MWM Interview Paul O’Mahony AInterview Editor:
I'm excited today because this time around, we're chatting with a best selling author and speaker. He's also the founder of FUNancial Freedom and The ReThink Academy, two groundbreaking initiatives that have seen in feature in Forbes Magazine and achieved global recognition. I think this is going to be fun and informative. Paul O'Mahony, it's great to meet you. Welcome along. Paul O'Mahony: Thank you. Thank you very much. Editor: For anyone who's not discovered you before and also the great work that you do, maybe we could just start with a brief background. Paul O'Mahony: Sure, absolutely. I am the son of two teachers. My entire young life was based around academia, getting a permanent job, which meant going to school, doing well in exams, going to college. My background was actually a degree in industrial biochemistry of all things. Then I did a year in chemical engineering to get my graduate diploma and then I worked in a corporation for nine years where I was in a position as a director, as a medical device company, got an MBA, became a project management professional, and I was the youngest ever director in that company at the age of 30, all set to scale the heights of the corporate ladder.
And it was at that time that I realised I was over half a million euros in debt from purchasing two houses in the middle of the Celtic Tiger in Ireland in the mid-2000s. And while from the outside looking in, everybody would've said, "Oh, look at this. Amazing. You're doing a successful career. You're doing well. You've got yourself a car, a house, an investment property, and a good job."
But the absolute reality was I was completely riddled with debt, 500,000 of negative equity of money that wasn't mine in the first place. And now, suddenly, this was a reality of somehow at 30 years of age, having done everything to the book of how to succeed in life according to the educational system. I was in a massive, massive dilemma. Paul O'Mahony: And I ended up going to a conference out of pure desperation in Ireland in Dublin in 2009, which was basically, I think it was
