I know what you’re thinking. “I don’t need to dump my stress on my team. I just need to keep pushing.” And yeah, maybe crying into your quarterly earnings call isn’t the move. But pretending you’ve got it all together, all the time? That’s a bigger risk. When you hold back, you set the tone. If you hide your struggles, you give everyone else permission to do the same. You build a wall between you and your team. You create a false reality where no one admits what’s really going on, where issues fester, and where trust erodes.