Once I began Firefly 19 years in the past, I did each little factor myself. There was no different manner! I had no credibility, no group, no cash. I cherished how these early breathtaking days blurred into one another — a unending to-do listing of effort and striving. However over time I’ve discovered to share this work, and I’ve skilled the big liberation of working inside group.
That mentioned, I’ve held the center of it tight in my fingers. The Firefly workforce does wonderful work of their particular person roles, however I’m nonetheless the one one who holds the entire map. Increasingly, this has been leaving me drained and wrestling with my very own inadequacy.
Right here’s the factor — I really feel insufficient at this as a result of I am. This isn’t self-admonishment, it’s a truth.
There’s merely extra work on my listing than one individual can do. Attempting to cowl all of it myself is exhausting me, and holding us again from the genuine progress I believe we’re meant for.
So this fall, I’m taking a leap of religion and handing a bunch of my job over to somebody new. I’m divesting the logistic, nitty-gritty, left-brained stuff that I’m not nice at, in order that I can focus my consideration on the human workings of Firefly — facilitating, writing, listening, and rising this.
Change could be scary, however I’m giddy at the moment, penning this.
I’m enthusiastic about so many components of it.
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I’m excited to have the ability to discover concepts once more, brainstorm methods to make Firefly extra contemporary and expansive and beneficiant.
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I’m excited to introduce our new workforce member to their extraordinary co-workers, and to look at them discover their place on this circle of care and creativity.
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Principally, I’m excited to run extra lessons, see extra purchasers, and spend extra time again round tables writing with others. That’s what this has at all times been about for me and I miss it so, a lot.
So! We’re on the hunt for a loving and logical human who understands deeply what we’re doing, who thinks in programs, and who simply creates order out of chaos.
It is a one who understands the significance of group care and doing issues in a different way, can flip massive concepts into doable checklists, after which begin checking issues off.
They need to be a part of this large group of people — the workforce and the entire group — and step into their very own type of contribution and repair to them.
We’re calling it an “Operations Lead.”
