Hello and welcome to this week's squiggly career podcast. I'm Helen and I'm joined by my co-host Sarah.

Hi everyone. And we are here to talk to you about the ins and outs of squiggly careers and how you can

develop the skills to succeed in your squiggly career, whatever that looks like for you.

Through over the last sort of 70 odd episodes now,

we've covered everything from interviews, how to find a job that you love, strengths, values,

stress, lots and lots of different things. And before we tell you what we're going to be doing

this week and get into the next half an hour, I thought, Sarah, what has your squiggly week been

like? Oh, we're actually going to pause for thought.

Oh, we usually we sort of dive straight in.

Straight in, straight in.

I would say that my squiggly career is going well, but there are lots of kind of factors as

ever within our lives that are kind of impacting our careers.

And to kind of be more specific, I actually did an Instagram

post at the end of last week about, which I called the stuff that doesn't make it onto social,

which gives you a good indication that it was perhaps about some of the less positive things

that happened to us in our week. And I'm a big fan of thinking about kind of work and life,

not as two separate things personally. I sort of don't fan of thinking about kind of work and life, not as two separate things,

personally. I sort of don't almost associate with a kind of work-life balance phrase.

I much refer this kind of idea of work-life integration, which is perhaps any semantics,

but I do feel like everything that I do all impacts all of the other things, and so it's good

to kind of consider everything in

the round and I shared some of my highlights last week or I probably should call them low lights

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