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HC Collective Podcast

44 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -

A Performance podcast bringing global experts to talk about a range of topics including networking, leadership and mental health.

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Morgan O'Connell - Your Money Life: It's Personal (Week 1)

August 13, 2021 09:00 - 52 minutes - 36.4 MB

Morgan O’Connell is a practicing Financial and Career coach.  He is the first Financial Coach in Ireland holding the Certified Financial Planner© accreditation.  He is a qualified Financial Advisor (QFA) and previously a Personal Insolvency Practitioner (PIP).  He holds a Graduate Diploma in financial Planning from UCD and most the Advanced Diploma in Personal, Executive and Leadership Coaching from Kingstown College.  He is an accredited Practitioner with the European Mentoring and Coaching...

Bernard Jackman - What Makes Great Teams Special

August 05, 2021 23:00 - 54 minutes - 37.4 MB

Bernard played rugby in school and was persuaded by Warren Gatland to turn professional.  He went on to play for Connacht, the Sale Sharks and Leinster and, internationally, for Ireland, before retiring in 2010 due to a concussion injury. In 2011, he published his autobiography, Blue Blood, before making the move into coaching at club level when he joined FC Grenoble on a consultancy basis. He went full-time in the 2012-2013 season and  was appointed head coach at Grenoble in June 2016. He ...

Dave Sammel - Soft Leadership Skills

July 30, 2021 00:00 - 54 minutes - 37.2 MB

David Sammel is a world renowned tennis coach with two players competing in Tokyo. He wrote the best selling book Locker Room Power and founded the online mindset programme to help declutter the minds of competitors in sport and business.  He specialises in leadership skills in competitive environments using surprisingly non-combatitive techniques, favouring the power of vulnerability, the strength of humbleness and the persuasiveness of soft skills. Enjoyment and environments enthused with...

Tara Logan Buckley - Rebalancing Your Soothing System (Part 4 of 4)

July 23, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MB

Dr Tara Logan Buckley, (D.Clin.Psych) is working as a Clinical Psychologist in the private, public and corporate sectors. She received her undergraduate (B.A.Hons), Higher Diploma (H.Dip.Psych) and Masters degree (M.A. Applied Psych) from University College Cork. She went on to complete her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. To date, Tara has worked extensively in private and public adult mental health and within forensic settings where she has provided a psychologi...

Tara Logan Buckley - Rebalancing Your Soothing System (Part 3 of 4)

July 15, 2021 23:00 - 1 hour - 41.5 MB

Dr Tara Logan Buckley, (D.Clin.Psych) is working as a Clinical Psychologist in the private, public and corporate sectors. She received her undergraduate (B.A.Hons), Higher Diploma (H.Dip.Psych) and Masters degree (M.A. Applied Psych) from University College Cork. She went on to complete her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. To date, Tara has worked extensively in private and public adult mental health and within forensic settings where she has provided a psychologi...

Tara Logan Buckley - Rebalancing Your Soothing System (Part 2 of 4)

July 09, 2021 09:00 - 44 minutes - 30.9 MB

Dr Tara Logan Buckley, (D.Clin.Psych) is working as a Clinical Psychologist in the private, public and corporate sectors. She received her undergraduate (B.A.Hons), Higher Diploma (H.Dip.Psych) and Masters degree (M.A. Applied Psych) from University College Cork. She went on to complete her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. To date, Tara has worked extensively in private and public adult mental health and within forensic settings where she has provided a psychologi...

Tara Logan Buckley - Rebalancing Your Soothing System (Part 1 of 4)

July 02, 2021 12:00 - 58 minutes - 40.1 MB

Dr Tara Logan Buckley, (D.Clin.Psych) is working as a Clinical Psychologist in the private, public and corporate sectors. She received her undergraduate (B.A.Hons), Higher Diploma (H.Dip.Psych) and Masters degree (M.A. Applied Psych) from University College Cork. She went on to complete her Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at Trinity College Dublin. To date, Tara has worked extensively in private and public adult mental health and within forensic settings where she has provided a psychologi...

Miriam Chancellor - Virtual Presence

June 29, 2021 13:00 - 54 minutes - 37.1 MB

Miriam Chancellor is New Zealand’s leading executive public speaking and presentation coach and Past-President of Auckland Toastmasters. Miriam coaches clients to overcome the challenges of public speaking to enable them to achieve their professional goals. She works with a range of clients, from entrepreneurs to leaders of global organisations. Miriam also coaches several of New Zealand’s C-Suite executives. Through her years of experience, Miriam has identified the small changes that mak...

