Learn, Adapt, Thrive - The Irish Business Podcast: Recent Episodes
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Learn, Adapt, Thrive - The Irish Business Podcast from Ulster Bank. A series of virtual podcasts exploring how Ireland’s local entrepreneurs and resilient business owners have adapted during the coronavirus crisis. Businesses in Ireland have had to think fast to tackle the new challenges and stresses that the coronavirus crisis has thrust upon them. But where there have been challenges, there have also been inspiring displays of innovation and resilience. Hosted by Newstalk broadcaster Susan Keogh, the Learn, Adapt, Thrive Irish business podcast aims to harness the power of peer-to-peer learning by telling the stories of forward-thinking business owners from a diverse range of industries across Ireland. The focus is on helping businesses to feel inspired and to stay agile during these difficult times.
In the final episode, Managing Director of Commercial Banking Division in UBIDAC, Eddie Cullen shares how Ulster Bank responded to Covid19 and supported their business customers. We’re also joined by John McGrane, of the British Irish Chamber of Commerce for his take on how ‘doing business’ has changed as a result of the pandemic. Both guests talk to host, Susan Keogh, about what they’ve learned from the last year and share their insights on what Irish businesses can expect from 2021.
In this episode, we speak to Robert Jones, Managing Director of Vision ID. He speaks about how he founded VisionID, an information technology and services company, to help businesses make the switch to digital communications. A born innovator, we also from Robert about leading Vision ID throughout the pandemic and how the company stepped up to assist with the government’s track and trace services.
On Episode 4 of Learn, Adapt, Thrive - The Irish Business Podcast, Joe Queenan speaks to Susan Keogh about how he has taken a traditional industry into the modern day and how he has grown Foxford Woollen Mills into one of Ireland’s most luxurious and unique textile companies. Joe takes us on a journey through the last century and explains how he has come to work with some of the country’s most renowned designers.
In this episode of Learn, Adapt, Thrive - The Irish Business Podcast, Oonagh O'Hagan from Meaghers Pharmacy talks to Susan about pivoting from a career pharmacy into entrepreneurship, life on the high street during Covid and how you know when the time is right to grow your business. As a working mum, Oonagh gives insight into maintaining a healthy work life balance and managing the juggle.
Welcome to Learn, Adapt, Thrive! Throughout this series, broadcaster Susan Keogh will be speaking with local entrepreneurs and business owners to learn more about the many ways start-ups and established businesses from across Ireland are adapting in these unique times.
In episode 2 of our business podcast series, Learn, Adapt, Thrive, we speak to Christina Regan Lee, Executive Director of Cabins and Containers. She talks about the dynamic of running a family business and how the emerging market needs for sanitising stations and working from home helped them pivot their products uses during the coronavirus pandemic in 2020.
Welcome to Learn, Adapt, Thrive! Throughout this series, broadcaster Susan Keogh will be speaking with local entrepreneurs and business owners to learn more about the many ways start-ups and established businesses from across Ireland are adapting in these unique times.
On the inaugural Learn, Adapt, Thrive podcast Gavin Hydes, Chief Executive of Joe Duffy Motors Group speaks with Susan Keogh.