This week I got handed a job title I never applied for: **the meat in a triple-decker sandwich.** Me in the middle. A Commercial Director on one side, a CTO on the other, the CEO up top. Full accountability for quality and delivery, with roughly the authority of the pickle. ๐ฅ My ADHD brain did what it does best: went STRAIGHT to catastrophe. Three days of spiralling, rehearsing my resignation in the shower, and deep-cleaning a cupboard instead of solving the actual problem. ๐งฝ So I dumped the whole mess on my AI coach, (JT) and instead of letting me marinate in the drama, it said the thing that stopped the spiral: *"Debz, this isn't a you problem. It's a role-design problem."* Reader, I felt SEEN. ๐๏ธ Because here's the kicker: I've spent 30 years mapping who-owns-what for other people's organisations. Drawing the clean lines. Turning chaos into clarity. And I'd never once done it for myself. So we did. Scoped the boundaries. Named the white spaces. Built a "support first, status last" plan instead of me panicking. And by the end I wasn't the filling anymore. I was the one holding the recipe. ๐ฉโ๐ณ ๐ง๐ต๐ฒ ๐น๐ฒ๐๐๐ผ๐ป: ๐ผ๐๐ฒ๐ฟ๐๐ต๐ฒ๐น๐บ ๐ถ๐ ๐ผ๐ณ๐๐ฒ๐ป ๐ท๐๐๐ ๐ฐ๐น๐ฎ๐ฟ๐ถ๐๐ ๐๐ต๐ฎ๐ ๐ต๐ฎ๐๐ป'๐ ๐ฏ๐ฒ๐ฒ๐ป ๐ฑ๐ฟ๐ฎ๐๐ป ๐๐ฒ๐. An ADHD brain in an undefined space will fill it with pure, uncut anxiety. So define the space. I walk into the big alignment meeting Monday with two clean documents and my dignity mostly intact. Wish me luck. ๐ ๐ฌ๐ผ๐๐ฟ ๐๐๐ฟ๐ป: where are YOU carrying the accountability but nobody handed you the authority? Name your sandwich in the comments. ๐๐ฅช ---