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Trading Up — 96 episodes

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Bootstrapping Oatco to £1M, Surviving Dragon's Den, & Making Forbes 30 Under 30 with Laura Murphy

2

The Democratic Regression: The Rise of Autocracy and Its Threat to Free Markets

3

Future-Proofing Your Business: Sustainability, Resilience, and EY's Four Futures

4

Make Way For The Mooch - Anthony Scaramucci on Trump, Wealth and Learning from Ireland (North and South)

5

Why The Strait of Hormuz Crisis is Like Belfast's Westlink When a Car Breaks Down But Much Much Worse

6

From Belfast to Hollywood: Building a Global Film Charity with Cinemagic's Joan Burney Keatings

7

Scaling Hospitality: Gavin Annon on Mount Charles, Agility, and the "being too short" Success Story

8

Gulf Crisis Shockwaves: Energy Prices, UK Interest Rates, and the Northern Ireland Economy

9

Embracing Difference, Building Strength: Belinda Brown on Leadership, Diversity, and "Midlife Clarity"

10

The Economic Ripple Effect: Middle East Oil Shocks & Northern Ireland's Fiscal Doom Loop

11

Authenticity, Adversity, and Algorithms: How Olivia McVeigh Built a Social Media Empire

12

Trump’s Tariffs Ruled Illegal, AI Impacts, Jobs & Northern Ireland House Prices

13

Built in Belfast, Adored Around The World: Building High-Performance Teams with People Playbook

14

Unpacked: Workers’ Rights, Water Crises, and the Truth About Tariffs

15

From Tobermore to Detroit: Lyle Watters and The Unconventional Path to Leading Ford

16

Mark Carney’s Davos Warning: The Death of the Old Order & How UK & Europe Should Respond

17

Building a £20M E-commerce Brand: The Kukoon Rugs Story

18

Economic Inactivity, EV Wars, and Regime Roulette: Navigating the 2025 Landscape

19

The Business of the Arts: Claire Murray and Scaling Success at the Lyric Theatre

20

Listener Questions: Breaking the Grant Culture and Fixing Northern Ireland’s Economy

21

Tiarnán O'Neill: Bucking The Trend & The Galgorm Growth Blueprint

22

Northern Ireland Economy Under Pressure: Brexit Frictions, Budget Crises, and Global Policy Headwinds

23

Trevor Magill: How Musgrave Group Built a €5 Billion, 7-Generation Family Retail Empire

24

Tax, Ambition, and the Exodus: Decoding the Budget's Growth Gap and NI's Housing Headaches.

25

Resilience, Purpose, and Perspective: Andrew Patterson’s Journey from Elite Sport to Overcoming Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP)

26

Unpacked: Budget U-Turns, Global Trade Wars, and the Northern Ireland Economic Puzzle

27

Rupert Soames: the CBI Chair and Churchill's Grandson on rebuilding economic ambition

28

NI Wages Up, Gold Mine Stalled: Why Economic Stagnation Fuels Global Autocracy

29

Oasis Travel: Sandra Corkin and Son Scott McCabe

30

The New Global Disorder: Trade Wars, US Tariffs, and the Threat to Northern Ireland Business

31

Stephen McKeown - Apprentice mechanic to Allstate CEO

32

Fat Loss and Trade

33

Niall McKenna & Marion Lancial

34

Engineers vs. Lawyers: Can China's Model Fix Northern Ireland's Economy?

35

Martin Tierney: Seating Matters

36

Shooting The Messenger and Debt Balloons

37

Season Two Trail

38

Summer Shorts: Catriona Campbell on Making Artificial Intelligence Pay

39

Summer Shorts: William McColgan's Proud Culture of Success

40

Summer Shorts: Rory King of Rory's Travel Club

41

Summer Shorts: Matthew Nesbitt, Halos Bodycams

42

Summer Shorts: Matt Creighton and Bleubird Clothing

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Summer Shorts: Maeve Monaghan of Now Group Explains Social Enterprise

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Summer Shorts: Paul Stewart of My Baggage

45

Summer Shorts: Hotelier Melanie Harrison's Storied Success

46

Unpacked: Benefits U-Turn and Tax Rises; Trump's Reverse Robin Hood and The Northern Ireland Economy

47

Summer Shorts: Dominic Kearns of Fibrus and his £845 million gamble

48

Founders: How Declan Keeney Built The Most Advanced Virtual Effects Studio In the World

49

Thinkers: John Ryan on How Health Really Does Mean Wealth

50

EMERGENCY EPISODE. Unpacked: Spending Review, UK Growth, US-China Deal, Water Charges in Northern Ireland

51

Brewing Beer, Building a Business, Innovating Every Day

52

Unpacked: Trump's Tariffs, TACO Trade, Big Beautiful Bill, Uncertainty Squared

53

Kneecap Film Business and Hero Sam's Life Lessons

54

Making Stuff and a Multi Million Turnover in Kilrea

55

How They Build Boats in the Glens of Antrim

56

Building Palaces for Saddam Hussein and Rides for Disney

57

Andrew Ingredients – 80 Years in Baked Goods with Tim Andrew

58

Balancing Bricks and Clicks - The Born and Bred Story with Linzi Rooney

59

From Belfast Roots to Business Powerhouse: Tina McKenzie's Story

60

Entrepreneurs on Risk, Resilience, and Rapid Business Growth

61

Sugar Rush: From Coffee Loyalty Apps to Bespoke Business Solutions

62

Putting The Human First in Cyber

63

Female Founder Karen Sells Up To Staff

64

53 rejections, 1 yes, and £150 million to lend.

65

Heart Attack Sows Seeds of Success at Linwoods

66

Saving Lives With Precision

67

Greg's Pure Gym Grit & Growth

68

Hero Sam Swaps War Fighting for Juice Squeezing

69

Food, Faith & Frozen Fish

70

How The Sausage Gets Made

71

Turning a Facebook Punt Into A Multi-Million Business

72

Always Pay The Sales Guy Well

73

Building Big in Belfast

74

Mayfair Comes to Magherfelt and Nasdaq to Newry

75

Sporting Failure meets Business Success

76

AI Takes Over The Podcast

77

World's Biggest TV Show and a Field of Dreams in Banbridge

78

Taking a bite of the food business

79

Ski bum to clothing king - How Matt Creighton took off with Bleubird

80

A student loan & an illegal pitch - Pete Boyle's remarkable story

81

Brexit and Bubbles - JN Wines' James Nicholson

82

Jailhouse Spirit - John Kelly of McConnell’s Irish Whisky

83

Wellies on the farm and a suit in the office - Rob Heron from EY Northern Ireland

84

Throw away the begging bowl - Maeve Monaghan from Now Group

85

From chief ride tester to director of the company - John McAreavey from Clearhill

86

University frustrations led to shipping firm - My Baggage's Paul Stewart

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Saving money with net zero - Connor McCandless from EnergyStore

88

Securing £100m with a slide deck - Dominic Kearns from Fibrus

89

The Maghera joiners building big in London - John Bosco O’Hagan from the Specialist Group

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Amelia Hall is Belfast's newest hospitality spot - Peter Ringland from the Ringland Group

91

Treating anxiety and insomnia with electrical pulses - Dr Jason McKeown from Neurovalens

92

Kneecap and the Irish language movie business - Trevor Birney from Finepoint

93

The secrets of selling big on Amazon - Kevin McNamee from Denroy

94

The Newry lawyer and the Irish unicorn - John McEvoy

95

Boosting business through storytelling - Melanie Harrison from The Harrison hotel

96

Claridges Hotel top floor built in Mid Ulster - Mark Gribbin of Setanta Construction