I’m starting to believe that a lot of high-performing entrepreneurs are driven by the same wound: a kid inside who was never enough, who learned to chase love through achievement. My own younger self, especially the version of me who messed up in my 20s, I’ve been punishing him for years. Pushing him, grinding him, telling him he has to earn his worth. Recently I started to heal that part. Told him he can finally relax. But now I’m stuck with a strange question: if I’m not pushing that kid anymore…then how do I work? How do I create without turning self-pressure into fuel? I’m trying to learn how to build from freedom, and spaciousness, not self-punishment. It’s incredibly difficult, but I have this sense it’s where my best work lives.