This is a picture of me flying over the Atlantic, nestled in a first class down comforter. If you’ve never had the opportunity to fly this way, I’m going to honest—it doesn’t suck. You arrive at your destination refreshed and ready for whatever adventures lie ahead, without a kink in your neck or bags under your eyes.

Our ability to lay flat and sleep on the plane didn’t come easy. It came from a whole lot of consistent hard work. And that hard work happened in part because we’re driven people who are wired to want to make a difference. But also because we were scared as hell to wind up back where we were when we first started a family.

While many of you may know the story of where John and I were professionally and personally when I first started our direct sales business (getting by but not getting ahead), you probably don’t know how lean the first couple years of parenting were for us and that our sleeping conditions 35,000 miles high were far more comfortable than those just a dozen years ago.