Kickoff Sessions
Weekly podcast episodes with the sharpest minds in the world to help you live a richer & more fulfilling life.
Previous guests include Luke Belmar, Justin Waller, Sahil Bloom, Gad Saad, Peter Schiff, Stirling Cooper, Jack Hopkins, Sadia Khan, Matt Gray, Daniel Priestley, Richard Cooper, Justin Welsh, Arlin Moore and more.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 306
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
#45 Rob Lipsett – Drivers of Success, Happiness, Fulfilment & Social Media
Rob Lipsett is an online coach, fitness YouTuber, best selling author and founder of Game Plan and Fuel Cakes. Rob was one of the original Irish fitness accounts on YouTube and over time he scaled ra…
#44 Graham Brown – The Art of Storytelling & Future Landscape of Podcasting
Graham Brown has spent over fifteen years helping corporates, startup founders and storytellers find their voice. Graham is the founder of CEO Pikkal & Co, who creates award winning podcasts for bran…
#43 Somil Goyal – Career Skills in High Demand, Disruptive Innovation & Digital Assets
Somil Goyal works with investors in innovative UK companies to help maximize capital efficiency across their portfolio. Somil has deep experience in finance and consulting with skills honed at Deutsc…
#42 Kris Holmes – Ignite Your Career & Develop a Strong Network
Kris Holmes is the author of the best-selling book, Ignite Your Career, Strategies and Tactics to Unleash Your Potential. The information in the book was built during Kris's 25+ years at O’Connell Gr…
#41 The Happy Pear – The Importance of Doing What You Love
The Happy Pear started out back in 2004 with a small veg shop and a big dream. Dave & Steve Flynn had been travelling on opposite sides of the world and they both switched to a plant based diet withi…
#40 Conor Carlson – How to Plan Your Training & Nutrition After Lockdown
Conor Carlson is a bodybuilder and co-founder of Accomplish Fitness, providing online physique coaching, tailored training and nutrition for clients. Conor has a BSc in Sports Science and MSc in Spor…
#39 Daniel Mauro – Lessons From The Military, Market Bubbles, Equities & Bitcoin
Daniel Mauro is a portfolio manager with Patrick Mauro Investment Advisor and has been actively involved in financial markets since 2000. Dan received a Bachelor of Science in Physics and Nuclear Eng…
#38 Graham Allcott – How to Improve Your Productivity
Graham Allcott is founder of Think Productive, host of the Beyond Busy Podcast and author of several books including How to be a Productivity Ninja and How to Fix Meetings.
Think Productive offers pra…
#37 Neal Schaffer – How to Build & Monetize Your Personal Brand
Neal Schaffer is a digital marketing expert, podcast host, author, and lecturer in areas of digital and social media marketing. Neal is a guest lecturer to executives at Rutgers Business School, the …
#36 Darragh Lucey – Utilising Subject Matter Expertise, Outsourcing & The Risk/Reward Paradigm
Darragh Lucey is cofounder of Yooni, alongside his best friend and business partner Nathan Mayes. Yooni is a machine learning career guidance tool which simplifies the university course searching pro…
#35 Paddy Ryder – Identifying Market Opportunities, Balancing Side Projects & Creating Value
Paddy Ryder is cofounder of Covid Interns, a social enterprise established to connect businesses with university students and graduates to help combat the commercial challenges of Covid-19. Paddy is …
#34 Colin Bryar – Creating Scalable Processes, Customer Centric Focus & Working Backwards
Colin Bryar joined Amazon in 1998, four years after its founding and spent the next 12 years as part of Amazon's senior leadership team as Amazon grew from a domestic seller of books to a global, mul…
#33 Simon Ree – Building a Network, Passions, Learning From Mistakes & Managing Fear
Simon Ree is a best selling author, options trader and senior finance and investment professional with over 28 years of experience with leading global investment banks including Goldman Sachs, Citiba…
#32 Ernest Cantillon – Pivoting Business Models, Expansion, Career Changes & New Opportunities
Ernest Cantillon is co-founder of Kinsale Spirit Co and director of both Electric and Sober Lane. He has over 10 years’ experience in the hospitality and beverage sector and previously the president …
#31 Bernard Walsh – How to Improve Your Financial Literacy & Wellbeing
Bernard Walsh is head of pensions and investments at Bank of Ireland Investment Markets. Bernard has worked in pensions and investment-related roles in Bank of Ireland for over 15 years. Before that,…
#30 Nick Leeson – The Rogue Trader, Lessons from Prison, Happiness & Careers Advice
Nick Leeson is CEO of Bull & Bear Capital and former derivatives trader notorious for the collapse of Barings Bank, the United Kingdom's oldest merchant bank. Nick was the “Rogue Trader” who made fra…
#29 Garth Friesen – Building a Diversified Portfolio, Interview Preparation & Applications of Knowledge
From a small town in Canada to CEO of a hedge fund and former member of NY Federal Reserve Investor Advisory Committee, Garth Friesen has unique insights into financial markets as a successful trader…
#28 Solo Sessions – 5 Lessons Learned from Remote Working
In this session, I break down five lessons learned after working from home for over a year. Remote working has previously been scrutinized for its inefficiencies before coronavirus. Now, one year lat…
#27 Alan Carroll – Mortgages, Property Investing, Schemes & Interest Rates
Alan Carroll is back on Kickoff Sessions to provide a comprehensive overview of mortgages and property investing. Alan is a bank manager in Bank of Ireland with almost 20 years’ experience in finance…
#26 Gary Fox – How to Build a Brand, Create Valuable Content & Find Your Niche
Gary Fox is host of The Entrepreneur Experiment podcast where he interviews some of Ireland’s leading entrepreneurs to discover how they experiment with growing their business. Gary is also the found…