine Albright) begins as a digital entity (www.AllbrightCollective.com) but is in discussions regarding a physical location in Dublin. Their app is available now, and she asks women to join the Women in Ireland group on the app.

Their programmes include one that will help with 'that difficult conversation', when women are looking for pay rises. That's the Allbright Accelerator.

And there's Elevator, the senior leadership programme - aimed at helping middle managers get to the next level in business.

LVMH has appointed Allbright their official 'learning partner', and the 'knowledge base' of Allbright will be made available to their women staff.

They have a 'sisterhood matching' tool on their app and next they'll be adding a mentor match to the app.

Her 'hire in a heartbeat', Whitney Wolfe Herd, founder of Bumble

She's on rachel.reidy@allbright.co waiting to hear from you.

24.00" Robbie Scanlan, CEO, of Allied Imports, owners of the Tipperary Crystal brand as well the Graham Knuttel and Orla Kiely brands.

The business was founded by Robbie's dad in 1973, but going further back his grandad owned the huge Hammond Lane foundry in Dublin, makers of most of the manhole covers in the city.

Allied Imports has raised funding from Renatus (an investment company featured on a previous episode of TGBS).

They tried to buy Links of London, but failed in their bid which Robbie says was a blessing in disguise. That's when the Orla Kiely opportunity came along. They have developed 110 new Orla Kiely product lines, just being launched, with Orla being hands-on herself. They already have a lot of pre-orders. He explains how Allied Imports ended up working with the Orla Kiely brand after they had run into trading difficulties.

Networking he says is so important to make sure he sees or hears of whatever opportunities are available. He learnt all about networking from horse-race owner JP McManus and Nóirín, his wife. He explains how one of Ireland's richest men operates.

The way that Graham Knuttel came into the Allied Imports fold makes for funny and fascinating listening about 'Victor', a billionaire who had decided to make Graham Knuttel the next Pablo Picasso!

They have hired John Herlihy, ex Google, Paul Duffy, ex Pernod Ricard and Anthony Davey who has just sold his Farrow and Ball business, for their board, to help with their European expansion.

His 'hire in a heartbeat', JP McManus !

50.00" Orlaith Duff, Oonagh Whyte, football rivals, national school teachers and co-founders of Field Queens

Despite their on-pitch rivalry they work very well together. They say there's a massive market because there are no women's GAA gloves, specifically made for women, on the market. They have kids sizes from 4 years old and up. They reckon that there could be up to 100,000 women playing GAA nowadays. They're starting with their GAA gloves only to establish their brand. It's a 'passion project' for them, aimed at empowering young women, recognising their commitment to the sport. The greater aim is to develop a full clothing line, but they still love their teaching roles. They want to be stocked in all sports stores in Ireland and they'll be looking at the US market where Ladies GAA Football is also strong. They'll be contacting LEO Meath shortly, to help develop their business.

Their 'hire in a heartbeat' - Anna Geary, Cork GAA star. Find out why.

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3.00" Neil Hughes, Managing Partner of Baker Tilly Ireland explains SCARP, the newly enacted examinership system for smaller businesses. H says that this fundamental change in company law is a 'once in a lifetime' event. He says there are tens of thousands, maybe hundreds of thousands of businesses who have been brought to their knees during Covid. The process takes less than 70 days - but a scheme could be in place within 42 days (compared to up to 150 days, plus hefty legal fees, in examinership). He calls it a 'short, sharp, SCARP. Neil explains where the name came from (strange!) but he says that SCARP is here to stay. He talks about the Retail Excellence Ireland survey of members and their rental arrears and what that means for SMEs. He reckons that the initial up-front costs should be much, much lower and also that the process is far more private than the open court Examinership system. This more discrete system means that predatory Interlopers won't be able to know that businesses they might want to scoop up are going through the process. Dept of Jobs still has to allow enabling legislation, so we won't see SCARP really kick in until 2022. The process is EU driven to give business owners a second chance. The legislation is similar to Australian law where it works very well. He says that Ireland is now a leader in restructuring law worldwide - a big turnaround from some years back.

Neil's hire in a heartbeat? (He gives a very circuitous answer, but eventually plumps for rowing gold medallist Paul O'Donovan

29.30" Shane Kiernan, founder of IAMUS Technologies, says that his company will be a €1 billion business in the next six years! He was a posh City banker but now gets his hands dirty (literally) working occasionally in chicken coops that are the size of football pitches and house 50,000 broiler chickens. Shane started his entrepreneur journey in school, running an unofficial (and not sanctioned!) tuck shop. He delivered goods from Northern Ireland, during which time he was interviewed by broadcaster Gerry Ryan, an chat that led to 5,000 emails in his inbox the following morning. He worked with the Bill Clinton Foundation and has met the US President twice. This brought him to Kenya but that's another story...He established a business in the Philippines employing 220 people. He tells us that 2,000 chickens are eaten every SECOND around the world and this has led to producers looking for ways to produce more, better. He has had help from poultry entrepreneur Vincent Carton who showed him a major gap in the market. He says that his robots are gender neutral! IAMUS are funding at the moment and want to talk to TeamGBS about investing in his business. There are 350,000 chicken sheds around the world so he says it's a massive investment opportunity, so he's trying to raise $2 million to kick off his international business. He talks about Cargill's massive recent investment in the US chicken industry. His business is not selling individual robots, but he sells his robotic solutions, what he calls Robotics as a Service. He talks about his involvement with the Techstars accelerators. He aims to have 3,300 robots manufactured by 2025. He's using IFAC to help raise funds.

And Shane's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Oxford don, Dr Marian Dawkins.

54.00" Jeud Ennis of Signworks.ie. Her dad got her into the business of painting grass, or more correctly painting logos on grass on pitches. A logo is painted by her team in two days, She started with Croke Park and then, by chance, met a South African at a UK tradeshow who introduced her to 3D painting of brand logos. Her first 3D logo was for Royal Liver. She explains that stadium managers don't always appreciate her painting her grass. She gives a shout out to her brothers who run a company called Sportsworks.ie that is involved in pitch maintenance and more. She can turn around 3 logos in a couple of days with a crew of 4. Rain can destroy logos and she explains how she handles marketing managers about distorted logo colours. She loved to pick up business across Europe and Dubai (she's been on holidays there and loves the place). She'd like the FA and the RFU to tender 'her way'...

She wants TeamGBS to put people in the touch with her who wants branding, for example golf clubs (she says it's highly affordable) and would love to meet with international turf laying company SIS in Sligo.

And, who would she 'hire in a heartbeat'. Robbie Keane and Paul O'Connell (she wants to play golf with him!).

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E48 That Great Business Show, 'Ireland's best business podcast'

Presented by Conall O Móráin

3.00" Rita Ora (yes, that RO) introduces our first guest, Catherina 'Cat' Butler, co-founder with Niall Phelan [both founders are vegan] of The Naked Collective drinks company. Cat was previously a financial controller at Lifestyle Sport, something called a 'Business Navigator' with IKEA, Finance Director at United Drug, CFO at logistics company Primeline…so all in all, nothing to do with a drinks company…AND we just love that. A truly great pivot!

They produce 'naked' (nothing added, only goodness) drinks under the Mude (beloved of Rita, see above) and the So.Beer non-alcoholic beer.

She explains how IT company ORTUS (www.Ortus.ie) found a workaround to stop their emails (with the word 'naked' in them) being sent to spam.

She was looking for something bigger, a business that would allow her to live out her 'true values'.

She wanted to leave a legacy of which she could be proud.

She explains how to win a crowded marketplace and how she managed to get the support of big name retailers, including Spar and BWG, at the very beginning. They've recently been nominated for the Spar International Brand Challenger programme that will give them visibility across 13,500 shops across 48 countries.

They're already selling in Ireland, the UK, Italy, Canada and the USA, where co-founder Niall has just re-located (with his family) to spearhead the 'Naked' assault on the North American market.

They produce their products in the UK, Mississippi, USA and Niagra Falls, Canada. Cat explains how bad Brexit was for them. They aim to produce their drinks as near to their markets as possible.

Their product was featured at the Academy Awards - and she explains how they pulled that one off.

They have already raised €6 million last October and they're currently raising another €6 million for sales/marketing to grow their brands particularly in North America. Their entire team, to date, has been hired 'virtually' during the Pandemic.

She wants TeamGBS to buy their products, available in Spar, Tesco and Lidl, and she wants your feedback. They're also open for funding and happy to talk to anyone who might like to invest. Her hire in a heartbeat? Roz Purcell.

26.00" Alan O'Neill, author of Culture Matters - the 4 must have values to supercharge your business.

'Secret' One - is the organisation culture. Culture is the most important driver of business success. He explains what he means by corporate culture. He explains why and how respect is essential in a business. But, how do you get people to adopt a corporate culture? Alan tells us how. We discuss 'pigs' working in financial services and the destruction they can leave behind.

'Secret' Two - having a North Star. The team has to 'sing off the same hymn sheet'.

He talks about how to train young, seventeen year-old, employees and getting them to adopt the business aims.

'Secret' Three - have an ongoing review of the company strategy as companies evolve more and more rapidly nowadays. Alan thinks that 400 days is about the furthest out any business can realistically forecast nowadays.

'Secret' Four - people. He explains 'customer centricity, accountability, respect and agility' - he gives examples for each in just two minutes - total!

His 'hire in a heartbeat' - he's not allowed to mention one woman, but he chooses Martin Tobin of Landbell

46.00" Catherine Cleary, Ashe Conrad-Jones, co-founders of Pocket Forests - planting forests in just 6sq metres. Their business is based on a 1970s concept from Japan. Interestingly, they say there are no others doing what they're doing across the island. We ask how much the service costs...but did we get an answer? They argue that planting trees in cities add value to property values.

They have been hired by the Digital Hub to plant a forest in a skip. Thorntons skips have given them a free skip to plant their forest, and there's a logical reason why the skip is planted in a skip. You can now sit in your own little forest and eat lunch.

Their ideal clients will have land and money and they'd love to have a developer on board.

Interesting they use a 'no dig' method - that is fascinating and includes the 'lasagne method' and coffee sacks.

