Joe O’Regan had built a career in financial services, from working with Canada Life to establishing Blackthorn Capital in 2009. However, when his 50th birthday came around, he decided it was time for a change. O’Regan’s father, a businessman, was diagnosed with cancer in his fifties and passed away weeks later. As O’Regan entered his fifties, the realisation dawned on him that it was “now or never” to start doing what he actually wanted to do. “I spent 20 plus years in quite a straitlaced world. It’s very regulated. There’s a lot of processes. There’s a lot of structure to…

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