I spent over twenty-five years in telecom, fifteen of those in executive leadership. I built teams, ran contact centers, and navigated the kind of corporate politics that can wear you down to nothing if you let it. From the outside, things looked good. I was delivering results, earning promotions, checking every box that was supposed to mean I'd made it. But there was a voice underneath all of that. It had been with me for as long as I could remember, and it had its own set o