The weekly podcast from Luke Curry and Mark Baker, discussing all things business, tech, creative, health, and general lifestyle advice. Each Wednesday join the brothers in-law, as they interview an eclectic range of guests from blue collar grafters to multi-millionaire investors, each with their own stories to tell, and lessons learned along the way. If you have a side hustle, want to start a passion project, or just want to hear some great career and life advice, this is the podcast for you.
Episodes
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
Wednesday Apr 29, 2020
What is up SharkNation!
Today the guys sit down with Celebrity Chef, Entrepreneur (Itsa, Joe's Coffee, Alchemy Juice co. and others) and Author (Ketogenic Kitchen), Domini Kemp.
The guys do a deep dive on Domini's experience and cover:
1. How she got started and how a NYC Puerto Rican bagel exporter's tax problems became her opportunity.
2. Finding the company's confidence through the recession and austerity in the early 10s.
3. The food hall movement and lost opportunities for the Dublin Food scene.
4. Her 2013 cancer diagnosis and the nutrition revelation that it sparked for her.
5. How her research led her to co-author the Ketogenic Kitchen.
6. Fasting and the benefits of keeping a low glucose profile.
7. Tech to help you track you glucose.
Packed a whole lot into one hour!
If you have any feedback for the lads you can reach them at Luke@shark.ie.
If you are as fascinated as the guys were with Domini and her story you can follow heron the socials @dominikemp on insta and twiter.
Amazon Link to The Ketogenic Kitchen.
Keep Moving Forward!
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
Wednesday Apr 22, 2020
What is up SharkNation!
Today Luke and Mark ZOOM in with one of Ireland's the original Podcasters Graham Merrigan.
Graham has been in the Podcast game for years with his wildly popular "What's the Story" podcast that he co-hosts with Danny Murray. His multi-award winning podcast has over two hundred episodes and they have interview everyone from Christy Moore to George Forman and Dimond Dallas Page.
In this podcast we cover:
1. How to leverage social media to engage with potential guests
2. How to use your basketball skills to score a role on Ireland's leading soap opera "Fair City"
3. How the 'Crisp World Cup' allowed the What's the Story podcast to reach a larger audience (and how this was copied by others in media).
4. Disability Activism
5. A lightning round of questions delivered, as always by Mark Baker.
If you have any feedback or just want to Drop the lads a line you can reach the podcast at Luke@shark.ie
Keep Moving Forward!
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
Wednesday Apr 15, 2020
What is Up SharkNation!
Today Luke and Mark sit own for a virtual chat with serial entrepreneur Jamie White.
Jamie has been starting and selling businesses since he was in college and he takes us on a journey through the high lights (and some low lights) of his fascinating career.
In this episode we cover:
1. Starting an events company in Collage, hosting parties all over the country and bringing some of the biggest DJ acts to Ireland.
2. Starting a media publishing company and building a content website that generated 2,000,000 weekly visitors.
3. How his expertise led him to start his his own digital media marketing agency (Leading Social) and some tactics he used to get that off the ground.
4. What he is doing now after selling his last company and how he is trying to give back to the Startup Community.
You can reach Jamie at Jamiewhite.com @jamiewhite on insta.
Keep Moving Forward!
Luke@shark.ie
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
Wednesday Apr 08, 2020
What is Up SharkNation!
Today we are trying something completely different. With the the world in lock-in mode due to the virus outbreak, the guys decided to switch it up in this episode and Luke and Mark ponder the life lessons of Hollywood legend Matthew McConaughey.
The guys react to sections directly ripped from the commencement speech of. the man himself at the University of Huston, where he describes. his 13 rules for life.
Luke and Mark are big fan's of Matthew's work for sure but also his philosophy of "Just. Keep. Linvin'." Mark even own's a hat with them slogan that he wore to the show (see youtube to see this).
The guys cover:
1. Rules on fear
2. Having no roof on goals
3. Personal standards
4. Happiness vs Joy
5. Defining success
6. The importance of a 'walk about' and intersection
7. Don't leave crumbs
We hope you our take on Mathew's lessons and if you have any feedback please let us know: Luke@Shark.ie.
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
Wednesday Apr 01, 2020
What is up SharkNation!
This week we invited Steven Farrell to the podcast. Steven is a speaker, Artist, Cancer Surviver, Podcaster and NLP Mind couch.
We did a deep dive on:
1. Steven's journey of becoming a professional artist and some of the thing he had to overcome to make that happen.
2. How he became a professional speaker, spreading his message of positivity and tool kits for creating the life you want.
3. How we are all creative being and some of us have simply forgotten this.
4. How he dealt with not only cancer, but complications that followed.
5. How his healthy life style choices (CrossFit, Cycling, healthy eating) before he got sick, helped him to recover much faster than had he'd been in poor shape beforehand.
