There once was a dream that turned out to be the birth and death of me. Like many before me and so many more after, I wanted to be my own boss. And with that in mind, I started on a path of self-destruction where I erased many things that I knew in order to embark on a life like no other: new rules, new people, new ambitions and mostly, a new me. There is no change without letting go.

Was it a good decision? It took me a while to determine that it did not matter. What matters is that I'm here now, with the life that I chose, with the goals that I achieved and the many ones that I still have to chase.

If I am to give any advice, after twenty-plus years of business: what you want is to survive it. Survive the pressure, survive those who tell you you cannot do it, survive those that, condescendingly, will always tell you what to do and how to do it because, unlike you, they cannot do it themselves, survive the preaching, survive the envy, survive your own want to do more, faster. Once all is brushed away, confidence inevitably ensues.

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