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I’m 48. I’m building a new company. And last week I stood in my kitchen wondering if this was even a good idea.
It turns out, building a business at 48 is nothing like building one at 28. We’re told that experience makes things easier. But experience doesn’t account for perimenopause, raising a teenager, caring for aging parents, and the paralyzing fear of “what if I can’t do it again?”
In 7th grade, my teacher asked what I wanted to be when I grew up. I said a secretary. That was the biggest dream I could see from where I was standing: bathing in a creek, wearing clothes from the donation bin, watching my mom stretch food stamps like they were made of rubber.
36 years later, I’ve built multiple businesses to over $100M. And now I’m starting over. Again. In an industry I’ve never been in. With a brain that leaves the building by 2pm and a phone that somehow ends up in the fridge.
If you’re a woman over 40 reinventing herself, part of the sandwich generation balancing entrepreneurship, motherhood, and aging parents, this one’s for you. I’m sharing the brutal truth about the difference between the desperate hunger of my 20s and the complex reality of my 40s.
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0:23 — Why building at 48 feels so much different
1:14 — The secretary story (7th grade dream)
3:50 — The kitchen moment that made me question everything
6:52 — The grief nobody talks about: burying your old self
9:02 — The real shit about building at this age
14:04 — The flip: why 48 is actually better than 28
18:25 — The close + callback
19:50 — The toast
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