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.
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Aug 20, 2020 • 21min
#165 How to speak up at work with Megan Reitz
For the 4th episode of our Setting Yourself Up for Success series, Helen talks to author, researcher and professor Megan Reitz about speaking up at work. Together they discuss why speaking-up feels hard and how our conversational habits can hold us back. They talk through the TRUTH framework Megan has developed to understand what gets in the way of speaking up and how to overcome challenges and Megan also shares the importance of managers being prepared to 'listen-up' to what is being said.For more on Megan's work, head to: https://www.meganreitz.com/You can buy her book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Speak-Up-what-needs-heard/dp/1292263016For everything else Squiggly Careers related, head to www.amazingif.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 19, 2020 • 13min
#164 The Power of Rest with Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
This is episode 3 in our Setting Yourself Up for Success series and today's topic is rest. Helen interviews author Alex Soojung-Kim Pang on why we need to prioritise rest and how practically to invest in rest when work feels consuming. They talk about the importance of deliberate rest, the passion-paradox, why hobbies matter and our need to nap!To find out more about Alex's work head to: http://www.strategy.rest/Details on his books can be found here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Alex-Soojung-Kim-Pang/e/B001KHJ91I?ref=sr_ntt_srch_lnk_3&qid=1597749340&sr=1-3To enter the competion to win a signed copy of shorter (open to August 28th), head here: https://www.instagram.com/amazingif/For everything else Squiggly Careers related, head to www.amazingif.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Aug 18, 2020 • 24min
#163 How to build your brand with Bianca Miller-Cole
Bianca Miller-Cole, an award-winning entrepreneur and author of 'Self Made,' dives into the art of building a personal brand. She shares the four key pillars of branding and emphasizes how storytelling shapes professional identities. The discussion includes tips for optimizing LinkedIn profiles and avoiding common pitfalls. Bianca analyzes real listener brands, providing actionable insights to refine their narratives. She encourages taking ownership of your career development and highlights the importance of networking in achieving long-term success.
Aug 17, 2020 • 18min
#162 Understanding Your Strengths with Marcus Buckingham
This is the first episode in the Squiggly Careers - Setting Yourself Up For Success series. This five part series covers topics including personal branding, rest and speaking-up. Today, Helen talks to strengths expert Marcus Buckingham about what the real definition of a strength is, how we can understand what we're best at and how we can use that insight to manage our careers. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 10, 2020 • 32min
#161 Job crafting - how to redesign your role
Job crafting is a proven activity to increase our engagement, performance and wellbeing at work and in this week's Squiggly Careers podcast, Sarah and Helen talk about how to put the theory into action. They discuss the benefits of job crafting, the areas to focus on and 5 specific actions you can take to start to redesign your role. For all links and resources referenced in the podcast, head to www.amazingif.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aug 4, 2020 • 30min
#160 Conversations about race at work
This week Helen talks to 3 different guests about how everyone can engage more openly, actively and positively in conversations about race at work. She talks to Zahra Mohamoud, campaign manager for Business in the Community's Race at Work Charter, Vanessa Belleau, founder of High Fifteen and Tolu Farinto, Head of Ethnicity and Social Mobility at Utopia. They discuss how to overcome fear of 'getting it wrong', examples of organisations creating long-term cultural change and how to approach conversations with empathy.For more information about this week's guest, see links below:Business in the Community - Race at Work Charter: https://www.bitc.org.uk/race/Zahra Mohamoud: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zahramohamoud/Vanessa Belleau: https://www.linkedin.com/in/vanessabelleau/High Fifteen: https://www.highfifteen.com/Tolu Farinto: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toluwani-farinto-24119467Utopia - Culture Change Agency: https://www.weareutopia.co/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 28, 2020 • 30min
#159 How to find your flow at work
This week Helen and Sarah are talking about 'flow'. They discuss what it means to be flow at work and why it matters. They talk through Miahly Csikzentmihalyi's 8 characteristics of flow and share 4 actions to find your flow and spend more time in flow.For resources and links for this episode, head to www.amazingif.com. If you'd like to be part of a live discussion about this podcast, you can join Sarah for PodPlus on July 30th at 9am.For full details of this free session, head to www.amazingiflearning.com/courses/podplus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 21, 2020 • 35min
#158 Why we need humour at work and how we can create more space to smile
In this episode Helen and Sarah talk about the importance of levity, humour and laughter at work with Naomi Bagdonas and Jennifer Aaker, the authors of 'Humor, Seriously'. Plus, Sarah talks to Lynne Parker, founder and chief executive of Funny Women and Deb Leary OBE, CEO of Forensic Pathways about how they use humour in their day to day working lives. For full resources visit amazingif.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 14, 2020 • 31min
#157 How to prevent pessimism and practice optimism at work
In this weeks episode Helen and Sarah discuss why optimistics do better at work (and in life) and the difference between expectant and explainer optimists. And together they ask the question if optimism is a skill we can all learn what does this look like in practise? We finish the episode sharing 5 practical actions listeners can take to add some optimism into your day to day work and over the course of your career.Don't forget, you can join our weekly PodPlus sessions where we share frameworks and models you can put into action. These 30 minute, interactive Zoom sessions are free to join and you can register for them here: https://www.amazingiflearning.com/courses/podplus Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Jul 7, 2020 • 31min
#156 How to be an ally at work
This week Sarah talks to Leyya Sattar and Roshni Goyate, the co-founders of The Other Box, about what it means to be an ally, what gets in the way and the practical actions we can all take to be effective allies at work. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
