“Here’s $100—Can you be my mom today?” a billionaire boss’s son asked—until a shy woman replied, “Keep it. Billionaires pay in secrets.”

“They would call it a disruptive leadership strategy.”

I laughed before I could stop myself.

He turned at the sound, and the look he gave me was so unguarded that my laughter faded into something quieter.

“Why do you do that?” he asked.

“Mock billionaires?”

“Act as if fear is optional.”

I leaned against the counter. “It isn’t. I’m scared all the continue reading …