The Inner Entrepreneur
Conversations about finding success in the world while creating a life of peace, prosperity, happiness and fulfillment.
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Many leaders today are surrounded by data, tools, and metrics, yet feel increasingly disconnected from themselves. In this conversation, Dr. Diana Dimitrova and I explore why high performers often suppress intuition, how emotional disconnection shows up in leadership, and the real cost of building companies while losing connection to our inner compass.
We discuss why intuition is not “soft” or irrational, but a form of intelligence...
In this bite-size episode, Paul speaks with Marc O’Dwyer, former CEO of Big Red Cloud, about the emotional reality of selling a business after more than three decades of ownership. Marc shares why he was determined to avoid an earn-out, how he held firm for a clean exit with 100% payment upfront, and the role that clarity, focus, and daily mental rehearsal played in making that outcome possible. He talks openly about the surprisi...
In this episode of The Inner Entrepreneur, Paul sits down with Niall O'Murchu , one of Ireland’s leading wellness and breathwork experts. With over 23 years’ experience in mental, emotional, and physical wellbeing, Niall is a Level 3 Wim Hof Method Instructor and the first Irish person to teach at the Wim Hof Academy.
We explore how modern life keeps our nervous systems stuck in stress mode — and how simple practices like coherent...
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Dr. Chris Winter is a neurologist and sleep medicine specialist with decades of
Tools & References Mentioned
• The Sleep Solution (book)
• The Rested Child (book)
• Sleep Unplugged (podcast) Connect with Dr. Chris Winter • Instagram: @instaDRChrisWinter • www.wchriswinters.com • Podcast: Sleep Unplugged •
Books:
The Sleep Solution;
The Rested Child
About the host:
Paul Ryan is an entrepreneur, 8 figure business owner, mentor, p...
Episode Summary:
In this weeks episode, Paul sits down with Dr. Michael Keane to explore how emotions arise before we are even aware of them, why our “gut feelings” often know more than our conscious minds, and how gratitude, meditation, and attention reshape our physiology. We explore whether free will truly exists, how cultural conditioning shapes who we become, and why emotional control is less about not feeling — and more abou...
In this bite sized episode of The Inner Entrepreneur, Paul sits down with Brendan McGurgan, co-founder of Simple Scaling, creator of the ScaleX Accelerator, and former CEO who scaled a small engineering firm from 15 people to nearly 700, and from £3M to over £100M+ in global revenue — long before “scaling” became a buzzword.
Brendan believes that if you have a great product or service, you don’t just have an opportunity to grow — y...
Guest: Adie McGuiness — Co-Founder of Sigmar Recruitment
Episode Summary
In this bite-size episode, Adie McGuiness shares the story of how his team came together during one of the toughest periods in business. Facing financial uncertainty, his staff personally contributed €200,000 to help save the company—an extraordinary act of loyalty that revealed the power of trust and genuine leadership.
Adie and Paul discuss how real leaders...
The Intelligence Trap: Why Smart People Make Bad Decisions: David Robson #133
Episode Summary
Award-winning science journalist David Robson joins Paul to explore the big ideas behind his three books — The Intelligence Trap, The Expectation Effect, and The Laws of Connection. We get practical about intellectual humility, how beliefs shape physiology and performance, and why most of us underestimate how much other people like us. Fro...
Most people think “trauma” means war, abuse, or catastrophe. In this Inner Entrepreneur Bite-Size clip, Laurel Wiers (trauma therapist and creator of the MINT Method) explains why that’s incomplete — and how little-t experiences can quietly shape your personality, decisions, and success until you learn to reset back to your truest self.
This isn’t just theory. We dig into Gabor Maté’s definition of trauma (“not the event, but the...
Most of us picture a “matchmaker” as a village elder with a little black book. Amber Lee flips that script. As co-founder of Select Date Society, she runs a boutique, white-glove matchmaking firm for high achievers and ultra-high-net-worth clients — pairing deep psychology with ruthless vetting to protect time, energy, and hearts.
In this conversation, Amber shares how a near-death cardiac arrest became the wake-up call to launch h...
We’re all born with extraordinary potential — but life tests us with obstacles that shape our character and reveal what we’re truly capable of.
In this Inner Entrepreneur Bite-Size episode, Dan Metcalfe shares a remarkable journey: from youth footballer scouted by Crystal Palace to an unlikely leap into West End dance — then a devastating on-stage spinal injury in Las Vegas that forced a total reinvention. What followed wasn’t the ...
Rushing through life isn’t the same as living it. In this conversation, Paul sits down with author and speaker Carl Honoré—often called the evangelist of the Slow Movement—to unpack how “doing things at the right speed” unlocks better work, deeper relationships, and a saner mind. They explore monotasking vs. multitasking, why walking is a superpower, simple rituals that calm a frantic nervous system, and the surprising link between...
In this bite-sized episode of The Inner Entrepreneur, Paul sits down with Olympic medalist, pro football player, coach, entrepreneur, and author Bob Molle to explore the secret to living with energy and purpose.
Bob shares why he’s always chased what excites him—from wrestling in the Olympics to coaching, business, writing, and speaking—and how this zest for life has kept him happy, fulfilled, and resilient. He reveals why doing wh...
In this episode Paul sits down former social worker turned performance pioneer Jack Black (MindStore).
Jack has spent 35+ years training founders and leaders to use both sides of the brain — pairing vision and intuition with rigorous execution — to create outcomes (including multi-million exits) without sacrificing health, family, or soul. Jack is a renowned international speaker, corporate consultant, author and coach and has shar...
In this bite-sized episode, Paul sits down with entrepreneur Brian Keegan to unpack the wild swing from “Park Lane Paddy” highs to receivership lows—and the gritty rebuild that followed. Brian shares how a perfect storm (9/11, the dot-com crash, Enron/WorldCom) halved his business in months, pushed him to the High Court, and nearly into personal bankruptcy.
He explains the turnaround: swapping ego for humility, refusing to “sign it...
In this episode Paul sits down with Liz Hartke—founder of Luminary Leadership, creator of the Overflow CEO Mastermind, and host of Your Big Next—to explore what it really means to build with integrity. Liz shares the moment a trusted mentor told her she was “drastically underperforming” her potential (despite major wins), how that wake-up shifted her from forcing growth to leading from overflow, and why how you build is as importan...
In this bite-size episode of The Inner Entrepreneur, we dive deep into the hidden cost of hustle culture, the sacrifices many high achievers make, and the redefinition of what true success looks like.
From the raw honesty of rushing back to work after childbirth to stories of children craving time over material success, this conversation explores the tension between ambition and presence. We discuss how society’s narrow definition ...
Guest: Joey Klein — author of The Inner Matrix and Relationship Alchemy; founder of Inner Matrix Systems.
Topic: Rewiring your “inner matrix,” emotional mastery, and the fundamentals of thriving relationships.
Summary
Paul and Joey dig into how unconscious emotional conditioning drives our thoughts, choices, and results—and how to retrain it. Joey outlines a practical path: awareness → nervous-system regulation → conditioning fu...
In this bite-size episode of The Inner Entrepreneur, we explore the psychology and practice of selling with Sean Weafer —and why it’s the foundation of every successful business. Sean breaks down complex ideas into practical steps, weaving together lessons from engineering, psychology, and spirituality.
We discuss why being an expert isn’t enough, why most professionals struggle to sell themselves, and how rejection in childhood of...
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