Last year, my firm sent us to Las Vegas to attend a series of sessions focused on both professional and personal growth with the theme of “Your Bigger Future”. I literally felt as if these meetings were speaking directly to me, because at that point in my life I was weeks away from starting hormone replacement therapy and was both equally eager but also terrified of the unknown bigger future I was about to embark upon.
This year, these same sessions were focused around the theme of “Live Well Be Well”. In another eerie parallel to what I am going through, I am about to hit one year on HRT and feel so much more empowered in my own life and more positive in my outlook for the future. Last year, I wanted to share what I was going through but I felt both physically and emotionally unable to do so. This year, I stood up in front of close to 900 people and proceeded to share my story.
This was a difficult decision to make, to out myself in front of my entire firm, and it was not one I made lightly. But I did so with the intention of showing others the transformative power of making difficult but necessary choices with the goal of bettering your own life. If I inspired just one person to make a positive change in their life by sharing my own personal story then it was all worth it.
I feel truly blessed to work for a company that cares so deeply for its employees. One that actively and regularly pours an insane amount of resources into bettering our lives. I feel eternally grateful for what this firm has done for me, and I cant imagine working for any other company.
-Erica ❤️