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Made In Chaos with Ryan Curtis

Made In Chaos is a podcast about resilience, mental toughness, and rebuilding your life after everything collapses.

Podcast · By Ryan Curtis · English · Official site

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Sep 30, 2026
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  1. Episode · Sep 30, 2026

    Inside the Secret World of Professional Poker: Cheating, Millions & Reading People - Chris Dowling (opens the original)

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    A Professional Poker Player on Risk, Luck, Reading People and Why You Can Make the Perfect Decision and Still Lose. Chris Dowling has spent well over a decade making a living at the poker table, from local card rooms in Ireland to the high-stakes rooms of Las Vegas. But this conversation is about far more than cards. It is about how to think clearly under pressure, how to read people, how to manage risk and emotion, and how to keep making good decisions when the outcome is out of your hands. Rya

  2. Episode · Sep 23, 2026

    The Mental Health Crisis Ireland Keeps Pretending Isn't Happening - Rob Connolly (opens the original)

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    He Built One of Dublin's Best-Known Businesses While Addiction Nearly Took Everything. Rob Connolly on Success, Grief, Recovery and the Brother He Lost. Rob Connolly is the founder of The Ink Factory, one of the most recognisable tattoo studios in Ireland, and a serial entrepreneur since his teens. But behind the businesses is a life shaped by addiction from the age of twelve, the loss of his brother John to suicide, and a long, honest reckoning with what success is really worth. Ryan sits down

  3. Episode · Sep 16, 2026

    Traveller Culture, Fighting & the Life Settled People Never See - Lucas Connor (opens the original)

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    He's an Irish Traveller Who Speaks Five Languages, Reads Nietzsche in German, and Is Reviving a Dying Language. Lucas Connors on Culture, Community and Everything Settled Ireland Gets Wrong. When most people hear the word "Traveller," a set of assumptions follows. Lucas Connors spends this episode gently, brilliantly taking those assumptions apart. He's a jiu-jitsu black belt, a linguist reviving the Shelta language, a voracious reader of philosophy, and one of the most thoughtful guests Made in

  4. Episode · Sep 9, 2026

    Why Do So Many Working-Class Young Men End Up in Prison? - Bob Cullen (opens the original)

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    He Went From Addiction, Violence and a Seven-and-a-Half Year Prison Sentence to Studying the Very Behaviour That Destroyed His Life. Bob Cullen on Violence, Class and Whether People Can Really Change. Bob Cullen grew up in Blanchardstown as, by his own account, a shy and sensitive kid — and became a violent, addicted young man who ended up serving over seven years in prison. What makes his story extraordinary is what he did next: he studied criminology from his cell, and is now finishing a maste

  5. Episode · Sep 2, 2026

    Paul Hughes: The Steroid Problem in MMA Is Worse Than You Think (opens the original)

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    Doctors Told Him He Might Never Fight Again. Now He's One of the Best Fighters Ireland Has Ever Produced. Paul Hughes on Injuries, the Usman Fights, PEDs and the Real Cost of Winning. Paul Hughes is one of the biggest names in Irish MMA — a former Cage Warriors world champion who's twice gone five rounds with Usman Nurmagomedov for a world title, and beaten some of the best fighters on the planet. But the road here nearly ended before it started: multiple hand fractures early in his career had d

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