Welcome to issue #018 of Unicorn Parents. Each week, I share practical insights and reflections to help you build a profitable business without missing the magic at home. If you’re serious about winning at work while raising great kids, you’ve come to the right place. This is a community built for ambitious parents who want both.
“Follow your passion.”
“Live your dreams.”
“Never settle.”
In the gospel of modern ambition, sacrifice is the sin.
Until you fall in love.
Then everything you once called loss starts to look a lot like grace.
We don’t call it “sacrifice” then, we call it devotion.
And when you become a parent, that devotion goes supernova.
Marriage taught me to give.
Parenthood taught me to give without measure.
The younger me would’ve looked at the current me and said,
“No way—don’t slow down. Go all in on your dreams!”
The younger me and today’s me…we share the same fire.
But the difference isn’t in its size. It’s in its shape.
If anything, my ambition has grown—and it finally has direction.
The difference is language. Experience. Clarity.
Back then, I didn’t have the words or the tools to express what I was really chasing. All I had were the measures the world handed me: money, status, recognition.
I wanted the shiny car. I just didn’t know how to drive it.
And I had no idea where it was supposed to take me.
Now?
After years of deeper human, business, and cross-cultural experiences —
I do.
The difference isn’t that I want less.
It’s that I finally know why I want it.
Expensive car or not, I’m driving toward what matters.
I still need fuel—money, status, recognition.
But this time, I know where I’m going.
And who I’m taking with me.
That shift is liberating.
It’s what happens when your ambitions stop being borrowed, and start becoming bespoke.
We compartmentalize our lives—business here, family there.
It’s easier than holding the whole picture at once.
But the truth is, it’s all connected.
In the beginning, life presents itself as one impossible, unsolvable problem.
In the end, if we’re lucky, everything that once seemed disjointed (e.g., work, love, pain, success, failure) starts to make sense.
The lines connect. The patterns emerge.
That’s what sacrifice does.
It makes no sense.
And then one day, it does. Perfectly.
You can’t build a meaningful business, marriage, or family without sacrifice.
Every dream that’s ever come true was paid for by someone’s devotion.
And when you finally see it clearly…
You realize you were never the only one who gave.
Sacrifice isn’t loss.
It’s love expressed in its highest form.
The world says,
“I win.”
But redemption always whispers back,
“I sacrifice–and we win.”
And someday, if we do it right, our kids will see that’s what love really means.