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.

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Oct 4, 2022 · 41 min
#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 but the awareness needs to be matched with action. Talking about values in teams helps to understand people better and spot opportunities to live your values more at work. This week, Helen and Sarah share 4 practical ways that teams can explore values together to build connection, avoid conflict and support each other through all of the
Sep 27, 2022 · 44 min
#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 relationships that support your career development to create a community that gives back to you over the long-run. 1. Catch-up on past episodes and download our PodSheets https://www.amazingif.com/listen/ 2. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://mailchi.mp/squigglycareers/pod
Sep 20, 2022 · 32 min
#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 episode, you'll hear how to take a structured approach to your decision making which reduces the emotion, creates clarity and helps you navigate your way through the difficulty. Ways to learn more: 1. Catch-up on past episodes and download our PodSheets https://www.amazingif.com/listen/ 2. Sign-up for Pod
Sep 13, 2022 · 37 min
#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 right way. So, instead of over planning our careers they talk about increasing your control by defining what you want and developing the skills and support you need. By increasing your clarity and focusing on the factors that are in your control, you can better adapt and take advantage of the squiggleness we experience at work.<hr><p style='c
Sep 6, 2022 · 34 min
#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 the trend of quiet quitting and how the psychological contract we have with work has changed. They then explore how to reflect on the relationship you want to have with work and how to use the Care/Create framework to make changes that matter to you. Ways to learn more: 1. Catch-up on past episodes and download our PodSheets h
Aug 30, 2022 · 48 min
#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 your adaptability and resilience to all the inevitable change and challenge we experience in Squiggly Careers. Fortitude: Unlocking the Secrets of Inner Strength Hardcover is out now - https://uk.bookshop.org/books/fortitude-unlocking-the-secrets-of-inner-strength/9781847943651 Ways to learn more: 1. Catc
Aug 22, 2022 · 39 min
#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 the series they are exploring the role of relationships on your happiness in work. They explore attachment theory and insights from Amy Gallo's new book 'Getting Along' and share practical actions to create the strong foundations for squiggly career success. Ways to learn more: 1. Catch-up on past episodes and do
Aug 16, 2022 · 31 min
#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 understanding the practical actions you can take to create the strongest foundations for squiggly career success. Today, they are talking about money and borrowing some brilliance from Morgan Housel, author of The Psychology of Money, and 'badass' Jen Sincero. Ways to learn more: 1. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly s
Aug 9, 2022 · 27 min
#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 understanding the practical actions you can take to create the strongest foundations for squiggly career success. Today, they are talking about sleep and deep-diving into 2 books for inspiration. Helen reviews Life Time by Russell Foster and Sarah explores insights from Matthew Walker in Why We Sleep. Ways to learn more: </p
Aug 2, 2022 · 34 min
#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 understanding the practical actions you can take to create the strongest foundations for squiggly career success. Today, they are talking about health and deep-diving into 2 books for inspiration. Helen reads and reviews the advice of Dr Rangan Chatterjee in his book 'The 4 Pillar Plan' and Sarah shares the insights she gained from 'D
Jul 26, 2022 · 38 min
#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 about work when you're away and get the 'back to work blues' when you're home. Instead of experiencing a holiday hangover, Sarah and Helen have got lots of practical ideas for action to help you prep before you go and make sure you're coming back to day 1 without dread and clear goals to re-find your focus on your return. Ways
Jul 19, 2022 · 40 min
#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. Together Sarah and Jen discuss the causes and consequences of burnout. They also explore what we can do individually and as organisations to go beyond burnout and create an environment where everyone can do their best work. To learn more from Jen you can read her Big Idea article on HBR here: https://hbr.org/2021/02/beyond-burned
Jul 12, 2022 · 40 min
#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 week, Helen and Sarah talk through practical things you can do at work to create more freedom and give yourself the space to succeed. They address the biggest barriers to finding freedom and what you can do to respond to it. Ways to learn (even) more: 1. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of squiggly career tools htt
Jul 5, 2022 · 36 min
#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 people and individuals might miss out on valuable opportunities for learning and growth. This week, Helen and Sarah take insights from their most recent article with Harvard Business Review about how managers can help people to squiggle and stay in the organisation. They explore the role of career conversations, the need to create internal
Jun 28, 2022 · 38 min
#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 Helen talk through 5 areas you can focus on outside of work than will help you to feel more energised inside of work. Expect lots of practical ideas for action and don't forget to download the Squiggly Careers podcast to help you reflect on the conversation. Ways to learn (even) more: 1. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly
Jun 21, 2022 · 44 min
#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 could help us on the way. This week, Helen and Sarah talk about how to move forward from failure by practicing 'pre-emptive' failure and working out how best to respond to failure depending on the situation. There are lots of practical ideas for action which are summarised in the PodSheet (you'll find the podsheet in the links below).<b
Jun 14, 2022 · 42 min
#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 autopilot and limit our happiness and performance potential. We can all learn to limit the impact of our self-saboteur and this week Helen and Sarah talk about how. They share ideas for action to increase you saboteur self-awareness and the practical things you can do to break the saboteur cycle. Ways to learn (even) more:
Jun 7, 2022 · 38 min
#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 make. This week, Helen and Sarah talk about the factors to consider when you are in this position (and how to help other people who may be coming to you for advice). They discuss the importance of learning vs. loving your job and the different options you can take to ensure that going into something new isn't the automatic assumption h
May 31, 2022 · 36 min
#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 because of it. In this week's podcast, Helen and Sarah talk about how to understand what makes you different and how to work effectively with other people who may work differently to you. They introduce the concepts of 'heated hexagons', 'data-based diamonds', 'talkative triangles' and 'consensus seeking circles' and share their top tips f
May 24, 2022 · 43 min
#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, it's not always easy and remote work, comparison and conflicting priorities can all create pressures which prevent meaningful friendships from forming. This week, Helen and Sarah (friends, co-hosts and co-founders) talk about the ins, outs, ups and downs of finding friendship at work and talk through some of the common conundrums many wo