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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
142 episodes
The Hidden Problem Facing Women in Leadership | Hannah Wrixon, KELLA
🔔🔔 Hannah Wrixon explains why the most successful women are often the least supported; and why she’s building a global network to change that 🔔🔔Hannah Wrixon joins Business Builders to share the story behind Keller and why she bel...
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From Grief To Purpose: Building ADHD Now | Danny Buckley
🔔🔔 Danny Buckley shares how grief, purpose, and an ADHD diagnosis at 32 led him to build one of Ireland’s fastest-growing healthcare businesses 🔔🔔Danny Buckley joins Business Builders to share the remarkable story behind ADHD Now and how...
Building A Global Kids Brand With Disney, Lego & Netflix | Emmet O'Neill, StoryToys
🔔🔔 Emmet O’Neill reveals how StoryToys nearly collapsed after years of venture capital funding, how he cut the business from 45 people to 15, and how that turnaround ultimately led to a €35 million children’s media company with more than 300 mi...
“I Turned a $20M Company Into a $1.45 Billion Exit” | Cathal Friel, Raglan Capital
🔔🔔 Cathal Friel explains how he built five public companies, turned a $20 million business into a $1.45 billion exit, and why IPOs may be making a comeback for ambitious entrepreneurs 🔔🔔Cathal Friel joins Business Builders for a fascinat...
A Big Exit, Confidence & Resilience Ciarán Mulligan, Yes Insurance
🔔🔔 Ciarán Mulligan explains how he built and sold Blue Insurance, why crises create opportunities in business, and how becoming a father completely changed his perspective on success 🔔🔔Ciarán Mulligan joins Business Builders for a powerful and ...
(RE-RELEASE) “Why So Many SMEs Get Stuck at €1M–€5M Revenue” | Ed Murphy, Greentech HQ
🔔🔔 Ed Murphy explains why most businesses fail to scale, what franchising taught him about systems and growth, and why founders themselves are often the bottleneck inside their own companies 🔔🔔Ed Murphy joins Business Builders for a fasc...
“Why So Many SMEs Get Stuck at €1M–€5M Revenue” | Ed Murphy, Greentech HQ
🔔🔔 Ed Murphy explains why most businesses fail to scale, what franchising taught him about systems and growth, and why founders themselves are often the bottleneck inside their own companies 🔔🔔Ed Murphy joins Business Builders for a fasc...
“I Built a Multi-Million Euro Business With €1,000” | Troy Armour, Junk Kouture
🔔🔔 Troy Armour reveals how he built Junk Kouture from a €1,000 idea into a global movement, and why he believes most entrepreneurs are driven by trauma, creativity, and the need to stand out 🔔🔔Join the movement to help spread 1 Million ...
“You Can’t Build a Business Without Hard Decisions” | Colin Culliton, Kith&Kin
🔔🔔 Colin Culliton reveals why you can’t build a successful business without making hard decisions - and the realities of scaling through crisis 🔔🔔Colin Culliton joins Business Builders to share the story of how he built and scaled a mult...
"This Is What It Takes To Really Scale a Business" | Ciaran Burke, Swoop
🔔🔔 Ciaran Burke, CEO and co-founder of Swoop, shares how he built a global fintech platform helping 300,000+ businesses access over £2BN in funding - and the brutal realities behind scaling a startup 🔔🔔Ciaran Burke joins Business Builder...
“You Don’t Need More Hustle, You Need This System” - Willie McMahon, EOS
🔔🔔 Willie McMahon built, scaled, and sold a 45-person engineering business - then walked away to help other founders do it better. 🔔🔔Willie is giving away 10 copies of the book Traction on a first come first served basis. If you’re runni...
“There Is No Finish Line in Business” | Gowri Subramanian, Aspire Systems
🔔🔔 Gowri Subramanian built a $200M global software company over 25 years - without venture capital 🔔🔔Gowri Subramanian, CEO of Aspire Systems, joins Business Builders to share how he built and scaled a global technology services company ...
Viva La Vulva! with Laura Dowling, fabÜ
🔔🔔 Laura Dowling, founder of fabÜ, built a business by talking about topics most people avoid; and it changed everything 🔔🔔Laura Dowling joins Business Builders to share how she turned women’s health - one of the most overlooked and unde...
From SAAS to Snacks with Jayne Ronayne (OAC Snacks | Talivest)
My guest today is Jayne Ronayne, Co-Founder and CEO of OAC Snacks, an e-commerce company focusing on high protein snacks that are simple, delicious and made for real life. Jayne previously founded employee experience platform Talive...
Building Silicon Republic: How Ann O’Dea Built One of Ireland’s Leading Tech Media Companies
Ann O’Dea joins Business Builders for a wide-ranging conversation about entrepreneurship, technology, artificial intelligence, and building a media business at the dawn of the internet.As co-founder of Silicon Republic, Ann...
John Teeling: The Man Who Helped Revive Irish Whiskey
John Teeling joins Business Builders for a candid, wide-ranging conversation about risk, resilience, and the 20-year bet that helped revive Irish whiskey. When John entered the industry in the 1980s, Irish whiskey had fallen to unde...
The business of saving lives – Evelyn Kelly on how Orphan Drugs actually reach patients
Evelyn Kelly joins Business Builders for a powerful conversation about rare disease medicine, scaling a global consultancy, and what it really means to build a business with purpose.From starting at her kitchen table in 2017 with no form...
Michelle Walshe: The Summer That Nearly Broke Our €50M Business
Michelle Walsh joins Business Builders for a grounded, honest conversation about scaling a family business, navigating relentless growth, and learning the hard lessons that only come from being in the arena.From unexpectedly stepping int...
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...
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...
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 ...
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...
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...
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 ...
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,...