And how many clients do they need to justify a business? Is it a side hustle? No. They both want it to be a their bread and butter business.

They're still running their numbers, something that Deborah Meaden on Dragon's Den might not approve of.

They're looking at a 'meal pack' of trees that they could send in the post to budding gardeners. They're already working with the Newry Felons, former political prisoners in Northern Ireland.

The biggest forest they want to plant is only half a tennis court sized.

The dynamic duo promised faithfully to post themselves on LinkedIn, where TeamGBS will be able to get in touch with them. Meanwhile they're on www.pocketforests.ie

Their 'hire in a heartbeat' is actor, Viking and trees podcaster David Oakes.

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2.00" Aaron Hannon, from Ballina, Mayo, co-founder of Luminate Medical. Aaron (22) tells us you about some of the many, many business ideas he’s had, including his latest venture, a medical device to stop hair loss in those undergoing chemo therapy. 4m people a year, worldwide, lose their hair because of chemotherapy. 80% of those use wigs to cover their heads when they lose their hair and those wigs can cost up to €1,000 - so that adds up to a lot of money.

Previously Aaron created a post-stroke paralysis shaving device when he was just 16, that he subsequently patented. He explains why this unique device didn't work and why he now looks for ideas that give 'investable returns'. He explains how the company got on to the hugely prestigious Y-Combinator accelerator programme (alumni include AirBnB and Stripe) and he tells us more about their current $2.5million fund raising, which is allowing them to hire more R&D staff.

NUI Galway based Aaron was named a 2020 JCI Ten Outstanding Young Persons of the World honouree in the medical innovation category. He was also named Mayo’s Best Young Entrepreneur 2019.

His hire in a heartbeat, Professor Declan O'Loughlin of TCD, 'the smartest person I know' according to Aaron.

23.00" Mitchell O'Gorman, CEO xWave Technologies. Mitchell has a huge background in the advertising industry but is now running an X-Ray related software company that says it saves lives by ensuring that patients get 'the best test first'.

30% of radiology scans are 'inappropriate'. xWave has built a software to make sure that people only get the tests they need. It means there are huge savings for insurers and patients. The company's return on investment is 60X for those using the software! They have a partnership European Society of Radiology (there are 120,000 members).

Mitchell explains his digital marketing and media background that has NO connection with an X-ray software (he had to check exactly what a radiologist did!). Pivoting from media to running a software was 'not easy'.

The company has already raised €600,000 from leading radiologists in Ireland and the UK and is about to launch a crowdfunding call-out through Spark Crowdfunding.

He asks TeamGBS (our listeners) for introductions to those in the medical profession who might be interested in their software solution.

Mitchell's 'hire in a heartbeat' is Ciaran Lee, ex Intercom, who has already said 'no' but TeamGBS may have a way of changing his mind??

44.00" Husband and wife team, Rachel and Brian Nolan, founders of Nobo (founded in 2012) have toiled away in the trenches, producing their dairy free ice-cream and chocolate (Nobo = NoCow!). However, in the last six months things have taken a big upwards trajectory. They have funded, moved into the former Helen Turkington store in Dublin's leafy Ranelagh suburb and they explain why they're basing their shop, artisan factory and world HQ in a non-industrial location. They also hint at a move away from ice-cream, to concentrate on their dairy-free chocolate that they've just introduced to markets in Netherlands and Canada. They discuss that (complicated) process and why they've chosen not to be in the UK at the moment.

They have big ambitions, and cite Alpro and Oatly as being the kind of big company they would love to create.

They're hiring with vacancies on Nobo.ie

Their (jointly discussed) 'hire in a heartbeat' Yvonne Chenard of Patagonia

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Episode 46 That Great Business Show

Presented by Conall O Morain

2.00" Breege O'Donoghue's first insight is that a retailer should be 'producing what you sell, not selling what you produce'.

When Breege joined Penneys they had 'just' 24 shops, they now have near 400 stores in 14 jurisdictions.

She tells stories about the retailing legend, Arthur Ryan, (RIP, July 2019). 'He was not a tough man, not a tough bone in his body'.

For her first major meeting in London, Arthur Ryan 'borrowed' Breege's shoes, so Breege goes to the meeting in her hotel slippers.

On another occasion Ryan (a great mimic) pretended to be Gregory Peck, making her run out of Champneys, the world famous health resort.

She offers three lessons that Arthur Ryan taught her.

'There are no mistakes, only learnings'
It's all right to look for help, in fact it's a very positive'
You're probably at your strongest when you're at your weakest, and to realise that'

Why Penneys/Primark didn't want to have an Irish business in Spain or Germany, but to have a Spanish business in Spain, a German business in Germany.

She explains their rigorous code of conduct for suppliers.

Penneys' first UK store was in Derby. She explains why Derby was chosen and why feet on the ground was essential.

"Don't be afraid to take risk. That's what business is about"

Breege tells us what makes a great buyer and how TU Dublin has been an essential part of finding great talent, for many years.

She talks of the importance of buyers being at festivals and night clubs all over the world. The difference for buying teams, buying for Florida versus buying for Chicago. Why do Spaniards like slippers? Americans don't have duvets, but have comforters - there's a reason behind each difference.

22.00" Breege explains the importance of independent audits making sure that garments are made ethically. She speaks of being in Gujarat and of the Penneys/Primark backed scheme that saw small holders increase profits from their cotton grow by 200%. That 'Cotton Connect' programme now extends to 185,000 women across many cotton producing countries.

She says that 'doing the right thing' is very important.

She talks about their very, very small management team, known at the time as the 'Gang of Four'. She references the rows they had, and the reconciliations -'Let's move on'.

What are the opportunities for another Irish retailer to make it internationally? She says that replacing retailers lost to Covid is a first priority.

She says that 'the high street will always survive' and talks of what's happening to retail in Paris.

She explains how Primark in Birmingham gives customers an 'experience', far more than a clothing shop - it includes a Disney café, the first outside the Disney properties.

Data is hugely important, she expects to see so much more on garment tags.

There was Beatlemania, SpiceGirlMania and now...Primania....the excitement that happens when a Primark store initially opens. She explains the process they go through when opening a store, the meticulous planning and consultation, and of course....PR.

39.00" What does she tell young businesses she mentors. i) education ii) be curious iii) take a risk iv) 'do the right thing' v) understand the differences vi) read all the fashion magazines, including Vogue, Bazaar and not just the UK versions, but also the Spanish, US versions etc...

She emphasises networking. She tells us the Breege O'Donoghue way of telling a co-worker that 'things are not working out'.

She says in her lifetime she has come across very few bad employees, but she has come across bad managers.

'Empower young people. Pile responsibility on their shoulders to see where they'll go'.

Where are suppliers (who have been in business for years) getting their ideas? Check it out, and ask.

She explains (kind of!) how hard she worked, sometimes 7 days a week. Holidays were shorter than normal an one day/all day trips to the UK were regular.

She hints at what some of the boardroom 'discussions' aka rows, were about.

Did it ever come to the board to change the name from Penneys to Primark?

Her involvement in other businesses and on the board of private and State businesses.

She may have liked to have been an astronaut!

Breege's 'hire in a heartbeat'....she refuses to answer, but eventually.....opts for Bono.

And what is she doing now, besides sometimes TWO yoga classes a day....and her obsession with sports (she digresses into the wonderful 1990 World Cup, Mick McCarthy, Ray Houghton), the T-shirts being printed overnight depending on who Ireland was playing, their platinum record in aid of the Children's Hospital. Her competition to spell 'Schillaci'.

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EPISODE 45 That Great Business Show

Presented by Conall O Morain @ConallOM

2.30' Yvonne Comer, co-founder, Rugby Smarts - former rugby international turned software entrepreneur [plus many, many, many other things]. What Rugby Smarts does in 30 minutes, immediately after a game, is what analysts would have previously spent hours and hours doing. All professional clubs will have analysts but nowadays even amateur clubs have analysts (at a cost - c€300 per match). The Rugby Smarts software will be usable by any sport, though they're starting with rugby. They already have their first trial club (possibly Connacht Rugby, but it's all hush, hush at the moment). They are getting very high accuracy in tagging what the software is looking at. Yvonne says that no other company in the world is doing what they're doing (though it's possible NFL in the US is using something like it). Currently funding, the company has gone through the News Frontiers programme in GMIT and are looking to Enterprise Ireland funding and private funding very soon. She wants TeamGBS to introduce any teams in the USA and they're ready to go right now...and they're looking for business development managers in all rugby playing jurisdictions. She says that switching the software to cover soccer or other team sports is very straightforward. She thought about Nigel Owens as her 'hire in a heartbeat' but then opted for Ronan O'Gara. Find out why...

26.00" Eoin Heverin, founder of Castlebar, Mayo, based Foodie Save. He already founded the 'Tell My Story' book business but is now is concentrating on Foodie Save- a super app that stops perfectly good food being chucked in the bin. He has already launched in parts of the west of Ireland, and is heading for Dublin in September. He has recruited top class companies like Londis, Supervalu, Chopped, Maxol while others like Lidl are likely to follow. 9 out of 10 consumers using his app, who are going into Mulroy's Londis in Castlebar are being 'upsold' to - something not originally expected by Eoin. Businesses using the app are finding that they are getting brand new customers, like young mothers and those who are eco-conscious - people like TeamGBS, who hate seeing good food being wasted. They're now heading for the UK and the US. He has already has €130,000 funding from the Dept. of Agriculture, and now looking for a further €500,000 to expand the team, starting with HBAN and they're looking for others to talk to them about cash. His 'hire in a heartbeat', Eamonn Quinn, Gavin Wall, Des Green...so a full team.

