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Businessman-Turned-Artist Retires On Greek Island, Discovers Oil & Gold

Submitted by Ein News from blog

Sep 26, 2009

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A few years ago, Podalenios found himself staring at the ceiling of the intensive care ward in a hospital cardiac unit, with a nurse asking him for contact details of his nearest relative.

"It was then that I decided to alter my way of life" he said. Previously an international businessman (US, Australia & New Zealand) with a stressful lifestyle, doctors now advised against returning to his former work, so a new life pathway was required.

"I'd given up my dreams of an art career at an early age due to family responsibilities", he explains. Then 59, he went back to university for a Fine Arts Master's Degree, and took up his art career where he'd left off 40 years before - this time, on an island in the Greek Aegean.

"I've become known here as Podalenios (aka Harry Allen), supplementing my pension by selling my artwork on the islands of Mykonos, Santorini and others," he says.

When the global economic downturn began to curtail artwork sales, he looked for an alternative income. An old friend and former New York business associate directed him to a commodities tr ...Read the full article

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