About Us & How We Got Here
Hi, we are Steve & Dawn Smith from Nottingham, both Steve & I are from large families of 5 and were both brought up on council estates in Nottingham, both of us went to a normal comprehensive school and while we both did okay, we did not leave with any “O levels” or great grades. I left school and went to work in a warehouse, where over the next 30 years I managed to work my way up from packing on the shop floor to office and accounts manager and Steve left school at 16 to join the Royal Navy for 7 years before having various jobs in various industries then settling on a job in Customer Services.
We have 2 amazing children and while on maternity / career breaks form the warehouse, we set up our own businesses 1st as a franchisee which ended up with us having over 30 employee’s (total nightmare), the bigger we got the more hassle we got from people not turning up for work to sorting red tape and customers not paying. The 2nd time we ran our own business on a smaller scale but realised that if we did not work (like when we went on holiday or if we were ill) we did not get paid and ended up working the longest hours we had ever worked each week.
Back in 2005 we had both gone back to being employee’s and working for someone else to build their dreams for their families, both working between 50 and 70 hours per week (but only getting paid for 40) and that was when we came across this opportunity, at the time we were not sure if this was for us, however we knew that working hard between us just resulted in us struggling at the end of most months, and when we went on holiday (normally a couple of times a year) it mostly went on credit card and got paid back over the next few months, plus we had recently received our pension review, which at first glance seemed okay and then we realised that the amount they were predicting was for a year and not a month, and we were struggling to survive on our full time incomes how were we supposed to live on the pension! Back in 2005 we probably had more in Debts (excluding mortgage) than we did in savings. So we realised that if we carried on working really hard it looked like we were going to have to work and live like this until we were 67 / 70 and then survive on a fraction of what we were living on at the moment (and that’s if we both made it to that age!).
So we decided to give it a try and we freed up a few hours each week over the next few years from our busy lifestyle, and initially it was not a great change, just a extra meal here and then paying off some debts, but over the years it has grown. Now at the stage where we don’t have any money worries, we go on holiday between 6 and 8 times a year most years, we don’t worry about the commute and get up when we want and not to the dreaded alarm clock. We now have private medical insurance and have the time and money to keep ourselves fit and healthy with no stress or worries, we now live in an apartment complex in Nottingham (which was the first million pounds apartment to be on sale in Nottingham back in 2008) with a pool and gym, and our neighbours are the likes of the owners of Nottingham Forest Football club along with a number of famous football players and other major business owners in Nottingham, a far cry from where we were back in 2005.
Over the years since 2005 we have helped well over 1000 people and their families start to create a Seriously Great Lifestyle where they have both Time & Money freedom all across the UK from single parents, to people in the NHS and teachers, through to airline pilots and solicitors and surgeons, from 18 year olds to 79 year olds, from every religion and colour, the list is endless, the only common denominator is that they ALL wanted to change some things in their lives and start to create a better Lifestyle for themselves and their families, and a number of them have gone on to help others that they know move towards a better lifestyle.
If you would like to join us or find out how you can create a better lifestyle for YOU and your love ones, then fill out the contact us form or give us a call, it’s free to chat, you have nothing to loose and everything to gain. Whatever you choose, thank you for looking at our page and we wish you all the success in the future.
Kind regards
Dawn & Steve Smith.