Success is addictive.
Until you forget why you started in the first place.
Yesterday.
Belgian Ardennes.
12 entrepreneurs.
Rain. Mud. Silence.
No phones. No KPIs.
Just real conversations — the kind that actually matter.
About growth.
About failure.
About losing yourself… and finding your way back.
There was laughter.
There were tears.
And above all… there was learning.
After 6.5 years of building my business,
I realized something painfully simple:
We had grown. Evolved. Changed.
But me?
I had stood still.
Not in revenue. Not in results. But in experience.
And suddenly, that hit hard.
So I made a change.
I now work one extra day a week from home.
More time with my family.
More breathing room in my schedule.
And just like that, I see my kids ten times more.
I feel energy again.
I feel fun again.
But now comes the question that keeps lingering:
What’s my next dream?
Not business-wise. Not rational.
Just… human.
Jeff Houwen ⚡️ & Olivier De Smedt — thank you for getting me out of my head and back into my heart🌲
