Hello, I'm Sarah Ellis, the co-host of the Squiggly Careers podcast, and this is the first in our new Ask the Expert series.

Each week, my co-host, Helen or I, will be interviewing a different expert from around the world,

focusing on one particular skill that will help you to be your best at work and look after your mental health in the months ahead.

In our first episode today, we'll be focusing on resilience,

a skill that feels very relevant right now.

And I'll be talking to Martha Lane Fox,

the co-founder of Last Minute.com and founder of Dot Everyone,

and she'll share her personal and professional experience

of building her own resilience.

And this series has been really kindly supported by the Booper UK Foundation.

The Booper UK Foundation is a charity and their purpose is to help people live longer, healthier and happier lives.

They fund really practical projects which have a positive impact on people's mental wellbeing,

including workshops for educators,

working with minds to empower better mental health in young people, and funding community mental

wellbeing projects.

I really hope you enjoy my conversation with Martha as much as I did, and I'll be back at the

end to let you know who our next guest will be and how you can access some free, brilliant

resources from Booper as well. to let you know who our next guest will be and how you can access some free brilliant resources

from Bupa as well.

Martha, thank you so much for joining us today.

My pleasure.

And Martha does a really interesting multitude of things, but there are a couple of experiences

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