This is where the adventure gets real. You’ve built something, shared it, refined it — and now you’re putting it to the test. For real.

In this stage, your product or service collides with the world. Users try it. Tech breaks. Feedback stings. Confidence wobbles. Internally, you may question everything. Externally, things may fall apart in ways you didn’t expect.

That’s not failure. That’s the giant doing his job.

This is your crucible. Your stress test. It’s where you separate fantasy from function — and deepen your courage. You’ll fix bugs, rewrite copy, rework flow. You’ll want to quit. Don’t.

Because this is also the stage where you grow the most — as a maker, a leader, and a human. You learn how your thing behaves under pressure. You find the holes. You patch them. And most importantly, you find the strength to keep going anyway.

Every hero meets resistance. Every business hits turbulence. This is that moment. Face it, and you move one step closer to mastery.