The Irish Tech News Podcast

The financial services ecosystem has been inundated with a tremendous amount of external capital aimed at disrupting the way people and businesses bank. From the most basic to the most complex, financial relationships are held together by the tenets of savings, investments, monetary exchanges, protection, and use of the credit and debt. When any of these areas are neglected, these relationships can become one-sided, even predatory. What would our world be like, if banks and fintechs could change their business model to align with customer's financial objectives ? What if there was more focus on reducing debt and truly building real wealth over time?  In this week’s episode of One Vision, Theo and Bradley chat with Sunjay Pandey, founder of Woven Money, about their goals of helping consumers achieve long term financial security.

In this podcast today Melanie Boylan speaks with Louise McDonnell about all of her latest exploits, her planner launch and her next speaking gig coming up on the 15th of November as mentioned in the podcast, Louise is a speaker at the upcoming Monday Morning Marketing Podcast Workshop.  If you would like to book your FREE seat, then book here. Her Talk: Learn the 6 Steps to Generating More Sales & Leads on Social Media You will leave this session with a list of what you need to change.  Her promise is that she will offer practical tactics in non technical language that you will be able to understand and quickly implement. Louise McDonnell Louise McDonnell is a social media strategist, coach, & speaker.   She is the Author of, “Facebook Marketing, The Essential Guide” and the bestselling “2021 Social Media Planner & Guide”.  She is the founder of SellOnSocial.Media, an online training academy which makes social media simple, actionable and profitable.  Louise has been voted one of the world’s Top 50 Facebook Marketing Bloggers by Feedspot, and listed as one of the Top 108 Digital Marketing Experts Worth Following by Springboard.com. She has also been listed as one of the Top 10 Worldwide Facebook Experts by Blogger Local. Website & Social Media Links www.LouiseMcDonnell.com & www.SellOnSocial.Media Facebook Page Twitter Instagram LinkedIn

In 2012 John Colgan co-founded Solgari a company that has developed a disruptive cloud business communications platform. Since then Solgari has forged partnerships with various companies including Microsoft. During the current pandemic Solgari has come into its own. Ronan talks to John Colgan the CEO and Co-Founder of Solgari about this and more. John talks about his background, what Solgari does, the impact of the pandemic on Solgari and their clients. John also talks about Solgari’s USP and where he see’s Solgari going in the next 5 years. More about Solgari: Their purpose, and their passion, is to enable people to more easily communicate and collaborate. Solgari was built to free people from the restraints of disjointed and old-school technology and services. A complete communications solution that’s straightforward to implement, intelligent, dependable and universal. One solution to deliver the type of modern, agile communications businesses were crying out for.

Jamil chats with Imgesu Cetin, CEO of Defy Trends in his latest interesting crypto corner conversation. Defying the Traditional Trends by Helping Investors Make Confident Crypto Decisions with Imgesu Cetin Imgesu Cetin, CEO of Defy Trends, - an AI and data driven crypto intelligence platform that helps investors and traders make confident crypto investment decisions through actionable insights and quality information- breaks the mold of the enigmatic night-owl coder with her strong leadership, people skills, and outgoing personality. After sitting on her laptop, programming, and scraping together data from all thousands of sources, she likes to unwind by being a social butterfly, bringing like-minded people together, and even DJs for fun.She was born in Turkey grew up in the States. She got her Master’s degree at UCSD for Data Science.  One of her biggest accomplishments was getting a prestigious position in the UN - international organization for migration for forecasting and creating predictive modeling for migration using big data (web and social media analytics). She was selected among only 2,000 applicants for a full-time data scientist position in the UN. During all these accomplishments, she was always intensely passionate about blockchain, trading, and creating apps for herself to aid in her investment strategy. These self-help trading apps that scrapped and analyzed crypto trends ended up being the foundation of the Defy Trends Company which is now a platform for investors and traders to make confident crypto investments utilizing quality information and actionable insights!As a young entrepreneur empowering women, she has already launched her first company and is in the process of building a strong team to support her goals. Jamil Hasan is a crypto and blockchain focused podcast host at the Irish Tech News and spearheads our weekend content “The Crypto Corner” where he interviews founders, entrepreneurs and global thought leaders. Prior to his endeavors into the crypto-verse in July 2017, Jamil built an impressive career as a data, operations, financial, technology and business analyst and manager in Corporate America, including twelve years at American International Group and its related companies. Since entering the crypto universe, Jamil has been an advisor, entrepreneur, investor and author. His books “Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance” (2018) and “Re-Generation X” (2020) not only discuss the benefits of blockchain technology, but also capture Jamil’s experience on how he has transitioned from being a loyal yet downsized former corporate employee to a self sovereign individual. With over eighty podcasts under his belt since he joined our team in February 2021, and with four years of experience both managing his own crypto portfolio and providing crypto guidance and counsel to select clients, Jamil continues to seek opportunities to help others navigate this still nascent industry. Jamil’s primary focus outside of podcast hosting is helping former corporate employees gain the necessary skills and vision to build their own crypto portfolios and create wealth for the long-term.

