A founder explains why stepping away from your business requires building a team you actually trust. She contrasts this with corporate jobs, where short-term disability lets you disappear. The key: hire capable people, delegate real control, and stop being the bottleneck.
Stepping away was a big goal of mine. When my mom was sick, I was able to slam that laptop shut on my corporate job. I was able to take 2 weeks of short-term disability to like handle final affairs and like be there. You can't do that when you're an entrepreneur unless you have the structure built, right? What do we have to get in order for me to step away? And that's stepping back, that's hiring people, that's trusting people, which is big for me right now. And it's making sure I'm not the bottleneck. And to do that, you have to hire a team to run it. It's giving them the control and allowing allowing them to kind of join me on this wild ride and letting them own it as well. Yeah, part of something and building something.
