Built in Kilkenny

Charlie

Honest conversations with the founders and builders behind Kilkenny. Built in Kilkenny sits down with the people who started something in this city. The wins, the setbacks, and what it really takes to build something from nothing. No gurus. No overnight success stories. Just real people and real stories. New episodes regularly. A Charlie Cook Live series.

Episodes

  1. Ep 2: Odhrán, Second Self Life

    May 26

    Ep 2: Odhrán, Second Self Life

    Zero fillers in the product. Zero outside funding. Zero salary since September. In this episode of Built in Kilkenny, Charlie Cook sits down with Odhrán, co-founder of Second Self Life, a premium protein brand built from scratch in Kilkenny with his partner Amy-Leigh. They had enough money saved to go to Australia. They put it into a business instead. Manufacturers laughed them out of the room. Their Belgian partner told them their formula wasn't ambitious enough. They made three sales in January. And they kept going. The conversation covers how the idea started, leaving the 9 to 5, the Belgian manufacturer who pushed them harder, the Eton Mess flavour, the Wild Tales partnership, bootstrapping with no funding, working together as a couple, and what they'd say to anyone thinking of starting. Second Self Life: secondselflife.com Built in Kilkenny is a series of honest conversations with the founders and builders behind Kilkenny. A Charlie Cook Live series. charliecooklive.com TikTok: @charliecooklive

    44 min
  2. Dan Smithwick — The Man Who Brought Brewing Back to Kilkenny Ep.1

    May 19

    Dan Smithwick — The Man Who Brought Brewing Back to Kilkenny Ep.1

    For more than two centuries, two brewing families called Kilkenny home. Then it all disappeared. In this first episode of Built in Kilkenny, Charlie Cook sits down with Dan Smithwick, descendant of one of Ireland's most famous brewing families, to talk about how he brought brewing back to a city that had lost it. The conversation covers the history of Sullivan's and Smithwick's, the horse bet in France that cost a family their brewery, the closure of the last brewery in Kilkenny in 2013, and the revival of Sullivan's into a beer now sold around the world. A Charlie Cook Live series.

    38 min
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Honest conversations with the founders and builders behind Kilkenny. Built in Kilkenny sits down with the people who started something in this city. The wins, the setbacks, and what it really takes to build something from nothing. No gurus. No overnight success stories. Just real people and real stories. New episodes regularly. A Charlie Cook Live series.

Information

  • Creator
    Charlie
  • Years Active
    2K
  • Episodes
    2
  • Rating
    Explicit
  • Copyright
    © Charlie
  • Show Website
    Built in Kilkenny