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Business Builders
I created Business Builders as a weekly interview series to have honest conversations with business owners, entrepreneurs, and investors about their journeys; their successes, setbacks, and the lessons they’ve learned along the way. As a growing business builder myself, I want to learn directly from my guests and share those insights with you. My goal is to provide listeners with practical takeaways, fresh perspectives, and real inspiration to help you on your own path to building and growing a business.
Episodes
124 episodes
Dying With Your Best Work Inside You: Philip McKernan on Success, Meaning, and Regret
Philip McKernan joins Business Builders for a powerful conversation about success, identity, money, and the quiet cost of living a life that isn’t fully aligned with who you are.Rather than framing success as growth, scale, o...
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Season 11
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Episode 10
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The Winner Effect: Neuroscientist Ian Robertson on How Confidence Works
Neuroscientist and psychologist Ian Robertson joins Business Builders to unpack what confidence really is, how it shapes success, and why it can quietly turn against the very people it helps elevate.Ian is Emeritu...
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Season 11
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Episode 11
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53:14
How Sam Moffett Built a Global Business from Rural Ireland (Moffett Automation)
Sam Moffett, founder of Moffett Automation, shares what it really takes to build a world-class, high-stakes business where failure simply isn’t an option . From growing up inside a family manufacturing company in rural Ireland to delivering ...
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59:15
From the Tools to the Top: How Tim Sparsis Built a Scalable Attic Business
Tim Sparsis, founder of The Attic Company, shares an honest account of what it really takes to grow a trade business from the ground up — from arriving in Ireland with an old van and borrowed money to building a company that now delivers hun...
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Season 11
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Episode 8
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52:43
What Is ‘Enough’? Pádraig O'Céidigh's Lessons from a Life in Business (Aer Arann)
Business leader and entrepreneur Pádraig O’Céidigh shares a deeply reflective conversation on success, stress, and the question most people never stop to ask: what is enough?Drawing on decades of experience in business and life, Pádraig...
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Season 11
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Episode 7
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1:25:28
From Zero Customers to a €200m Business: Nick Keegan’s Startup Story (Mail Metrics)
Mail Metrics co-founder Nick Keegan shares a raw and revealing account of what it really takes to survive the early years of a startup — from three years with no customers to building one of Ireland’s largest customer communications businesses ...
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1:08:06
What Nobody Tells You About Growing a Company with Tom Rowan (Rowan Engineering)
Tom Rowan, founder of Rowan Engineering, shares a grounded and refreshingly honest account of how he built a forensic engineering and environmental consultancy from one customer and no grand plan into a 30-person business working with insurers,...
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Season 11
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Episode 5
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49:05
From Redundancy to Europe-Wide E-Commerce: Daniel Plewman (Happythreads)
After losing his engineering job during the 2008 crash, Daniel Plewman found himself unemployed, on the dole, and unsure what came next. A chance moment — his wife struggling to source quality scrubs from the US — sparked the idea that would ev...
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Season 11
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Episode 4
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49:28
Building the World's Largest Betting Company with Stewart Kenny, Co-Founder of Paddy Power
Former Paddy Power co-founder Stewart Kenny shares a brutally honest account of how he built — and then left — the world’s biggest betting company.From his father’s influence and early fascination with risk to the creation of Paddy Power’s ...
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Season 11
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Episode 3
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56:45
An MBO, Scaling through Acquisition and Managing Risk with Niall Jones (AIR Group)
Niall Jones, co-owner of Anglo Irish Refrigeration, joins host Conor Kearney to share his journey from redundancy to running a €30M+ business. In this episode, Niall gets candid about the personal risks of buying a company, the adrenaline of no...
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Season 11
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Episode 2
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50:06
From Magician to CEO: How Ciaran McCormack Built a €300M Business (Select Tech Group & DID Electrical)
What can a magician teach us about leadership, resilience, and growth?In this episode of Business Builders Podcast, Ciaran McCormack shares how his early lessons in crowd control and stage presence became the foundations for running one...
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Season 11
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Episode 1
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1:10:46
From Scientist To Building A Multimillion-Euro Enterprise. Sean Mac Fhearraigh (Assay Genie)
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Season 10
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Episode 94
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1:00:26
Investment Strategies, Growth Potential & Managing Risk. Laura Dillon (Waterland Private Equity)
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Season 10
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Episode 93
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1:04:45
Building Sales Teams, LinkedIn Content & The Price Of Entry. Ross Keating (The Lennox Academy)
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Season 10
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Episode 92
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57:27
Design Innovation & Sustainability. Laura McDermott (Colectivo)
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Season 10
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Episode 91
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1:10:08
From Bedroom Start-Up To €70 Million Turnover. Ciaran Marron (Activ8 Solar Energies)
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Season 10
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Episode 90
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1:04:22
Bankruptcy, Self-Belief & Cardboard Cutouts. Michael Flynn (Mattress Mick)
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Season 10
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Episode 89
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1:03:21
From College Project To Successful Business, Market Pivots & Implementing Company Values. Fionn Barron (Tracworx)
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Season 10
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Episode 88
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58:49
Acquisition, Software & Potential. Stuart McCaul (Ishikawa Technologies)
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Season 10
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Episode 87
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54:58
Leadership & Self-Awareness. Greg Clarke (Digicom)
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Season 10
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Episode 86
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1:21:43
Manifest Your Dreams. Rachel Bright (Children's Book Author)
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Season 10
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Episode 85
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1:24:35
*RE-RELEASE* #047: Brian Keegan (360 Group)
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Season 9
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51:51
*RE-RELEASE* #037: Anne Heraty (CPL Resources PLC)
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Season 9
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32:10