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Squiggly Careers
Squiggly Careers is a weekly podcast that will help you take control of your career development. Hosted by the founders of Squiggly Careers. (https://www.squigglycareers.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…
Episodes
Squiggly Careers#324 How to stay confident during a job search
Looking for a new role can feel hard when it takes longer than expected and you're not sure what to do differently. This week, Helen and Sarah talk about how…
Squiggly Careers#323 How to progress when you can't get promoted
Promotions are a career focus for lots of people, but they are not always possible for everyone. Whether a promotion is motivating because of pay or more…
Squiggly Careers#322 When good enough is great
This week, Helen and Sarah talk about how trying to make everything great can get in the way of your growth. They discuss how to practice a 'good enough'…
Squiggly Careers#321 Women who have made a difference to our development
This week, Helen and Sarah talk about the women whose work has made a difference to their development. From authors to academics, sponsor and supporters, Helen…
Squiggly Careers#320 How to improve ways of working
This week, Helen and Sarah are talking about ways of working. They explore how to create clarity with roles and responsibilities, how to reduce confusion by…
Squiggly Careers#319 How to upgrade your listening
This week, Helen talks to journalist and author of 'You're not listening' Kate Murphy. Together they discuss why distractions are affecting our ability to…
Squiggly Careers#318 Achievement Overload
This week, Sarah and Helen talk about how a need to achieve can get in the way of your growth. They help you to assess whether you are an overachiever, explore…
Squiggly Careers#317 Doing by Learning
In this Ask the Expert episode of the squiggly careers podcast Sarah has a conversation with author and founder David Erixon about the topic of Doing by…
Squiggly Careers#316 Stress Tolerance
In the final episode of the Squiggly Soft Skills Series, Helen and Sarah talk about the topic of Stress Tolerance. They borrow insights from 2 books to support…
Squiggly Careers#315 Social Influence
In this week's episode Helen and Sarah talk about the skill of social influence as part of the four-part soft skills series. Helen reads Techniques of Social…
Squiggly Careers#314 Critical Thinking
This is the second episode of a four part series of the soft skills we need to succeed in our squiggly career. This week Helen and Sarah take on the topic of…
Squiggly Careers#313 Originality
Helen and Sarah are back with another squiggly skills series and this time they are focusing on the soft skills we all need to succeed. Over the next 4 weeks…
Squiggly Careers#312 What's holding back your career development?
Helen and Sarah's most recent article for Harvard Business Review is now live and in this episode, they bring it to life! Listen and learn about creative ideas…
Squiggly Careers#311 2022 in Review - How to look back to look forward
In the final episode of the year, Helen and Sarah reflect on a series of questions to support awareness and action. You'll get behind-the-scenes insight into…
Squiggly Careers#310 10 ideas for action from the top 10 episodes
Helen and Sarah have reviewed the most downloaded podcast episodes and shared an idea for action from each of them in this week's Squiggly Careers podcast…
Squiggly Careers#309 Ask the Expert: Networking with Sharmadean Reid, MBE
In this weeks podcast you can hear Sarah in conversation with Sharmadean Reid, MBE, founder of The Stack World. Sharmadean shares her perspective and practical…
Squiggly Careers#308 How to create your career cushion (aka increase your career resilience)
Have you come across the term 'career cushioning'? It's essentially about how you protect your career from changes that might feel out of your control and…
Squiggly Careers#307 How to improve your presence at work
Presence can seem like a tricky topic, so this week Helen and Sarah are making it practical. They talk about the 3 principles of presence and how language…
Squiggly Careers#306 How to start a portfolio career
This week, Helen and Sarah are talking about portfolio careers and how they can help you find more flexibility and freedom, increase your career resilience and…
Squiggly Careers#305 How to approach your first 90 days
This week, Helen talks to the author of 'The First 90 Days' Michael D. Watkins about how to start a new job well. Together they discuss common transition…
Squiggly Careers#304 How to change your pace and perspective
When work feels out of control or a bit overwhelming, it can be a flag that we need to reassess our pace and perspective. This week, Helen and Sarah share…
Squiggly Careers#303 How to bust the career myths that hold you back
Are career myths holding you back? This week, Helen and Sarah are in myth-busting mode talking about the most common assumptions that get in the way of…
Squiggly Careers#302 How to make your job application stand out
Job applications are an important part of a recruitment process, however it can feel hard to work out how to stand out when there is so much you need to say…
Squiggly Careers#301 How to give and get fast and frequent feedback
Feedback is a brilliant source of data for our development but too often fear and formality get in the way. This week, Helen and Sarah share 5 ideas for action…
Squiggly Careers#300 How to take a coaching approach
Everyone faces knotty moments in squiggly careers and needs support to get unstuck. Learning how to take a coaching approach means that you can help people to…
Squiggly Careers#299 How to talk about values in teams
Your person values are an important thing to reflect on but increased self-awareness can only get you so far. Values are useful in managing a squiggly career…
Squiggly Careers#298 How to create career karma
Career karma is the benefit we create from taking a 'giving' approach to building relationships. This week, Sarah and Helen share 5 ways you can give to the…
Squiggly Careers#297 How to make difficult career decisions
This week Helen and Sarah are exploring how to make difficult careers decisions. When emotions take over it can be hard to see through a situation, but in this…
Squiggly Careers#296 How to take control of your career
Is it possible to take control of your career in a world of work that’s full of change? Helen and Sarah think it is IF you focus on the right things in the…
Squiggly Careers#295 How to redefine (or define) your relationship with work
