"I made a pair of shoes with Jamie Oliver."

"I built a recruitment agency without making a single cold call."

"I cuddled pandas in China."

Those are Michelle Flynn's three statements this week. One of them's a lie. Our job was to figure out which.

I headed down to Michelle's for the weekend with Kate O'Neill and Saeed Bor: breath-work on the beach in the morning, podcast in the afternoon.

So there's a full debrief on the breathwork, including a move called "dragon peering out of the cave" and a Labrador that gatecrashed the whole session. Saeed's also joined the Shoreham-by-Sea Facebook group to keep up with his new beach mates.

Michelle tells us she puts Giig It A Rest on when she doesn't want to learn anything, and that KOSI is her favourite podcast.

Cheers, Michelle.

We also have a proper catch-up on how everyone's finding the recruitment industry right now (spoiler: mixed). Perm placements have been dropping since October 2022, yet somehow we're all having our best years.

We get into why that's not luck, just a lot of graft and a fair few lows along the way.

Then it's Kate's turn to try and fool us:

"I was in a theatre production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat as a child."

"I have slept with a Grand Slam Welsh rugby player."

"I will not wash my hands unless I have access to hand cream."

We wrap up with the "Are you okay, hun?" lunchbox question, which gets interrupted by a dragonfly flying into the fan.

It survived. Just.

Enjoy x