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 toget...