Trading Up
Trading Up hosted by Jim Fitzpatrick and produced in association with EY, delves into the real businesses, personal stories, and remarkable journeys of entrepreneurs. Discover insights on risk, resilience, and business growth from diverse founders and leaders in businesses big and small across various industries. Tune in weekly for inspiring entrepreneurial learnings.
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- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 38 minutes
- Episodes
- 61
- Years Active
- 2024 - 2025
Building Palaces for Saddam Hussein and Rides for Disney
Who would you rather work for: Saddam Hussein or Mickey Mouse? Mervyn McCall has worked for both. As co-founder of construction giant Mivan, he built palaces for Saddam before Gulf War One put an a…
01:01:19 |
Wed 07 May 2025
Andrew Ingredients – 80 Years in Baked Goods with Tim Andrew
It may be a tough business, but it seems like "wee buns" to Tim Andrew. Join Tim and Jim as they delve into Andrew Ingredients' 80-year history. Discover how the family business evolved from an agenc…
00:43:50 |
Wed 30 Apr 2025
Balancing Bricks and Clicks - The Born and Bred Story with Linzi Rooney
Discover how this Belfast-based independent retailer is thriving against the odds. Learn about what Linzi Rooney means by her culturally relevant products; how she doubled online turnover while growi…
00:48:25 |
Wed 16 Apr 2025
From Belfast Roots to Business Powerhouse: Tina McKenzie's Story
Discover the inspiring journey of Tina McKenzie, from launching a recruitment business that went from zero to 150 million in short order. From running Staffline in Northern Ireland to becoming a lea…
00:51:10 |
Wed 09 Apr 2025
Entrepreneurs on Risk, Resilience, and Rapid Business Growth
The multi-millionaire and serial entrepreneur who began his business journey as an unlicensed street trader. The bank employee who quit school before her A Levels then quit the bank to set up her own…
00:40:31 |
Wed 02 Apr 2025
Sugar Rush: From Coffee Loyalty Apps to Bespoke Business Solutions
The scariest business decision Ali MacFarlane ever made - and he's not alone here - was hiring his first employee. But two decades later, his bespoke app and software development agency is going fro…
00:38:20 |
Wed 26 Mar 2025
Putting The Human First in Cyber
Clare Ryan cut her entrepreneurial teeth on a market stall and then a corner shop. She was the first in her family to go to university where she excelled. But she swapped biomedical sciences for th…
00:46:03 |
Wed 19 Mar 2025
Female Founder Karen Sells Up To Staff
Karen Maguire doesn't do the expected or routine. She wouldn't have decided to set up her own manufacturing business if she did. She wouldn't have grown it, with much personal sacrifice, through le…
00:53:06 |
Wed 12 Mar 2025
53 rejections, 1 yes, and £150 million to lend.
Judith Totten thinks kindness is important in her business. Which is rather surprising because she's in the finance business. But it has paid off for her and the numbers tell the story: zero A Level…
01:04:54 |
Wed 05 Mar 2025
Heart Attack Sows Seeds of Success at Linwoods
Patrick Woods' grandfather died at age 42. His father needed a heart bypass in his early fifties. So, being healthy really means something to him and his family. His dad transformed his lifestyle a…
00:55:27 |
Thu 27 Feb 2025
Saving Lives With Precision
Picture a 72-year-old farmer in Idaho who has been diagnosed with skin cancer. He's about to start a tough regime of chemotherapy. The kind of toxic drugs that have been used to blast such cancers …
00:55:22 |
Wed 19 Feb 2025
Greg's Pure Gym Grit & Growth
Greg Bradley is no spoofer. But when he got a call from the strength and conditioning coach for a global sporting giant requesting equipment he'd seen on Greg's Facebook site to be delivered within …
00:55:12 |
Wed 12 Feb 2025
Hero Sam Swaps War Fighting for Juice Squeezing
What qualifies or prepares someone to create a chain of juice bars and a hospitality-focussed software business? A glance at Sam Shephard's CV wouldn't give any clues. He's a former Royal Marine with…
00:53:41 |
Wed 05 Feb 2025
Food, Faith & Frozen Fish
Andrew Lynas runs a family-owned food business. But it's not like many others. It began with his grandfather who had a row with his greengrocer boss so he quit and set up a fishmongers. Norman, Andr…
00:47:09 |
Wed 29 Jan 2025
How The Sausage Gets Made
You can't have it all. Life involves sacrifice. But William McColgan is an example of how you can come close to having it all, as long as you correctly define what success looks like and make the r…
00:42:41 |
Wed 22 Jan 2025
Turning a Facebook Punt Into A Multi-Million Business
A nasty tackle during a football match in his final year of school left Rory King with a broken jaw, and it changed his life. If it hadn't happened, Rory wouldn't have messed up is A Levels and would…
00:52:42 |
Tue 14 Jan 2025
Always Pay The Sales Guy Well
There's a reason why you should keep your key sales staff happy. Mathew Nesbitt is what can happen when you don't. He goes and sets up his own business which puts yours into the shade. He was in h…
00:57:56 |
Wed 08 Jan 2025
Building Big in Belfast
He's behind the biggest residential development Belfast City Centre has ever seen and he wants to change the way we live. He began his career as a surveyor in London before moving into the developmen…
00:48:26 |
Wed 18 Dec 2024
Mayfair Comes to Magherfelt and Nasdaq to Newry
We catch up with two former guests to find out what's happened since we first met them on the podcast. The Newry lawyer who took an Irish pharma firm onto the Nasdaq with a $1 billion plus listing a…
00:35:36 |
Wed 11 Dec 2024
Sporting Failure meets Business Success
Jan Cunningham believes in failure. He may have helped put Ulster Rugby on the world stage as European champions with a stunning victory in the 1999 Heineken Cup. But he contends that even that gre…
00:34:12 |
Wed 04 Dec 2024
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