Don’t rewrite your origin story once things go well. The broke chapter is the part people need to hear.

Success tends to tidy up the past. The uncertainty gets smoothed over, the luck disappears, and the account starts to sound like a plan that was always going to work. That version is both less true and less useful, because the people who need it most are standing in the part you edited out.

Keep the details you are tempted to lose: the job you needed, the thing you could not afford, the stretch where you had no idea. Say them plainly, without dramatizing. Someone in that chapter right now is listening for evidence that it goes somewhere.