Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah. And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. And today's episode is part of our

Squiggly Career Stage series. And we're going to be talking about career returners. So we've got five

episodes in this series. We've got Career starters, which is our first episode, one on career changes,

one on career setbacks,

one on career continuers, and then today on returners. And as well as us sharing our thoughts

on this stage, why we think it's such an important squiggly moment to focus on and get a bit

of support with. We've also got some interviews with other people to give you a bit of a wider

perspective on this stage. So Sarah's going to be

talking to Julianne Miles, who is the co-founder and CEO of Career Returners. And I'm going to be speaking

to a returner, Mila Fadiva, who returned to work after a 10-year break. And she's going to be

sharing her experience, some of the fears that come with returning when you've been out of the

workforce for that long, and some of the really practical things that helped her to return with confidence as well. And don't forget,

every episode has got a career returner guide where we've put together links, coach yourself

questions, tools to try out. Julianne has actually written a few extra bits of advice and she's supported

all of that with like how you can follow that

advice and what might be helpful which is brilliant you'll find a link to that guide in the show notes

and also on our website which is amazing if dot com so we found a stat and i think you can find a

stat to support most things which hadn't i were talking about before this podcast that 62%

of employees worldwide have already taken a career break and eight support most things, which Helen and I were talking about before this podcast, that 62% of

employees worldwide have already taken a career break and 84% of millennials, which Helen and I

have decided that we just about still count as, plan to take one in the future. So, Helen,

what have career breaks looked like for you so far? And any career breaks in the offing that you've not told me about?

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