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I would have to go to New York on a monthly basis.It sounds lovely but it is exhausting.
With four children I knew I wanted to work.
I had studied hard and I really wanted to work but I needed to do something else.”
On maternity leave, Josephine had helped her brother set up a company.
It gave her an appetite for her starting her own business.
She was toying around with ideas, then her husband, a Chartered Accountant working in the banking sector, suggested that she should consider setting up a mortgage advisory service.
Josephine put the idea to Martina, and together they went about setting up some meetings.
“For me, it was an opportunity I was afraid to miss”, says Martina.
“When we spoke to people in the banks that the fact that we are Chartered Accountants was a major advantage.”
Nonetheless Josephine decided to augment her skills with a course in Mortgage Practice (through the Institute of Bankers), and a course in wealth management.
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