Podcasts

Celebrating 30 years

To celebrate our 30th birthday we have created a playlist so you can get in the party mood with us!

30 years and counting

30++ of directors and staff favourite hits across the years with a few Christmas classics thrown in for good measure

Dream:Reality

Dream:Reality a podcast by Alison McMurtrie; Trustee of Antrim Enterprise and owner & founder of Idunn Consulting.

Talking to people who have used the last 18 months as opportunity. Dreamers, innovators, change makers. How can we create in the future that we have always dreamed of. Business related podcast looking at start-ups, technology, CSR, Sustainability and lots lots more.

Season 1

Episode 11 - Jean O Neill

Diversity and Inclusion is so much more than age, gender and race…. On this episode we talk about neurodiversity and differing abilities in the workplace.

Jean is a Master Coach with Neuroscience, and provides a wide range of coaching services.

www.jeanoneillcoaching.ie

Social Media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jean-o-neill-coaching/

Recommendations:

Book: Mindfulness for the Frazzled by Ruby Wax

Song: Unstoppable by Mina Lund or Classical (Mozart/ Bach)
Episode 10 - Dawn Jackson

Diversity & Inclusion…. Real buzz words of the moment. How can and should we foster a diverse workforce that wants to stay and have a career? How all businesses need to have this embedded in their HR plan. Dawn is the Director of Coach Inclusion (www.coachinclusion.co.uk) and a recognised expert in this field.

Social Media: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dawnjacksoncoachinclusion/

Twitter: @dawn_dj1

Recommendations:

Podcast: Happy Place with Ferne Cotton

Song: This is Me from The Greatest Showman
Episode 9 - Samuele Tini

We talk Sustainability with Samuele. How can all size businesses adapt, what are the pros ands cons! Samuele currently works for an NGO, and has been 16years in Africa. He hosts the ‘Sustainability Journey podcast (below link), and is currently working on his MBA through Warwick Business School.

Social media:

LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/samuele-tini-7b2b861 Podcast: Apple Podcasts https://podcasts.apple.com/ke/podcast/the-sustainability-journey/id1558252863

Google Podcasts https://podcasts.google.com/feed/aHR0cHM6Ly9mZWVkLnBvZGJlYW4uY29tL3N1c3RhaW5hYmlsaXR5am91cm5leS9mZWVkLnhtbA

Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/67tIU1Yrc2rgwXpnfAQVRL

Podbean https://sustainabilityjourney.podbean.com

YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uo-MjqWPvsk Amazon Music

https://music.amazon.com/podcasts/d88ac679-e98d-4a01-b9c4-a937395fb8cd/The-Sustainability-Journey

TuneIn https://tunein.com/podcasts/Business–Economics-Podcasts/The-Sustainability-Journey-p1415715/

Listen Notes https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/the-sustainability-journey-samuele-tini-Y1q78AUZb2g/

Papers mentioned:https://hbr.org/2021/07/the-circular-business-model

Recommendations:

1- Book: Leadership BS by Jeffrey Pfeffer

2- Book: Surrounded by Idiots by Thomas Erikson

3- Song: SALSA! Vivir Mi Vida by Marc Anthony or C’est La Vie by Khaled
Episode 8 - Grainne Madden

CSR? What is it all about? Corporate Social Responsibility.

Grainne Madden founded GMJ Associates, and lectures on the Trinity MBA and Griffin College. We chat about how all businesses can implement a level of CSR and the impact it can have on employees and business.

Social Media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gr%C3%A1i… Twitter: @GrainneMadden

Paper mentioned about reading fiction & non fiction benefits: https://hbr.org/2020/03/the-case-for-… Recommendations:

1- Book: A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth

2- Book: A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara

3- Song: It’s My Life by Talk Talk
Episode 7 - May Samali

Transitioning from lawyer, to Venture Partner to Leadership Development Coach with a strong focus on social purpose.

We talk about transitioning, regulation control, opening up markets to everyone, working with PURPOSE and how we can keep the positive change happening.

