HeyJaredWhat's The Craic Podcast
What’s The Craic with host Odhran McCorry is a podcast about the journeys behind success.Every episode starts with a simple Irish question:What’s the craic?From there, the conversation goes wherever the story leads.The risks people took.The lessons they learned.The failures…
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94: Goran Utjesinovic - 74 Tonnes, 24 Hours, One Shovel (opens the original)
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"He lost his father at 11, fled a civil war, and changed schools 18 times before he ever picked up a shovel for a living. Now Goran spends 24 hours every year digging trenches to save lives in construction." Goran arrived in Australia in 1998 with no flying experience, a history of being refused entry over a lung condition, and a childhood shaped by war and displacement. He spent a decade as a carpenter before moving into construction and mining, eventually building Benang, his own in-ground ser
93: Bill Van Didden - Still Here, Still Fighting (opens the original)
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"He noticed something wasn't right on a cruise in 2015. Ten years, two surgeries, chemo twice, and one clinical trial later, Bill is still here, and still telling every man he knows to get tested." Bill was running a business with 16 employees when a stage four prostate cancer diagnosis turned his life upside down. What followed was a decade of surgery, radiation, hormone therapy, chemotherapy, and experimental treatments, including a first-in-human drug trial he's currently part of. Through all
92. Jeff Leach: From Paper Rounds to Prostate Cancer Advocacy (opens the original)
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"He bought his first pharmacy in 1968 with $200 cash and a borrowed car. Nearly six decades later, Jeff Leach is still fighting for men's health, one PSA test at a time." Jeff Leach built a career from nothing, cycling door to door as a teenager until a pharmacist gave him his first apprenticeship for three pounds and fourteen shillings a week. He went on to found Friendly's Chemist, one of WA's first pharmacy franchises, before his own cancer scare and the loss of his brother pulled him into a
91. Aileen Mathyssen - Teaching Kids to Understand Their Brains (opens the original)
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"She landed in a remote mining town for a four-month contract and never left. Now Aileen is helping kids across the Pilbara learn to understand their own emotions." Aileen, originally from Waterford, came to Australia in 2011 for a working holiday. A short stint in Sydney left her cold, so she took a four-month occupational therapy contract in Paraburdoo, a remote mining town in the Pilbara. She fell in love with the community, met her husband there, and built a life and a career around a region
90. Damian Beausang: From A Bar in Cork, To A Life in Perth (opens the original)
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"From a night in a Cork bar with a mate and a one-way ticket, to running one of Perth's biggest scaffolding companies. Thirty-seven years on Damian Beausang still calls Ireland home." Damian Beausang landed in Perth in 1988 almost by accident, choosing Australia over America on a whim after a big night out with his cousin. What started as a working holiday turned into a life: a wife, two kids, deep roots in the local GAA scene, and a business, Access Engineering Group, that now employs around 10
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