Mike Stevenson - The Art Of Reinvention

June 22, 2021 13:00 - 56 minutes - 38.9 MB

Mike never fails to inspire. His own journey from homelessness to award-winning entrepreneur is filled with remarkable people and events.  He is founder of Thinktastic, an innovations agency, voted Scottish Small Company of Year 2008 and acclaimed for its unique approaches to stretching people and organisations beyond the ‘apparently’ possible.  His clients included M&S, Scottish and Southern Energy, NHS, Scottish Government and Sky. His motivational work with schools was given special reco...

David Gillick - Running Through Uncertainty

June 12, 2021 12:00 - 55 minutes - 37.9 MB

David is one of Ireland’s most successful sprint athletes. He stepped off the track in 2013 after a successful athletics career which included winning Ireland’s first sprint gold medal in 76 years when winning the European Indoor 400m championships in 2005. He went on to retain his title in 2009 and became an Olympian in 2008. A major goal for David was to compete in a global 400m final, which had never been achieved by an Irish athlete. In 2009 he finished 6th in the Berlin World Champions...

Jasper Walshe - Create Your Personal Blueprint for Success

June 12, 2021 11:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MB

Jasper’s Coaching and Performance Consultancy partners with organisations that are committed to equipping their leaders to thrive in an increasingly demanding world of business. He worked for 15 years in frontline corporate roles in banking and professional services, all client-facing and fee-earning with leadership responsibilities.

Peter Brown - Investment Fundamentals

June 12, 2021 07:00 - 59 minutes - 40.6 MB

Peter has over 35 years’ experience in the financial markets and has managed treasury operations in financial institutions including Barclays, BNP, Ulster Bank and ACCBank. Peter was head of Trading in Barclays for 10 years. Peter is an expert in foreign exchange, interest rate and market risk and has implemented treasury processes and procedures for several financial institutions. Throughout his banking career he advised clients on best practice with regards their treasury operations and h...

Angela Go - Ultimate Career Accelerator

June 11, 2021 17:00 - 51 minutes - 35.5 MB

Angela Go is an Entrepreneur, Fortune 500 Executive Coach & Trainer, Award-Winning Public Speaker and President of the UAA, Europe’s leading engineering professionals network. Starting out as a broke travelling hippie sleeping on couches and selling self-made handicrafts on the streets, within a short 5 years she made an impressive transformation and became a corporate leader, acclaimed award-winnning public speaker and owner of several businesses. Nestlé Headquarters recruited her to co-f...

Rhian Mannings - Living With Loss

June 11, 2021 16:00 - 52 minutes - 35.8 MB

In February 2012 I had just returned to work as a P.E. teacher after having my youngest son George when tragedy struck my family. George died suddenly with no sign of illness in the Royal Glamorgan Hospital, Llantrisant on the 22nd February. Just days later Paul, my husband and the Daddy to my three children, took his own life traumatised by the loss of their son. The tragedy of experiencing the sudden death of a child was compounded by the situation my husband and I found ourselves in at t...

Síle Uí Chiaráin - Addiction: Stopping Starts Here

June 11, 2021 15:00 - 55 minutes - 37.8 MB

Educator, Psychotherapist, Podcast Host. Having recently retired from her post as a primary school teacher in Ireland, in a career that spanned thirty years, Síle continues to educate, inspire and mentor in her new incarnation as a life and business coach, psychotherapist and success strategist. Síle works with formulas to help clients achieve mind-derived health optimisation. Teaching individuals and business communities about Causing an Effect as opposed to Cause and Effect, Síle is takin...

Deirdre McGinn - Raising Your Horizon

June 11, 2021 14:00 - 51 minutes - 35.4 MB

I’m Deirdre, founder of StepUpStepIn. I am a mother, daughter, sister and loving loyal friend.  However, as a professional woman, my greatest joy in life is to see all women shine with confidence in both their professional and personal lives. I have spent the last 25 years leading teams and individuals through organisational and transformational change. My background is in the Technology Industry working at LinkedIn, IBM and Oracle in a range of senior leadership roles. Throughout my caree...

Peter Norris - A Life In Leadership

June 11, 2021 13:00 - 55 minutes - 38.4 MB

Peter Norris is the Chairman of the Virgin Group, a position he took up in 2009. Prior to this he had acted as an adviser to the Group from 1996 and had chaired Virgin Active from 2002 to 2007. He also currently chairs Virgin Atlantic and Virgin Hotels. Peter has over 40 years’ experience in investment banking and business management.

