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 20, 2020 · 32 min
#179 How to make successful career transitions
In this weeks episode Sarah and Helen discuss career transitions. Together they discuss all the different types of transition that are now part of our careers and why they’re typically some of the hardest moments in our working lives. Based on the late...
Oct 13, 2020 · 19 min
#178 Ask The Expert: Confidence with Elizabeth Uviebinené
In this week’s Ask the Expert interview, Helen talks to author Elizabeth Uviebinené about the topic of confidence. Elizabeth is the co-author of bestselling book Slay in Your Lane and Loud Black Girls. Together they discuss the catalysts for confidence...
Oct 8, 2020 · 19 min
#177 Ask The Expert: Empathy with Roman Krznaric
In this week's Ask the Expert Sarah interviews philosopher and author Roman Krznaric. Together they discuss how we can all become more empathetic (at work and in the rest of our lives) through making imaginative leaps and being intentional in how ...
Oct 6, 2020 · 33 min
#176 How to get practical with your productivity
In this week's show, Helen and Sarah talk all about being productive in the changing working landscape. They give 10 top tips on staying on task including to spot what slows you down, using mood boosting music and how to make lists. For full resou...
Oct 1, 2020 · 17 min
#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 a...
Sep 29, 2020 · 33 min
#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...
Sep 24, 2020 · 19 min
#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 ...
Sep 22, 2020 · 30 min
#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 th...
Sep 17, 2020 · 15 min
#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 perspecti...
Sep 15, 2020 · 30 min
#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 ...
Sep 8, 2020 · 36 min
#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 bu...
Sep 1, 2020 · 28 min
#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 sha...
Aug 25, 2020 · 31 min
#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...
Aug 21, 2020 · 17 min
#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...
Aug 20, 2020 · 22 min
#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 bac...
Aug 19, 2020 · 15 min
#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 a...
Aug 18, 2020 · 26 min
#163 How to build your brand with Bianca Miller-Cole
This is episode number 2 in the Setting Yourself Up for Success series. In this episode, Helen talks to entreprenuer and personal branding expert Biana Miller-Cole about the importance of building your personal brand and practical tips for how to do it...
Aug 17, 2020 · 20 min
#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 r...
Aug 10, 2020 · 34 min
#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, t...
Aug 4, 2020 · 32 min
#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 Rac...