Everyone talks about the rewards of entrepreneurship — freedom, impact, financial upside.

But beneath the surface lies a reality few are willing to say out loud: it’s isolating, it’s exhausting, and the metrics we chase often come at the expense of the life we thought we were building.

In this episode of Emergence Now, Nikos opens up about 15 years of navigating that tension. The conversation goes deeper than tactics — into the psychological cost of constantly striving, the trap of tying your identity to your business, and the quiet pressure to scale even when you’re no longer sure why.

This is a rare conversation about ambition, disillusionment, and the hard questions most founders avoid:
What do you really want?
And what are you willing to trade to get it?

If you're building something — or thinking about it — this episode is a mirror.

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