Certain things stand out in the early years of my working life: drinking entirely too much during after-work bar crawls, my eagerness to listen to office gossip, and having massive crises of confidence that I knew what I was doing.

When I left my 9-5 corporate career to start my own business, I thought I would be finally stepping into a new, hand-crafted world where I would have everything that was missing. Instead, I was wracked by guilt.