Trading Up

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Trading Up hosted by Jim Fitzpatrick and produced in association with EY, delves into the real businesses, personal stories, and remarkable journeys of entrepreneurs. Discover insights on risk, resilience, and business growth from diverse founders and leaders in businesses big and small across various industries. Tune in weekly for inspiring entrepreneurial learnings.

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Episode Date
Trevor Magill: How Musgrave Group Built a €5 Billion, 7-Generation Family Retail Empire
Dec 10, 2025
Tax, Ambition, and the Exodus: Decoding the Budget's Growth Gap and NI's Housing Headaches.
Dec 03, 2025
Resilience, Purpose, and Perspective: Andrew Patterson’s Journey from Elite Sport to Overcoming Hereditary Spastic Paraplegia (HSP)
Nov 26, 2025
Unpacked: Budget U-Turns, Global Trade Wars, and the Northern Ireland Economic Puzzle
Nov 19, 2025
Rupert Soames: the CBI Chair and Churchill's Grandson on rebuilding economic ambition
Nov 12, 2025
NI Wages Up, Gold Mine Stalled: Why Economic Stagnation Fuels Global Autocracy
Nov 05, 2025
Oasis Travel: Sandra Corkin and Son Scott McCabe
Oct 29, 2025
The New Global Disorder: Trade Wars, US Tariffs, and the Threat to Northern Ireland Business
Oct 22, 2025
Stephen McKeown - Apprentice mechanic to Allstate CEO
Oct 15, 2025
Fat Loss and Trade
Oct 08, 2025
Niall McKenna & Marion Lancial
Oct 01, 2025
Engineers vs. Lawyers: Can China's Model Fix Northern Ireland's Economy?
Sep 24, 2025
Martin Tierney: Seating Matters
Sep 17, 2025
Shooting The Messenger and Debt Balloons
Sep 10, 2025
Season Two Trail
Sep 03, 2025
Summer Shorts: Catriona Campbell on Making Artificial Intelligence Pay
Aug 27, 2025
Summer Shorts: William McColgan's Proud Culture of Success
Aug 20, 2025
Summer Shorts: Rory King of Rory's Travel Club
Aug 13, 2025
Summer Shorts: Matthew Nesbitt, Halos Bodycams
Aug 06, 2025
Summer Shorts: Matt Creighton and Bleubird Clothing
Jul 30, 2025
Summer Shorts: Maeve Monaghan of Now Group Explains Social Enterprise
Jul 23, 2025
Summer Shorts: Paul Stewart of My Baggage
Jul 16, 2025
Summer Shorts: Hotelier Melanie Harrison's Storied Success
Jul 09, 2025
Unpacked: Benefits U-Turn and Tax Rises; Trump's Reverse Robin Hood and The Northern Ireland Economy
Jul 02, 2025
Summer Shorts: Dominic Kearns of Fibrus and his £845 million gamble
Jul 02, 2025
Founders: How Declan Keeney Built The Most Advanced Virtual Effects Studio In the World
Jun 25, 2025
Thinkers: John Ryan on How Health Really Does Mean Wealth
Jun 19, 2025
EMERGENCY EPISODE. Unpacked: Spending Review, UK Growth, US-China Deal, Water Charges in Northern Ireland
Jun 12, 2025
Brewing Beer, Building a Business, Innovating Every Day
Jun 11, 2025
Unpacked: Trump's Tariffs, TACO Trade, Big Beautiful Bill, Uncertainty Squared
Jun 04, 2025
Kneecap Film Business and Hero Sam's Life Lessons
May 28, 2025
Making Stuff and a Multi Million Turnover in Kilrea
May 23, 2025
How They Build Boats in the Glens of Antrim
May 14, 2025
Building Palaces for Saddam Hussein and Rides for Disney
May 07, 2025
Andrew Ingredients – 80 Years in Baked Goods with Tim Andrew
Apr 30, 2025
Balancing Bricks and Clicks - The Born and Bred Story with Linzi Rooney
Apr 16, 2025
From Belfast Roots to Business Powerhouse: Tina McKenzie's Story
Apr 09, 2025
Entrepreneurs on Risk, Resilience, and Rapid Business Growth
Apr 02, 2025
Sugar Rush: From Coffee Loyalty Apps to Bespoke Business Solutions
Mar 26, 2025
Putting The Human First in Cyber
Mar 19, 2025
Female Founder Karen Sells Up To Staff
Mar 12, 2025
53 rejections, 1 yes, and £150 million to lend.
Mar 05, 2025
Heart Attack Sows Seeds of Success at Linwoods
Feb 27, 2025
Saving Lives With Precision
Feb 19, 2025
Greg's Pure Gym Grit & Growth
Feb 12, 2025
Hero Sam Swaps War Fighting for Juice Squeezing
Feb 05, 2025
Food, Faith & Frozen Fish
Jan 29, 2025
How The Sausage Gets Made
Jan 22, 2025
Turning a Facebook Punt Into A Multi-Million Business
Jan 14, 2025
Always Pay The Sales Guy Well
Jan 08, 2025
Building Big in Belfast
Dec 18, 2024
Mayfair Comes to Magherfelt and Nasdaq to Newry
Dec 11, 2024
Sporting Failure meets Business Success
Dec 04, 2024
AI Takes Over The Podcast
Nov 27, 2024
World's Biggest TV Show and a Field of Dreams in Banbridge
Nov 20, 2024
Taking a bite of the food business
Nov 13, 2024
Ski bum to clothing king - How Matt Creighton took off with Bleubird
Nov 06, 2024
A student loan & an illegal pitch - Pete Boyle's remarkable story
Oct 30, 2024
Brexit and Bubbles - JN Wines' James Nicholson
Oct 22, 2024
Jailhouse Spirit - John Kelly of McConnell’s Irish Whisky
Oct 15, 2024
Wellies on the farm and a suit in the office - Rob Heron from EY Northern Ireland
Oct 08, 2024
Throw away the begging bowl - Maeve Monaghan from Now Group
Oct 01, 2024
From chief ride tester to director of the company - John McAreavey from Clearhill
Sep 24, 2024
University frustrations led to shipping firm - My Baggage's Paul Stewart
Sep 17, 2024
Saving money with net zero - Connor McCandless from EnergyStore
Sep 10, 2024
Securing £100m with a slide deck - Dominic Kearns from Fibrus
Sep 03, 2024
The Maghera joiners building big in London - John Bosco O’Hagan from the Specialist Group
Aug 27, 2024
Amelia Hall is Belfast's newest hospitality spot - Peter Ringland from the Ringland Group
Aug 20, 2024
Treating anxiety and insomnia with electrical pulses - Dr Jason McKeown from Neurovalens
Aug 13, 2024
Kneecap and the Irish language movie business - Trevor Birney from Finepoint
Aug 06, 2024
The secrets of selling big on Amazon - Kevin McNamee from Denroy
Jul 30, 2024
The Newry lawyer and the Irish unicorn - John McEvoy
Jul 23, 2024
Boosting business through storytelling - Melanie Harrison from The Harrison hotel
Jul 16, 2024
Claridges Hotel top floor built in Mid Ulster - Mark Gribbin of Setanta Construction
Jul 09, 2024