Hi, I'm Sarah Ellis and I'm Helen Tupper and this is the Squiggly Couriers podcast where every week we work through the ins and the outs and the ups and the downs of work and hopefully give you some ideas for action and tools to try out to really help you invest in your development.

And we're really excited because this episode has been sponsored by Union Hand Roasted Coffee.

Delicious.

I've already had one today.

Have you really?

Yeah, I had my mid-morning Union coffee.

I feel like coffee is just this recurring theme.

Maybe it should be called the Squiggly Coffee Careers podcast.

I feel like there's probably a positive, I don't know whether it's correlation or causation

between number of toddlers and the amount of coffee you need to drink. Yeah, I actually think,

yeah, the less sleep I have, the more coffee I end up drinking to give me the energy. In fact,

I had a bit of a slump in the afternoon yesterday and I was doing a session and I now work near

a chocolate shop and I made myself a coffee and then

I had some chocolate and I was I just felt like more like me. I don't know whether sugar and caffeine is

more like me but I felt more like Helen. But I think one of the reasons that we really like

coffee in our days is because it gives us a bit of time. I think it gives us a bit of time to

ourselves because we're talking this episode is all

about rituals and there's something I think quite ritualistic in a cafeteria and brewing some

coffee and taking a moment to drink it. It just gives me a bit of time for me and not being in my

inbox and all those great things. And so Sarah and I are both fans of Union Coffee.

I have been drinking it from the little cafe down the road at my house for ages. They've stocked it.

And when they approached us to sponsor the podcast, we learned more about the brand and ended up loving Union Coffee a bit more.

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