"I have no idea what's next. I'm 52 (or 48, or 61). I've been doing this one thing for so long, I don't know who I am without it. And the idea of starting a business feels like being asked to build a spaceship with instructions written in a language I don't speak."

What if everything that feels like a disadvantage is actually your edge?

That "I'm too old to start something new" feeling?

That's wisdom preventing you from making the mistakes you would have made at 30.

That "I don't know anything about business" fear?

You've been in business your entire career. You just had different job titles for it.

That "Who am I to think I can do this?" voice?

That's three decades of being taught your value was tied to someone else's organization chart. Take everything you've learned in those conference rooms, quarterly reviews, and strategy sessions and translate it into something that's yours.

The truth is: You're not behind. You're not too late. You're right on time.

Because starting a business in midlife isn't about competing with people half your age.

It's about serving people who need exactly what you know, delivered exactly how you deliver it, with the patience and perspective that only comes from having lived through multiple decades of Mondays.

You don't need to know everything. You just need to know the next step.