The "Valley of Uncertainty" as an Entrepreneur

I call it the being in the valley of uncertainty. And I dropped into this valley after his death and maybe even a little bit before, if I'm being honest with myself. And in that valley, I felt like I wanted to quit for sure. But I also felt like I deserve to have a pity party for myself because this is unfair, what's happened to me. What happened to Butch is unfair. And. And I just wanted somebody to come along and just stroke my ego, tell me everything's going to be okay, Richard, and lift me up out of that valley and dust me off and say, okay, everything's good. Well, that never happened. That person never came along, and I just slowly but surely climbed my way out of there over time with some coaching and just giving in to the reality of this isn't working. I need to try something else. I came to understand that for me to be in this and lead this business further, I had to be a different kind of leader.