\u201cIn those years, I stayed in the George V [hotel] in Paris. I went to New York first class. I really had a great time spending that money,\u201d he tells Katie Byrne on the latest episode of the Money Talks podcast<\/p>\n
\u201cI loved it, but I spent it with the faith that there’d be more money. I was never going to sit on a suitcase of money out of fear.\u201d<\/p>\n
Determined to get bigger and better, the artist invested much of his new-found wealth into his career, opening galleries and promoting his work.<\/p>\n
But when the 2008 financial crash sent shockwaves through the global economy, his fortunes took a sudden turn for the worse. Less than 10 years later, Sharkey was homeless.<\/p>\n
\u201cOnce you go broke and homeless, you realise life still goes on,\u201d he says. \u201cI went on the dole for a little while and I ate, and my dogs ate and it was okay. I didn’t have money to buy Jo Malone candles at that point. I didn’t have the luxury of, you know, really good bed linen at that point.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut the lesson for me was that money is temporary, life is temporary.\u201d<\/p>\n
After ending up in a homeless hostel, Sharkey says he was more motivated than ever to turn his life around and start painting again. \u201cWhat I remember about being in a homeless hostel, was all I was thinking about wasn’t, \u2018how did I end up here?\u2019 It was, \u2018how the f*** do I get out of this place and never come back?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n
The Dublin-based artist is now firmly back in business, with three galleries between Ireland and Portugal and a large client list. But his attitude to money hasn\u2019t changed and he says he\u2019s still determined to live every day like his last.<\/p>\n
\u201cI never bought property. I don’t have a pension. I don’t have a big nest of savings. I’ve always just put the money I’ve made back into my career. And<\/p>\n
I’ve done that by painting, by getting better, by opening galleries. They don’t always work out. You don’t know till you try.\u201d<\/p>\n
You can listen to the full conversation with Kevin Sharkey on Money Talks wherever you get your podcasts.<\/p>\n
The content of this podcast is for information purposes and does not constitute investment advice or recommendation of any investment product.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cIn those years, I stayed in the George V [hotel] in Paris. I went to New York first…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":96520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[75],"tags":[18,117,19,17,39812],"class_list":{"0":"post-96519","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-money-talks-podcast"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}