Hello, everybody and welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Helen and I'm Sarah.

And we are your hosts of this weekly podcast, which is designed to help you work your way through

the ups and downs that we all face in our careers, give you lots of ideas for action, some of our

own reflections and some practical resources to help you with your development.

And today we are going to be talking about self-awareness, which is one of the topics that we cover in our new book, You Coach You. I feel like maybe we haven't talked about it much on

the podcast. I feel like we're talking about it everywhere, Sarah, this new book. So I'm always

a bit conscious of like, oh, I don't want to talk about it all the time.

But if you don't know, Sarah and I've got a new book coming out. Hooray! And it's coming out in January

and it is called You Coach You. And it's designed to help you overcome your career challenges and take

control of your career as much as is possible when so much is changing around us. And one of the most

important skills in coaching yourself is the skill of self-awareness. So Sarah's going to talk a little

bit about what self-awareness is because I think it's, when you dig into this, it's a little bit

more complicated, I think, or complex than it might seem at first. And then we've got six practical

ideas for action for you

to accelerate yourself awareness. And if you would like to join us for some book launch events,

we have two dates in January where we are going to be taking You Coach You live. We've got one in

London on the 19th of January and one in Manchester on the 31st of January. It's going

to be a mixture of a workshop. We've got some guest speakers. We're going to be doing some

live Q&A and some book signings, which always feels kind of a bit weird to sign your book.

It's funny. Anyway, all the links for those events. And we would love to see you there are in the show notes.

Or you can just email us with just Helen and Sarah at squiggly careers.com.

So let's get on to this week's topic, which is about self-awareness.

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