46.00" Stephen McPeake, founder of Civic Dollars, based in Belfast, backed by the accelerator IgniteNI. Already launched in Belfast, it's just about to launch in Dublin and then into the UK. Civic Dollars 'nudges' people to be more active, encouraging them to do something as simple as to head to the local park, for which they earn rewards. It's different to rewarding people for running a 5k as it rewards people for doing something as passive as entering a local park. In just one park in Belfast they already have 1,100 users - far, far better than Stephen imagined. For City Council's they can see the anonymised data that can then be used to improve park areas where there is high usage, or to address areas where there is under-usage. After the UK, he's heading for Australia and the US, wherever there are 'smart cities' initiatives. The software is fully built and at the moment is not funding, though he may need some dollars in the future if they go for what he says could be 'gazelle growth'. Stephen's 'hire in a heartbeat', Seamus Cushley, of Belfast's Bizarre Voice. Find out why.

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E44 That Great Business Show

2.00' Malcolm Murray, Director of Sales, Sky Media tells us how ten businesses can benefit - for FREE - from a total €200,000 value of TV advertising on Sky channels - €20k of airtime value per business. All the businesses have to do is to make the ad (which may only cost the business €1,500) and then (if chosen) those businesses can advertise nationally or right down to the individual households on Sky channels. Up to 200,000 homes might see your ad up to four times - a great launch for a small business. Sky Media has a system called AdSmart that can identify your perfect audience. Applications must be in BEFORE 3rd of August. More details www.adsmartfromsky.ie

Malcolm's 'hire in a heartbeat'...Richard Branson.

16.00' Leonie Lynch, Juspy, selected for the Amazon LaunchPad programme, tells her story of why her health drink's first iteration had to change from a 'ready to drink' formulation and then she had to 'pivot to powder'. She talks about her 'bias'...and discusses how bias in business can skew your business decisions, not always for the better. She explains how she got in touch with Teagasc and how wonderful Eddie O'Neill and Wendy Roberts in Teagasc were in helping develop her product and make it taste like Terry's Chocolate Orange. She recommends Trust Pilot as a sales tool. She's about to ship to Singapore and hopes for a successful exit in seven years.

And her 'hire in a heartbeat'...it took some time to get a name from her but she finally opted for her own sister, Sharon McMeel.

37.00' Michael Egan, founder of MegaFab, based in Glenamaddy, Co. Galway. Having spent 32 years in companies including Kingspan he decided to go out on his own, making and selling products that he creates based on demands that he sees himself in his daily life, particularly around farms and farmyards. He had no plan when he finally left Kingspan and explains how he ended up setting up his own business and how his main product at the moment, his Tipsy Bin came about...and then how MoMate emerged. He explains the difference between a registered design (very cheap) versus (a very expensive) patent that then has to be protected (more costs). He references a Cavan based YouTuber called Adrian Morris who has been a huge help in marketing the Tipsy Bin.

His 'hire in a heartbeat' - 'farmer' Jeremy Clarkson

57.00' Carlow based business and mindset coach for women, Lucy Gernon. She explains many of the differences between men and women in the way they sell themselves in business. She references a great book called The Chimp Paradox by Professor Steve Peters who has analysed these differences and she recommends a second book, Positive Intelligence by Shirzad Chamine. She introduces us to two of her favourite quotes, 'Her success is not my failure', and 'She's not your competition, she's proof it can be done' and explains how she uses those in her coaching. Her one big tip, 'ask for help'. www.LucyGernon.com

Her 'hire in a heartbeat' - marketing guru Catherine Casey

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75% of Irish adults have a Facebook page - but many, many businesses are clueless on how to use this fantastic Business to Consumer tool - in this episode Dave O'Hora, director of Limerick based marcomms company Southern.ie gives us some seriously interesting insights into how to successfully hack Facebook data for your business.

Why 1,000 is the magic number
How to crack that Facebook 'limiter' and find your small, but beautifully formed, target audience
How to use Facebook Ad Manager and ask the right question of it
Why Facebook information is useful to even the smallest of businesses
The importance of telling stories, and how Lidl and Aldi use story telling to become Ireland's most popular Facebook pages
Lidl's most engaged pages include articles on period pains, NOT selling Covid related items etc....but not selling apples or oranges
If you haven't heard of Cian Twomey, why you need to do so
Why 'in the normal scheme of things' - you need to pay, but not much, to promote your business on Facebook
Love-ins on LinkedIn
Engaging content is about telling stories, 'doing a Jerusalem' , 'Pringles missing 4 inches' etc
Converting 'likes' into actual business
Facebook competitions and 'prize pigs'
Why hotels put ads onto the online death notices page
Most successful page in Donegal is the Donegal Daily online news for the Donegal area
How Limerick based Connolly's Menswear uses videos to get people to buy a suit, but not online
Why 'friendship' sells
How you can set up your own TV channel
The amount of money / resources wasted on the wrong channels and the wrong content
Top pubs and how they engage with their customers on Facebook, but to what benefit?
Home Store and More, one of the few Irish brands that makes it into the Top 10, and why...
LadBible is #1 for people 18 - 34
McDonagh Junction Shopping Centre is big in Kilkenny
Why we're getting less brand aware
Tasty versus TheTaste.ie
Three brilliant ideas on how to make $$$ - be Columbo, buy a mirror and look at yourself in it, give Mark Zuckerberg some money
Going 'native' with your local newspaper
And, his 'hire in a heartbeat',... Junior Série, a Brazilian data analyst working with Southern.ie

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3.30" Kevin O'Connor, chairman of Colourtrend paint maker, the General Paint Company, talks about the origins of the third generation, Kildare based, family business. He says their business 'borrows' ideas from abroad to make sure their service is best in the business. He talks about their competitors, multi-national billion dollar companies that own brands like Dulux etc, and how they positioned themselves to successfully compete with them. His dad started the business, coming home from the US instead of moving to Mexico. The business has grown from ten employees in 1983 to employing 140 people today. Why they opted for Cambridge Family Enterprise Group in Boston to plan the succession in their business (Kevin's eldest daughter has just become CEO as Kevin 'retired' to chair the company). He says he restructured his board to beef up areas where the company could see it's own weaknesses. He discusses their plans to grow in the UK, the US and beyond. Kevin's 'hire in a heartbeat' - rugby legend, Brian O'Driscoll.

24.30" - Michelle Johnson, CEO of ASA Brands, a marketing company with a fleet management software (as you do!). Michelle discusses how their software grew from marketing/customer engagement with big car brands back in the 1980's. Branding marketing collateral is still a huge business and Michelle's business belongs to a global network, covering EMEA for brand work for major international brands. Post-Covid she says that branded goods will be shipped to individual addresses as we continue to work from home. She says that LinkedIn advertising for the software business, has already pay for itself. The UK is their new focus where they have opened a London office. The next stop afterwards that may be Poland. And who would Michelle 'hire in a heartbeat', - super networker, Joanne Hession, from the Entrepreneurs' Academy.

43.00" Conor MacCabe, managing director, Henry J. Lyons Architects and Interiors, says that the death of the office is greatly exaggerated. He says that there has been little of no slow down in construction of office space in Ireland - primarily due to the continuing growth of technology companies. He says that typically offices work at about 50% capacity as people take leave, travel or may be ill...so that businesses are already working in a fashion that is anticipated will be the post-Covid format. He says that desks, having become smaller, are about to grow in size again! He anticipates more meeting rooms, fewer desks and more spaces for informal meetings. Building sizes are not going to get smaller, despite fewer people being in the buildings but he sees the need for people to come together to create a business culture so there will be occasions when all staff will need to meet together. And who would Conor MacCabe 'hire in a heartbeat'? Andrew Emmett of Uncoded in London. The best advocate for technology in buildings in the world.

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Episode 41 of That Great Business Show

Presented by Conall O Morain

2.00' Jill Holtz, CEO of ParentsandBrands, on results from their parents survey on post-Covid spending. Jill says, contrary to the popular narrative, that parents are NOT going to splurge post Covid, as caution has set in. She gives tips for how businesses can attract that unspent money though and living in Oranmore, Galway, she also tells us about the future of deliveries. Her bought in meals drop from the sky! (well, via drone company Manna). She explains the fascinating process.

Jill's 'hire in a heartbeat' is super-athlete, Derval O'Rourke.

21' John O'Connell, CEO CW Applied Technology, on his award winning Muv-X portable disinfection device...but we got him talking about making bespoke windows for Bentley cars, windows that go to black on a touch of a button. The CW in the company name stands for Collaborate to Win...he's looking for another company to work with strengths in manufacturing. The company is looking to expand into the US and TeamGBS will be introducing them to the Ireland/Connecticut Business Council. John is also recruiting for senior management who would like to live and work in Clare. His 'hire in a heartbeat' is former BnB senior executive, Aisling Hassell,

42' Neil Skeffington, founder NovelPlast, talks us through what's happening in plastic recycling and how his Udarás backed, Meath based, company is doing its bit to recycle industrial plastics (not plastic bottles!). He explains why plastics are not infinitely recyclable but that technology is working on the problem and he also says that he doesn't want raw materials at zero cost. They're also working on a project to reclaim and reuse plastic fishing nets as sunglasses. They're currently funded by Beechpoint Capital but are open to further funding offers. His 'hire in a heartbeat', Greta Thurnberg.

1.00.00 Cathal Noone, RandDtaxcredits.ie tells TeamGBS that hundreds of companies don't collect tax credits, leaving millions of Euro on the table. He says that one of the reasons companies don't send in requests for rebates is that the likelihood of a tax audit becomes much greater, with all the time and costs that involves. Former PWC director Cathal has developed a software for making R&D claims that cuts fees by up to as much as 50%. Cathal's 'hire in a heartbeat', the Collison brothers (he'd love to apply his software to their Stripe products!)

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E 40 That Great Business Show posting 25th of June 2021

Dr. Jo Burke, Assistant Professor, NUI Maynooth, the TeamGBS in-house positive psychologist

What is resilience and why is it important for business?

Her research on 'growth' and why the majority of people 'grew' during Covid.

How and why we bounce back - Dr Jo's two year rule.

How to hang on to all the good stuff we learnt during lockdown.

How to increase staff productivity by 12% or more.

Why running around a North Sea beach with a big ball is not good for team building.

Working from home and why it's so good for us.

How to brainstorm via email (no, honestly).

The importance of trust in increasing employee performance.

Why you should never pay your kids to do house work.

School teachers not keeping up with exercise post-Covid.

The importance of a ten minute (no bikkie, no loo) break every morning.

