We were walking around Chattanooga’s art district, dreaming and talking about our future, when my wife pulled me into a small, picturesque courtyard and suggested we sit down for a moment. And then she gave me the news: we were pregnant with our second child. I started laughing hysterically. I’m…

As I approached the bench to sit down across from my boss, I couldn’t tell if what I was feeling was the full-body-sweat-inducing Nashville humidity or the thick tension in the air from the news I was about to receive. Maybe it was his anxious posture or the cryptic email…

My heart was racing as I looked in her eyes. I was about to tell my wife that I was ready to leave my job. Even worse, I was going to leave without any plan of what I’d do next and with only about two months of runway before we’d…