Sinem Bahadirli - Designing Your Work Life

June 11, 2021 12:00 - 50 minutes - 34.6 MB

After graduating from Robert College, she continued her education in Koc University, majoring in Economics and Business Administration, followed by International Marketing MSc degree in King’s College, London. She began her professional career in Google, Ireland. From customer experience to sales, she worked in different roles and managed various projects for Google’s digital marketing and advertising products, mainly in the UK, Ireland and Turkey. Her interest in people steered her towards...

Ewan Dunbar - Adopting A Positive Mindset

June 11, 2021 11:00 - 1 hour - 42.9 MB

Ewan is passionate about helping people and businesses to grow and has founded a business dedicated to just that (xPotential Limited).  He now uses the expertise and experience gained from over two decades working for companies like KPMG, EY and Virgin Media to support business and their people in achieving their goals. Ewan was formerly Group Finance Director for Virgin Media during which time he was named as one of the Top 100 CFOs in Ireland.  He was also awarded Irish Accountant of the ...

Shane O'Donoghue - Building Resilience

June 11, 2021 10:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MB

Shane O’Donoghue is an Irish Olympian but more importantly, a highly passionate performance coach and psychologist. Upon graduation from University Limerick and Kingstown College with a master’s in performance psychology and executive coaching, Shane provides a professional yet practical coaching experience. Shane is a highly ambitious international hockey player with 190 international matches for Ireland. His most notable achievements to date would have to be representing Ireland at the 201...

Tara Logan Buckley - Healthy Coping Mechanisms

June 11, 2021 09:00 - 51 minutes - 35.2 MB

Tara has worked extensively in private and public mental health and within forensic settings where she has provided a psychological service to a broad range of clients presenting with a range of severe and complex psychological, behavioural and emotional difficulties along with enduring mental health difficulties. Tara specialised residency was within a Weight Management Service and her research on bariatric surgery and obesity have been presented both nationally and internationally.  Tara ...

James Cluskey - Lessons In High Performance Goal Setting

June 11, 2021 08:00 - 49 minutes - 33.9 MB

High Calibre Collective was founded by Ireland’s renowned Tennis Pro James Cluskey, who has spent a lifetime delivering high performance. His achievements on the court had him represent Ireland in the Davis Cup from 2006-2015. As a tennis pro, James won 15 professional titles and was ranked 145 in the world. In 2018, James and 3 others undertook the physically and mentally gruelling challenge of attempting to break the Guinness World Record for the longest doubles tennis match – over 60 hour...

James McLeod - Power Of Effective Delegation

June 11, 2021 07:00 - 59 minutes - 40.7 MB

James is an established Life & Career Coach, Executive Coach, Business Coach, Leadership Coach and Trainer. He is accredited with the International Coaching Federation, the International Coaching Council and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and a member of the Irish Institute of Training & Development. He has helped many individuals with their life and career decisions over the last 7 years and in his spare time, he volunteers at Jobcare (www.jobcare.ie) helping people who are c...

Kurt Long - Listening: The Greatest Asset You Can Develop

June 11, 2021 06:00 - 1 hour - 42.6 MB

Kurt started his career at the Kennedy Space Center as space shuttle databank mission lead for the Hubble Space Telescope, Venus Radar Mapper, Galileo (released probes into Jupiter atmosphere), Ulysses (Sun close fly-by) as well as numerous other missions. He has been granted nine patents in privacy and security technology globally and has a Masters degree in Theoretical Mathematics and Bachelors degree in Business. As an entrepreneur, Kurt believes in a ‘people-first’ leadership philosophy...

Kate McDaid - Nutrition 101

June 11, 2021 05:00 - 53 minutes - 36.8 MB

Kate McDaid is a health and performance nutritionist and founder of NutriKate, a high-performance nutrition consultancy based in Dublin. Having played and captained the Irish Basketball team, the importance of nutrition became apparent to Kate at a young age and a true passion for this area blossomed. Kate followed her ambition and completed a masters in Sport and Exercise Nutrition at Loughborough University. Before returning to Ireland, Kate secured a role, advancing to senior health and p...

Gina London - Become A More Purposeful Communicator

June 11, 2021 04:00 - 57 minutes - 39.8 MB

Gina London is an Emmy winning veteran CNN correspondent and anchor with more than a decade of television, radio, internet and print experience who is now an internationally recognized expert at helping professionals improve themselves and their companies through dynamic and powerful communications.

