After selling his company, the speaker felt financial stress he kept hidden. When he shared this vulnerability at Baby Bathwater in Croatia, dozens of entrepreneurs approached him afterward with their own struggles. He learned that admitting fear gives others permission to do the same.
You don't have to hide that away. And what's beautiful about that is it gives other people permission to share too. The first time I shared my financial story, I gave a talk at Baby Bathwater in Croatia, and it was amazing. I was just raw and vulnerable and opened up about how difficult it had been for me since I sold my company. And like 25 people lined up afterward and they were like, "Oh my God, me too." like you wouldn't believe the financial stress I'm under and no one knows because I present this facade to the outside. And man, if I can just help people open up about that stress and realize that it's okay to share. And by the way, we're all in this together and almost every entrepreneur I know is actually broken, scared somewhere behind the scenes. Like if I can help that conversation come into the light, like that is what I'm here to do.
