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Cut the tie to anything holding you back from success. Welcome to the Cut the Tie podcast. Hi. I'm your host, Thomas Helfrich. And in each episode, we bring you real entrepreneurs that really overcame challenges on their journey to become successful. We look at the impact, the moment, how it affected everything in their lives. Follow us on Apple, Spotify, and YouTube. Now let's meet our guest on Cut the Tie podcast. At some point, your corporate job stops being a career path and starts feeling like squid game, middle management edition. You sit through another meeting that could have been an email. You smile during the latest mandatory fun team building event. You update your OKRs while your soul quietly files for unemployment. Then one day, clarity strikes. You look around, take a deep breath, and say the two most dangerous words in corporate life, I quit. Round one, shock and HR denial. Your manager looks like you just unplugged your life support, and HR stares blankly. They offer a 3% raise and a new title with no budget in the honor of leading the diversity committee. Lightly decline. You've chosen danger over dental insurance. Round two, entrepreneur mode activated. You've updated your LinkedIn title of founder, consultant, visionary. Some call it brave. Others just call it unemployment. Your aunt calls it a phase, and your uncle says it's a midlife crisis. You call it freedom. You're chasing the grand prize, fame, fortune, and maybe fulfillment. And, yes, the faint you hear it? That's either purpose, a panic attack, or the doom of entrepreneurial death, and you have to go back to the cubicle. Round three. Red light, green light. Green light, no more one on ones, no more performance reviews, and no more per my last emails. Red light, no paycheck, No PTO. And your cat is your new accountability partner. You work from your kitchen table. You put yourself on Zoom from the bathroom, and you drink coffee like it's a coping mechanism. One wrong move, and it's back to a cubicle with a reusable water bottle and broken dreams. Round four, the glass bridge of growth. You launch, you post, you pitch. You get your first customer and then your second. You build a product, a brand, a system, while also googling how to build a brand, product, and system. Each sale is truly a small miracle, and each no feels like a spiritual punch in the nuts. But somehow, you keep stepping it forward. Final round, the realization. You've traded stability for something much messier and far more meaningful. You're broke, tired, inspired, and suddenly very familiar with Canva. It's not just a lead. It's a birth. It's not the cute rom com kind either. This is entrepreneurial birth. You're screaming. You're sweating. You're questioning everything while simultaneously being the newborn, naked, confused, entirely dependent. You look up and around and all around you. Everyone smiles and hands you a Stripe link. They're glad to teach you how to walk, talk, and do all the things you need to for about a thousand bucks. You're swaddled into imposter syndrome, clutching a latte like it's oxygen, and yet you wouldn't trade this for anything. What's the moral of the story? Entrepreneurship isn't glamorous. It's not the build in public. It's panic and private, but it's yours. And it beats pretending your Slack status is your personality. So stay bold, stay caffeinated, and remember, in the entrepreneur game, there's no safety net, no cheat code, and no epidural. Just grit, growth, and a Google Doc full of chaos. Thank you for joining us on this episode of Cut the Time. Let's stay connected. Please hit that follow button on Apple, Spotify, or YouTube. And if you're ready to advance your entrepreneurial journey even further, join our free community at facebook.com/groups/cutthetie. Cut the tie to everything holding you back from success.