Social Media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/msamali/

Twitter: @maysamali

Recommendations:

1- Book & Podcast: Dare to Lead by Brene Brown

2- Song: Happy by Pharrell Williams
Episode 6 - Tribeni Chougule

Change Management – something we need to manage? Or something that is happening all around us constantly? We change about change for the sake of change, change for purpose, engagement gets acceptance.

The HBR article mentioned on change is: https://hbr.org/2013/04/change-manage…

Social media:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tribenich…

Twitter: @trio1545

Recommendations:

1- Book: Mindset by Dr Carol Dweck

2- Podcast: Squiggly Career Podcast

3- Song: Katy Perry Firework
Episode 5 - Sara Devoy

Sara specialises in Craniosacral Therapy focusing on the nervous system. We chat about the stressors in our lives, how we can notice them before we blow up or ignore until it all gets a bit too much. This is a calming episode which can help equip you for the future.

The article mentioned in the episode on not being mindful is: https://hbr.org/2021/03/where-mindful…

Social Media:

https://Saradevoycraniosacral.com

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sara-devo… Facebook: Sara Devoy Craniosacral Biodynamics Instagram: Sara Devoy CST

Recommendations:

1- Book: Radical Wholeness by Philip Shepherd

2- Person to follow: Tara Brach

3- Song: anything by Leonard Cohen
Episode 4 - Kelly Pettersen

Kelly has been involved in FinTech startups and Crypto currencies.

Based in London, we chat about the current interest in crypto, its future and what role FinTechs play in the banking systems….. Not a technical discussion – so everyone will be able to get their heads around it!

All opinions are Kelly’s own, and not affiliated to any organisation. The FT article mentioned during the chat: https://enterprise.ft.com/en-gb/blog/…

Social media: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-pet…

Recommendations:

1- Podcast: Entrepreneurial Thought Leaders https://open.spotify.com/show/24QifPS…

2- Song: Anything by Billy Joel

Kelly has over 10 years of international experience helping companies of various sizes achieve growth. She has a track-record building fin-tech start-ups and has led multi-million-dollar strategic projects and transformational marketing and sales-driven initiatives in the finance and banking sector. Kelly is a valued and sought-after advisor to start-ups, on topics across the entire business lifecycle. Kelly currently works at Coinbase as a senior member of the Institutional Sales & Trading team, working with institutions across EMEA on their cryptocurrency adoption journey. Prior to joining the Coinbase, Kelly led business development globally for skew, the leading cryptocurrency market data, analytics and derivatives platform. Prior to this, Kelly was part of the founding team at Lendingblock, a digital asset lending platform where she was the Global Head of Business Development and CMO. Before making the move into crypto, Kelly oversaw European Marketing for BNY Mellon’s largest revenue generating business, Asset Servicing. Earlier, Kelly held various roles at Macquarie in New York and London. Kelly started her career at BMO Capital Markets. Kelly is an endlessly curious person, with an open mind and passion for diversity and for how technology can positively shape the future of financial industry. Kelly is a former US collegiate student athlete completing her undergraduate degree at Providence College. She is currently living in London, UK and earned her Executive MBA from Esade Business & Law School in Spain which is an international management program taught across Europe, Asia, Middle East, South America and the US.
Episode 3 - Tadi Muganyi

Tadi is an internationally recognised expert in Digital Transformation. Currently based in Shanghai, China, he speaks regularly with East China Normal University, has spoken at The University of Warwick and AI events in China.

We talk digital systems, their place and importance in small and large business. The barriers/ reluctance to digitising processes and the risks (bias & ethics) that will need to be addressed as we move forward!

An essential chat for anyone interested in digitising processes in their business!

https://www.linkedin.com/in/tadiwanashe-muganyi/

Recommendations: 1- Book Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman

2- Song Hall of Fame by The Script
Episode 2 - OwnTrail Founders: Rebekah Bastian & Kt McBratney

Rebekah and Kt are the co-founders of www.OwnTrail.com, as featured in Forbes (https://www.forbes.com/sites/rebekahb…) An amazing and inspirational platform, where women share their authentic journeys as inspiration to others. There is no single journey to success. The platform celebrates career pivots, life experiences and family occasions in a positive, real and inspirational way. ‘There’s no one right path through life — just yours. Own the trail you’re blazing through life to build confidence, clarity and belonging. Welcome to the peer support system for women.’

