Hello everybody and welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Helen, one of your hosts. And instead of

being joined by Sarah today, I have two guests with me for this special episode all about ideas

to inspire. I wanted to bring on to the podcast two people that inspire me, two people that I love

talking to, who have lots

of practical ideas and insights that I think can help all of us with our careers. And so Sarah

has given me permission to kick her off and bring them on. So first of all, you're going to

hear me talking to life coach Simon Alexander Ong, who has a new book coming out in April, so you can pre-order it.

It's not ready yet, but we are diving into his book, Energize, which is all about the art and

science of energy management. And what Simon and I will talk about is how he got to a tipping point

where he realized the importance of managing his energy and then what he

learned through the journey that he's gone on and has since gone on to help other people with as

well so there's lots of insight Simon is so wise I find him very calming to listen to he makes me

really wants to invest in myself to sort of be better for myself to help other people

be better too and I hope that that's what you will get from listening to him. And then after I

spoke to Simon, you're going to hear my conversation with Ian Sanders and Ian is a friend

that I met on Twitter many years ago, I think over 10 years now, when I read his book, Mashup and sent him a tweet

to say how much I liked it. And then we sort of kept tweeting and then we met and now we

support each other in our squiggly careers. And his new book, 365 ways to have a good day,

is full of stories and snippets and practical things that you can do.

And so you'll hear me and Ian talk about some of my favourite things that I read in the

books and brilliant little ideas for action just to kind of spark you to inspire you,

to give you some things to go and do differently.

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