Hi everyone and welcome to this week's squiggly careers podcast. I'm Sarah and I'm joined by my co-host Helen.

Hello everybody. And thank you so much for coming back to our podcast where we each week try to take on a different topic to do with work and particularly how we're all working in our new kind of squiggly careers, which we think

is everybody's sort of new normal. I think we're all experiencing squiggly careers in lots of

different ways. And we know this because when we talk to people about the podcast or the book,

everyone always talks to us about their equivalent of their squiggly careers. Sometimes that

means moving around in one organisation. Sometimes that

means doing different kinds of roles, working in different kind of areas, or sometimes that just

means trying out different types of work. So going to freelance or trying to ruin your own thing,

I think we all have our own kind of versions of what a squiggly career is. And hopefully each week

we take on a topic that just helps

you to navigate that career more in a way that works for you and spend much more time thriving

than surviving is kind of always our aim and just thank you to everybody who continues to review

our book somebody described it to us over the weekend on Instagram as we have been their informal mentor

through both the podcast and the book over the last year. And I thought that was really lovely

and very reflective, I think, of what we are trying to do is to kind of be there as an informal

coach or a mentor. And if you have had time to read the book, if you've been kind enough to buy

it and you've made some quite quick progress, I would say, because we're only kind of a couple of months after it's

come out. Any reviews on Amazon are really appreciated and they really help us to make sure that we can

keep sharing the book as far as wide as possible. So thank you for doing that. And before we get onto

today's topic, which is all about comparison and the traps that comparison can create for us in our careers.

Just want to give you kind of a brief heads up into something that we are so excited that

is coming like in the next couple of days. So from the 4th to the 10th of March, we are going to be

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