In this weeks podcast Helen and Sarah discuss why we want to take control of our relationship with work rather than leave it to chance. Together they discuss…
Squiggly Careers#294 How to find Fortitude with Bruce Daisley
Helen and Sarah bring back Bruce Daisley to the podcast to talk about his brilliant new book Fortitude. They explore the 3 foundations of fortitude to increase…
Squiggly Careers#293 How to rethink about your relationships in and out of work
This month, Helen and Sarah have been focusing on Squiggly Careers 'life skills'. So far they have covered health, sleep and money and in this final episode of…
Squiggly Careers#292 How your money mindset influences your career success
Over the next month, Helen and Sarah are focusing on Squiggly Careers 'life skills'. They will be covering health, sleep, money and relationships and…
Squiggly Careers#291 How understanding the science of sleep can improve your work
Over the next month, Helen and Sarah are focusing on Squiggly Careers 'life skills'. They will be covering health, sleep, money and relationships and…
Squiggly Careers#290 How to improve your health to increase your impact
Over the next month, Helen and Sarah are focusing on Squiggly Careers 'life skills'. They will be covering health, sleep, money and relationships and…
Squiggly Careers#289 How to avoid a holiday hangover
If you have a holiday ahead, chances are that you're already thinking about how you're going to get everything done before you go. Even worse, you might worry…
Squiggly Careers#288 Beyond Burnout - Ask the Expert with Jennifer Moss
This week we have an ‘Ask the Expert’ conversation between Sarah and Jennifer Moss. Jen is an award winning journalist and author of The Burnout Epidemic…
Squiggly Careers#287 How to increase your freedom at work
Having the freedom and autonomy to work in a way that works for us and on the work we find meaningful is a significant contributor to our motivation. This…
Squiggly Careers#286 How to help people to squiggle and stay
The majority of people look outside of their company first when they are considering making a career move. This means that companies risk losing their best…
Squiggly Careers#285 How to re-energise yourself and your work
With so many things drawing on our energy reserves, it's not surprising that we can often be left feeling drained by the end of the day. This week, Sarah and…
Squiggly Careers#284 How to move forward from failure
We're all told that failing is a good thing, but it doesn't make it that much easier in the moment and we have a tendency to miss out on the learning that…
Squiggly Careers#283 How to stop self-sabotage
Saboteurs are the negative voices in our head that generate stress and get in the way of our ability to handle work and life challenges. They often operate on…
Squiggly Careers#282 How to know whether to switch or stay in your role
There are times in our careers when we are all faced with a decision about whether to switch or stay in our roles and it's not always easy to know what move to…
Squiggly Careers#281 How to work well with different people
Working with people who work in a different way isn't always easy but with awareness and skill, it can create lots of opportunity for everyone to be better…
Squiggly Careers#280 How to find friendship at work
A big part of our happiness at work depends on the people we spend time with and finding genuine friendships impacts our engagement and performance. However…
Squiggly Careers#279 Ideas to invest in your learning
As part of Learning at Work Week, Helen and Sarah share their best ideas to invest in your learning whether you have £50 or £500, lots of time or non at all!…
Squiggly Careers#278 How to be a good manager
Managers have a significant impact on people's engagement in their work and squiggly careers can often feel like it makes the job of being a good manager even…
Squiggly Careers#277 How to use experiments to accelerate your career development
Experimentation is a great way to learn at work and accelerate opportunities for your career. This week, Helen and Sarah talk about practical ways you can put…
Squiggly Careers#276 How to increase your assertiveness
Making our work and our career work for us takes self awareness and assertiveness, skills we can all develop but ones that aren't always easy to do! This week…
Squiggly Careers#275 How to build and be part of a career community
This week, Helen talks to Pritesh Chauhan, Head of Community for Sedex and one of the 100 people who become part of the 2021 Squiggly Career Advocates…
Squiggly Careers#274 How to create your career criteria
Squiggly Careers are full of change and that can some times create confusion about where we should go and how we can grow. Creating your career criteria is a…
Squiggly Careers#273 How to make manifestation work for you
Manifesting is having a moment and this week Sarah and Helen take a critical view of the role it can play in career development. They talk about the value of…
Squiggly Careers#272 How to create (not wait) for challenge at work
This week Sarah and Helen are talking about the benefits of creating challenge at work vs waiting for it to come to you. They talk about why pandemic driven…
Squiggly Careers#271 How to have a high trust team
Trust in teams make a big different to work and wellbeing. This week Helen and Sarah explore the practical ways trust shows up and ideas for action to create…
Squiggly Careers#270 How to stop being a people pleaser at work
Lots of fall into people pleasing at work and while it's nice to be helpful, constantly prioritising other people's needs before our can have a big impact on…
Squiggly Careers#269 Squiggly Career Conversations: Eric Sim
This week is National Careers Week and Sarah and Helen are shining a spotlight of squiggly career possibilities with 4 conversations with people whose careers…
Squiggly Careers#268 Squiggly Career Conversations: Simon Mundie
This week is National Careers Week and Sarah and Helen are shining a spotlight of squiggly career possibilities with 4 conversations with people whose careers…
Squiggly Careers#267 Squiggly Career Conversations: Jim MacLeod
This week is National Careers Week and Sarah and Helen are shining a spotlight of squiggly career possibilities with 4 conversations with people whose careers…
Squiggly Careers#266 Squiggly Career Conversations: Steph Douglas
This week is National Careers Week and Sarah and Helen are shining a spotlight of squiggly career possibilities with 4 conversations with people whose careers…
Squiggly Careers#265 How To Own Your Reputation
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