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🗓️ 1 April 2018
⏱️ 30 minutes
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It's Sunday Chops time again and this week Hannah met up with award-winning businesswoman and founder of THEYA Healthcare, Ciara Donlon. They talked about how the company's bamboo bras are helping women recovering from breast cancer, as well as the hurdles for women in business, top tips for starting your own firm and Repeal The Eighth. Get stuck in.
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0:00.0 | This is a passenger announcement. You can now book your train on Uber and get 10% back in credits to spend on Uber eats. |
0:11.0 | So you can order your own fries instead of eating everyone else's. |
0:15.0 | Trains, now on Uber. T's and C's apply. Check the Uber app. And the Hi Anna here |
0:44.1 | here welcome to Sunday Chops this week I was lucky enough to grab half an hour with |
0:48.3 | Kira Donlan businesswoman and inventor and the founder of Fair Healthcare whose revolutionary bamboo bras are helping |
0:55.8 | women who are recovering from breast cancer. They also talked about Kira's |
0:59.7 | experiences as a woman in the world of business, her tips for any other women thinking of |
1:05.4 | dipping their toe in and starting their own company and repeal the eight. |
1:10.6 | So tuck in until next week. |
1:12.3 | Hi I'm here in the Marleybone Hotel with Kira Dunlan from Thayer Healthcare, |
1:17.8 | Businesswoman, Inventor, and now Cartier Lariat. |
1:22.1 | Yes, hey, lovely to be here. Thank you very much. I might start with what I think is one of the most interesting things about your story is that you made well made redundant and then it kind of changed your life for the positive. |
1:35.0 | Absolutely. |
1:36.0 | I know a lot of people that that's happened to. |
1:37.6 | I actually think that quite often people think that redundant, in fact it happened to me, |
1:41.5 | redundancy is going to be the worst thing that's ever going to happen to you and actually sometimes it's the thing that opens up a whole range of opportunities for you. |
1:48.0 | Yeah, because it was in the beginning of the recession, so it was voluntary redundancy yeah that's exactly what I did yeah and I like |
1:57.8 | grass it with both hands I'd always wanted to do my own thing yeah and I just had no idea what I wanted to do and you have a |
2:04.1 | little parachute with money as exactly you've got a bit of a safety net so it's |
2:09.6 | kind of interesting how it all happened when I left I had no idea what I wanted to do and the village that I'm from in |
2:15.6 | Dublin is called Rannala and I was buying a pair of shoes in the local shoe shop and the |
2:20.6 | lady said to me we were chatting and it turned out that she was a solicitor and I was like how did you end up like in a shoe shop so we started chatting about that and long story short I was telling her I want to do something, no idea what I want to do and she was like this village needs a lingerie shop. |
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