Most dads are taught to start a business the wrong way.
“Quit the job.”“Burn the boats.”“Go all in.” But when you have kids, bills, a mortgage, and people depending on your calm, burning the boats can also burn the house. That’s why I see your salary differently. Your salary is not always the thing trapping you. Used properly, it becomes your runway. It gives you time to learn, test, validate, and build proof before your business has to carry the full weight of your family. A while back, one of my businesses was accidentally flagged by Amazon’s AI. No sales. No payouts. Expenses still going out. A month of frozen income. That experience taught me something clearly: The real danger is not having a job. The real danger is depending on one source of income with no backup plan. So here’s the question for you: What is one problem at work, in your industry, or in your circle that people already come to you to solve? Not your business idea yet. Just the problem. Because problems are cleaner than ideas. Drop it below and I’ll help you think through whether there could be a simple business path hiding inside it. I also broke this down in more detail in this video: https://youtu.be/fOjQ4fZYvt0?si=_AC55Dk2pu1V5DZL Watch it when you get a chance, then come back and post your answer here. Your first move is not to build a website. It’s to study the problem.