I did it too, by the way. I used to roll my eyes at these types of questions. But there’s something about this new year that has me delighted in the idea… Ironically (or maybe not) when speaking with college women, I speak on what I’ve dubbed as…

And if true, then why do we as entrepreneurs (or creatives or moms or however you identify) think that we’re some kind of exception to the rule? Why do we try to live in a way that God never intended us to?

There was a time when my dad worked in corporate America and my mom stayed home with me and my brother. And then, there was a time when my mom started a business of her own and my dad quit his job to support her by staying home with us kids for a season. Mr. Mom, they called him!

I want to be clear that our journey hasn’t always been easy. A lot of the big decisions we’ve made and the risks we’ve taken have led us down painfully challenging roads. And I was afraid to take those first steps a lot of the time.

Looking back, I do kind of laugh. I was sitting at a coffee shop in my hometown on the outskirts of Nashville, Tennessee. My computer was propped open to a painfully simple Google doc titled “New IC Handbook.” I was waiting on the girl who I had just hired to be my first full-time independent contractor.