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So today we're talking about how to make sure change doesn't stall your career progression.

Because I think often changes out of our control

but then it feels like it's happened to us and often the outcomes are not what we would have chosen

and I've had conversations with people about their careers over the last month and this has kept

coming up where people are saying to me maybe they're in a role that they didn't choose.

But they're like, well, I'm grateful to have a job.

You know, people are like, oh, I don't want to be ungrateful.

But this is not what I would have probably applied for, given a choice.

Or maybe the role you wanted.

So you were hoping to do a role in the future.

Maybe that's been restructured or that just isn't there anymore or it feels like the likelihood of doing that role has gone down. A team has just

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