Toni Hall, Derby

I initially looked at this opportunity to earn a couple of hundred pounds a month and top up my teaching income. However, the more I learned about what was on offer, the more disgruntled I became with teaching - I loved the kids but felt trapped and stifled by all of the bureaucracy. So I began to build a business very part time around my job and two children, and opened my mind to learning things that were completly new to me. The result? I now enjoy working a flexible business from home, and have left the stress of teaching behind.

Chris and Alan Goldsbrough, Derbyshire...

We were both Directors of household-name companies in the textile industry, highly paid, stressed and lacking quality of life. Within six months of taking up this opportunity, I got out, and Alan joined me within two years. It's so invigorating to now only work with people we want to rather than have to. We've recently moved into our dream home, have made really great new friends, have a very substantial and secure income plus Profit Share, cars paid for by FLP, and travel free to exotic locations. Life doesn't get much better than this.

Bill and Dorothy Wood, Buckinghamshire...

After a working lifetime in farming, I saw incomes falling away at the same time as Dorothy was under extreme pressure and stress working in the Health Service. Very sceptical at first, we're now full-time in FLP. Dorothy loves her paid-for Mercedes sports car, I just farm as a hobby, and our goal is to move our combined present six-figure income to having one each.

Daniel Backus and Keely McNulty, Derbyshire...

My name's Daniel and with my partner Keely, we started working this business very part-time in January 2003. My background is in photography, Keely in hairdressing and we're now achieving things we thought wouldn't be possible for many years to come, such as my fantastic new Lotus Elise and Keely with her equally fantastic new Mini Cooper. I'm finishing work at Christmas, Keely following shortly and this business is going to give us the lifestyle of our wildest dreams.