When Allison Maslan described starting with a full glass of water and pouring into every person and every crisis until you wake up with nothing left to give, I saw every burned-out parent I know in that one image.

Allison, founder of Pinnacle Global Network and bestselling author of Scale or Fail, has spent over 40 years building businesses and raised her daughter as a single mom, and here's what she knows that most parents don't: every time we rush in to fix it, we quietly rob our kids of the struggle that actually grows them.

We got into why "make it as hard as you can for them" isn't cruelty, it's love, and why the hardest thing is putting up with the pain of watching your kid fall and get back up. She also shares the line that carried her through her daughter's roughest teenage years: "My job is not to be your friend, my job is to be your parent."

You'll walk away knowing how to refill your own glass, hold a boundary without drowning in guilt, and do the next right thing when letting go feels impossible.