Jamil chats with Christian Hook to learn more about this remarkable new collection. Christian enlisted the help of a number of scientists specialising in theoretical physics, physiology, sensory perception and more. Together they explored and broke down a series of ideas and discovered that artists and scientists have more in common than they thought. With their collaboration, Christian embarked on his greatest challenge yet - Painting the Invisible. You can watch some clips from the fascinating film in our interactive catalogue, which includes an online narrated tour of the complete exhibition, behind the scenes photography, and of course, the complete collection of original and limited edition artwork. Painting the Invisible - How Artists and Scientists are paving the path for NFTs in film and painting with Christian Hook https://www.clarendonfineart.com/news/christian-hook-painting-the-invisible/ Bio: https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/artists/christian-hook The Painting the Invisible video link here: https://www.sky.com/watch/title/programme/3ecdd7d0-7a37-48dc-84c8-058e939355df The Painting the Invisible artwork images that are exclusively exhibited at Clarendon Fine Art Dover Street: https://we.tl/t-FIMtmozPqp Jamil Hasan is a crypto and blockchain focused podcast host at the Irish Tech News and spearheads our weekend content “The Crypto Corner” where he interviews founders, entrepreneurs and global thought leaders. Prior to his endeavors into the crypto-verse in July 2017, Jamil built an impressive career as a data, operations, financial, technology and business analyst and manager in Corporate America, including twelve years at American International Group and its related companies. Since entering the crypto universe, Jamil has been an advisor, entrepreneur, investor and author. His books “Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance” (2018) and “Re-Generation X” (2020) not only discuss the benefits of blockchain technology, but also capture Jamil’s experience on how he has transitioned from being a loyal yet downsized former corporate employee to a self sovereign individual. With over sixty podcasts under his belt since he joined our team in February 2021, and with four years of experience both managing his own crypto portfolio and providing crypto guidance and counsel to select clients, Jamil continues to seek opportunities to help others navigate this still nascent industry. Jamil’s primary focus outside of podcast hosting is helping former corporate employees gain the necessary skills and vision to build their own crypto portfolios and create wealth for the long-term.

