I started my business to change my life | M6 | Zone Interdite

Avec 622 000 entreprises créées en 2010,la France a atteint un record. Une vitalité étonnaWith 622,000 business started in 2010, France hit a new record. Astonishing vitality in the midst of economic crisis. Faced with the threat of unemployment, more and more men and women decide to change their lives and launch their own enterprise. For a year we followed 4 young founders of businesses, ready to take any risks to see their dream through to the end. Lucette, 32 and a former supermarket checkout worker, has a secret passion: DIY. With her best friend she wants to start a small company renovating apartments. But they have neither tools nor a van to get to the work site. With their customers, they have to improvise, at the risk of looking like amateurs. Will she manage to make a living from it when she has 2 children to raise and only 650 Euros per month in unemployment benefit? Frédéric, 32 and a former cycling champion, has always dreamed of opening a bike shop to live out his passion. Redundancy drives him to embark on the adventure. Looking for finance, opening up to customers, starting business… he’s taken it all on. One year later, he admits that starting your own business is a lot harder than a stage in the mountains! Cécile, 28, quit her post as civil servant in the Education Department to set up her own beauty parlour while single-handedly raising her 3 year-old daughter. With no personal finance and no specialist knowledge, she entered a competition organised to help 100 women open beauty centres. Faced with seasoned opponents, will she be able to find a place for herself? Hakim, 26, has the soul of an entrepreneur. As a teenager he read nothing but biographies of business tycoons. 10 years later, he is boss of a fast-food chain with 18 kebab restaurants across France. His latest challenge: the conquest of the American continent. How will he fare in unknown territory, the man that nothing has ever been able to resist?