Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah. And this is the Swiggly Careers podcast, a weekly show where Sarah and I dive into the ins and outs, ups and downs and work and give you some ideas for action and some tools to try out to give you a bit more confidence, clarity and control in your career. And today we're going to be tackling the topic of how to

quieten your inner critic. And before we get started, if it's one of the first times you've

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So what is your inner critic? Well, your inner critic is that negative self-talk that I think

feels familiar for everyone. I'd love to hear from anyone who's like, I just don't, I don't

have this ever. My inner monologue is just always relentlessly positive. Imagine what that person

might be like. I don't know.

So this is something I think we are all used to.

And you might hear that in a critic most days,

maybe sometime during a week, or maybe it's more occasional.

But I think it is something that we all recognise.

As I was researching this, almost the more I thought about

it the more I could start to spot specific examples of where that inner critic was sort of what

was shouting the loudest in my head. I had to think about it. You know, I know when we're going to

come on to what does I sound like and when does it show up. But I couldn't just go, oh yeah, I hear it

all the time. I was like, oh, I had to actually press pause and think,

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