Hi, everybody. It is a very happy Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast. And before we get to today's episode, I just wanted to say a huge thank you from me and Sarah for everyone's support with the launch of our new book, Learn Like a Lobster. It is out in the UK now. It is out in the US on the 24th of February. We cannot wait for this book to start arriving with everyone the thousands of people

who have pre-ordered it and it'll be arriving at their houses right now. Please flick through the book.

Let us know what you love. Take photos. Share it with us on LinkedIn. If you haven't ordered it yet,

now's the time. It's going to come straight away. But yeah, a huge, huge thank you for us. We're

really excited to see what everybody

thinks, to see what actions people take and to start turning lobster learning into the new

norm at work. On to today's episode. Hi, I'm Helen. And I'm Sarah. And this is a very special

episode of the Squiggly Careers podcast. Tonight, you're going to hear us talking to three guests

who are going to share their shell shedding stories with you. And we hope that their insights

and what they learned will inspire you to look differently at the hard moments we all experience

in our squiggly career. Thank you all so much for coming. I know it is rainy and miserable outside. And I had a panic about two hours ago. I was like, no one's going to come. Everyone's going to go home. There's just going to be our team sitting on the front row. And we're going to have to use AI to put everybody in the seats. So I am very grateful to have real people in the room. So just in case you maybe have been

dragged along by a friend on a rainy evening and you're like, who are they? And what is

this? Why are the lobsters everywhere? So I'm Sarah and this is Helen. And together we host

a podcast called Squiggly Careers. So thank you to everybody who listens because I know lots of you will do.

And just give me a wave if you've been to a live podcast before. Thank you for coming back.

And if it is your first time, thank you for trusting us that it's going to be worth it.

Also the bar opens when we finish. So it ultimately is always going to be worth it.

I was actually reflecting on my way here about a shell shedding moment that Helen and I had about the Squiggly Careers podcast

about six months ago. And the decision that we were making might have meant that none of us

would have been in the room tonight. We'd done 500 episodes and we were starting to think about are we still

useful? What's the right thing to do? Do we want to do things differently? And I was saying,

you know, maybe it's time to stop. Maybe 500 episodes, you know, we've had a good run. Other people

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