Champions Connect | Malta's #1 Business Podcast

CHAMPIONS

CONNECT

A community decoding the mindset of CHAMPIONS.

EST. 2024· MALTA, EUROPE

COMMUNITY · PODCAST

(CC INTRO)

Champions Connect is a space for real talks with Entrepreneurs, CEOs, Athletes and Leaders. It’s about honest conversations on life: the good, the tough and everything in between. These are the stories behind who they are and what shaped them.

(INTRO)

Luca sits down with leaders, athletes, and creatives to explore honest stories, defining moments, and the mindset shifts that shape purpose, growth, and what it means to really lead.

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THE

PODCAST

Always Real Talk.

(OUR VERY OWN)

OUR

GUESTS

The Champions.

(Work)

POPULAR

EPISODES

All changing perspectives and disrupting.

MARK

LAURENCE ZAMMIT

Mark Laurence Zammit has spent 14 years covering the hardest stories in Malta, but the interview that changed him most never aired. In this episode, he talks about the gap between accuracy and honesty in journalism, the boy whose crime made national news but whose childhood nobody asked about, the afternoon Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb, and why after everything he has seen he still believes there are no evil people. It is a conversation about truth, judgment, and what the most dangerous headline is really hiding.

MARK

LAURENCE ZAMMIT

Mark Laurence Zammit has spent 14 years covering the hardest stories in Malta, but the interview that changed him most never aired. In this episode, he talks about the gap between accuracy and honesty in journalism, the boy whose crime made national news but whose childhood nobody asked about, the afternoon Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb, and why after everything he has seen he still believes there are no evil people. It is a conversation about truth, judgment, and what the most dangerous headline is really hiding.

MARK

LAURENCE ZAMMIT

Mark Laurence Zammit has spent 14 years covering the hardest stories in Malta, but the interview that changed him most never aired. In this episode, he talks about the gap between accuracy and honesty in journalism, the boy whose crime made national news but whose childhood nobody asked about, the afternoon Daphne Caruana Galizia was killed by a car bomb, and why after everything he has seen he still believes there are no evil people. It is a conversation about truth, judgment, and what the most dangerous headline is really hiding.

KEVIN

NAUDI

Kevin Naudi has made hundreds of thousands laugh, but behind the comedy is a story few people know. In this episode, he opens up about performing his biggest show while going through a mental breakdown, losing his best friend to addiction, the terrifying moment his two-year-old daughter had a seizure, and the childhood that shaped who he became. It’s a raw conversation about fatherhood, grief, purpose, and why the funniest people are often carrying the heaviest weight.

KEVIN

NAUDI

Kevin Naudi has made hundreds of thousands laugh, but behind the comedy is a story few people know. In this episode, he opens up about performing his biggest show while going through a mental breakdown, losing his best friend to addiction, the terrifying moment his two-year-old daughter had a seizure, and the childhood that shaped who he became. It’s a raw conversation about fatherhood, grief, purpose, and why the funniest people are often carrying the heaviest weight.

KEVIN

NAUDI

Kevin Naudi has made hundreds of thousands laugh, but behind the comedy is a story few people know. In this episode, he opens up about performing his biggest show while going through a mental breakdown, losing his best friend to addiction, the terrifying moment his two-year-old daughter had a seizure, and the childhood that shaped who he became. It’s a raw conversation about fatherhood, grief, purpose, and why the funniest people are often carrying the heaviest weight.

PHILIP

FENECH

What if the island everyone in power is fighting to grow is already full? In the early 2000s Malta had almost no tourism. Today it carries 4.5 million tourists a year, and this January alone it saw more of them than in August 2012, its old peak month. The population has passed 588,000, up 31% since 2000. A home that once cost 7 years of salary now costs 14. Philip Fenech has spent 40 years inside Malta's tourism and nightlife. He didn't build it, he lived it. He helped bring Ryanair to the island, opened one of the first clubs in Paceville, and watched Malta go from empty airports to one of the most crowded countries in Europe. In this conversation he says the thing most people in his position are too careful to say: the island cannot carry any more. We go into overtourism, the population nobody can accurately count, why a 30 year old can't buy a home, the businesses that look packed while they quietly lose money, and what every fast growing country on earth is about to learn from Malta. This is not a tourism episode. It is an episode about home, and about whether a country still belongs to the people who live in it.

