In The Cost of the Status Quo, Rhode Island native and world traveler Lindsey Lerner provides a roadmap for avoiding common entrepreneurial pitfalls for free thinkers embarking on the journey of business success. Explore the triumphs and heartaches of entrepreneurship through the lens of one of today’s premier, eclectic business development and partnership strategists. Forging the path for women, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and other demographics whose experiences in enterprise are often shooed to the fringes, Lindsey spotlights her own trek through business, world travel, stateside travel in her converted van, and her relationship with her partner and daughter, proving that the road to success is anything but linear. Witness how Lindsey moves from points A to P to F to X while finding her way to Z with honesty, grace, self-reflection, and grit.