After 32 Years of Sacrifice, I Sold My Business for $18 Million and Went Home Early

until I was empty and then cried some more. In the particular silence of those mountains, very far from Portland, very far from the version of myself that had been managed and deceived, I slowly began the process of understanding who I was without the roles I had occupied for four decades.

I came back and stopped working for the first time since I was continue reading …