OwnTrail: https://twitter.com/OwnTrail https://www.instagram.com/owntrail/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/ownt…

Kt: https://twitter.com/k_to_the_t https://www.instagram.com/k_to_the_t/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ktmcbratney/

Rebekah: https://twitter.com/rebekah_bastian https://www.instagram.com/rebekah.bas… https://www.linkedin.com/in/rebekahba…

Recommendations:

1- Book: Blaze Your Own Trail by Rebekah Bastian

2- Book: Proposals for the Feminine Economy by Jennifer Armbrust

3- Book: Conflict Resolution for Holy Beings by Joy Harjo

4- Podcast: Ologies with Ali Ward

5- Song: Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen

6- Song: Party Hard by Andrew W.K.
Episode 1 - Sharon Boxer
Sharon is a Marketing and Communications Manager. A prolific Tweeter and shortlisted for the We Are Tech Women 2020 top 100! Mad about how we can use tech advances to make our lives easier, we chat about all things future 🙂

Twitter: @10FFGINGER
LinkedIn: Sharon Boxer

Recommendations:
1. Book: Let it go by Peter Walsh
2. Book: How to Talk to Robots by Tabitha Goldstaub
3. Book: Privacy is Power by Carissa Veliz
4. Song: I am what I am by Gloria Gayner
Also mentioned in the recording: Peak Everything by Richard Heinberg

WISE: What is Social Enterprise

Welcome to Social Enterprise NI #WISE Business Podcast sponsored by Idverde. Tune in to hear from Social Enterprise businesses from across Northern Ireland.

The future of business is social, we can be both commercial and have social impact.

A Social Enterprise (SE) is a trading business – selling goods and services – but whose primary objective is to achieve social and/or environmental benefit. SEs are different from those charities and voluntary organisations who do not have financial independence through trading income.

Season 1

SlackPress - Simon Black

They are a multi-disciplined production house operating across the island of Ireland and the United Kingdom. Producing digital production services across all mediums, we work at broadcast quality for budget friendly prices.

Find out more – https://www.slackpress.co.uk
Resurgam Trust - Philip Dean

The Resurgam Trust employs a Social Enterprise Manager, supported through an Innovation Programme with partners including Department for Communities, Lisburn and Castlereagh City Council and The Resurgam Trust. This programme delivers outcomes on social enterprise and innovation which will have an impact upon the social, economic and physical regeneration of communities and ultimately the local economy.

They have 7 social enterprises:

1. Laganside Enterprise Centre

2. Highway Inn

3. Lisburn Community Self Build

4. Laganside Business Services

5. Premier Taxi Company

6. Laganside Community Gym

7. New Horizons Credit Union
Refuge Chocolate - Tara Mullan

Refuge Chocolate is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland.

Refuge exists to help give people a brighter future through our support of Flourish NI (a Northern Ireland based anti human trafficking charity). Refuge donates proceeds to Flourish.

Refuge Hot Chocolate (now Refuge Chocolate) has been fully operational since 2017 led by Chief Potion Maker Tara Mullan.

‘Not being a tea or coffee drinker I spent many years sampling the hot chocolate drinks throughout Ireland and beyond, never quite getting one that hit the taste buds of how I thought a hot chocolate should taste. Until a few years ago I went skiing in Andora and tasted something that hit the spot. It was strong, thick and had so much taste. More like melted chocolate than the expensive dish water I was often served in cafes.

This awakening must have been filed away in the depths of my brain and came to the fore when I was trying to come up with a solution to financially support a local anti human trafficking charity I volunteer for. I briefly tested several ideas of projects to raise finance for the charity. Until one day the name Refuge and hot chocolate literally dropped into my head. This is when I started experimenting with recipes I read about and ones I made up.

Once I got closer to what I thought was a good tasting drink I asked friends to test some and give me feedback. After this I had the recipe for the original chocolate. It’s still the same recipe we use today.’
ARC Healthy Living Centre - Jenny Irvine

he award winning ARC Healthy Living Centre, Irvinestown aims to improve the well-being of local people by bringing together a partnership of community health activities and services.

