Tomorrow I Leave Store 6. Tomorrow I Start at Store 48.

Time doesn't wait for you to feel ready. It just moves. Tomorrow is proof of that for me — my last shift at Store 6, and my first shift at Store 48, both on the same day.

I'm moving because the company needs an MIT with experience to walk in and support a manager who's already running a strong store, not one who needs to be trained from scratch. I met her today. It went well. And honestly, that's the whole point of putting in the work — eventually someone hands you a harder problem because they trust you can handle it.

I'm excited. Not the polished, performative kind of excited — the real kind, where I don't fully know what I'm walking into and I like that I don't know. New store, new team, new problems I haven't solved yet. That's where the growth is.

To my Store 6 team — thank you. For teaching me, for the patience, for showing up for me on the days I needed it. You shaped how I lead more than you probably realize. I hope we stay in each other's lives past this.

To my new team at Store 48 — I'm looking forward to this. Not to show up and change everything on day one, but to learn how you already do things well, and then figure out together how we get better from there. My commitment to you is simple: I'm going to work to grow the value of the ESOP we're all a part of, and I'm going to do what I can to bring more customers through our doors. That's not a slogan. That's the job.

The Part I Don't Usually Say Out Loud

Here's something I've been sitting with. I've gotten more consistent about showing up publicly — posting, writing, building — but it's been at least six months since I've actually sat down with someone and walked them through what I'm building, start to finish. I've given the elevator version plenty of times. The real version? Not so much.

I don't fully know why yet. Maybe it's that I'm afraid of what someone might say back. Maybe it's that asking someone to actually commit to something still feels harder than talking about it in the abstract. I'm not going to pretend I've got a clean answer today — I'm still working through which one it is, and probably why.

But here's what I do know: I believe in what I'm building. I believe it's going to matter for a lot of people long after I'm gone from any one room. And the gap between believing that and actually sitting across from someone and asking for their trust — that gap is where the real work is. Not the content. Not the posting. The ask.

Why This Matters to Me

Every version of what I'm building — the job, the brand, the long game — comes back to the same idea: time is the one thing none of us gets back. Not attention, not money. Time. Every year I spend building something that outlasts a paycheck is a year I don't get to spend twice. That's why the store move matters, and it's why the thing I'm building in the background matters too. Both are about using time in a way I won't regret.

Tomorrow's just a Tuesday to most people. To me, it's a small hinge point — one door closing, one opening, and me trying to walk through it paying attention instead of just moving through it.

If any part of this resonates with you — the transition, the ownership mindset, the honesty about the parts that are still hard — connect with me. Follow along. Share it with someone it might land for. That's genuinely the most useful thing you can do for me right now.

#TimeIsEverything