Working from home adds 26 minutes extra in our workday.

Spreading kindness is great for your mental health.

Writing down your negative thoughts and dumping that writing in the bin.

Twenty minutes a day writing down negative thoughts for just three days can have massive benefits.

How switching off your phone can lead to a better sex life.

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2.00" New ISME Chair, Margaret O'Rourke Doherty on ISME's part in pushing through the new perjury bill that could mean perjurers could get up to ten years jail on conviction. They've been working on this since 2017 and has been greatly helped by Senator Pádraig Ó Céidigh. She talks about the benefits of lobby groups and the importance of lobbying for SMEs. She talks about her family pub that had been a convent! She discusses the social partnership recently been proposed by government and her hire in a heartbeat...she chose two, VP of the USA, Kamala Harris and RTE's Sarah McInerney. Find out why...

25.00" Outgoing FRS CEO, Peter Byrne, joins TeamGBS to talk about his forty plus years with Farm Relief Services during which, most recently, they bought 'Get the Shifts' from TeamGBS member Hannah Wrixon. He explains why. He also tells what a social enterprise co-op is and why the co-op's shareholders don't get a dividend. He talks about their recruitment business and whether they may change the 'Get the Shifts' name. He gives his forecast on the future of farming in Ireland. He has a view about Jeremy Clarkson's Lamborghini tractor and he talks about what he'll do after he retires in six months time. His 'hire in a heartbeat'? A first for That Great Business Show - Dr. Tony Holohan.

49.00" ContentLlama founders Karina Kelly and Joleen Looney, HQ'd in Donegal, talk about raising €3 million from Elkstone, the Western Development Commission and angels. They explain what they'll use the cash for to achieve their ambition of world domination. They talk of the huge benefits of the New Frontiers programme for their business. They explain that it's a complex business but it's also (fortunately for them) absolutely essential for larger multi-brand retailers, worldwide. They talk about how they manage their own worldwide team how they're proud to try to hire people to locate in the west of Ireland. And their 'hires in a heartbeat' (we had to let them have on each!), Karina wants Shopify Tobias Lutke to join them whilst Joleen wants someone who has been a 'heartbeat hire' a couple of times, author/speaker Simon Sinek.

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2.00" Tanya Thompson, one-time rally co-driver turned CTO at Sluamor, a software aimed at getting SMEs more and better business using intelligent search to identify opportunities in Ireland first, then the world. Sluamor also makes procurement easier by identifying relevant and capable suppliers. How they worked out their pricing is insightful. Tanya's 'hire in a heartbeat is Oprah Winfrey to help build Sluamor into a recognised world brand, just like Oprah herself!

22.00" Michael McCambridge is the boss at the eponymously named McCambridges Bread, known and loved by Irish (and other) people both at home and abroad. Michael discusses how to build a bread 'brand', his court battles to stop possible 'passing off' of other breads as being the same as his 30% market leader, how he's testing different products on Amazon for both the separate UK and US markets and why he'd love to have his late parents, tragically killed in a car accident, back working with him as he'd hire them in a heartbeat.

42.00" Chris Deans of CraneWW Logistics makes a welcome return to That Great Business Show since he last appeared on E4, correctly forecasting that we were going to eating smaller turkeys for Christmas (this year he's betting big on BIG turkeys). Chris discusses what's really going on in import/export including the massive increase in business at Rosslare Port, the even more massive rise in rail freight from China to Europe (yes, your container is wending its way on the slow train from China), but intriguingly Chris also discusses what's happening with the jewellery business in Ireland - including the many Rolexes sent to the UK for repair (50-60 per week), as we never knew there were so much Rolexs in Ireland! BTW, Chris wants Richard Branson (probably our most favoured pick to date) to join his team at Crane.

57.00" Did your careers guidance teacher ever say you should become a forager to make a living? No? Do you know how a forager makes a living? No? Well, that's why we asked Geraldine Kavanagh to join TeamGBS. She's been foraging since she was very young and has turned her incredible knowledge of native plants into a business. She brings clients for foraging walks/picnics in Wicklow, and that's so successful she's totally booked out for summer. The other side of her business is finding the botanicals for the multi-award winning Glendalough Gin, and how she puts together the flavours is utterly fascinating. It's a 'business' like no other. Geraldine's 'hire in a heartbeat'? And her 'hire in a heartbeat' choice. Herself! Find out why.

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Episode 37, That Great Business Show

Presented by Conall O Morain

3.00" Aidan Donnelly, Head of Equities, Davy gives Bitcoin the bullet. He says that buying into any cryptocurrency when you don’t really know what it is feels more like an analysis of the 2.10 race at Chepstow using the colour of the jockey’s silks. And, don't worry if you know nothing about Bitcoin or any of the other dodgy coins, Aidan explains it all in the TeamGBS way, absolutely no jargon allowed.

19.00" Doyenne of Irish fashion, Helen McAlinden explains who 'creates' fashion, where it comes from, what happens to the 'winter collection' when no one buys it, how she spreads her brand working with Foxford Woolen Mills in Mayo and Finline Furniture in Laois. With her 'bricks and mortars' shop on Dublin's South William Street, she has a practical solution to the current traffic mess that discourages shoppers. Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Liam Casey, Liam Casey, founder and CEO of global PCH.

38.00" Sharon Jordan, with a huge background in the travel trade (it seems she's worked for most of the big Irish brands and some stage) seized an opportunity to buy the travel trade bible Irish Travel Trade Network, covering travel and tourism in Ireland and the world. She has advice for Fáilte Ireland to tell US travellers that Ireland is opening up for their business and she tells TeamGBS why they should avoid Portugal but head for the sun in Greece. Not surprisingly, her 'hire in a heartbeat' is Willie Walsh, former Aer Lingus, British Airways and IAG boss.

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2" There are really big changes proposed for SME insolvency law and Declan de Lacy, Partner with accountants PKF, is all over them. It's 'only' taken a decade plus to get them towards the end line, but even now there are some big, big issues - not all good news for insolvent SMEs. Declan says we won't see the real devastation wrought by Covid until the middle of next year at the earliest, but that's when the doo-doo will hit the proverbial. If you're in business you HAVE TO listen to what you, or a colleagues in business, may be facing. Declan's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Ex-Anglo Irish banker, Declan McArdle.

32' Digitise, digitise, digitise - that's one of TeamGBS's mantras. But what happens when the software you need, say for fashion retailers, doesn't exist? Well the true entrepreneur creates it. Niamh Byrne is boss at Gorey, Wexford boutique Ruby Red. But since Covid she's gone totally virtual and wow! sales have MORE THAN DOUBLED! From her Gorey HQ she's selling to Australia, North America and, of course, the UK. But by July she'll also be a tech entrepreneur, with her own BuyerPix.com software - unique to the world. Niamh's 'hire in a heartbeat' - Big Glasses herself, Sonya Lennon.

55' Lots of people claim to know what the future of work looks like, but frankly, TeamGBS believes they know little or nothing. That's why we have scoured the planet for someone who might actually know what the future looks like, and we found him. He's Ciaran Rowesome (nephew of music legend Leo Rowsome) and he's been 'in' flextime with his company FlexTime for forty years...quite a bit before Covid so. His software is installed in Ireland (Dáil Éireann!), the UK (Her Majesty's Passport Offices!) and across Europe. Flexitime is here to stay he says, and it'll only get more 'flexi'. Ciaran's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Spotify founder Daniel Ek. Ciaran wants to be the Spotify of flextime, Flexify.

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2.00" Norman Crowley, founder of Cool Planet (fka Crowley Carbon). This is an interview like no other. Norman has a completely different take on how to save our planet, something he says technology will be able to do by 2030, but of course we have to make changes. He covers so many topics from the inefficiency of cows, to how he could save the government €300m through energy efficiency, why he sells his businesses, ($750m sold to date), why he thinks there's too much politeness with staff and so, so, so much more. Thirty minutes of his thoughts will make you see climate change and many other topics in a completely different light. Norman's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Elon Musk. But does he really have his phone number?

32" Samantha King, founder of King Hair and Beauty. She was soooo bored by her work in corporate law Samantha dreamed of doing something with her life that made other people happy - so she became a hair extensionist - yes, there is such a thing. From the front room in her Wicklow home she has grown and grown her business, to supplying 200 outlets with her hair and beauty products, she's created her own design registered hair brush - the Jewel brush - but she's looking for a mentor to bring her business to the world. How she uses New York based Irish influencer Erika Fox, the best way to get influencer engagement and how much it costs. Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Sonia Deasy of Pestle and Mortar.

55" Peter Jenkinson, CEO, WRKIT - a most unusual company that grew out of a 'side hustle' that Peter had when he was an Aer Lingus pilot. Finding he could negotiate discounts for his fellow pilots led to setting up an always profitable business that was already fully functioning when he retired as a pilot. Since the early days of offering insurance discounts the offer has now grown to a staggering 1,100 suppliers with a potential customer base of 500,000 people. And, that's only one fifth of the business. The big, big growth area during Covid has been their mental health programmes, and he explains how client Peter Mark hairdressers, used the WRKIT platform to keep furloughed staff engaged. Not surprisingly, Peter's 'hire in a heartbeat' is former British Airways / IAG boss, Willie Walsh who used to fly with Peter.

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3.00" Glaswegian Des Travers, CEO, DPD, Ireland's largest private parcel delivery service. From van driver to being the boss. How he was planning on a big downturn in his business because of Covid, but how, a fortnight later, he had to start hiring and training 850 new drivers as business jumped more than 50% year on year. He has seen Brexit cutting out the middleman in the UK with deliveries coming directly to Ireland from the EU, a surprising amount of drugs and contraband being found in parcels and why DPD won't be going all electric in West Cork just yet, but he is looking at the possibilities of drone deliveries. His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Barrack Obama.

30.00" One time midwife Bronagh Conlon, who successfully sold her food company just before a severe cancer diagnosis. How she created Ireland's first potato based poitín but it didn't get to the market and why she's raffling 5% of her Listoke Distillery, how a hand sanitizer saved her business, winning best European gin award, expanding into China and Russia and the drink culture differences between the two. Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? A bit of a no-brainer, as she chooses John Teeling, hugely successful drinks entrepreneur and (of course!) That Great Business Show alum - you can hear his incredible story on Episode 28.

