Hello and welcome to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Sarah, one of your hosts, and this episode

is part of a special series that we've created to bring to life some of the ideas and insights

in our new book, You Coach You. In this series of six episodes, we'll be talking to experts to get

their thoughts on how we can help ourselves through some of the naughtier moments in our squiggly careers.

It might be coping with challenging relationships at work, feeling overwhelmed or perhaps your progress has stalled, or maybe figuring out how to find more meaning from the work that you do.

Every episode relates to a chapter in You Coach You and today we're focusing on our resilience

chapter and we've got someone who is absolutely brilliant talking about resilience.

He was recommended to me, I think in one week by three different people, which is always

a good sign and he absolutely didn't disappoint.

Today you're going to hear me talk to Dr. Bill Mitchell, who is a clinical psychologist and his

most recent book is called Time to Breathe. I really enjoyed our conversation together because

I think what Bill is able to do so brilliantly is combine all of his academic rigor and research and know-how

with his practical experience of working with people all across the world. And he really

understands and relates to what we've all been experiencing. So whether that is our blurred

boundaries or feeling overwhelmed or sometimes just feeling like we don't have time for

ourselves. He gives us lots of tools and tactics to just improve our resilience in small,

specific and I think really realistic ways. I had to really focus on the conversation to avoid

to start to make a bit of a to-do list for myself because he was such a brilliant

person to listen to. So I hope you enjoyed today's conversation. I'll be back at the end to

let you know who else you can listen to as part of the series.

Okay, so what is resilience? Essentially, it's a balancing system.

If you think about all the pressures that you're under, from your job, from your home life, the pandemic pressures, the disruption, dislocation, uncertainty and so on.

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