Dave Sammel - Leadership Through Awareness

June 11, 2021 03:00 - 53 minutes - 36.6 MB

David Sammel was born in Johannesburg, South Africa and is a world prominent and accredited tennis coach, sports consultant and writer.  Since 2010, David has been the Head Coach at TeamBath-MCTA and authored a best-selling book ‘Locker Room Power: Building an Athlete’s Mind’.

Nick Littlehales - Redefine Your Approach To Sleep

June 11, 2021 02:00 - 51 minutes - 35.3 MB

Nick Littlehales, the leading elite sport sleep coach, has been redefining sleep for over two decades. Founder of the R90 Technique and referred to by his clients as The Game Changer. Discover for yourself the sleeping secrets, techniques and practical interventions adopted by elite athletes, players and coaches in world sport.

Kingsley Aikins - Networking 101

June 11, 2021 01:00 - 55 minutes - 38.1 MB

Kingsley Aikins is a recognised expert on Networking and has written and spoken extensively on the topic. He has run workshops and presentations for some of the world’s leading companies such as Google, Linkedin, Accenture, Deloitte, Intel, KPMG, PwC and a number of leading law firms in Ireland and elsewhere. He has worked with governments and international agencies such as the US State Department, the UN, EU and the World Bank.  Kingsley is an economics graduate of Trinity College Dublin a...

James McLeod - Creating A Coaching Dialogue

June 11, 2021 00:00 - 55 minutes - 37.8 MB

James is an established Life & Career Coach,Executive Coach, Business Coach, Leadership Coach and Trainer. He is accredited with the International Coaching Federation, the International Coaching Council and the European Mentoring and Coaching Council and a member of the Irish Institute of Training & Development. He has helped many individuals with their life and career decisions over the last 7 years and in his spare time, he volunteers at Jobcare (www.jobcare.ie) helping people who are cu...

Ciara Conlon - Five Ideas To Find Your Flow

June 10, 2021 22:00 - 37 minutes - 26 MB

Ciara works with people who want to be better, who have a strong desire to create or achieve great things. So whether that’s a senior manager in a corporate environment or a self employed go getter, her gift is to see the potential in everyone and help them to reach this potential but in a purposeful way ensuring that the path they are on is the right path for them. Using a combination of intuition and solid business insight (I have a degree in Economics and a Masters in Business) Ciara hel...

Roisin Gowan - Eating For A Healthy Lifestyle

June 10, 2021 21:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MB

Roisin Gowan is a registered dietitian with CORU in Ireland and has been practicing dietetics over 10 years. Having qualified from the University of Plymouth with a BSc (Hons) in Nutrition and Dietetics, she has since gained a wide range of clinical experience working as a dietitian in the NHS and HSE. In the last 5 years, she specialised in paediatrics at the Children’s Hospital Ireland at Crumlin. She currently works as a Clinical Specialist Neonatal Dietitian at Ireland’s biggest maternit...

Tara Logan Buckley - Anxiety: Rebalancing Your Soothing System

June 10, 2021 20:00 - 49 minutes - 34.3 MB

Tara has worked extensively in private and public mental health and within forensic settings where she has provided a psychological service to a broad range of clients presenting with a range of severe and complex psychological, behavioural and emotional difficulties along with enduring mental health difficulties. Tara specialised residency was within a Weight Management Service and her research on bariatric surgery and obesity have been presented both nationally and internationally.  Tara ...

Morgan O'Connell - Money Management Basics

June 10, 2021 19:00 - 45 minutes - 31.3 MB

I am the first Financial Coach in Ireland holding the Certified Financial Planner© accreditation. I have worked in financial services for 15 years, first in public sector pensions, wealth management, and then in debt management and personal insolvency following the last financial crash.  I became a Financial Coach as I felt those with money worries were not being served properly.  Many never look at emotional and behavioural aspect of their day to day finances, leading to powerlessness and e...

Deirdre McGinn - Create Impact Through Virtual Presence

June 10, 2021 15:00 - 52 minutes - 36.3 MB

Deirdre is an Executive Coach, specialising in Career progression and Executive and Virtual  Presence. She has over 25 years’ experience in global multi-national technology companies, holding senior leadership positions in organisations including LinkedIn, IBM and Oracle.  With a wealth of experience in leading national and international Field and Inside Sales teams, Deirdre’s focus is commercially grounded and results led.

