Hi everyone, it is Helen from the Swiggly Careers podcast.

This is a weekly podcast to help you succeed in your career, whether you are looking for a new role,

whether you want some help with work, whether you just want to invest in your development,

but you don't know where to start. This podcast has got lots of ideas for action and lots of support

for you to succeed in your Squiggly career. And today on the podcast, we're going to be talking about teams. Specifically,

we're going to be focusing on how teams can create connection through the power of song.

And you might be thinking, oh gosh, do I really want to listen to a podcast talking about singing?

That wasn't what I expected.

Please, please, please bear with because actually it's much more than how do you sing in a team.

It is about how do you use transformative experiences to help teams find belonging and create connection and build that type of belief that helps teams be at their best.

I am not going to be talking to Sarah,

my normal co-host on the podcast, because we've brought in an expert to help us with this

episode today. So instead of Sarah, you are going to hear a conversation with me and James Sills.

James is a musician, an energizer, a connector and a coach. And what he does in his work

is helps people to connect with

their voice and with each other through these transformative singing experiences. He's also the

author of a brilliant book called Do Sing. So how this episode is going to work. First,

you'll hear me chatting to James. And we cover three main areas. We cover, why does singing make a difference to team development?

Then James talks through a couple of really practical examples of teams and organizations

and individuals where this has really helped.

So you can kind of hear the impact of the idea.

And then we get into action.

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