Confident Life

This site is owned and managed by Jill Mytton who is a slightly mad, creative entrepreneur who is also the wrong side of 49 and totally fed up with the “ageist” world we live in. It is never too late to have fun, play a little and make new friends and really that is what www.confidentlife.com it is about taking the risk, moving out of your comfort zone and meeting new people.

Confident Life was born in the summer of 2005 after Jill left her position as Head of Legal Services for a large independent recruitment company based in the West Midlands. Her contract had a six months restriction on doing anything related to her previous role and she yearned to do something different. She had worked in the recruitment industry for 25 years’ which was all about matching people to jobs so matching people to people did not seem such a leap. Initially, the idea was to run an online/offline enterprise where members could chat online before meeting at offline events so the web site and the offline singles network were launched in the autumn of 2005. During 2006 www.confidentlife.com was strongly advertised mainly in the local press and this led to attracting a core of 40 to 50 members about 20 of whom attended offline events and around 100 online members.  By 2007 a successful party was held at a hotel in Shropshire for around 40 people and two couples had got hitched (living together not married) through www.confidentlife.com  In 2008 the enquiries for the offline membership were slowing down but the online membership was growing and as it was hard to cover costs on the events as the credit crunch was starting to bite and people were holding on to their pennies. On a personal level Jill’s father in his 80’s contracted a nasty virus in the summer of 2008 so she had to care for him and her 18 years old son, who had already been diagnosed with a brain condition, was waiting for major brain surgery which took place in September 2008. All these factors combined led Jill to make the decision to close down the offline business refund existing members and take a break whilst she considered what to do next. For a year the existing online www.confidentlife.com site was totally free for members but not a penny was spent on marketing or advertising and yet the site’s membership grew by about 25%.

Jill therefore made the decision that the time was right to re launch www.confidentlife.com  as an online business working with a highly reputable dating partner who could supply up to date software and technical applications to enhance the experience of members existing and new. So here is the new site which is growing rapidly every week showing it is never too late to find love.