Bernard Jackman - High Performance

June 08, 2021 15:00 - 53 minutes - 36.4 MB

Bernard was born in Tullow, Co. Carlow and raised on his parents’ farm.  He attended Newbridge College in Kildare before going on to study business and Japanese at University College Dublin. He played rugby in school and was persuaded by Warren Gatland to turn professional.  He went on to play for Connacht, the Sale Sharks and Leinster and, internationally, for Ireland, before retiring in 2010 due to a concussion injury.  Today he remains an Ambassador for Acquired Brain Injury Ireland, who...

Kate McDaid - Nutrition In These Strange Times

June 08, 2021 15:00 - 1 hour - 42.4 MB

Kate is a competitive basketball player who has represented her country and still competes at Super League level. She marries her positive learnings from sport with her expertise and the latest research to provide tangible advice, bespoke to her clients. Kate believes that nutrition should add to our lives instead of being seen as something restrictive. She educates her clients so they feel empowered to make their own informed decisions around their diet to support their needs. Kate is a fl...

Leo Daniel Ryan - Using Breathwork For Performance

June 07, 2021 12:00 - 56 minutes - 39 MB

I have cured my own chronic childhood asthma when I was given no hope from the medical community. I’ve played GAA games, attained a black belt in Judo, run a marathon with no training and my mouth taped shut. I’ve climbed a mountain bare chested in sub-zero temperatures and I’ve developed my own business; all thanks to my foundation of breath training and physical activity. I’ve spent my career researching how breathing techniques impact the body and mind and coaching others to breathe free...

Rob Cullen - Change Your Habits, Change Your Life

June 05, 2021 12:00 - 51 minutes - 35.6 MB

After our first holiday alone without the boys, we returned feeling tired, overweight and almost depressed. Our weight had increased and our energy levels had decreased, therefore we knew something had to change. We set ourselves goals, supported each other and committed to losing weight together. Over the course of two years, we went on to lose a whopping 13 stone. We found a new passion for food which in turn created a motivating interest in cooking. Shopping for, and preparing healthy ...

Mark Duffy - The Power Of Gratitude

June 04, 2021 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MB

Mark Duffy believes that everyone deserves to live fulfilling lives through their work. He is fascinated by the psychology of exceptional leadership, well-being and performance in the workplace. Mark is an executive coach, corporate trainer and faculty member with over ten years’ experience in the field. He has particular interest and expertise in coaching executives to grow their teams’ engagement, positive relationships and proactive behaviours. Mark has worked with leaders across the glo...

Mark Duffy - The Power of Gratitude

June 04, 2021 12:00 - 54 minutes - 37.6 MB

Mark Duffy talks to us about the power of gratitude. He covers various topics, including the importance of having meaningful relationships, long term happiness, empathy,  how different people perceive different circumatsnces & much more! Hope you enjoy this session with Mark. If you want to get in touch, reach out to us via our website

Dave McKernan - Leading From The Front

June 04, 2021 12:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MB

David McKernan is a persistent, passionate and high-spirited entrepreneur, who has inspired and irritated in equal measure throughout a successful career in coffee. He emerged from the cocoon of Bewley’s to found Java Republic Roasting Company in 1999: This innovative company quickly became one of Ireland’s most successful brands, and one of Europe’s leading coffee companies. Java Republic is notable for a distinctive vision: Premium, fresh handroasted coffee – with a conscience. From day ...

Dave McKernan - Leading from the Front

June 04, 2021 12:00 - 55 minutes - 38 MB

David McKernan is a persistent, passionate and high-spirited entrepreneur, who has inspired and irritated in equal measure throughout a successful career in coffee. He emerged from the cocoon of Bewley’s to found Java Republic Roasting Company in 1999: This innovative company quickly became one of Ireland’s most successful brands, and one of Europe’s leading coffee companies. Java Republic is notable for a distinctive vision: Premium, fresh handroasted coffee – with a conscience. From day ...

Sarah Shannon - Guided Meditation

June 01, 2021 17:00 - 55 minutes - 37.8 MB

Sarah teaches yoga, breath work and meditation to help professional who are stressed, stiff and tired.  She believes that alignment – a healthy body, mind and soul connection – is vital to our health, wellbeing and success. Sarah spent a decade working as a corporate lawyer.  She applies Eastern traditional teachings in a practical way (thanks to her lawyer mind) to help you relieve stress, improve movement, connect inwardly and come into alignment with your true self.  We hope you enjoy ...