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E33 That Great Business Show, Ireland's best business podcast, presented by Conall O Móráin

2.00" Did you know different regions in the UK offer different incentives to base your UK operation there? Shirley McCay (without a note in hand!), Country Director, UK Department of International Trade at the British Embassy in Ireland, brings us through most of those regions, what they offer and what sectors they specialise in, e.g. Leeds Bradford, medtech, Cornwall, drones, Belfast, creative industries. There are grants for apprenticeships and grants for office fit outs and much more. Shirley has a ten person team in Ireland to help guide Irish businesses (across every sector) through the maze. Shirley's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Pat O'Connor, co-founder of VRAI, who joined us on E32 - extolling the brilliance of his UK base in the NorthEast of England!

20" We have a programme (conservatively we think) valued at €100,000 for five companies of any size, shape or sector BUT they have to be based in Munster (you'll hear why). Virgin Media, Permanent TSB, Milk Bottle Labs (Shopify experts), Digital Business Ireland (networking digital businesses) and all the LEOs in the Munster region are all backing this 'Backing Business' initiative. They want to complete a digital transformation for five businesses that only need to demonstrate their mad desire to digitise to the very highest standard. Applications have been simplified to minutes. Any and every business in Munster should apply. Telling us about it are Mags Brennan, Head of Business Banking Permanent TSB, (her hire in a heartbeat - Jack Charlton) and Keith Mathews, founder Milk Bottle Labs (his hire in a heartbeat - Oonagh O'Hagan, founder Meaghers Pharmacy)

40" Barbara Sheehan, a health insurance 'lifer', took the opportunity of the Covid shut-down to do something she always wanted to do, to create a simple online tool www.HCC.ie to simplify choosing a health insurance plan. There are 320 different plans, most with very little difference between them, but still too many for any normal human to trawl through. Her website brings the choice down to a simple three. And why not one and only one? Well listen and she'll explain. Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Jacinda Ardern, NZ Prime Minister.

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E32 That Great Business Show, Ireland's best business podcast, presented by Conall O Morain

The 'Christmas' (in June) Special

2.30" Former corporate financier turned sandwich maker Jeananne O'Brien of Eatto tells how a trip to San Francisco brought sourdough bread back to Ireland a decade and a half ago, setting her off on a catering career. From one sandwich shop she ended up employing 220 (pre-Covid) in her catering empire that services many top tech companies. Listen carefully and you'll hear how she always said 'yes' to requests for business...then tried to work it all out. She's now started delivering meals to post-natal mums - is that the future? Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Holly Tucker of Holly & Co, a source of great early-stage business tips.

22.00" One time army officer Pat O'Connor is co-founder of VRAI, a company literally on the cutting edge of VR and AI technologies that they are using to train people doing hazardous work. The idea partly came from an absolutely horrific incident that happened in Syria where Pat was serving with the UN. Now he's using what he's learnt to train offshore wind technicians, RAF pilots and many others whose work is dangerous, with the benefit that they can train in greater numbers, from the safety of a classroom or couch. The company is raising more money to expand into the massive US wind energy market and they're looking for smart investors who can open doors for them. Pat's 'hire in a heartbeat'? American author Daniel Pink, a man who says that humans love to "get better at stuff".

41.00" Have you ever thought of becoming an angel investor but you didn't know how to do it? John Phelan, All-Island Director of HBAN, the Halo Business Angel Network, gives us a masterclass in who, what, where, when and how to become an angel investor. He tells us what's hot and not, how Vietnamese are investing in Ireland and why he's determined to see the Government change the EIIS investment rules to fill a big funding void for very early stage companies. A wise man John in picking his 'hire in a heartbeat' choice because he opted for a duo - Mark Little, ex-RTE and now an entrepreneur, and mega successful Ciaran Connell, founder of Decawave.

1.02.00" Iconic Dublin city centre store, Arnotts, gets a staggering 6 million customers through the door in 'normal times'. A million of those people come during the Christmas rush (it's this week's theme after all) and they want five very different Irish companies, with 'giftable' ideas to join in that (gold) rush. They're offering up-and-running businesses a chance to work with the full Arnotts team, from marketing, PR, buyers, merchandisers and more - invaluable experience for companies that want to scale. Audrey Owens, Director of Innovation and Enterprise at Arnotts explains exactly who they're looking for and how simple it is to enter. But she does say that interest in 'Pitch 21' is already exceeding their expectations so get in quick. Audrey's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx.

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E31 That Great Business Show presented by Conall O Morain

400 days into lockdown and we all need a laugh. Team GBS (Great Business Show) were given special permission by FM 104's Strawberry Alarm Clock team - Jim Jim & Nobby - to bring you what we think is one of the funniest bits of radio for a very, very long time. We won't spoil it by telling you any more but do listen right to the end.

11.00" Sinead Heffernan, co-owner of Thunders Bakery, liked the company she audited so much that she bought the business. Since then she's grown the Dublin based business from 3 shops to 12, but interestingly, post-Covid, she says that bakeries will continue to move more online in the future. And she explains why our bakeries are 3 years behind London. Sinead's 'hire in a heartbeat'? - her go-to business guru, Simon Sinek, would do very nicely, thank you.

35.00" Special guest, HE Yolisa Maya, joins That Great Business Show to highlight some of the many opportunities available in South Africa for Irish businesses. English speaking, almost on the same time zone, with 400,000 unemployed graduates amongst the 60 million residents there's a new forum www.businessireland-capetown.co.za that aims to make trade links much easier to develop business behind the two countries.

58.00" Socks, bins, gene testing for fitness...just some of the perks offered to employees to entice them to work with, or to stay working with, companies in Ireland. But according to David Kindlon, a 'benefits expert', he says that the days of those kind of offers are limited. How does he know so much about these perks? Because he's co-founder with a fast growing Irish benefits platform, Eppione, that already has 900 companies signed up worldwide. And he says it's only the beginning. David would hire Richard Branson in a heartbeat, to help grow the business even faster.

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2.50" Anneliese Duffy, founder of Linen Shirt Company, tells her extraordinary story of starting work at 7...years of age! She's simply besotted by the rag trade and she wants to revive the garment manufacturing industry in Ireland. Based in Kilkenny (Ireland's best county, according to Dubliner Anneliese) she's waiting for Covid to pass before setting up her clothing academy in Kilkenny and while she's waiting she wants anyone interested in the industry to get in touch with her. Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Entrepreneur Norah Casey

25.00" Menno Axt, Chief of Staff, NDRC, has money to give away. But only if your technology company (tech only!) makes it through to their upcoming Accelerator Programme - where businesses will be mentored by some big beasts of the tech and investment world. The NDRC also runs other programmes such as 'how to be a great mentor' and 'how to invest in start-ups'. Listen to Menno to find how how you can join in. His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Bill Gates.

43.00" Emma Maclean, founder Maclean Cleaning Services, is an exceptional woman having started cleaning through necessity, and transforming her business life by choosing to go on the 'Going for Growth' programme run by big TeamGBS supporter, Paula FitzSimons, and funded by Enterprise Ireland. For anyone who thinks they 'could never be an entrepreneur' be inspired by Emma's story. And, her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Her mentor and former boss of the Kilkenny Group, Marian O'Gorman.

1.00.04" Dr. Conor Kerley and brains behind early stage nutrition company Phytaphix. A promising athlete Conor was diagnosed with MS when he was just 15 years old, something that changed his life trajectory completely. He took a huge interest in food and nutrition and the effects they both have on our wellbeing. Have a listen to the incredible pills and potions that Dr. Conor has in the pipeline and what else may come next. Conor's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Professor Luke O'Neill, who is great company and great fun according to Conor.

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E29 That Great Business Show - Ireland's best business podcast

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2' Hannah Wrixon had joined That Great Business Show Episode 8 telling us about her plans for her hospitality recruitment platform Get the Shifts. Now she's back explaining why she has sold her 'baby' to one of Ireland's largest recruitment companies, FRS. Having poured blood, sweat and tears into her company, what was it like to sell?? What were the pre-sale chats like (tough!)? Will FRS bring her platform to the rest of the world? What's next for this super-entrepreneur? She asks why would anyone go into services as opposed to software. Hannah's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Michelle Obama. Find out why.

22' Is Hacketstown, County Carlow, Ireland's most entrepreneurial town? Another Hacketstown entrepreneur, Paula Butler, co-founder of Butler's Organic Eggs, gave up her administration career in Higher Education to care for 250 organic hens. She's now 'minding' 4,050 hens that produce 3,500 eggs every day, which is great until demand drops (for whatever reason). The hens keep going, so what can you do? How big can an organic egg business grow without losing its soul? What happened when Dubai asked for Irish organic eggs? Who would Paula hire in a heartbeat? Most of County Carlow it seems.

55' Emmet Kerrigan, co-founder of Galway based All About Kombucha, is a brother of another TeamGBS alum, Fergus Kerrigan of Ethos CBD, so it seems entrepreneurship is in genes. Hear how his first business started in Vancouver, Canada but thanks to the Canadian visa system he and his co-founder had to head back to Galway where they now are developing a kombucha business. Like so many businesses supplying the hospitality industry Covid caused them to pivot - and they're now shipping Kombuchas kits to customers - but glass fermenting jars don't travel well, so that was just one of the problems to be overcome. Next they're going to ship their kombucha kits to Europe - all from beautiful Galway. Their business has more energy than a small power station. And one of his 'hire in heartbeat' choices - Mother Theresa, as you would!

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From the very start Dr. John Teeling, a prolific entrepreneur, or as the Sunday Independent called him, a 'swashbuckling intellectual', shares his many business tips and insights with Conall O Morain.

As we always say, 'we do business differently' on That Great Business Show, so we pretty much left aside John's stacked CV and business biography (4 page resume!) and concentrated on what and where John would invest in, what he sees as future growth industries - he mentions LONO, bats and human ears amongst many others - which is why E28 of That Great Business Show is a 'must listen' - to find out what he's talking about. Enjoy.