We touch on so many subjects in this one but the Call-to-Action on this one is for the listeners to bring back creativity into their lives if they can, living a creative life is living a more interesting life!
You can connect with Steven below:
Instagram: @steven_farrell11
Keep Moving Forward!
Wednesday Mar 25, 2020
Wednesday Mar 25, 2020
What is Up SharkNation!
"The richest people in the world look for and build networks, everyone else looks for work. Marinate on that for a minute." - Robert T. Kiyosaki
Today we focus on networking and with Dublin's foremost expert on the subject - Rob Cullen.
Rob works with business people to help them maximise and grow their personal networks. He and the chamber run around 110 events per year with the goal of creating a spaces for business people to meet and do business together.
We cover:
1. The importance of networking for business people and how it can be a mistake to reply solely on your natural network of people you have always known.
2. The do's and don'ts of networking and how to make the most out of events you attend.
3. How to handle business cards and follow up best practices.
4. Networking is about helping, not selling.
Rob also has an inspirational healthy journey where him and his wife have lost 13st together over the last few years.
With that in mind we dig into the lifestyle design aspect of healthy eating and what Rob did to loose the weight and keep it off.
If you have feedback you can reach out to us at luke@shark.ie.
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
Wednesday Mar 18, 2020
What is up SharkNation!
This week we take the show on the road once again, recording on location at the Dublin Barista School (https://dublinbaristaschool.ie/) with the company founder, James McCormack.
In this wide ranging we cover:
1. The importance of company culture and growing a loyal team.
2. The benefits (and draw backs) of setting up a business without a lot of capital.
3. James's experience of running multiple businesses at the same time and how accounting should be at the core of any business.
4. We go into who James is as a person and what drives him, we speak about how personal development has been at the centre of a life revolution he has experienced over the last few years.
5. We finish with a discussion on the power of net working and mastermind groups. And how although they are important in a quid pro quo context, they are also important for morale and helpful when you are looking to tap into tribe mentality.
We hope you enjoy!
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Wednesday Mar 11, 2020
Wednesday Mar 11, 2020
What is Up SharkNation!
Today, we sat down with Professional Poker player Sam Baneham. We wanted to explore an alternative to the 9-5 lifestyle and really dig into what it is like to rely on your poker playing skills for survival.
We cover:
1. Choosing poker over a more conventional path.
2. The role of probability on poker and in life.
3. Poker etiquette and how to get started.
4. How professional poker works, cash vs tournaments games
5. Keeping balanced - spirituality and mental management.
Although me and Mark are not going to go 'all-in' on a career in poker, this would be a great episode to share with those people in your life who are looking to make the move into taking Poker seriously.
Keep Moving Forward!
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Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
Wednesday Mar 04, 2020
What is up SharkNation!
Today we a branching out to the more creative business area: Photography.
Niall Scully (https://www.niallscullyphotography.com/) is a professional photographer who runs his own business specialising in wedding photography.
We cover his story from humble beginnings through the post secondary school trials and tribulations to becoming one of Ireland's premier Wedding Photographers.
We cover:
1. Defining what you want to do with your career (through figuring out what you don't want to do).
2. Mentorship and apprenticing (learning from the Pros...for free).
3. How to make lemonade out of the lemons life gives you (being let go may lead to a great opportunity for change).
4. What it takes to make it as a professional photographer
5. The business side of the creative life: marketing, tax, scheduling and doing the math on your business.
If you have any enquires for Niall drop him a line @niallscully on Instagram.
If you have any feedback or you are one of our international listeners and want to pop on to the podcast sometime give us a shout on luke@shark.ie.
Hope you enjoy!
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Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
Wednesday Feb 26, 2020
What is up SharkNation!
We have a very special episode for you today.
Chris Lauder is the co-founder of The Dublin Academy of Education (@dublinacademy on FB and Twitter) and was named on the Independent's 30 under 30 list.
He has been in business for 10 years and has built it from a 2 man operation providing tutoring for 25 Leaving Cert students in the evenings to a full time 'grinds school' with 300 full time students and up to 3000 evening students, all with the goal of ensuring the best possible leaving results for their students.
We interviewed Chris on location in the Dublin Academy of Education and covered...
- Starting from scratch
- Gorrilla marketing
- Backing your product, a real free trial
- Finding investors
- Not stopping at the first hurdle (finding a way no matter what).
- The future of education in Ireland
- Self improvement and the value of enjoying the journey
If you enjoy the show pass it on to someone you think would like it too, if you have feed back reach out to Luke@shark.ie.
KEEP MOVING FORWARD!