I had just booked the national tour of a Broadway show and I was ecstatic. Upon hearing the news, one of my friends congratulated me by saying "you finally made it!" I knew this friend meant well. To them, I had finally succeeded. They defined success, for me, as booking a gig with national name recognition. And it was a huge success, but I also felt like that comment discounted every other major success I’d had, that led up to that point.