Win Happy Podcast

On today's podcast I chatted with Dawn Russell, the amazing CEO of Ana Liffey.
Dawn, a huge music lover is originally from a small farm in Tipperary and her social conscience was awoken through her mothers work at St.Lukes, a psychiatric hospital in Tipperary, and meeting a character in Clonmel called Martin who she says always looked out for her.
Her eyes were opened when she came to Dublin to pursue a career in counselling and discovered the harm reduction work that Merchant's Quay was doing in the city.
When Dawn joined the front line team at Ana Liffey over 19 years ago, she quickly found herself assisting people at their lowest ebb through addiction, homelessness, mental health or domestic violence issues.
Always pushing for change and a desire to make even more impact, she rose to the role of CEO and now oversees the provision of services to 5,000 clients per annum in Dublin, Balbriggan and LImerick.
Dawn says you must believe in everyone, even when they have stopped believing in themselves - never give up and never judge
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On today's podcast I chatted with Roger Overall, the founder of Show and Tell.
Roger has spent a lifetime telling stories as a cartoonist, an illustrator, a photographer, a journalist, a videographer and a podcaster.
We spoke about the importance of telling your story and not leaving this to chance, the chance for people to misunderstand and believe something that is not accurate.
When it comes to your story you really need to be in the driver's seat, and not a passenger down the back of the bus surrendering control as to what direction your story can end up going in.
Roger spoke about his own story, the impact of living in different countries and some of the storytelling tricks that he uses to get the attention of the audience
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On today's podcast I spoke once again with a regular guest, Paul Niland who has been living in Kyiv in Ukraine for nearly 24 years.
Paul who is originally from Ireland, is a journalist, a political commentator and the founder and CEO of Lifeline Ukraine, a national suicide prevention service.
As always Paul provides us with brilliant insights from within Ukraine's capital city - he spoke about the routine attacks by Russia, Orban's defeat in Hungary, EU membership, Trump the Russian asset, and the drone expertise which has allowed the Ukrainian military reach deep into Russia and provide their citizens their first taste of what it is like to experience fear during this pointless war that was started by Putin.
He also talks about music and how it reflects the unbreakable spirit of Ukrainians and the role it is playing in the inevitable path to Victory!!
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In March 2022, just as things were getting back to normal post Covid in Birmingham, some hateful racist literature was being distributed across the city.
For Mus this was all of the racist bullying of her childhood raising its ugly face again, this time by a group called The Patriotic Alternative.
Mus nervously reached out to her predominantly white neighbours through the WhatsApp group, and to her immense relief she realised that they were as disgusted as she was about this spreading of hate.
A few conversations later, this community came together and quickly removed the oxygen from the haters and started the group Brummies United Against Racism and Hate Crime.
On the podcast Mus shares the heartbreaking stories of racism experienced throughout her life, the impact that these have had on her, how it has shaped her career and in particular how the work of Brummies United has evolved.
Unfortunately, fear of others is a currency that some politicians prey on and we also spoke about the rise of Nigel Farage and his Reform Party in the UK.
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Podcast Production by Greg Canty
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Anyone that follows me on social media will know that I am not the biggest fan of AI and in particular Generative AI.
So when I ended up sitting next to the founder of The Institute of Applied AI, Siobhan O'Leary at a Chamber breakfast, I couldn't resist inviting her to come on the Win Happy podcast !
We had a really fascinating chat about the family jewellery business, her career as an engineer, the challenge of juggling work and family, and then a huge pivot to self employment and the world of applying AI to business.
When I was editing the podcast, after about 25 minutes of perfect audio for some reason the sound collapsed on Siobhan's microphone and I was struggling badly to recover the audio quality. After lots of repair work by me using the software that I normally use, I had an ok recording but it wasn't at all good enough to publish.
Instead of abandoning what I had, I ironically turned to an AI repair tool that I had never used before to see if it could rescue the recording At times it changed Siobhan's voice and at times it managed to mispronounce some words - it still needed some intervention from me and a few parts I had to delete but all in all it did an ok job.
I'll let you listen and figure out where the AI took over and you might let me know if you think it did a good job or not!
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