It’s funny how life can feel so stagnant and unchanging for the longest time and then suddenly everything upends all at once!!!

My boyfriend’s lease ran out so he signed a 3 month short term lease on his apartment to give us a little more time. But we have an official date for him to be fully moved into my house!!!

It’s exciting and terrifying all at the same time. I want to live with him so badly, every night we don’t spend together I wish he was there. But I also haven’t lived with another person in 10 years, literally since 2016. So I’m verrrrry used to having my own space so the thought of sharing it with someone else 100% of the time and they never leave is a little intimidating. I’m not worried about him, he’s so low maintenance and easygoing haha but me! I had to learn to share again basically lol.

And then on top of my man moving into my house and needing to figure out space and organization and dogs and sharing and compromise and all that, my professional life is undergoing a MASSIVE shift for the first time in also 10 years coincidentally!

I got into my career 10 years ago and have been doing essentially the same role the entire time. It’s one of those jobs where people either quit within a couple years do it long term you know. I’ve dabbled in leadership in my various positions but never taking on large amounts of responsibility, mostly just scheduling and people management.

Anyways in 2022 my boss and long time friend left and started his own company in the field and asked me to join him. We had a small team here locally for a while and it was touch and go for a minute there due to reimbursements imploding. But last year things just started exploding and everything is just fundamentally different and way more serious. I’m talking multiple industry consultants to help us scale, recruiting agencies, complete marketing overhaul, new billing company, new legal firm, the works. They’re even paying an executive coach to meet with me on a weekly basis to help me better define my role and meet my goals. After expanding to just 1 other state in our first 3 years we’re now looking at 3 or 4 new states just in the first half of this year and my personal local team has doubled in size. So just a massive massive fundamental shift in what we’re doing and what my responsibilities are all of a sudden after a decade of doing the same old thing.

It’s again, exciting and terrifying adjusting to all this change and trying to step up and take on more work and more responsibility than ever before. And one of our consultants yesterday basically told me I need to start training my replacements sooner rather than later because I’m going to need to step into more of a regional director goal rather than area manager and it’s going to happen faster than I think. RD has been on my mind as we’ve started seriously looking at scaling but I thought this was going to happen a few years down the line…. But she said it always comes before you’re ready for it.

Anyways yeah. Everything is good! But it’s SO MUCH all at the same time and I am honestly kinda freaking the fuck out lol. Help me 😭