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2.00" Patrice Butler, Business Partner, FIFO Capital - invoices turned into cash immediately, with no contract - a viable alternative to the banks. FIFO Capital is also looking for new investors - an opportunity for people to invest money and get a considerably better return on your money (between 8% - 15% per annum) - but do, do, do take advice. And Patrice wants to hire TeamGBS member Aimee Connolly ('Sculpted By Aimee') as her 'hire in a heartbeat'.

25.00" Dan Gandesha, co-founder Onate, a Kilkenny based alternative source of finance for B2B bridging finance to developers with property projects that need short term financing such as buildings that may need a small amount of refurb to make them market ready. Dan is a successful entrepreneur who has chosen to jump into a new (three months old) Kilkenny based business to see what comes of it! Dan's 'Hire in a Heartbeat'? Toto Wolff, CEO of Mercedes FI team. Find out why Dan thinks Toto is tops.

42.00" Una Herlihy, co-founder of the Indie List. How a hammock and a beer led to her founding a business bringing businesses and creatives together. If your business could do with short term or project based help from project managers, e-commerce experts or cool creative types, the Indie List is where you'll find them. Una's heartbeat hire is her sister - Marie Maher, because creative types aren't always great on the paperwork!

61.00" Philip Gardiner, Associate Director with Renatus. If you're not on their Sunday morning email mailing list you are missing out on some great weekly business intel. But that's not all they do. The real business is private equity investment and Philip explains what size companies (profits above €1m) and sectors (wait'll you hear it...) they invest in. He gives a big shout out to David Maxwell of one of their investee companies Boojum, the man Philip would hire in a heartbeat.

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1.40" Dave Kerr, boss at Wicklow based VBT IT solutions, is a rock star. He's had 5,000 views already on his LinkedIn page about his highly unusual hobby of 'rock running'...running 6m under the ocean carrying heavy rocks. Why does he do it? It's great for business. Dave also shares his other business hacks. And who would he 'hire in a heartbeat'? Well, he wants a cross between Stuart Lancaster and Brian O'Driscoll, but more for gossip than business!

17.00" Patrick Buckley is Managing Director at Mallow, Cork based EPS Group - a real golden nugget of a company that employs over 500 people. But Patrick joined Team GBS not to talk EPS (he got his pitch in however!) but to talk about LINC a North Cork, East Limerick network of engineering companies. He explains why competitor companies working together rather than against each other makes companies stronger and more successful. He says that sectoral clusters should be the new FDI for Ireland. His 'hire in a heartbeat'? Julie Sinnamon, outgoing boss of Enterprise Ireland but he's not sure if he could afford her!

40.30" Claire MacEvilly, Corporate Affairs Director with Danone, explains why every company should look at becoming a B Corp, part of a worldwide movement to promote businesses to be more than just for profit, but to be a force for good in society. Becoming a B Corp is also good for the bottom line with other member firms keen to promote the concept and sales rising sharply as the public recognises those companies that are making a wider effort. Claire had two choices that she would 'hire in a heartbeat' - actor Alan Alda and philanthropist Chuck Feeney. She met both. Find out what she thought of them.

56.00" Ireland will have a staggering 150,000 person shortfall in the IT sector next year according to Luke Treacy, General Manager of the Dublin Coding School. Part of a successful chain of coding schools, the Dublin satellite has just opened. They say they can train people to entry level in IT skills like Data Analytics and Systems Testing, in just ten weeks. Luke thinks it's an ideal option for the many who worry their jobs will not return post-Covid. And he brought our 'hire in a heartbeat' feature distinctly upmarket, saying he would hire successful businessman (also writer!) William Shakespeare to join his team.

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2.00' A hilarious insight into the first seven years of start-up www.ImpactGumShields.com with former advertising exec James Murphy explaining the highly unusual and very, very painful way he found to attract a million viewers to learn about his patented gum shield. It involves Ian Madigan testing the gum shield, but not where or how you might think! Have a look here; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ0BkQCyQTs After 'a mere' three and a half years Impact has finally secured a patent on its software. Next stop the world. To complete his Impact Gum Shield early executive team James explains why 'he'd hire Dan Weiden (creator of Nike 'just do it' strapline) in a heartbeat'.

26' The Ward family owned the Mothercare franchise in Ireland for decades but with the collapse of the UK mothership the Irish franchise finally foundered and the family business went down with it. Marketing director Laura Ward was in Mothercare HQ in Watford, UK the day the story broke. She heard not from management, but she saw it on Sky News. She tells That Great Business Show how traumatic that was. Now, the Ward siblings have started again with www.Kaliedy.com - an online version of what they had - but with a greater emphasis on backing small Irish businesses. Laura wants relevant businesses to contact her with a view to a listing. Her 'Hire in Heartbeat' is Chrissy Teigen. She explains how having Chrissie onboard could make her business go global.

47' You may think you know the horse business. That is until you listen to Equine MediRecord co-founder Pierce Dargan. He trots us through the worldwide market opportunities for his software, markets that include Sweden where horse trotting is massive (who knew?), New Zealand where bloodstock makes a mark on the country's GDP, Poland - famed for its Winged Hussars. In total he gives 60,000,000 reasons why his TCD Tangent backed business has a massive global opportunity. As well as hiring his grandad, famous industrialist Michael Dargan, in a heartbeat he also wants Andrew Lloyd Webber in his posse. Find out why.

1.09' Next time you look at a lamppost, say to yourself, 'there's a business in that'. The same goes for a park bench, a road sign, a telegraph pole. The great news for another TCD Tangent backed company, www.AIMapIT.com is that their very early stage AI company is already getting traction from large enterprises who want to count the 2 million lamp poles in Ireland, or the 5.5 million poles in the UK. Co-founder Julie Connelly says that because it's at such an early stage the business opportunities are only beginning (a Greek company has already come calling). Listen to see if you have a business idea that could you use their business idea. Julie's 'heartbeat hire' is Padraig O'Donoghue of Surecom Technology. He'll be scarlet when he hears why!

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2' Mathematician, statistician,...chef! That's the wonderful business journey (so far!) of Tara Beattie, co-founder of The Caterers, SI Cafes, Mange Tout...and what she joined Team GBS to talk about, her food preparation software, Prep Sheet. It's a wonderful piece of analytics software that can tell a chef from the tiniest café to the largest meal prep organisation, what ingredients are costing, what small recipe changes can yield to the bottom line, deliver consistency of meals across multi-locations...and, and, and....it's very good. All based on the many years of experience Tara and her top-end chef husband (Coq Hardi, Chapter One, l'Ecrivain) have had. She wants all and any of Team GBS who are in the catering business to try (for free!) her Prep Sheet software, and to Beta test it for her. Tell anyone in catering to get in touch with Tara at TheCaterers.ie

22' Giles Newsome is founder at iConnect101 - a digital transformation specialist, HQ'd in Dublin but with a growing business in the UAE and India (where they very recently beat off all-comers in a tender to create a secure rival for the Indian government to substitute MS Teams and/or Zoom) - and, as you do, they have created, for a client in Vietnam, a full digital bank, from scratch, in just 14 months. Like Louella Morton's business Test Reach that we featured on E23, this one is another hidden Irish made gem. BTW, Giles would have any or both of the Collison brothers (Stripe) if he could 'hire them in a heartbeat'.

40' Sinead Doherty is founder of Fenero.ie - Fenero we learn is Latin for 'doing well in business' - though there was some discussion about the actual pronunciation. Sinead's tax advice firm specialises in advising top end contract workers (tech, finance etc.) on issues around tax but she does it differently, having a customer care team that deal directly with the clients. The care team in turn send all of the tax issues on to their specialist tax experts who live in the 'back office'. Sinead says it's a different approach that her firm takes, unlike other accountancy firms, putting the customer first, and speaking in 'plain English'. Her heartbeat hire is billionaire founder of Spanx, Sara Blakely. Sinead explains why.

58' 'Employees don't quit jobs, they quit bosses' is the brave claim by (very) early stage start up HappyTeams.io - a company that uses all the latest whizz bangs to monitor the happiness of your staff - seeing if they're being cheesed by a task, a client or a boss, and feeding these anonymised daily insights back to the boss so that she/he can make changes before unhappy employee takes control of the situation themselves by exiting the company. Founder Michael Dever references how one woman, secondary school teacher, Caroline Clarke, gave Michael the confidence he lacked, and her approach is something he applies every day in his fast growing business. She's also his immediate choice for who he would hire in a heartbeat.

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2' Lawyer turned entrepreneur Fergus Kerrigan, co-founder with Amy O'Flaherty of cannabis based products maker Ethos CBD, on how he got into the burgeoning business, working with a Wicklow hemp farmer, opportunities for other farmers in growing hemp, the challenges of maintaining CBD standards, exporting to Northern Ireland, targeting Great Britain, why honest brands win over 'fake' brands...and further growth opportunities, including adding mushroom extracts to his products. His 'hire in a heartbeat' is Jeff Bezos. Find out why.

21' Nua Fertility, founded by Deborah Brock, following her own fertility issues, with no background in medicine or science she set about formulating a fertility supplement to correct any nutritional imbalances that may be holding back a pregnancy. It's not just a female issue and she explains the 'Rod Steward Syndrome' regarding male sperm issues. The market is vast with millions of couples experiencing fertility issues which is why her company is now exploring the ginormous Chinese market. Her 'hire in a heartbeat'? Her nine year old daughter Ella, the reason Nua Fertility exists.

44' Cullen Nurseries, another great Hacketstown, County Carlow company (following on from Jo Browne Skincare, previously featured), a 25 year company specialising in native trees and bushes. She talks about how she decided to give up the job she loved to help grow the family business, how Covid has changed their business model for the better, the importance of the phone (still!) in their fully online enabled business, how phone chats help retain repeat customers, the many LEO courses that she has attended, and why she'd like to have Amy Huberman and Kamala Harris working on the Cullen Nurseries team.

