Say it straight or don't say it at all.
If everything slows down when you step away, you've built something that depends on you, not something that runs without you. That dependency is a ceiling.
DIY feels like control. It is actually just expensive slow labor. Every hour you spend on something outside your core skill has an opportunity cost that is easy to calculate and hard to justify.
Independence means your business has systems and leverage that work without you. Isolation is just grinding alone with no structure. A lot of solo operators confuse the two. One is a goal. One is a trap.
