Hi, I'm Sarah Ellis and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast where each week we talk about the ups and the downs of our world of work and hopefully help you and us to navigate our squiggly careers with that little bit more confidence and control.

And this week we've got a special series of episodes for you which are all about finding your focus.

We know that it's an area that lots of our listeners and we, quite frankly, would like some ideas and some help on.

So rather than just doing one episode, we've got quite a few for you.

We've recorded one, so Helen and I have recorded one, which is is very practical full of ideas for action and coach yourself

questions and then we've got three special guest episodes as well which we've sort of clustered

together because they all feel like they'll do a good job of helping us to find our focus

so today you're going to hear my conversation with emma gannon and her latest book is called

disconnected and i say latest because all of her books are brilliant if you've not read things hear my conversation with Emma Gannon. And her latest book is called Disconnected. And I say

latest because all of her books are brilliant. If you've not read things like the multi-hyphen method,

that's also a really good one to check out. Very relevant for Squiggly Careers. And so Emma and I chat a bit

about how to spot the signs of disconnection, what that looks like, how we can reclaim time for ourselves,

who doesn't want to do a bit of that, and also our tricky relationship with technology

and what changes you can try out for yourself. And some of the other episodes in this series,

I've already mentioned the one that Helen and I have done, which is sort of your normal

Tuesday Squiggly Careers episode, but you can also hear Helen talk to Sophie Devonshire and Ben Wrenshaw about what you can do to discover or reconnect with the work that you love.

And you can hear my conversation with Johann Harri talking about his excellent new book, Stolen Focus, and he is brilliant.

We really talk about in our conversation why we

can't pay attention and what we can do about it. So I hope you enjoyed today's conversation.

Do let us know what you think and I'll be back at the end to say bye.

Emma, thank you so much for joining us on the Squiggly Careers podcast.

I'm delighted to have you back as one of our very few returning guests.

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