Hello everybody and welcome to the Squiggly Crits podcast. I'm Helen Tupper. And I'm Sarah Ellis.

And this is a weekly podcast all about the ins and outs and ups and downs of work. And our hope is that

you listen and you can take insight from the conversations that we have and take actions away

so you can actually do something about the half an hour or so that you spend with us. And to kick off this year for 2021, we really wanted to help you to be your brilliant

best. And we wanted to have some conversations with people who we think have got some insights

that can help us all to do that, you and us. And so over the next month, we're bringing in some

special guests to talk with us about a few topics that we think can help you to be your

brilliant best. And so you're going to hear conversations about how to set goals for the year

ahead, how to have the right mindset. So reach those goals. How to start or grow something, whether

that's a new business or a side

project. And also how to make sure that you don't get in your own way and build your belief and

reduce your burnout. So they're the topics that we are going to cover. And today we're going to get

focused on the goals. And so first you're going to hear my conversation with Dr. Kath Bishop. So some of you might

know Kath Bishop because she is an Olympian who won medals, silver medals, is actually quite

a daunting prospect. You know, when you're talking about winning like a tennis tournament when

you were 12 at the local tennis club, and then you're like trying to relate that to somebody

who's like a professional athlete.

And not only is Kath an Olympian, it's like she is super squiggly, but in an incredibly impressive way.

She's also a former diplomat.

She's the author of a book called The Long Win.

She does loads of work in Cambridge at the business school there.

So she's squiggled her way throughout her career and done lots of interesting things.

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