64' A real hidden gem, Test Reach, based at Nexus at Nova UCD, is a fascinating company headed by Louella Morton and Sheena Bailey who between them have grown a world class, and worldwide, business already employing over 70 people, running every type of exam possible for companies, industry bodies, professional organisations globally. With a long career in IT Louella explains getting 'the itch' and how she wanted to run her own business, and why, even though they're already in over 120 countries, that the business is still only scratching the market surface. And Louella's 'hire in a heartbeat'? Graham Norton. And why not.

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E22 Ireland's best business podcast, this week with a world comedy star, Jason Byrne, turned tech entrepreneur

2' Top comedian Jason Byrne talks about branching into the tech world with his new iLaugh app, his rapid education about business, why he thought investment was a bad thing, why he's asking TeamGBS for future investments. He also explains how going to Luck School was his lucky break, meeting a future investor. He talks about the importance of mental health and about many, many other topics. He's a laugh. Not surprisingly! When asked who he'd hire in a heartbeat he gave the same answer as Laura Dillon did in her interview

34' Laura Dillon is the new CEO at the Dublin office of Dutch private equity firm Waterland. They've just raised another €2.5 billion and she explains what their 'buy and build' model is. They're looking to invest in companies with profits 'north of €2.5 million' but they also want to buy other, smaller companies, to bolt on to what she terms the initial platform companies. If you're in waste, nursing homes or IT (or have an equestrian business!), they'd like to talk to you. And, who would Laura like to hire in a heartbeat? See Jason Byrne's answer above!

58' Jerry Foley is one half of XR Concepts, that uses a mix of VR and AR = XR, to help improve your golf short game. They're using the very, very latest technology, which is why they're part of the TCD Tangent programme - under its Alsessor Accelerator AI umbrella. Jerry has worked with some of the world's big name 'short game' coaches, using their decades of experience to launch this product to the tens of millions of golfers around the world. After that, he says he says that the technology can be applied to most any sport that uses equipment. And who would he hire in a heartbeat? Legendary golf coach Bob Torrance (RIP), father of Sam and coach to Padraig Harrington.

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E21 That Great Business Show, Ireland's best business podcast

2 mins. Bob Hamilton, founder IrishUrns.com , Ireland's biggest urner (!). Former Bank of Ireland banker Bob explains the size of the market he's after for his bespoke Irish handcrafted cremation urns. 30,000 people 'pass' in Ireland each year, too small a market for Bob, who has his eye on the 320,000 Irish Americans who die each year. He explains the extraordinary detail and internet searches he's gone into, to find and 'talk' to that market, what he learnt from Google workshops and how he worked his website from being on page 9 of search engines to being at no. 2 or 3 on the first page. Hard work does pay off. He also talks about the 10,000 memorial trees he's planting in the Naul, in North County Dublin. Bob's choice for our 'hire in a heartbeat' slot is inspirational speaker, Simon Sinek. Listen to find out why.

22 mins. Gary Stokes, CEO, Microfinance Ireland (MFI) on how much money the Government sponsored, not-for-profit, lender has to give to micro-enterprises, how they've simplified the application paperwork, why he expects thousands of small business failures post-Covid, particularly in the hospitality industry, he tells why it's cheaper to get an MFI loan from the Local Enterprise Offices (LEOs), how the pillar banks are not seen by him as opposition, the gap in the market for loans between €25k - €50k and why he's hire Alan (Lord) Sugar in a heartbeat.

42 mins. Orla Walsh, director Specsavers Audiology, on the very interesting partnership model pioneered by UK based Specsavers founders, Doug and Mary Perkins, how Orla transitioned from ICU nurse to running an audiology business, what ICU nurse training brings to business practices (no room for mistakes!), the fantastic entry level opportunities for school leavers within the Specsavers 'family', where you can be paid to become an audiologist and how the model encourages staff 'partners' to take on a unit of their own. Orla's 'hire in a heartbeat' is Tony Robbins whom she heard speak at the Pendulum Summit some years ago, but hasn't forgotten the experience.

59 mins. Wendy Slattery, co-founder of the Beauty Buddy app, aka the TripAdvisor for beauty products. Wendy explains why she believes her app is a world-winner, what the fascinating business model is (she has micro-influencers who get paid in product for their candid reviews), she shares the secret of how they have already had 20,000 downloads of their app, what they have to pay for each download, how soon they'll reach a critical mass of users, what they'll do with the €1 million they're currently raising and why Sheryl Sandberg would be her 'heartbeat hire' and maybe the ideal investor?

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3' Paul O'Sullivan, co-owner of Ireland's Eye Knitwear on the value of resolving family business squabbles via an outside mentor, why they outsourced manufacturing to China and why they subsequently pulled out of China, product provenance and authenticity, how a trip to the National College of Art and Design, Dublin annual student exhibition led to finding their in-house designer, his belated conversion to online selling, and why he'd hire the late Senator Feargal Quinn in a heartbeat.

22' Bevin Mahon, co-owner, Dental Tech Group, her transition for social science graduate to entrepreneur, growing a business from 2 to 40 people, how dentures end up in toilets and fires, the future of 3D dentures and how it will cut costs and creation time significantly, how Covid forced the entire company into a rethink, how she intends for her company to dominate the world, how network groups grew her business vision, and why she would hire her Ukraine based mentor, Nadiia Vaseylieva in a heartbeat.

40' Tommy Kearns, former Connacht Rugby rugby pro and co-founder Xtremepush. on sea swimming and business, how their software can track what anyone is doing online no matter what platform (laptop, mobile, tablet etc) they're using, their new Park Avenue, New York HQ set to conquer the USA, and aiming for a $500m valuation in three years, and why he'd hire the Collison brothers, Patrick and John, in a heartbeat.

62' Sarah Oullette, co-founder Kindora, on how she advertised on LinkedIn for a co-founder, the number and types of flakes who responded, what her 'pre-loved' kids accessories platform can and will do, what business she modelled it on, her background with a Hong Kong art platform, seeking a third angel investor to bring her early stage company to the European market, why she'd hire a drag queen in a heartbeat to represent her company.

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E19

Covid has taught us that all businesses must now have an online presence. However, if you're selling physical products you have to consider who's going to fill those boxes? That's called fulfillment and it's a very tricky business, dealing with thousands of items, shipping them to thousands of customers, across many, many countries. However Team GBS comes to the rescue with this episode's line-up.

2.30" Ken Byrne, RedSky Europe, Kilkenny based company filling boxes and more for US and other companies shipping into the EU. Ken gives us the do's and don'ts of shipping, why they're developing a VAT platform, trebling employment in a year, raising cash...all the good things that businesses do. He also has some insight on how to develop a super strong jawline. You'll only hear it on That Great Business Show!

20.30" Aimee Connolly is Sculpted by Aimee, her own cosmetic brand stocked in hundreds and hundreds of outlets, including Boots across the UK but during Covid, nearly half her sales are now online. With a turnover of €5.4 million in just her fourth year, this powerhouse woman was one of the first adopters worldwide of using Facebook to promote her brand, why those days are over, why it's Tik Tok and Instagram now, what works best on Instagram, what's the next big marketing platform, how she's going to crack the massive Middle East market, and why she'll she no longer dismisses the idea of selling her business.

36.30 Ciara Sheahan wants to make your website sticky. Her amazing technology ("we're two years ahead of the curve") makes people watch, engage and then re-engage with your products using her ORB Media tech. She tells us about a small North Dublin insurance company that was one of the first adopters of the tech and she gives us some incredible stats about usage that are quite stunning. Her software is for big and small businesses. Hear what she can do for any kind of business.

50.00" Caroline McEnery is the HR Suite! Her Kerry and Dublin based company covers all the bases across HR requirements, including fraud investigation, sexual harassment, bullying...and of course, keeping your staff happy. And how do you do that? By asking 'The Right Questions'. Caroline knows so much about this issue that she's written the book about it. We know how busy Team GBS is so we've made it simple for you. In just 15 minutes Caroline explains all. Listen to her, it's the least you could do to keep your staff happy.

71.00" We don't just tell you how to make your business brilliant online, we also find you the talent to make the magic happen for you. Rob Muldowney is co-founder of Covid-Interns, five college graduates who have an unending supply of smart talent across all disciplines, (though the biggest pickup is for marketeers) - students and graduates that want to add experience to their CVs during lockdown and who are willing to offer their services at the right price. They had 400 new people sign up to their database, some coming from the UK, since the start of the year and they've placed candidates as far afield as New York and Singapore, though the vast bulk are working remotely for Irish firms. A great source of talent.

81.00" A tribute to Jimmy Fitzpatrick, RIP, 'the most charming man in Irish business'. An original and huge supporter of TeamGBS he's greatly missed by everyone who ever knew him and his infectious, raucous, laugh.

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3.30" Caoimhe Heery, Partner at Flynn O'Driscoll lawyers on the 'working from home' legislation and why, technically, a self-employed person could be breaking the law by working too hard!

24' Damien Browne, CEO Standard Access, on his company's multi-billion dollar business opportunity around commercial buildings and why he's raising €4 million to bring his Dingle, Kerry business to the rest of the world

43' Tracy Armstrong, co-founder, Kombucha KO, on pivoting from Hello magazine to brewing her fermented tea in her apartment, why Ferbane, County Offaly is Ireland's kombucha centre, and why she wants to be listed by O'Brien's Wine

Three more great growth companies with world ambitions. After twenty different jobs, Jo Browne, who started work at 13, founded her own Carlow based skincare company and is now selling to 12 countries around the world, most recently South Korea. Why South Korea? Because there are 50 million people there, that's why! Hear why she works until midnight every day, making her own solid perfume and how three people in Carlow can take on the world and win.

Thomas Ward had an ice cream kiosk in Bray, Co. Wicklow. When he wanted to expand he couldn't find a suitable van with pzazzz. He called on his brother Kevin, a salesman at Indeed.com, and with absolutely no knowledge or experience of building vans they started a business - as you do. From Rathnew in Wicklow they now export Airstream type vans to Australia, across Europe and they even have started selling them back to the home of Airstream, the US. It's all about SEO according to Kevin. Hear how TeamGBS are opening doors for him to Connecticut on the US east coast.

