When leaders decide to grow, expand, or step into a bigger opportunity, they often expect momentum. But what they don’t expect is chaos before breakthrough. Yet time and again, just as a breakthrough is within reach, something unexpected happens. A system breaks. A client pulls out. A personal crisis erupts. Technology fails at the worst possible moment. Energy dips. Doubt creeps in. During a recent joint livestream conversation between myself and Victoria Whitfield, this exact pattern took center stage: why