Creating A Personal Brand Accountability Council

I can remember growing up, I would often get side-eyed for dreaming too big. Not the polite kind of side-eye either, it was the full-on Caribbean Elder level of, “you’ll learn soon enough” type.

I’d talk about wanting to do meaningful work, build something that mattered, and leave the world better than I found it. To some, I was naive. “Life isn’t a fairytale,” they’d say. “You’ll see.”

Well, I did see. And what I found is this: the fairytale’s not the problem. It’s forgetting that we were born to...