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Mum ditched her job and remortgaged her house to start business - now she makes £1m-a-year

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A mum who decided to remortgage her house to fulfil her dream of owning her own business has revealed she is now making over £1m a year - having started it alone from her spare room.

Charlotte Mills, 36, from Oldham, had been working as a senior footwear designer for UK high street retailers for eight years when she decided to take the biggest risk of her life – ditching the steady gig for her own venture.

It has not been an easy journey, with the mum deciding to put her house up as collateral with a new mortgage, as well as taking out a £20,000 loan and taking out even more on credit cards. READ MORE:Teenager injured after getting stuck between two vehicles following police chase But the gamble paid off.

Charlotte - who specialises in bridal shoes - now rakes in £1 million per year. Shoppers love her designs, which include English rhymes in the soles and an embossed sixpence to represent the 'something new and something old' for the bride. "It was nerve-racking but I really believed in the product and the concept and knew there was a niche in the market," said Charlotte who named the business after herself. "I was still nervous of failure and risking our home.

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