Hello and welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Sarah Ellis and this is the final episode

in our Be Your Brilliant Best series. Today you'll have the opportunity to hear me talk to two

different guests who are both here to help us with topics that I think are even more relevant

right now than we'd appreciated when we first had our

conversations together.

First up is Kate Savilla.

She's going to be talking to me about how to work without losing your mind.

Kate is very honest and candid about her own experiences.

And she's also interviewed lots of people in the process of researching her book

as well about tough challenges and what was kind of helped and hindered along the way. So whether

it is a horrendous boss, whether it is working every hour and having feeling like you've got

no life, crying in the toilets. All those things that we

never hope are going to happen, but inevitably do at some point during our careers. There's always

those moments where things feel a bit less squiggly and a bit more knotty and it can feel really

hard in those moments to find your way through those times to kind of get unnotted and you can

feel really alone. It can feel really lonely and clearly have a really tough impact on your

mental health. And so I always really enjoy spending time with Kate because she doesn't shy away

from those tough conversations. But equally, she's fun and funny and doesn't kind of take herself too seriously.

Really kind of similar to us, I think what we tried to do with Squiggly Careers,

she really wants to help people in a practical way so that if and when those things do happen,

you feel reassured that it's not just you and you have the confidence to do something about it.

Then after Kate, you'll hear me talk to Rita Clifton about imposter syndrome.

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