Sublime

I’m Jane Smith, the founder and CEO of Wild Widgets. Industrial Magazine named us Top Widget Maker of the Midwest, which was a huge honor in our business. I’ve scaled back from six to two staff and am looking to build

And that’s the stride—the life cycle of talent and return that I’ve been angling for my whole working life. I want the “privilege of a lifetime,” as Joseph Campbell called it, “of being myself.”

I was accepting insurance to satisfy my clients, but it paid less than my normal hourly rate, the paperwork was astronomical, and it was a constant battle just to get paid.” Then, during the class, she saw the light. “I realized that most of my life I did what people wanted me to do. I wanted to be liked. I wanted to be seen as somebody nice.” She

She stopped accommodating everyone else and started setting boundaries for herself. She closed insurance contracts, accepted only cash, raised her rates $10, shortened her one-hour sessions to fifty minutes, said no to people who couldn’t pay, and blocked out time for herself. “I had to start turning people down. That was really hard. I felt like a