Identity Crisis: What Happens When You Are No Longer The CEO
One email. One quiet call with an accountant. Then a decade-long identity as “founder and CEO” disappears overnight. We share a brutally honest story about insolvency, shame, and the moment success stops being a scoreboard and starts being a life you can actually live.
We walk through the full arc: the early passion that turns into nonstop grind, the external validation that fuels bigger goals, and the cracks that show up as anxiety, exhaustion, missed birthdays, and relationships held together by silence. When the market shifts, a well-funded competitor arrives, and a major client walks…
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