EP23: The Million Dollar Irish Man

From John Street to Wall Steet.  In this special episode of Money & Plants I get to speak to Omagh's Chris Mc Gale about his fantastic new memoir, The Million Dollar Irish Man. Chris lived a life of ‘fight or flight’ but always chose to fight.  His memoir tells of a remarkable journey from being bookies-runner at his family’s Irish pub in Omagh, to mega-stakes gambling, and to a dazzling City career with the Wall Street giant Merrill Lynch. Along the way he nearly died in a collision with a lorry and his fundraising for the Omagh Bomb victims led to a nomination for the New Year’s Honours List.  In this conversation I ask Chris about a re-occurring theme in his life... Trauma, and how he was able to deal with that over the course of his life.   In what is a free flowing conversation, Chris's passion, humility and strength of character shines through. From addiction, to the troubles, to making a million dollars a year, we squeeze all of this in, and much more in this conversation. There are lots of takeaways from this episode, and also for me on a personal basis, it was really interesting to hear the advice Chris would give today, to his 30 year old self. I really enjoyed producing this episode and I am hoping given the nature of our discussion and the subject matter, that there is huge amount of value in it for you the listener.  I hope you enjoy, Finally, I will be launching a new series of the podcast in two weeks time, which is something I have been working on over the last few months.   It is a big topic and I have some really interesting guests lined up. If you want to get in touch with me, please email [email protected] Finally if you enjoy this episode, please let me know, share it with a friend, and if you have a minute, I would be very grateful if you had the time to leave a quick review, wherever you get your podcasts. Until next time, look after yourself, and each other. CD ☘ ps To get your copy of Million dollar Irishman ➡️ www.milliondollaririshman.com