[saddington]

the hardest leadership challenge has also been the hardest professional challenge...

i cofounded a venture-backed startup with my brother. a few years in, i had to fire him.

too many details to unpack here, but, gratefully he's found footing and is happy building something else. i'm still running the venture although we are running out of time / money.

(i'm not sharing that last point for sympathy; i understood the risks and i'm prepared to face the end, just like the beginning.)

overcoming it? honestly, i just pressed on; what else can you really do? i got therapy, counseling, to work through the difficult patches and i invested in myself a bit more so i could find peace with it all. i realized that i had a pretty serious co-dependency issue and now i'm clear-headed in a way i've never been.

so, the result has been net-positive.