Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah. And you're listening to the Squiggly Careers podcast, a weekly podcast where Sarah and I explore the ins and outs and ups and downs of your world of work and hopefully share some ideas for actions, some things that you can do differently with your development to give you a bit more confidence and control of whatever

might be going on for you right now. And today is our fourth and final episode in our Squiggly

Soft Skills series. So far we've covered originality, critical thinking, social influence, and today

we're going to be talking about stress tolerance so we'll follow exactly the same

format as we have in the other weeks we will talk a bit about sort of what it is in case we need a

quick definition of stress tolerance share a quote that stood out for us from the books that we've

both read three things that we've learned an action that you can take if you want to increase

your stress

tolerance, and then who we think should read this book. Not that I think we're a particular

gurus in being able to give advice on that. We're not, we're definitely not a book club.

But I think probably from listening to us talk about the books, you get a sense of, you know,

does that feel like something you want to dive a bit deeper into? I've also got some

other recommendations based on my read today in case perhaps you don't feel up for reading a book.

Maybe you want to watch something. Maybe you want to listen to something. So I've got a bit

broader today in some of my recommendations. So Helen, should we share the two books that we've read

so that people know where we've started from? Let's. So I read a book called Widen the Window, which was, we'll talk a bit more

about what that means, but a subtitle is training your brain and body to thrive during stress and

recover from trauma. And it's by Elizabeth A. Stanley PhD. And I read, when the body says no, the Cost of Hidden Stress by Dr. Gabor Matty, who some of you might

recognize him.

He wrote a book about addiction.

You might recognize some of his book covers.

He's done lots of writing and speaking on how kind of the mind and body are related and intertwine and how important that connection is.

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