027 The Other Costs Of Self-Reliance

The most common question we get is “How much does this life cost?” and the honest answer is that money is only the surface. The deeper price tag is comfort. It’s the moment you stop defaulting to “someone else will handle it” and accept that when things break, fail, freeze, or fall apart, you are the plan. We talk about what “success” can look like from the outside and how easily it turns into a costume: the image, the validation, the fake-it-until-you-make-it momentum that quietly piles on ...