He said he was the class dunce, but it turns out that 25 year old entrepreneur Charlie Gleeson may be smartest kid on the block. He got his college pals to work on his e-scooter business plans as part of their college course. He raised €1.1 million (raising a further €4 million currently), has won numerous UK tenders to supply e-scooters, again using his college pals who cracked the tender process code, and is now waiting for legislation to expand to large towns across Ireland. Then...the world.

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E16

"Tens of thousands of businesses in Ireland will fail in 2021", says Neil Hughes, Managing Partner, Baker Tilly. He's one of Ireland's leading Examiners and he queries why only 2% of failing Irish businesses go for restructuring (Examinership) when almost 15 times that number are restructured in the USA? Examinership can save businesses and jobs and he wants more businesses on the brink to know about it. We walk you through the Examinership process.

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HS is a very nasty skin condition that affects 1% of the world's population. Galway based Hidrawear, led by one time baker Suzanne Moloney, is leading the world in developing dressings and HS friendly clothing (next up, men's boxers). They have a lot of IP around their product and are well funded as they expand around the world, happy that the majors in the sector have left them to get on with winning market share.

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Patrick Garry met Conor O'Toole in the university bar and started talking about payment solutions...as you do. Both went their respective ways with their careers, but the chat continued. Eventually enough was enough and for eight years they've been developing Loylap, a payment solution that ties other payment methods all into one easy solution. They've heard Glofox on That Great Business Show and they've asked them to get in touch. As well as Phorest. They have Dragon's Den Duncan Bannatyne as a customer in the UK and now they want your small business...and your investment money. Listen to Patrick Garry's pitch.

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Sharon Keegan is head boots and bottlewasher at her athleisure wear company, Peachy Lean, that she describes wonderfully as 'Spanx for the gym;. Hear why Sharon set up Peachy Lean to address her own issues and how her supportive gym clothing company has grown, recently hiring some serious business guns. That's the good news. However, Sharon was shaken to the core by the tragic loss of her brother Alan early in 2020. Listen to how she (just about) coped. An amazing story of resilience in business.

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E15. This is a business story like no other. Conor McEnroy headed to the City of London in the wake of his failed oil & gas newsletter. He was offered three jobs and thought he was cock of the walk - until he found out that his fellow interns were on double his salary. Lesson learnt.

A chance phone call by Conor to an old contact in the oil business saw his Swiss employers earning a massive £2m fee for raising funds for the oil company. Conor was on his way - a way that brought him to Italy, and then to Latin America where he was to fix broken oil companies initially, and then broken banks - a scalpel is a scalpel no matter what the business, after all. Not everyone appreciated his presence. There was a bomb at his hotel. There was the kidnapping - Conor describes what goes through your mind when your on a country road with a gun pointed at your back. And there were the minders, armed to the teeth, who would join Conor for his walks on the beach.

Some time later he got a phone call from an old pal who offered to sell him an ailing Paraguayan bank. Eventually Conor did buy it, and has built it from tenth spot to the fourth spot in bank size.

Ireland's honorary consul in Paraguay (that's another job he has) doesn't hold back on what he would do with the Irish banks and their boards were he in charge (You're fired!), he explains why he wouldn't allow banks to sell of their bad loans and he says that young Irish people should take a serious look at the opportunities that Paraguay offers them. He got rugby legend and co-host Jamie Heaslip so excited with the prospects about buying a coffee plantation that they exchanged phone numbers before he left. Who knows, will we see a Blend #8 coffee on our shelves soon?

Listen. It's not like any other business story, because at That Great Business Show we do business differently.

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E14 A special edition featuring Tony Smurfit CEO of the eponymous Smurfit Kappa group.Tony talks candidly about why retiring is not an option, his relationship with his father Michael Smurfit, keeping in touch with 46,000 employees across 35 countries during Covid times, what his plans are for the recent €660m Smurfit Kappa fundraising, gambling (badly!) on American football games, his thoughts on NFL quarterback Patrick Mahomes, his admiration of Dermot Smurfit. He also says he never considered being a male model (we ask all the important questions on That Great Business Show!)

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E13 Wexford Home Preserves, world's best jam maker, hand made in Wexford, with ambitions to sell in Harrods (18') BeeKon, already outselling craft beers, seeking a listing in O'Brien Wines (34') Sitting up straight. Yes, Cork based Alcass has made a business out of that. (50') Going to the doctor? Not any more. Wellola has a cure for that.

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E. 12 Tony Harbison, boss of Wicklow based company Asistec on semen and shifting vaccines at minus 70C., Yvonne Caplice, Business Director of creative agency TBWA, on making world winning Supervalu Christmas ad, manufacturing PPE clothing during a pandemic is a great business for Happy Threads co-founder Daniel Plewman, save 30% plus on energy costs for free using clever Vivid Edge tech and finance, co-founder Tracy O'Rourke explains. Oh, and what went through Jamie Heaslip's mind when scoring World Rugby's 'Try of the Decade'.

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E11 Finding a niche. Like souvenir coffee and cold brew coffee. Done Deal gets into car finance. €250k prize for AI start-ups. A world beating bin company you've never heard of. And why lack of daylight means Mayo will win Sam. Ireland's best business podcast.

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E.10 Ann Morgan CEO of builders' merchants on door hanging and Brexit, Sean Hassett of Tralee based WAZP on printing cars, Tara Lane of Centrepiece Rosettes on working from 6am - 11pm, Aidan Mehigan and family heads to US to sell Natterjack Whiskey and Evan Quaid, 16-years-old entrepreneur with his product stocked in 145 Aldi stores nationwide.

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Eps. 9 - Dónal Byrne of Big Red Barn - shipping homes from Mayo to USA - (21') Emma Harte, TellUsFirst' reveals 'Mystery Shopper' secrets - (42') Daithí de Buitléir, ParkOffice.io on the future of commuting - (59') Jennifer O'Brien of Plantruption on seaweed burgers

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Eps.8 Lismore Foods on great biscuits, expansion and visuals for food. (21 minutes) Shift workers software platform GetTheShifts raising €600k, (37 minutes) BigRedCloud asks accountants to wear the Big Green Jersey, (53 minutes) Psychology professor Jo Burke's proven practical tips on de-stressing

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E7 Ireland's best business podcast

04.30" Moby bikes plans to make Waterford, Cork...and the world, electric

22.30" Coole Swan. It's official. The Meath made liqueur is now the world's best cream liqueur.

43.30" NPro. Taking 75% of the tackle impact away from 8 million rugby players.

59" Oogo. Just when childcare issues were about to consume you, along comes this Irish startup.

E6 Coming up on this week's That Great Business Show, Episode 6

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John Paul Prior, co-founder of ‘vertical farming’ startup www.Farmony.ie explains how the future of farming is up in the air, literally. He sees a world where we will be farming many of our greens and salads in disused commercial properties, in-store in supermarkets or even in your living room. Why? Because technology allows it and, for sensible sustainability reasons, we can’t continue to ship our lettuce or herbs from across the globe. Jamie Heaslip also explains the difference between a land owner and a farmer. He says the Kearney brothers, (Dave and Rob) come under one heading and Sean O’Brien comes under the other. Let’s see what comes of that.

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There’s a nationwide opportunity in the in-situ health scanning business according to Mary Jones of www.mobilemedicaldiagnostics.ie We hear, incredibly, that she has the only mobile scanning business that brings medical scanning to patients in nursing and care homes. This avoids having to bring patients on long, complicated and ultimately disturbing trips to hospitals for scans, especially as we learn that 85% of those scans are ’outruled’ – i.e. good news, nothing broken. A true entrepreneur Mary even put her engagement ring on the line to raise collateral to lease her first scanner. She’s serious about the business.

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How do you do business with giant corporations without being sucked in, chewed up and spat out – leaving without the business idea or solution that you brought to them? Veteran entrepreneur John Colgan of www.solgari.com explains how his small comms software company has successfully partnered with Microsoft, brining the Solgari solutions to the world, making both Microsoft and Solgari very happy indeed. John says that large corporations are agnostic to where solutions come from, so long as they’re good. He repeats the That Great Business Show mantra – it’s #StrictlyBusiness. Being a great guest John leaves us with some great tips.

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If we could turn every one Euro in your pocket into six Euro, you’d love us. Well that’s the minimum that entrepreneur Sohini De claims that her business www.Empeal.com can deliver. She doesn’t like the word ‘wellness’ which she says is totally abused at this stage. Instead, what her business does do is use the appliance of science to turn employee health into a game. The more the employees participate, the more it benefits them. The healthier your staff, the happier the staff and the lower your staff turnover. This is one area where co-host Jamie Heaslip is seriously well versed. Hear what his verdict on the business is.

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Wine expert Lynda Coogan makes a famous Team GBS #pivot and brings 'A Class of Wine' wine learning classes online to the world. She also has this year's (so far) best corporate Christmas present for you.

Glofox co-founder Conor O'Loughlin talks about raising $20m, big opportunities in sports software post-Covid (and how he beat Jamie Heaslip off the rugby pitch!)

The Skin Nerd and Skingredients founder, Jennifer Rock, has a mass following for her videos. She tells us how she built and retains that community.

Colin Gordon, author of 'Marketing is in Trouble', says your digital marketing department needs to be reined back. Now.

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Gone to the Wall? Is this the ultimate business pivot? "Party Girl" Toni Wall switches career to undertaker / funeral director?

Eh, eh, eh...One of the world's top speaking coaches, David Nihill, gives TeamGBS a masterclass in public speaking.

Go with the flow. Founder Donna Ledwidge of Vitropics on making money and going global with the menstrual cycle.

There will be a Christmas! Chris Deans of Crane World Wide Logistics on transport and delivery pinch points for Santa Claus.

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Digging your business out of the poo. Two companies that have done just that. Keep calm and carry on. Mindfulness coach and TodayFM host Dermot Whelan shows how to relax in 16 seconds. More poo. What we know about Brexit, just twelve weeks away. And so much more...

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Interviews with top Irish businesses including with Susan Spence (Softco), Bobby Byrne (Ringers), Miena Rust (Miena's Nougat), Tony Devine (Grey Matters Network)

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