Welcome to issue #003 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.
A lot of people are chasing “balance.”
They have this image in their heads where work, family, health, and friendships are all perfectly weighted—like stones on a scale.
Rocking career. Flourishing marriage. Thriving kids. And of course, you’re also getting eight hours of sleep and running marathons on weekends.
Sounds nice, right? But in reality? It doesn’t exist.
I’ve seen it in founders who scale a company to hundreds of millions, then collapse with guilt that they missed their kid’s first recital. I’ve seen it in parents who pour themselves into family life, then wonder if they’ve fallen behind while their peers race ahead in their careers.
No matter how much they achieve, the voices in their heads says: “You’re out of balance. You’re missing something.”
But life isn’t a balanced scale. It’s a rhythm. Seasons that tilt heavily one way, then shift the other.
Some seasons, you’re sprinting in your business. Others, you’re anchored at home. The courage isn’t in doing it all at once. The courage is in knowing what matters now—and bringing your full self forward, even when it feels boring or ordinary, or crazy or overwhelming.
That’s not balance. That’s alignment.
That’s not “having it all.” That’s compounding it all—bedtime stories, investor calls, ordinary moments, and boring reps stacking over years until they become something extraordinary.
The irony? When you stop trying to balance everything, you actually build a more extraordinary life. One where your kids feel loved. Your work feels purposeful, And. you feel whole—even if the scale never looks even.
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