PHILIP

FENECH

What if the island everyone in power is fighting to grow is already full? In the early 2000s Malta had almost no tourism. Today it carries 4.5 million tourists a year, and this January alone it saw more of them than in August 2012, its old peak month. The population has passed 588,000, up 31% since 2000. A home that once cost 7 years of salary now costs 14. Philip Fenech has spent 40 years inside Malta's tourism and nightlife. He didn't build it, he lived it. He helped bring Ryanair to the island, opened one of the first clubs in Paceville, and watched Malta go from empty airports to one of the most crowded countries in Europe. In this conversation he says the thing most people in his position are too careful to say: the island cannot carry any more. We go into overtourism, the population nobody can accurately count, why a 30 year old can't buy a home, the businesses that look packed while they quietly lose money, and what every fast growing country on earth is about to learn from Malta. This is not a tourism episode. It is an episode about home, and about whether a country still belongs to the people who live in it.

PHILIP

FENECH

What if the island everyone in power is fighting to grow is already full? In the early 2000s Malta had almost no tourism. Today it carries 4.5 million tourists a year, and this January alone it saw more of them than in August 2012, its old peak month. The population has passed 588,000, up 31% since 2000. A home that once cost 7 years of salary now costs 14. Philip Fenech has spent 40 years inside Malta's tourism and nightlife. He didn't build it, he lived it. He helped bring Ryanair to the island, opened one of the first clubs in Paceville, and watched Malta go from empty airports to one of the most crowded countries in Europe. In this conversation he says the thing most people in his position are too careful to say: the island cannot carry any more. We go into overtourism, the population nobody can accurately count, why a 30 year old can't buy a home, the businesses that look packed while they quietly lose money, and what every fast growing country on earth is about to learn from Malta. This is not a tourism episode. It is an episode about home, and about whether a country still belongs to the people who live in it.

GEGE

GATT

What if the people building the most powerful technology in human history do not actually know how to stop it? In this episode with Dr Gege Gatt, we go beyond the hype and into the real questions AI is forcing humanity to face: AGI, control, government power, fake reality, loneliness, relationships with machines, and what happens when human purpose starts to disappear. This is not a conversation about technology. It is a conversation about freedom, truth, and the decisions being made today that could shape the next chapter of humanity.

GEGE

GATT

What if the people building the most powerful technology in human history do not actually know how to stop it? In this episode with Dr Gege Gatt, we go beyond the hype and into the real questions AI is forcing humanity to face: AGI, control, government power, fake reality, loneliness, relationships with machines, and what happens when human purpose starts to disappear. This is not a conversation about technology. It is a conversation about freedom, truth, and the decisions being made today that could shape the next chapter of humanity.

GEGE

GATT

What if the people building the most powerful technology in human history do not actually know how to stop it? In this episode with Dr Gege Gatt, we go beyond the hype and into the real questions AI is forcing humanity to face: AGI, control, government power, fake reality, loneliness, relationships with machines, and what happens when human purpose starts to disappear. This is not a conversation about technology. It is a conversation about freedom, truth, and the decisions being made today that could shape the next chapter of humanity.

(Process)

3-THREE

MAIN PILLARS

Our space is built on real stories.

CREATING

DISRUPTORS

They called us disruptors like it was a problem. We wear it like a badge. This is a space for the ones who never fit in — to speak louder, take up space, and build something that actually matters.

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CREATING

DISRUPTORS

They called us disruptors like it was a problem. We wear it like a badge. This is a space for the ones who never fit in — to speak louder, take up space, and build something that actually matters.

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MAKE

NOISE

This isn’t about being loud for the sake of it. It’s about saying what needs to be said. Make noise for your story, your truth, your people. Because silence never changed a thing, but your voice might.

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MAKE

NOISE

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DAY-01

JOURNEY

Everyone has a Day 01, the moment you choose to start. It might be messy, unclear, even scary. But it’s yours. We’re here to help you take that first step and turn it into something real, bold, and bigger than you imagined. Start scared. Start anyway.

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DAY-01