Twenty one year-old Helen Doody was living in a cold old bus on a New Zealand farm, eating leftover hospital food for dinner, when she decided a career in business might not be such a bad idea. That experience taught her not only the value of money, but the value of earning; a prevailing theme throughout our discussion. We are connecting over Zoom. She is logging in from her home in Connecticut where she has been virtually running Abbey Capital’s US branch, an Irish alternative investment management company of which she is the Managing Director. I am connecting from my…

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