1% Better

Pat Rodgers is an ultra runner and endurance athlete. In this podcast, we talked about his many adventures over his career (so far) in the world of extreme physical challenges. This includes rock climbing expeditions while in College in France, to taking on the challenge of a solo kayak around the entire island of Ireland, attempting to climb Aconcagua in South America, to completing the Kerry Way 120 Mile run, the UTMB (which I learned during the podcast is the Ultra Trail Mount Blanc), and many other challenges along the way.We focused a good section of the conversation around his most recent event, the Spine Race in the UK, where Pat completed the 268 mile race along the Pennines in January. This took 7 days to complete and is fascinating to hear how Pat planned it, endured it and completed it. He shared the journey and provided some great takeaways in this episode around motivation, pushing through pain, facing and overcoming the infamous Wall! Pat’s message is a clear one - don’t limit yourself or put up

In this episode of the 1% Better podcast, I have a fascinating conversation with Andrew McLaughlin. Andrew is a Programme Director at the Irish Management Institute (IMI) for Diplomas in Organisational Behaviour and in Executive Coaching. He is a hugely experienced executive coach and has worked with national and multi-national companies including Revenue Commissioners, Departments of Industry and Commerce and Defence, OECD and EU. Andrew is a Master Practitioner and certified trainer/ consultant of Neuro Linguistic Programming (NLP).During our conversation, we journey though Andrews career, his passion in developing human potential (his words and I love that), discuss how mindfulness, meditation, yoga, and exercise have always been very much part of his life and how he’s always been a highly curious life long learner in many areas of the arts.Some of the great 1% better takeaways in this episode talk about NLP techniques like Anchoring and starting a daily Mindfulness practice to gain benefits to help you.

During this episode, I chat with John about his very successful and interesting career so far. We talk about his early days growing up in Cork, moving to Dublin for University, time spent in South Africa and Scotland, all providing him with great life experiences. John talks about setting up Zartis.com in 1997 and how it was acquired very quickly in a multi-million dollar deal. He gives his perspective of how he dealt with the challenges that followed with the .com bubble bursting, how he refocused and moved forward with other successful ventures in the years that followed. In the last 10minutes, we go into a series of questions around productivity, work-life balance, decision making and meditation.I hope you enjoy the episode and feel free to give me feedback. Thanks again to John for his time and insights during the conversation.

In this episode, I chat with Oliver Kirwan, who runs (with his business partner Catriona O’Callaghan and team) Elite Event Management from their offices in Killarney. He is responsible for the Quest Adventure Series and Run Killarney to name just two in their stable. We talk about how the company started, how it's grown, and plans for the future.We also talk about about ChiChung, work-life balance, sleep, good and bad habits, decision making processes, empowerment, intuition, advice, fears of regret, movies, goals, inbox zero, core values and more!It's packed with 1% Better tips. I hope you enjoy the show. Feedback as always is very welcome!Have a great day,Rob

In this episode, I chat with Maeve Ahern O’Neill who is a personal branding expert and runs her own business called ‘thebrandingofme’ (www.thebrandingofme.ie). During the conversation, Maeve brings you on a whirlwind journey which covers her school days with the Nuns in Cork, to getting advice from Gay Byrne in RTE, working in Fathers book emporium, to going back to college to study a masters in Digital Humanities, and then to starting up her own business focusing on Personal Branding.You’ll hear lots of great advice from Maeve as she reflects on some of the turning points that came up during her career and how all of these have lead her to where she is now. She talks about having a work ethic that is key to her ongoing progress. Her responses to kick-backs and knocks during her career which all made her more determined to be successful. Never rest on your laurels, and work on your skill set and embrace the tools that are out there to help you build your online persona.We end on some Q&A on managing the w

In this episode, I talk with the Cork City Football Manager, John Caulfield, on his style of management and leadership, how he handled the transition from player to manager, and some of the challenges managing a team in the modern day where instant success seems to be what is expected. He provides an insight into his core values as a manager, dealing with conflict and hopes for the season ahead. Please enjoy!

In this episode, I have a great conversation with Andrew Mangan.So, Andrew is one of the reasons I started down the road of putting a podcast together. He has been running the Arsecast Podcast for 10 years (which currently has over 1 million downloads per month) and has been writing the Arseblog for over 15 years. We touch on a lot during the hour long conversation. I hope you enjoy the hour conversation and please check out Andrew at andrewmangan.net or at the arseblog.com

Welcome to the first episode of the 1% better podcast. In this short episode, I share a bit of information about where the idea for RoboftheGreen and the 1% better podcast came from, I provide a short overview of me (not self-indulgently I assure you), my interest in learning and podcasts, what to expect in upcoming shows, and how to get in touch with me.