Daniel Cremin - The real magic is storytelling, not the tricks!
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On today’s podcast I chatted with writer, performer, producer and magician At four years of age Daniel saw a magician perform a trick at a local library which intrigued him,and at 11 he saw Paul Daniels perform a magic trick on TV, he was hooked. Daniel immersed himself in magic and at every opportunity he would perform his tricks to friends, family, visitors to the house and even to the local priest at his first confession! Since then he has perfected his craft as a magician and extended his interests to acting, writing and producing shows. Daniel is a very busy man between his one man,...
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Explaining War and Bomb Alerts to Your Young Children
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On today’s podcast I welcome back urban planner, journalist and political commentator, to the podcast. Paul is living in Tel Aviv with his partner and his two young girls and finds himself once again, literally in the eye of the storm as the war with Iran is in its fourth week. Bomb alerts are now part of everyday life for the family, and as he says himself, you never get used to that sound. He chats about the impact of the war, in particular on his young girls and the long term effect on the next generation, who are growing up with harsh memories and inevitable hatred for the...
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Andy Freed - Lead Like the Boss
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On today’s podcast I chatted with communications specialist and author about his book, ‘’. When Andy, a lifelong Bruce Springsteen fan was returning from one of the 95 concerts he has seen, he penned a post on LinkedIn about the leadership qualities of “The Boss”, and what we can all learn from them. This post literally blew up and eventually turned into this book. Andy spoke about his own life and career, leadership lessons he learnt from working on political campaigns in America and more importantly the important lessons that leaders of today can learn from Bruce. He talks about...
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Launch of the Fuelling Ambition podcast with Deirdre Waldron
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As you may have noticed this is not a usual Win Happy podcast. To celebrate International Women’s Day I decided to assist the lovely , founder of Fuzion in launching her own podcast, called She is a huge believer in supporting other women in business and this led to her being national president of . During her presidency the theme of her tenure was all about ambition, and on her podcast she wants to continue with this agenda, inspiring other women whenever and wherever she can. I think her podcast is great and I would encourage you to subscribe to it. To all the women out there, Happy...
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Pam Kelly - The Crazy World of a Head Chef
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On today’s podcast I chatted with well known and much loved , who has been a Head Chef in Cork city for over 20 years. Her early years were spent in a one bed flat in The LIberties in Dublin and then the family moved to the total opposite, a huge house in the country in Ballinasloe. The hospitality industry was in the family blood, so her career choice was no surprise even though at a very early stage Pam had a notion that she might like to become a nun until she discovered other interests including a love for heavy metal! We chatted about her early life, alcoholism in the family, the crazy...
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Paul Kearns on the Dangers of Extreme Anti-Israeli Sentiment and Media Censorship
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On today’s podcast I chat once again with urban planner, author and journalist who has been living in Tel Aviv with his young family for the last 8 years. Paul has been bringing us the truth from within Israel throughout the Gaza war, including the story of censorship by the media there and the presentation of the genocide in a very sanitised way to the people of Israel. In bravely doing so, Paul has in many cases alienated himself from friends and family but his honesty has been much appreciated and his writing has been very welcome by Irish media. He is now increasingly concerned by some...
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Lorcan Owens - Life at a Crossroads
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On today’s podcast I chatted with as he is about to step onto a plane, back to Australia to pursue a different life to the one he has in Ireland. Lorcan is from a small town in Roscommon, he is a qualified primary school teacher but as he says himself he chose this profession initially as it was a “safe” choice. He chatted about living as a gay man, deciding when to come out, his huge interest in the Middle East and geo politics and his brief spell working in that industry, which he would love to get back to. Like all of us he is faced with choices in his life to pursue his happiness...
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Nerella Chauvin - Happiness is Waking Up Each Day
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On today’s podcast I chatted with Occupational Therapist, who lives just outside Budapest in Hungary with her family. This busy career professional who was running her own successful practice turned 50 last summer and suddenly her life was turned upside down. She lay on the bed with a cup of coffee and started checking some emails - when she woke after what felt like a nap, she had a concerned audience at the foot of her bed. She had a seizure and had just come around. Tests diagnosed that not only did she have but she also had a condition called , which causes memory loss. This...
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Ellie - Communicating with Animals and the Spirit World
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On part two of a two part podcast I welcome back the very lovely Ellie, founder of . Ellie tells us about the dog Max and what she had to do to help return him to normal having discovered what the problem was after talking to him. She chats about her ability to communicate with animals and the spirit world and how this is used in her work to heal people and animals. She speaks in detail about her range of services which are offered both in person and remotely and she urges all of us to be more curious about ourselves, to scratch that itch and discover what might be lurking deep inside us....
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Ellie - Healing through Animals and Ghostbusting!
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On today’s podcast I have a very different conversation with Ellie the founder of in West Cork. The very lovely Ellie provides a very unusual range of healing services both in person and remotely, but not via the Zoom or Microsoft Teams variety. I met with her at her beautiful home in idyllic West Cork at the foot of Mount Gabriel which she shares with her daughter and some horses that she uses as part of her work. Ellie chats about her early life and how this brought about an extremely strong connection to animals, which has continued to this day. As well as developing the ability to...
info_outlineOn today’s podcast I had the one and only, Deirdre Waldron, Founder of Fuzion to chat about a huge milestone in our business,
This month we celebrate 25 incredibly busy and interesting years in business. We have weathered the storms of the post Celtic Tiger recession and the Covid shutdown, and in each case we stayed agile, we learnt valuable lessons and came out the other side wiser and stronger.
To capture some of the learnings from those 25 years, our team put 25 questions to Deirdre about this time.
Let’s hear what she had to say…
Podcast Production by Greg Canty
Email Greg with feedback or suggested guests: greg@fuzion.ie