On episode 6 of the Zinc Coffee Break podcast, Taralouise talks to Nicole Ryan of Alex’s Adventure

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Nicole’s entrepreneurial story began in Jan 2016 when her younger brother Alex went to a house party in Cork City and ingested a synthetic substance and subsequently died 4 days later. She gave up her career as a Marine & Plant Engineer to come home and build Alex’s Adventure, developing a brand-new programme that aims to not only help students learn more about substance misuse but also to upskill people in the community and empower them to be able to do what she can do.

Nicole is 27 years old and holds various academic qualifications in the engineering, training and addiction field and has won several awards including Humanitarian of the Year 2018 and Best Start Up 2019. Nicole also works with multinational corporate companies to help both companies and employees find their inner resilience and strengthen their teams and is working towards her accreditation as an Addiction Counsellor.

You can find Nicole on LinkedIn here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicoleclareryan/
Find Alex’s Adventure on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/alexs_adventure_/ or online at www.alexsadventure.ie

Connect with Taralouise at https://www.zincmediaagency.com/ or on all social media @zincmediaagency

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