Hi everyone and welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Sarah and I'm joined by my co-host Helen.

Hello everybody. And we're recording this today. It's Thursday the 19th of March and we don't usually start with the date.

It feels like at the moment partly I'm not sure what day it is because the world feels like it has turned upside down.

And I sort of am imagining if you listen to this in the future, it's quite useful to know that

we're both based in the UK.

Coronavirus has, particularly this week, particularly hit the UK.

Everybody is now working from home.

The schools are closing tomorrow.

Nurseries are closing. both Helen and I have

young kids, lots of people listening, I'm sure, we'll be kind of dealing with that right now.

And so it feels like a moment to kind of recognise that everybody who's listening at the moment,

certainly if you're kind of listening as this episode comes out, it's not really business as

usual, it's not really the world as usual, and it's really tough and lots of uncertainty and change.

We thought a bit about what's the right thing to do with the podcast, do we still do it, what are the

right topics to cover, and we wanted to let you know about a couple of things just before we get

into this week's episode, things that might be helpful for people at the moment. So the first thing is we're sharing

on Instagram at the moment some podcast playlists. So we've now done over 130 episodes

and we thought it might be a useful time to group some of those episodes together on certain topics like

productivity or growth mindset or emotions at work. So if you're thinking at the moment,

oh, I could really do with a kind of dose of productivity or motivation, you know which

episodes to listen to without having to kind of search through them all. So if you just go

onto Instagram at Amazing If, you'll see that we're going to just start posting those and sharing

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