Squiggly Careers
The Squiggly Career
Squiggly Careers is a weekly podcast that will help you take control of your career development. Hosted by the founders of Amazing If (https://www.amazingif.com/), Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper, together they cover all things work: from how to manage stress and overcome your confidence gremlins to micro-aggressions and discovering your strengths. Each episode is full of ideas, actions, hints, and tips that you can put into practice straight away. Every so often they take a break from talking to each other to interview other people who are leading the way in making work better. Past guests include entrepreneur and philanthropist Dame Stephanie Shirley, author of The Joy of Work Bruce Daisley, and neuroscience expert Amy Brann. The Squiggly Careers podcast has been recommended by Harvard Business Review, Stylist, Marie Claire and Management Today.For more ideas, tools and inspiration every week, you can also sign up to their newsletter Squiggly Careers in Action. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Episodes
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Oct 1, 2020 • 15min
#175 Ask the Expert: Connection with Priya Parker
In this week’s Ask the Expert interview Sarah is in conversation with Priya Parker - a trained conflict facilitator and author of The Art of Gathering (how we meet and why it matters). Together they discuss connection, good controversy and how we can all be more creative in how we get together. Priya shares ideas on how we can make our meetings more meaningful and how the pandemic has impacted our sense of connection with each other. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 29, 2020 • 32min
#174 Building brilliant relationships
Our relationships at work influence our happiness and our impact. For some people, they will spend more time connected to their work colleagues than they do their friends and family. This week, Helen and Sarah talk about what it means to have brilliant work relationships and how to balance the transactional, interdependant and transformational relationships we build.For links mentioned in this week's episode, head to www.amazingif.comTo join live learning sessions with Helen and Sarah, head to www.amazingiflearning.comSquiggly Careers is edited and produced by Pixiu (https://www.pixiu.co.uk/) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 24, 2020 • 17min
#173 Ask The Expert: Experimentation with David Epstein
In our next episode of our Ask The Expert Series, Sarah talks to David Epstein, author of 'Range: Why Generalists Triumph In A Specialised World', about experimentation. In their conversation they talk about experimentation vs expertise, the difference between hedgehogs and foxes (in the workplace!), and David gives his best bit of career advice.For full resources visit amazingif.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 22, 2020 • 28min
#172 How to stay visible when you work virtually
Working away from the office has become the default mode for many people this year and as a result, we need to adapt how we show up and stand out to stay visible. In this week's episode, Helen and Sarah talk about why visibility is important to think about and their top tips to ensure you and your work show up.For resources mentioned in this week's podcast, head to www.amazingif.com To join Helen and Sarah in one of their virtual workshops, head to www.amazingiflearning.comStay connected with Helen and Sarah on Instagram @amazingif Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 17, 2020 • 14min
#171 Ask The Expert: Kindness with Mary Portas
In the first episode of Ask the Expert - Series 2, Sarah is in conversation with retail expert, entrepreneur, author, podcaster, presenter (a leader with many talents!) Mary Portas. Together they explore the topic of kindness. Mary shares her perspective on why kindness matters at work, the difference it makes to people, the planet and profit and what gets in the way. Together they discuss Mary's ideas on actions we can all take to inject more kindness into our work and her perspective on why she's feeling optimistic about the future. And we finish all our interviews by asking our guests to share their best piece of career advice for our listeners. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 15, 2020 • 29min
#170 Exploring and applying for a new job
The combination of a September state of mind and all things Covid mean that many of us are thinking about our career choices and the jobs we want to do. This week, Helen and Sarah talk through 6 practical ideas to support you in exploring and applying for new roles. To find out more about Helen and Sarah's work head to www.amazingif.com or join one of their upcoming live learning sessions at www.amazingiflearning.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 8, 2020 • 34min
#169 How to develop career confidence
If it's feeling like your career confidence has taken a hit, you're not alone. The uncertainty and change we're all coping with at the moment creates a lot of career challenges. This, Helen and Sarah talk about 5 ways in which you can build you career confidence including telling strengths stories and building your confidence community.For links mentioned in this epsiode, head to https://www.amazingif.com/listen/To get in touch with Helen and Sarah email helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Sep 1, 2020 • 26min
#168 How to design your work life
In this weeks episode Sarah interviews Bill Burnett and Dave Evans the authors of Design your Life and Design your Work Life. They discuss how we can all adopt a designer mindset and why reframing is a design superpower we can all learn. Sarah also shares some of her favourite tools and frameworks from the book including the 'maker mix' and the difference between the best theoretical option and best doable option. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 25, 2020 • 30min
#167 Your identity at work
In this week's episode Sarah and Helen discuss the relationship between identity and work. Together they explore what happens when we become the work that we do and ideas for positive actions we can all take to create a positive connection between ourselves and our work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 21, 2020 • 15min
#166 Stress and Selfcare with Rachael Welford
For the last episode in our Setting Yourself Up for Success series, Helen talks to wellbeing expert Rachael Welford about stress and the importance of self-care. They talk about how to make meditation manageable, how to stop negative beliefs getting in your way and how to develop health-ful habits. For more on Rachael's work, head to: https://www.welfordwellbeing.com/For everything else Squiggly Careers related, head to www.amazingif.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
