Thank you so much for all coming this evening.

It's the 100th episode of the Squiggly Careers podcast.

I think it's worth saying that when we started this two years ago, this is not what we planned at all. We were just two people sitting in our pyjamas, usually about 10 o'clock at night,

talking to each other, and mainly thinking about three people listened, one of which was pretty much definitely my mum,

who was still our biggest fan. So, you know, she stuck with us. She stood with us through thick and thin.

But we started it because I think we both felt, and I think lots of people around us felt that work had changed.

And the idea of climbing a career ladder, of a predictable linear career where we knew what was coming next just seemed to have disappeared.

And we were like, right, we're in this kind of whole new, squiggly environment now.

And what does that mean? And we could see that lots of we're in this kind of whole new squiggly environment now, and what does that

mean? And we could see that a lot of people around us were kind of struggling. There was quite a lot

of stress and anxiety, people feeling quite overwhelmed. But equally, we could spot that some people

were thriving, finding more freedom and fulfillment in what they were doing. And what seemed to be

the kind of common theme was the people who took ownership for their own career development. The people who'd got were taking action, they'd got

the kind of hints and tips and who were really thinking about what they wanted to do, what

success meant for them. And so we were trying to do something that actually made that as accessible

and as open to as many people as possible. And that was it really, just this idea of taking ownership for your own career.

I think we both feel that through doing it, it's made our careers brilliant,

and the squigglyness means that we've thrived, rather than just been in kind of survival mode,

sometimes slightly more in survival mode.

But, you know, more time in thriving than surviving, I think, has got to be most of our aim. And so over

time, it's grown. We've now got over 155 star reviews on Apple, which is thanks to lots of people

in this room and people listening, who we asked to do that and actually people go on and do it,

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