Episode 40 - Richard Rodger

Richard is an international conference speaker, serial entrepreneur, published author and CEO of Voxgig. He also writes a weekly column, ‘Startup Diary’, for the Irish Independent newspaper. 

He tells Orla how he never envisaged himself as a public speaker in the earlier part of his career. He found, though, that he “always ended up on stage, one way or another”! As he found himself being asked more and more to give talks, he developed his love for “the story” - the narrative arc that captures and holds the audience’s attention, which he feels serves him well to this day.

Richard lets us in on some things he’s learned the hard way in his speaking career, and what to do when you’re asked an awkward question! He also has some tricks he’s learned over the years for balancing work as a start-up CEO and life as a parent.

Learn more about Richard here.

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