#305 Rebecca Seal: Solo Work & Loneliness

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emma gannon

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🗓️ 4 January 2021

⏱️ 38 minutes

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My guest today is Rebecca Seal, an episode all about working from home. Rebecca is the author of Solo: How to Work Alone (and Not Lose Your Mind) it’s a fantastic book absolutely filled to the brim with wfh advice and tips and anecdotes. It's a science and evidence-based exploration of what working alone does to your brain and well-being, and how to cope with the more difficult aspects of solo work. She doesn’t shy away from talking about her own tough times in her own freelance life which I personally found super helpful. Initially, she thought it was a book for freelancers and self-employed people...and then 2020 happened.

She also specialises in food, drink, travel, lifestyle and human interest stories and has written or co-authored eight cookbooks, many with the LEON restaurant group, including her latest, LEON Happy Fast Food, which came out in May 2020.

Hope you enjoy this one!

Link to Rebecca's book here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781788164856

- My books:.https://uk.bookshop.org/contributors/emma-gannon

- My favourite 2020 books: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/my-favourite-reads-of-2020-9bf19342-f535-4856-ab1a-d523f5ecd98a

- My 2021 picks: https://uk.bookshop.org/lists/2021-books-i-m-excited-about-619ab32f-f22e-4282-a0e7-71732055e3c7

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0:00.0	This episode of Control-Or Delete is sponsored by King Fisher, the company behind
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0:55.3	for sponsoring this podcast.
0:57.0	Welcome back to another episode of Control-Or Delete Podcast. So my guest today is Rebecca Seal. This episode is all about working from home.
1:06.3	I don't know about you but I'm always in need of tips on how to stay sane.
1:10.4	Working from home as it looks like it might be a reality for a lot of us this year.
1:16.1	Rebecca is the author of Solo How to Work Alone and Not Lose Your Mind.
1:21.5	It's a fantastic book, absolutely filled to the brim with advice, tips and
1:25.9	anecdotes. It's a science and evidence-based exploration of what working alone does to your
1:31.1	brain and well-being and how to cope with the more difficult aspects of solo work.
1:36.0	There are so many books about the positives of working from home, but I wanted to make sure I was doing an episode on the downsides too. I think it's really important to acknowledge
1:44.8	that working from home is hard. It's not something that everyone wants to be doing every day.
1:49.2	And I really love that in this book Rebecca doesn't shy away from talking about her own tough times in her freelance life, which I found personally really helpful.
1:59.0	Initially she thought that this was just going to be a book for freelancers and self-employed people but of course
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