SharkPod #44 - Equine, Portrait & Sporting Artist 'Dream it, Do it' - John Fitzgerald

What is up SharkNation!

This week Luke and Mark sit down with this Real Estate Entrepreneur turned full time Artist - John Fitzgerald (https://johnfitzgeraldart.ie/).

John is perhaps Ireland's best known and successful equine Artists. 

This one will speak to any of our listeners who are looking to transition into making a business out of their passion and design a creative life that also financially viable. 

We cover:

1. John's first career move into sales after college. Ireland was starting to boom and Real Estate is where fortunes were being made.

2. How John went into business with his family and set up their own Real Estate agency. 

3. The ups and downs of owning and running a business through the boom and bust cycles of the Irish property market. 

4. John's realisation that a lifestyle designed around creating art was the path to fulfilment. He tells a story about his first big painting sale and how it effected him.   

5. John tells a very personal story as to why he committed to the art career full time, what drove him to make that decision and how his business skills honed in his Real Estate career stood to him in the art business.

 

And much more...

 

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