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“You’ve gotta live to learn. You’ve gotta crash and burn.” – Darius Rucker Every career has moments where one mistake feels like it could end everything. This was mine. We’d spent three straight weeks of all-nighters chasing a $1.2 billion deal for one of our best private equity clients. No sleep. Endless revisions. By the…

“It could have been me.” (The Struts) I spent more than a decade as an investment banker. 100-hour weeks. 100,000-mile domestic flier every year. Full staff working the weekends with lunch and dinner provided. All day meetings from breakfast to bed. Mergers, acquisitions, sales, IPOs, secondaries, restructurings. I worked on things that were in the…