Hi everyone, I'm Sarah Ellis, one of the co-hosts of the Squiggly Careers podcast.

This episode is part of our Ask the Expert series.

Each week we're interviewing a different expert from around the world, focusing on one particular skill that we think will help you to be your best at work and also look after your mental health in the months ahead.

There's going to be some really brilliant conversations,

lots of insights from people like Simon Sinek on purpose,

Amy Edmondson on psychological safety,

and Holly Tucker on creativity.

And all our episodes in the Ask the Expert series

have been really kindly supported by the Booper UK Foundation.

They're a charity and their purpose is to help people

live longer, healthier and happier lives. They fund really practical projects that have a positive

impact on people's mental well-being. So things like workshops for educators like teachers,

they work with mind and do some brilliant work for young people with online resources

and they fund community mental

wellbeing projects. And in this podcast, you'll hear me talking to Rich Pearson, the co-founder of

Headspace, all about mindfulness and meditation. What I really loved about this conversation is how

practical and realistic Rich is with his advice on how we can all make meditation part of our day-to-day lives.

I really hope you enjoy the episode and I'll be back at the end to let you know who we have

coming up next.

Personally, I've been a really big fan of Headspace for a long time now.

Actually, Rich and I met quite a few years ago as

Headspace was really just starting out so I've really seen the kind of positive impact that

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