Author: adam_may@btopenworld.com

“After seven stressful years as a futures and options broker I was ready for a change. I then started a financial services venture with a few colleagues which went bust a few years later and I hit rock bottom, both…

“I worked in the fitness industry selling commercial equipment. Unfortunately the bubble burst in that industry. I went from selling over £1,000,000 of equipment a year to £350,000 overnight and had no control over that.”   

“Within 10 months of…

“Balvir was a lunchtime manager and teaching assistant in our local primary school for over 14 years. I help run two family businesses”   

“Within six months Balvir earned three times the income of her school job.”   Balvir was…

“From the outside we had a great lifestyle, good jobs and a lovely home, but what we never had was any time to enjoy those things. I was working over 70 hours a week. I felt the company owned me.…

“I had studied for a long time to get the job I’d always wanted. I embarked on a legal career because I wanted to be in a respected profession, with a ladder to climb and an income to match.  However,…

“My husband Matthew was, let’s say, a little less convinced and looked at me in bafflement as I explained that a big box of cream was going to be instrumental in building our family’s financial security.”   The increased income…

We buy and sell horses, breed them and I ride competitively but unfortunately what came with the livery yard was working 90+ hours, seven days per week and no time left to do anything else.   

I live in the…

“When the recession hit the industry hard, I was the first to be made redundant. So that career and income disappeared instantly as I only got paid when I worked!”   “Although I only work my business part-time, I do…

“I’d reached that time in my life when I wanted to get out of Cbeebies and needed something to do whilst the boys were at nursery and school.”   “Forever allowed me to become something very special – a full-time…