Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah.

And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast, a weekly show where we talk about the ins, the outs, the ups and the downs of work,

and share some tools that we think might help, some ideas that you can take action with

to give you a bit more confidence, clarity and control over your career development.

And if it is the first time

you've listened, this episode comes with lots of other help for you. So as well as our conversation,

you can download a pod sheet, which is just a one page summary. It's got some of the key insights

we're going to talk about on there and the ideas of action. It's all editable as well. So you can

download it and fill it in. We know that lots of teams talk about those together as well,

so it might be a useful thing for you to have in your teams.

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that sometimes it doesn't happen. But it is nine o'clock UK time on Zoom. It's free. It's 30 minutes and

it is a brilliant community of like-minded learners. And we just dive in a bit deeper into the topic

we're talking about. So that's all there for you. You can find it on our website, which is amazingif.com or in the show notes,

or just email us Helen and Sarah at squiggly careers.com. So today we're talking about how

pausing increases performance. And I think pausing is such an interesting concept to dive into,

mainly because I've spent a lot of time researching it over the last week for more than just

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