Entrepreneurs wear stress like a badge of honor. We joke about living on coffee, we brag about eighty hour weeks, and we keep telling ourselves we will rest after the next client, the next hire, the next milestone. But somewhere in that cycle, a lot of business owners cross a line they never notice, and the thing they have been calling drive quietly stops being drive. In this episode of Optimized Entrepreneur, Jeremy Hanson takes on one of the most under discussed problems in small business ownership: chronic anxiety, and why so many high functioning owners fail to recognize it in themselves. The premise is simple and uncomfortable. Anxiety in entrepreneurs almost never announces itself as fear. It shows up in side doors. It shows up as irritability over small things, as snapping at a spouse or a child, as checking a bank balance six times before lu ...