This is the most personal episode Veronica has recorded. It is about the gap that opens, quietly and over time, between the business a founder builds and the business they actually meant to build. How small reasonable decisions compound into a structure that works by every visible measure and still does not feel like yours.

Veronica brings her own story into this one fully. The two decades in marketing. The agency that made sense to build. The slow, uncomfortable recognition that the business she had built was optimized for survival and other people's expectations rather than for what she actually came here to do.

This episode will make you feel caught. It will also make you feel less alone.

In this episode:

• The difference between the business that made sense to build and the one that would actually f ...