From Porsches to poverty - how one Sydney lawyer nearly lost it all…MEDIA RELEASE - Sydney: In 2011, Russell Hodge was living life in the fast lane as a high powered corporate lawyer in Sydney. In June 2011, he had impulsively resigned as a Director of REX Airlines and plunged himself into self-imposed retirement. By the following June he was standing in Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris aged 66 years, a world away from his waterfront home in Cronulla, about to embark on a six month study trip at the world famous Sorbonne University. What fo