Age: 54

Family: Married 20+ years to wife, Carol. The couple have three children: a 19-year-old daughter (Vicki), a 17-year-old daughter (Kristi), and a 15-year-old son (Jason).

Highest Education: 2 years of college.

Employees: None.

Year started business: Started his first business at age 19 in 1963.

Type of Business: Seminar speaker providing income opportunity seminars for self-employed entrepreneurs home based professionals. Specifically, Marty teaches others how to present $5,000 cruise vacation packages for only $1295, and profit $1,000 from each package. His training program teaches proven methods for averaging 1 to 2 sales everyday... working from home with nothing more than a telephone.

Best month (gross revenue): 53 sales, which translates to $53,000.

Hours worked per week during start-up: 30

Hours worked per week now: 35-40

Favorite Business Magazines: Success, Working at Home, Six-Figure Income.

Favorite Business Books/Authors: Anthony Robbins, Zig Ziglar, Les Brown.

Relaxes by: Reading, walking on the beach.

Favorite part of his business: Talking to new friends on the telephone.

Least favorite part of his business: Not being able to reach those who do not believe in themselves.

Stays in shape by: 10 mile/day hiking, recumbent bike riding.

Admired Companies: The Peoples Network, Carson Services Inc., Cutting Edge Media.

Contact Marty at: 415-892-4342

Marty Challenger lives up to his name. He is a self-described rebel, who wants independence and no boss hanging over him telling him what to do. He had his first job at age 19 where someone told him what to do, when to do it, how to do it, and then watched over him all day while he did it. That was a valuable learning experience as he made the decision that no matter what he did for a living, he would be independent.

Today he has achieved that goal several times over. He began with a carpet and upholstery cleaning service, then had a rain gutter repair and installation service, a full scale building contractor business and a guard and patrol service. Presently he is involved in network marketing and is teaching others how to do what he has done.

Marty says the person who most influenced his life was Anthony Robbins; he also considers Brian Tracy, Zig Ziglar and Les Brown to be valuable mentors.

When Marty began his network marketing business, he was profitable within the first month. Today he speaks on radio and TV talk shows, telling others how to achieve the same success, by using his "fast-start, smart-start" home-based program. The network marketing industry allows anyone to profit substantially.

Marty enjoys all the benefits of being his own boss. He says, "The best thing about being self-employed is definitely the freedom of choice and the freedom of movement. I wouldn't trade it for anything!"

We live in a country where the American dream can still come true for people like Marty Challenger.