Hello everybody and thank you so much for joining us for this live recording of the Squiggly

Careers podcast. Some of you may have listened to Squiggly Careers before but if not we'll introduce

ourselves because we're the co-hosts of the podcast and then we've also brought with us tonight

some amazing guests who are going to have the conversation with on the podcast. So my name's Helen. I'm one of the co-hosts and this is Sarah. Hi everybody. Thank you for coming and not going

to Richard Dawkins. Oh, Richard. And we also are co-founders of a business called Amazing If. And what

Sarah and I do in our work is we aim to make work a bit better for everyone. And one of the things that we do to contribute to that mission

is that we do the podcast.

So it's a weekly podcast, and we talk about lots of topics

that we think can help people to take ownership of their career.

So whether it's about how you can take control of your boundaries

because they're getting a bit blurred,

how to be brilliant in your new job,

how to have courageous conversations, how to manage your manager.

All of those things, we tend to do a bit of research, share our own experiences, and really focus

on how people can take actions. That's a big thing about, something we're really passionate

about is helping people take ownership of their career. And in this podcast, we're going to be

talking about work and well-being,

which is becoming an increasing area of focus as our working lives become more always on,

those boundaries become blurred, and much more a topic that people are thinking about and moving from something that they forget about on their to-do list all the way to the top.

And we've brought some people to talk to us today to give us different perspectives on work and well-being that we can learn from and hopefully take

some actions from ourselves. So we're going to talk to everybody separately so we can hear about them,

but just very, very quick. First off, Sarah is going to talk to Tom, and we're going to talk a bit

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