ARC has been nationally recognised as benefitting people and planet.

Consistently since 2009 ARC has been successful in satisfying key criteria to be awarded the Social Enterprise Mark, which identifies us a trading centre for social and environmental purposes.

ARC provides shared space, basing a range of health and well being services within the Centre. The ARC actively promotes community participation and volunteering – services are run for local people, by local people.

To find out more – https://www.archlc.com/
SENsations - Dr Clare Caughey

SENsations is an award winning community interest company that provides educational psychology assessment for pupils in order to help identify or eliminate any kind of learning difficulty. This can include intelligence testing and academic attainment testing which helps identify conditions such as Dyslexia and Dyscalculia. In addition observations and screening tools can form part of a multi-disciplinary assessment for conditions such as Autistic Spectrum Disorder and ADHD. Part of the core purpose of a psychological assessment is to provide practical advice and strategies which help the pupil use their strengths and target areas for improvement in their learning.
Better - Jacqui Pope

GLL is a not for profit charitable social enterprise committed to delivering a better quality of fitness and leisure, libraries and performing arts facilities for everyone. We’re committed to providing access to quality community facilities – and more – at a price everyone can afford. They already manage over 258 facilities, and they’re adding more all the time operating under our ‘Better’ brand. They aim to get more people, more active, more often. They promote healthy and active lifestyles, giving communities access to facilities that help improve their health and happiness through participation in activities. It could be gyms, libraries, playgrounds or world-class venues such as those on the Olympic Park, we have it all right here. However, they do provide more than access. As a charitable social enterprise, they invest in their communities as they are a not for profit organisation but it’s not just about money: they also invest time and effort in encouraging everyone to take advantage of their services. They will ENGAGE and welcome new participants, introducing them to activities that reflect their needs. They will SUPPORT our communities to make lifestyle changes through targeted programmes. They will ADAPT our approach and offers to ensure everyone can participate in our services. They will SUSTAIN participation by offering varied programmes, facilities and memberships
Science Starz - Elita Frid

Science Starz CIC is an award-winning mobile science lab that delivers hands-on, fun, interactive science programmes in primary schools, community groups, youth clubs, at corporate events and more in order to ignite an interest in STEM from an early age and to increase access into the STEM sector.

Developed by teachers, Science Starz has been delivering programmes for over 5 years so we know how to engage children in STEM and ignite an interest in STEM topics.

Science Starz also creates outreach programmes for STEM industries for delivery in primary schools, matching desired employee skills, Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Goals and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in order to bridge the gap between the STEM industry and the education sector.
incredABLE - Nigel Hampton

Want to hear from one of our ‘Social Enterprise Leaders of the Year’? Tune in to hear about the AMAZING work incredABLE do from Nigel.

incredABLE is a voluntary organisation creating meaningful social, recreational, and educational opportunities for people with a learning/intellectual disability and/or autism.

incredABLE individuals are empowered to make choices, discover talents, realise passions, and participate in a community on their own terms. incredABLE deliver projects and services in the Southern Health and Social Care Trust Area.

They are about Respect and the dignity of every person.

They are about Sustainability and stewardship of all our resources.

They are about Creativity and making things happen.

They are about Responsiveness through listening to all those who work with us.

To find out more and visit one of their cafes visit – https://incredable.org.uk/
Employers for Childcare - Marie Marin

Listen in to hear from Social Enterprise NI’s most recent Social Enterprise of the Year winner, Employers for Childcare. Employers For Childcare comprises a Social Enterprise and a registered charity. 100% of the profits from our Social Enterprise businesses – a Childcare Voucher company, a recruitment service for childcare providers and High Rise (an indoor family adventure centre) are invested into our charity.

As a charity, our aim is to make it easier for parents with dependent children to get into work and to stay in work. We address childcare as a labour market and economic issues, as well as a social one. Our charity’s work includes providing a Freephone helpline and outreach service through our Family Benefits Advice Service alongside carrying out research and lobbying work on behalf of parents. To find out more visit https://www.employersforchildcare.org

Celebrating 30 years

Dream:Reality

WISE: What is Social Enterprise

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