Peter is a world renowned photographer who for the past 20 years has been fixated on the faces that fill his frame. He spends his days in studio unpacking the relationship between how his clients’ internal thought processes affect their outer appearances. He’s a TEDx speaker on the subject, author of The Headshot, Shabangrs NFT project co-founder and founder of the Headshot Crew, which comprises the largest group of headshot specialists globally. Jamil Hasan is a crypto and blockchain focused podcast host at the Irish Tech News and spearheads our weekend content “The Crypto Corner” where he interviews founders, entrepreneurs and global thought leaders. Prior to his endeavors into the crypto-verse in July 2017, Jamil built an impressive career as a data, operations, financial, technology and business analyst and manager in Corporate America, including twelve years at American International Group and its related companies. Since entering the crypto universe, Jamil has been an advisor, entrepreneur, investor and author. His books “Blockchain Ethics: A Bridge to Abundance” (2018) and “Re-Generation X” (2020) not only discuss the benefits of blockchain technology, but also capture Jamil’s experience on how he has transitioned from being a loyal yet downsized former corporate employee to a self sovereign individual. With over sixty podcasts under his belt since he joined our team in February 2021, and with four years of experience both managing his own crypto portfolio and providing crypto guidance and counsel to select clients, Jamil continues to seek opportunities to help others navigate this still nascent industry. Jamil’s primary focus outside of podcast hosting is helping former corporate employees gain the necessary skills and vision to build their own crypto portfolios and create wealth for the long-term.

Have you been thinking about the global supply chain a bit more lately? Perhaps back in the beginning of the pandemic, when you couldn’t find toilet paper, or maybe now when you are just starting your holiday shopping and realize you might already be a bit too late. But do we think enough about what we buy, why we buy, where we buy from, and whether we are buying too much?  In this week’s episode of One Vision, Theo and Bradley chat with Christopher Mims about his new book, “Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door –– Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy”, and the fascinating story of the complex web of our global supply chain and why it matters more than ever.

Stephen Cutter is the founder and CEO of Wuji Games which is launching Earth Defender at COP26. His passion for saving the earth has led him over the past ten years to create a project which now combines blockchain, NFTs, Natural Capital Accounting Principles, the metaverse and tree planting. There are also elements of staking, ReFi, rewards, Easter Eggs and links with GiveNation and links with tree planting organisations Tree Sisters and the Eden Project. Listen here for more Your host is Jillian Godsil, award winning journalist, broadcaster and author - her latest book can be found at https://persons-of-interest.io/

This month is mental health awareness month and the current Covid-19 pandemic has brought mental health to the forefront. Mental health is also an issue with startups as many employees experience burnout. A Dublin startup Frankie has come up with a solution that can help deal with mental health issues. Ronan talks to James McGann the Co-founder of Frankie. James talks about his background, what Frankie does, psycho education, mental health continuum, VC funding, mental health services, Covid, where did the name Frankie came from, and mental health awareness month. More about Frankie: Frankie is a two-sided B2B mental health platform for modern teams and mental health service providers. Frankie intelligently connects team members suffering from anxiety, stress, depression, and burnout to a diverse range of support that is personalised to the individual. Frankie uses clinical assessments to measure effectiveness and to provide mental health insights to close the blind spots of remote and hybrid teams. Frankie connects with team members using the tools they use, like Slack, to deliver video calls with experienced therapists and to recommend preventative exercises that develop mental fitness.

Louise Brogan has been working in her niche of LinkedIn for a number of years now and is sought out internationally for helping others update and build their profiles personally and commercially.   In this podcast with Melanie Boylan she outlines the various ways her support can help boost your business and help business owners develop the techniques to reach their goals.  With a long list of resources as well as time spent with her directly, she can help any business reach and surpass their goals. As mentioned in the podcast, Louise is a speaker at the upcoming Monday Morning Marketing Podcast Workshop.  If you would like to book your FREE seat, then book here. Louise Brogan works with entrepreneurs, SME’s and professionals who want to raise their profile through LinkedIn in a genuine and valuable way. Louise is an international speaker, writes for Social Media Examiner and hosts the LinkedIn with Louise Podcast.  She lives at home with her husband, three children, and an energetic spaniel called Bruce. In 2019, Louise was invited to attend No 10 Downing Street to represent small business and annually attends the House of Lords as one of 12 UK Local Heroes for Business.   In 2021, Louise was named a Small Business Britain Champion. LinkedIn Learning Lab LinkedIn Profile by Lunch LinkedIn with Louise Podcast