Thank you so much for being here for Squiggly Careers Live.

Sarah and I are very happy to see you, though you may realise that I'm not with Sarah tonight

because unfortunately and very sadly, Sarah is poorly today, which she is absolutely gutted about

because tonight is to celebrate and talk about the work that we did with the

pound project where's jp this jp jp is the founder of the pound project this is jp

pioneer of publishing and jp creates these beautiful illustrated and creative books that really

put a spotlight on the author's work and also produce books in a very sustainable way.

So they only print what people order.

So we're really, really passionate to work with JP on the project and to work on confidence,

which is something that is really important to us in our work.

And Sarah in particular, I think this has been her personal passion project.

She loves independent publishing.

She adores books and she,

all of the illustrations that you see in the book have been the work of Sarah and our designer

Jen. So she is gutted not to be here. Also, I think it's kind of ironic that tonight is all

about confidence and I've sort of lost my confidence gremlin body and I'm here on my own with you.

And when our sessions on

confidence we often talk about the difference between the comfort the courage and the challenge

zone and I think comfort on the podcast for me is being at home recording it with Sarah she's in

her pajamas I'm still in stilettos I've got wine she's got a cup of tea we just talk to each other about career stuff. And I think kind of forget that anyone listens to it. That's my comfort zone. Challenge zone is doing this with Sarah because it's not what we do normally. But, you know, we've done this before. So it feels difficult but doable. Courage is me here on my own tonight where stuff feels a little bit,

thank you, where it feels a little bit scary, it feels really scary. But I often think in the

times when stuff feels scary, like the courageous moments, it's often, you know, the moments

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