I won’t lie, this week has got off to a bit of a stinker… On Sunday a pipe burst in my kitchen. Not exactly how I’d planned to spend the end of my weekend 🙈 Thankfully it’s all fixed now, but the kitchen floor didn’t survive the experience, so that’s another thing added to the ever-growing list of adult responsibilities nobody warns you about 🤣😩🙈 Work has been non-stop too….. The person I usually work alongside is away on training this week, so the last two days have been soooo busy. I’ve spent most of them bouncing between meetings, messages and trying to remember what I was doing before the latest notification popped up 😩🙈 I’m also carrying my phone everywhere waiting for a call about my surgery. Every unknown number has me doing an internal panic of “is this the one?” before answering 🤣 Other than that, I’m surviving on caffeine , determination and pure stubbornness.….How’s everyone else’s week going so far? Let’s hear it 👇✨❤️✨

I need to share this because it’s fully tickled me 😩😂 I’m sat doing my work this morning & someone pops up on Teams like “how are you settling in?” “heard great things about you” etc etc….. and because I work from home and haven’t met half the company yet… I’m just like aw this is nice!!! So me being me, I start chatting away like I’ve known this man for years….. giving him the whole life story…. how I’m finding the role…. what I’ve been doing…. even had a little chat about the boxing last weekend….. fully settled into the convo like it’s a casual catch up, this goes on back and forth….for nearly TWO HOURS!!!! Then he goes “we should catch up when you’re in London”…. and I’m still none the wiser… just like yeah sounds good…. but at this point I’m like, I should really find out who this is…. so I message the guy I work alongside like “who’s this again?” & he just replies……. “the CEO mate” …. I felt my soul leave my body 😩😂🤣🙈 just me… sat in my house… having a full blown chinwag with the CEO with absolutely ZERO awareness 😂🙈…. no professionalism…. just my usual vibes 😂🙈 On the plus side he was fully chatting away too & at least he got the real me 😂😂….. please tell me someone else has done something like this because I am NOT recovering from this one anytime soon 😂🙈

Soooo… quick little life/work update from me because I’m still like whatttt is happening.... you literally couldn't write my life lately!!! Three weeks into my new role… THREE… and I’ve had an email today from one of the directors inviting me into a strategy meeting when I’m down in London at the end of the month. He said they can already see there’s more I can bring than they originally realised… so they want to sit down and talk about where my skills can add more value and what that looks like in terms of my role (and salary) going forward… I had to read the email twice (ok, deffo more than twice!!) because… what!!!!!! After everything with the rejections, the knockbacks, all of that… I keep thinking about what my fairy godmother @Amanda Parkin said to me in one of our very first calls about the right door opening… and it really does feel like I’ve landed exactly where I’m supposed to be.... I just feel really lucky. And very seen. Which is crazy and so very unexpected this early on!!! Alsooo… remember the RAISE summit in Paris that @Sian Kelly Guy shared with us last week?.... I mentioned it in passing and they’ve come back like “this looks amazing”… so I’m currently waiting to hear if I’m getting sent over on a work trip for it 👀✈️... Again… what is my life 🤣 Anyway enough about me… How’s everyone doing this week?... How was your weekend?.... Anything exciting going on or are we just surviving and getting through it? (also very valid 😂) Come tell me everything xx

We will all be thinking of you tomorrow on your first day in your new and exciting job!! I can’t wait to hear all about it… Go @Lauren Hargreaves you absolute superstar ❤️🙌🏼🎉