Jaime will be our Project Manager and is taking on a huge role as I pass some of my personal responsibilities to her. She shall be representing me in the front line in many areas so that I can breathe a bit better and have time for effective strategic planning. Im not leaving my role entirely, you will still see me, but hopefully not with my hair straight back - that will be Jaime -lol.
Jaime is actually not new to HM. She's been with us in the sponsor role for 6 years (as our "Big Cheese" from McDonalds Corporate Restaurants), a fundraiser for 5 years (initiating as Team Hope) and as a volunteer for 4 years. Last year Jaime took on a huge role as our volunteer coordinator which required many extra hours coordinating our few hundred volunteers.
In my recent post titled "Im back", I alluded to passing my hat to a certain someone that I had wished for and prayed about for the past few years. Well it came true.
I really dont know how the stars lined up, but I definitely know why. It was part of a greater plan.
On Friday Jaime signed on with us and said a very difficult goodbye to her position as C.R. for McDonalds (of 20 years). This decision was incredibly daunting as she has worked her way up, in charge of over 2200 employees, all corporate restaurants in N.A. Jaime has remained faithful to her commitments, however her heart has beckoned her over to something familiar she wholeheartedly believes in. She, like myself (and all of our HM Peeps) wants to use her position to make a difference in the lives of kids.
Jaime is also a Wish Mom. She has shared a similar journey with her daughter living in fear and prayer. Her fears are still in the forefront - in fact it was my last post (A Happy Outcome) that reflected a recent incident with Kailey.
Paired with in-debth experience pertinent to the position and an outstanding work ethic - Jaime is a perfect fit... and it helps that she's FUN.
Now some more good news for me. I can stop sucking up to her (as my biggest sponsor) and she'll have to start sucking up to me 'cause I'll be her boss (and I might just try and have some fun with that...).
Brandi shall have some work cut out familiarizing Jaime with the impressive HUGE binder that she developed over the summer organizing this beast.
We have not had an opportunity to have a Brandi to extract years of info from Tammys brain and revamp past documents, dont know how she tore though all of that and made it look sexy. Great job on that Brandi, and thumbs up on some brilliant strategies!
Think its coming together....
My goal this year - no thumb sucking in the fetal position.
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