Podcasts
Ellen Gunning, Data Prophet and founder of the Irish Academy of Public Relations, has joined Jim Walsh, founder and Executive Chair of Walsh, one of Ireland’s most respected PR agencies, to host an exciting new podcast. Each episode, recorded in the Walsh podcast studio, features and inspiring guest who shares their unique career journey, reveals the lessons they’ve learned along the way, and offers invaluable advice on turning your passion into success.
This podcast is a must-listen for anyone searching for purpose in their work or contemplating a career change. Walsh and Gunning sit down with some of Ireland’s most accomplished professionals to uncover the drive behind their success. From unexpected career pivots to personal triumphs and challenges, guests from all walks of life share their journeys.
Episode 1: Ireland’s Leading PR Experts Get ‘Off the Fence’
Episode 1: Ireland’s Leading PR Experts Get ‘Off the Fence’
Jim Walsh, founder and executive chair of Walsh, one of Ireland’s most long standing and respected PR agencies, and Ellen Gunning, data prophet and founder of the Irish Academy of Public Relations, get Off the Fence with Purpose in this first episode. They discuss their personal triumphs and challenges, and career pivots and longevity.
Episode 2: Headhunted for each career move
Patrick Atkinson, CEO of the Chadwicks Group, talks about the importance of networking and the influence executive search recruiters (Headhunters) had on his career.
Episode 2: Headhunted for each career move
Patrick Atkinson, CEO of the Chadwicks Group, talks about the importance of networking and the influence executive search recruiters (Headhunters) had on his career.
Episode 3: Published at 13 years of age
Aileen O’Toole is the first woman to edit a business magazine in Ireland and one of the founders of a national newspaper, the Sunday Business Post, now the Business Post.
Episode 4: Never being afraid to ask for advice
Carmel Doyle, CEO of the Oesophageal Cancer Fund, talks about her mentors including Dermot Desmond and Jonathan Irwin, and her lack of fear when it comes to asking for advice.
Episode 5: 50% of workers may be freelancing in 10 years.
Conor Lynch an award winning digital business innovator and educator speaks about a career which has moved through the various waves of information technology communications, from the internet, through digital and social media and now AI.
Episode 6: Putting family before career
Gavan O’Brien, CEO of Grad Ireland on the need to focus on family and prioritise that over a successful career.
Episode 7: A medical emergency changed my life
Don Harris, Executive coach, Mediator, Tour Guide, Podcaster and Broadcaster on how life events can, sometimes, change your entire focus.
Episode 8: Are you Bruce Springstein?
Declan Kelly, managing partner at Digital Impact, chats about his remarkable career in advertising and digital media and the many lessons learned along the way.
Episode 9: Doing meaningful work and living a fulfilling life
Pat Henry is best known in Ireland as a personal trainer to the stars, but he is also a musician and a movie extra. His stories of his time in Hollywood, and the connections he made, make this episode well worth a listen.
Episode 10: Entertainment and Financial industries combined
David Orr, whose career spanned setting up his own accountancy practice Faulkner Orr, and working as CEO of the company behind Riverdance the Irish entertainment phenomenon which has captured the attention of audiences throughout the world.
Episode 11: It takes a network to defeat a network
Episode 12: Career Lessons Learned from the first 10 episodes
Jim Walsh and Ellen Gunning consider the lessons learned from the first 10 Episodes and look for common threads among the successful people they have interviewed.
Episode 13: Media, Books & Communications
Breda Brown runs her own business, Unique Media, and chairs the board of the Irish Writers Centre (among other things). Her advice to anyone working in these areas is love what you do, stay curious and develop your network and interpersonal skills.
Episode 14: Zero tolerance for disrespect in the workplace
Derek Kehoe, CEO and Head of Country for BNP Paribas in Ireland, chats about his philosophy and approach to management, which is not sector specific.
Episode 15: I can do that. I’ll give that a go
Deirdre Ryan offers an insight into how a willingness to try things led to a long career with RTE and, ultimately, her own business – The Production People
Episode 16: You have to speak up to make change
Making a positive difference and advocating for women in a mental hospital came at a career cost for Louise Bayliss. But as she tells Jim and Ellen in this episode of Off the Fence with Purpose for every negative there is a positive.
Episode 17: From investigative journalism to leadership training
Margaret E Ward covers her time from being a cub reporter in New York, through an award-winning journalism career in Ireland to becoming CEO of a leadership training company.
Episode 18: Negotiating pocket money as a child helped shape a business approach
Michael O’Donohoe now Country Director for Ireland and UK with Wavin, negotiated for his pocket money every year with his trade unionist father.
Episode 19: "Sitting with Nellie” was great career start
‘Sitting with Nellie” is a colloquial British phrase for learning a job by observing and mimicking an experienced worker. For Martina Byrne it was an early introduction to the world of communications.
Episode 20: The red thread through a career
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Corporate affairs and issue management have been some of the red threads through the career of Michael Patten.
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