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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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  • Feb 4, 2020 · 29 min

    #120 Should you be a specialist or a generalist at work?

    In this week's Squiggly Careers podcast Helen and Sarah discuss the value of hard vs soft skills and being a specialist vs. a generalist in your career. They talk about the benefits and limitations of both and their views of where to focus your ef...

  • Jan 28, 2020 · 1 hr 7 min

    #119 Squiggly Career Stories Live

    This week Helen and Sarah take Squiggly Careers Live. Listen as they are joined in London by founder of social enterprise Year Here, Jack Graham, entrepreneur Shaa Wasmund and founder of MOBOs, Kanya King.Hear stories of tenacity, resilience and ama...

  • Jan 7, 2020 · 1 hr 8 min

    #116 Squiggly Career Stories featuring Emma Gannon & Levi Roots

    To celebrate the launch of Helen and Sarah’s book The Squiggly Career, January’s Squiggly Careers podcast will feature lots of special guests sharing their own unique and inspiring squiggly career stories.This week, Sarah and Helen interview author ...

  • Dec 31, 2019 · 40 min

    #115 20 Career Questions for 2020 (part 2)

    Helen and Sarah are back for part 2 of their ‘20 Questions for 2020 episode’ where they help you to set yourself up for success in the year ahead. This week their topics include gratitude, habits and grit. Listen to their answers and reflect on your ow...

  • Dec 24, 2019 · 46 min

    #114 20 Career Questions for 2020 (part 1)

    In this episode, Helen and Sarah talk about 10 questions to help you reflect on 2019 and be your best in 2020. They share their own answers and insights on topics including strengths, networks and personal brand. The full list of 20 questions can be fo...

  • Dec 17, 2019 · 52 min

    #113 How to respond when work goes wrong

    Squiggly Careers are great, but they are not always easy and they are definitely not straight-forward. Things go wrong just as much as they go right and in a world where we often focus on the shiny, filtered view that people may share, we can forget al...

  • Dec 10, 2019 · 44 min

    #112 How to use storytelling at work

    Storytelling is a skill which can help you to connect with others and to share your ideas in a compelling way.It's a valuable skill to develop for your career and in this week's podcast, Helen and Sarah share their top tips for developing ...

  • Dec 3, 2019 · 1 hr 1 min

    #111 Christmas Party Podcast

    How better to end another year of Squiggly Careers podcasts than by bringing some extraordinary people into the Squiggly Careers studio to celebrate!This week, Helen and Sarah talk to 4 people who between them are helping people unleash their extrao...

  • Nov 26, 2019 · 42 min

    #110 How to ask for help

    Many of us struggle to ask for the help we need to succeed at work.Often we fear what asking for help might say about us and our competence or assume that we can fix everything ourselves! In squiggly careers this will hold us back, preventing us from t...

  • Nov 19, 2019 · 42 min

    #109 How to have a career conversation

    Did you know that 8/10 of us would be more engaged in our work if we were having regular careers conversations but only 16% of us actually are?There is a lot that we can do as individuals to have effective career conversations and in this week'...

  • Nov 5, 2019 · 45 min

    #107 How to grow your self-esteem

    Self-esteem has been linked to higher levels of happiness, satisfaction and quality of relationships.The day to day challenges of demanding work, tricky stakeholders and social-media led comparison can significantly impact our belief in our worth an...

  • Oct 29, 2019 · 46 min

    #106 How to say no (and when to say yes)

    Squiggly Careers are full of choice and opportunity which can sometimes mean we are faced with more decisions than we can handle.In absence of a clear and confident reason to say ‘no’, we can find ourselves drowning in the things we say yes to by de...

  • Oct 22, 2019 · 55 min

    #105 How to Own the Room with Viv Groskop

    This week Sarah interviews Viv Groskop, author of How to Own the Room (and host of the brilliant podcast with the same name). Together they discuss three ways in which you can improve your presence, performance and authenticity and generally ‘be more’....

  • Oct 15, 2019 · 46 min

    #104 How to manage redundancy and restructures

    Our squiggly careers are full of change and uncertainty. At times, that can take the form of organisational restructures and even job redundancies. These challenging times can make us question what we're great at and what we should do next.In t...

  • Oct 8, 2019 · 29 min

    #103 How to figure out your future with Marie Forleo

    In this episode of the Squiggly Careers podcast, Helen talks to Marie Forleo about her new book 'Everything is Figureoutable' and what insights we can apply to our future careers.Their conversation covers how to build great networks, the i...

  • Oct 1, 2019 · 45 min

    #102 How to teach yourself with Scott Morrison

    In this weeks episode Sarah interviews Scott Morrison one of the authors of Creative Superpowers and founder of bringer of the BOOM!Scott shares with Sarah why we all need to learn to teach ourselves by unlearning and relearning and how this connect...

  • Sep 24, 2019 · 50 min

    #101 How to master meetings

    All of the data points to meetings being an increasingly ineffective way of us getting work done. In this week’s podcast, Helen and Sarah explore what’s going wrong with meetings, sharing their own experiences of the good and not so good and thoughts o...