What is the best version of you? Not the richest version. Not the version with the biggest company. The version that exists when nobody is watching.

Most entrepreneurs can tell you their revenue target, their headcount goal, and the number that would finally make them feel like they made it. Almost none of them can tell you who they are trying to become while they get there. In this episode of Optimized Entrepreneur, Jeremy Hanson takes apart a question that sounds simple and turns out to be the hardest one in business.

This is not an episode about morning routines or adding one more habit to a stack you already are not keeping. Jeremy argues that growth is usually demolition rather than addition, and that most of us would rather paint a room than open up the floor and deal with what is rotting underneath it.

Inside this episode ...