Hello everyone and welcome to this week's Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Helen and I'm here with Sarah.

Hello, Sarah. Hi everybody. Hello. And this week it's just us because last week's podcast is our Christmas party podcast, which involved four inspiring people and us. I don't know what I say. And us as well.

And some beseco and some minced pies and some Christmas cake and lots and lots of chat about inspiring things that people are doing to make work better and the highs and lows and everything in between.

So if you've not listened to that one, I think it was definitely a different one for us to do.

So I hope you really liked it.

And this week's topic is all about storytelling, which feels like

a very apt topic because last week Sarah and I went all the way to Diss in Norfolk to see

our book being printed. So the squiggly career, hooray! There were moments when we were in a factory

and there were like literally hundreds of copies of our books. Surrounding us, and they were

on conveyor belts.

Your thousands of copies of the book get printed very, very quickly.

And so they're all going through, like, different stages.

Being glued, being chopped.

Oh, yeah, it's amazing.

And you can almost just stand in the middle of it and just see all these books sort of, like, moving past you.

But amazing experience. I think what the one thing they could definitely tell was that

we were sort of first time debut authors as I think they called us

because we didn't play it cool in any way, shape or form.

Hello just looked ridiculously smiley and kind of happy the whole way around.

I think I was just in awe of how many books I was surrounded by.

I was a bit overwhelmed, I think, really struggling to take it all in.

And so everyone was just being really kind to us and being like, oh, like, do you want to have a look at this?

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