I’ll never forget the feeling I had while sitting alone at my dining room table the evening I decided to launch my own business. I had been unhappy at my job for months and was finally facing down the “either/or decision.” Either I stay, or I go. I was being pushed to partner with somebody I wasn’t a fan of and facing the prospect of what my career would look like by choosing to stay with the firm. My stomach was in knots, my mind was racing, and I was hovering somewhere between excitement and anxiety-inducing fear. Even as a financial planner, I was nervous to start a business. Though I had done a massive amount of research, I had resisted for years and consistently pointed to our finances as a reason to not take the risk. “What’s the worst that could happen?” friends would ask. “The worst?” I’d answer, “Let me tell you about the worst. The worst is taking the leap, finding out I don’t know what I’m doing, having other people discover I don’t know what I’m doing, ruining my reputation, running out of money, going into debt, and ending up unemployable. That’s the worst.”