This is Help Launted, the show that tackles all the big work questions you cannot ask anyone else.

I'm Jason Feiffer, Editor-in-Chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, and I'm New York Time Specialing

author and money expert, Nicole Lapin.

The helpline is open!

Today on Help Launted, I wanted to lift the MNN veil even more than usual.

So I co-host this show, and also a solo daily show, Money Rehab.

And those shows and other awesome business and finance shows are part of a network that

I used my life savings to build.

Money news network is more than my baby, it is me.

When something bad happens with it, I feel bad, but like really, really bad.

It affects me more than I ever thought.

Now, don't get me wrong, I am so proud to have not taken on investors.

I am so so proud to have bootstrapped through a crappy time for advertising that I had to navigate

right out of the gate.

And I am extremely proud to be able to pay our lean mean badass team really well.

But it hits differently when all that money comes essentially out of one banking portal.

I choose every day between spending on personal stuff and spending on stuff for the business.

And I think you know which wins.

Make no mistake, we are doing really well as a company and I have personally been able

to build a rich, full life that younger Lapin would be so proud of.

But self-funding this company has not affected my net worth, but my self-worth in big ways.

I know though, I am not alone here.

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