When your business feels off but you can't pinpoint why, the problem might not be your time—it's your energy. Discover how founder energy misalignment quietly erodes business value.

The call came before sunrise. I was standing barefoot in the kitchen, waiting for the coffee to drip, when the phone buzzed across the counter. My mother’s voice sounded oddly calm, like she was working hard to keep it that way.

“Christina”, she said, “Your dad’s in the hospital. It’s his heart.”

A few weeks ago, I sat across from a business owner who was visibly shaken, telling me about her friend Jane whose father had suffered a massive stroke—leaving the family business in chaos. That conversation stayed with me because it captures something I see with so many successful business owners: the dangerous gap between feeling protected and actually being protected.