Follow Your Longing: When Your Dream Feels Too Big

I was speaking with an entrepreneur friend the other day.

She's a CEO.

She's absolutely incredible.

She has built an incredible business.

And we were talking about one of the things that happens regularly in the life of someone who decides to use their voice in a different way, in a bigger way, whether that's getting on big stages or trying to build a business that is centered around your passions.

And she was telling me about a huge obstacle that she's just hit in her business.

This is not the first.

And she just said, I'm going to keep going.

And that moment reminded me of a time when I met the CEO of Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day products, Monica Nassif.

She had a book signing recently with a new book she wrote called I Bottled My Mother, which is a memoir about her life and the business that she built and sold.

And she talked about how she ran around her house screaming, I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared.

in the early years of her company and her journey.

And when she said that at her book launch, it was just such a relieving thing to hear because I've done that very same thing.

There have been times when I have been working to build my business or write a book or figure out how to do a TV show, figure out how to design conferences for 2000 people.

when I thought, what in the world are you doing? Why do you feel like you are choosing this life? Like, why can't you do something else? I wish sometimes that I were wired differently, but this is what I got.

I was speaking with an entrepreneur friend the other day.

She's a CEO.

She's absolutely incredible.

She has built an incredible business.

And we were talking about one of the things that happens regularly in the life of someone who decides to use their voice in a different way, in a bigger way, whether that's getting on big stages or trying to build a business that is centered around your passions.

And she was telling me about a huge obstacle that she's just hit in her business.

This is not the first.

And she just said, I'm going to keep going.

And that moment reminded me of a time when I met the CEO of Mrs. Meyer's Clean Day products, Monica Nassif.

She had a book signing recently with a new book she wrote called I Bottled My Mother, which is a memoir about her life and the business that she built and sold.

And she talked about how she ran around her house screaming, I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared.

in the early years of her company and her journey.

And when she said that at her book launch, it was just such a relieving thing to hear because I've done that very same thing.

There have been times when I have been working to build my business or write a book or figure out how to do a TV show, figure out how to design conferences for 2000 people.

when I thought, what in the world are you doing? Why do you feel like you are choosing this life? Like, why can't you do something else? I wish sometimes that I were wired differently, but this is what I got.