Hi everybody, welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Helen. I'm one of the co-host of the podcast. And this

week, I'm not going to be joined by Sarah. I'm actually going to be joined by a special guest, an expert to

help us with our career. But more on that in a minute. If this is the first time you've listened to

this podcast, let me tell you what it is all about. So it's a weekly show. We have over 200 episodes and our aim is to help people with the ups and downs, ins and

outs, good bits and hard bits of squiggly careers. We want this show to be as practical as possible

for you. So we're always trying to put insights into action and give you lots of tools to take away.

So it's definitely worth

checking out the show notes because as well as some special discounts, which I'm going to tell

you about, you'll also get lots of tools, things like pod mail and pod sheets, all to help

you kind of take what you're going to hear about in this episode and apply it to you and your

career. So today's episode is part of our fourth Ask the Expert series, which is where we

enlist some experts to help us with some topics which we think are really relevant to people's

development right now. And today, you're going to hear me talking to Constan Chow Locke on the topic

of influence. Influence is a topic that comes up so much in all of our workshops. People want some

support and Conson has lots and lots of advice for us. Conson is a professorial lecturer in management.

She's a psychologist and speaker and she's also the author of a book I really enjoy called

Making Your Voice Heard. Lots of practical tips and insights into that.

And this series of Ask the Expert is supported by The Uncertainty Experts, a three-part interactive

documentary and immersive learning experience, which has been scientifically proven to reduce

the fear of the unknown. And when we can do that, so we effectively increase our

tolerance to uncertainty, we reduce the risk of burnout. It's three one-hour-long sessions where you can

learn from, oh, everyone from gang leaders who've become business leaders to refugees who become

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