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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Dec 4, 2018 · 24 min
#59 How to Grow Your Gravitas
Gravitas isn't just for the Leadership Team! Everyone can operate with gravitas at work as a way of influencing people, generating support and standing out. In this week's podcast, Helen and Sarah talk about what gravitas is and what it looks...
Nov 27, 2018 · 53 min
#58 How to be a Growth Mindset Manager
Managers are a key part of people being their best at work. This week, Helen and Sarah are talking about what it takes to be a 'Growth Mindset Manager'. They break down this management style into 4 behaviours and talk about the managers they ...
Nov 20, 2018 · 32 min
#57 How to Create a Vision for your Career
Squiggly Careers can making planning a bit pointless. All of the opportunity that we are faced with creates possibilities we can't predict. In this environment, having a vision for what you want you career to look and feel like can be a powerful t...
Nov 13, 2018 · 39 min
#56 How to be Yourself at Work
Being yourself at work is fundamental to a career that makes you happy. It's not always easy though. Sometimes we can find ourselves acting in a way that helps us fit in with others, but over time this can be exhausting! In this week's podcas...
Nov 6, 2018 · 39 min
#55 How to Get Unstuck
It's normal to lose your mojo for your work from time to time. Feeling like this over a longer period though can lead to anxiety, stress and unhappiness at work. In this week's episode, Helen and Sarah talk about their experiences of feeling ...
Oct 30, 2018 · 42 min
#54 How to be a Brilliant Communicator
Communication plays a big role in our careers, but Squiggly Careers mean that the rules are changing! Now we need to be able to communicate in virtual teams and information overload means communicating with impact in the right place and the right time ...
Oct 23, 2018 · 34 min
#53 How to Be Brave
With so much change at work, we're all faced with more decisions than ever about our careers and finding jobs and companies where we can be at our best. Bravery plays a big role in helping us to achieve that, but it's not easy. This week, Sar...
Oct 16, 2018 · 33 min
#52 Leadership Lessons
This week, Helen and Sarah share their views on what has been consistent in the best leaders they have worked for and been inspired by. They identify 5 common behaviours and ways of working that we can all adopt, regardless of our level and position, t...
Oct 9, 2018 · 37 min
#51 Unlocking Creativity at Work
Lots of people assume they are not creative because they don't have a conventional 'creative' job, however we all have the opportunity to bring new thinking into our role and apply different techniques to solve problems and generate new ...
Oct 2, 2018 · 28 min
#50 How to Leave Well
With a rise in the number of people exploring different routes of employment (self employment is set to triple by 2020) and data that shows we are now staying in our roles for shorter periods of time, more of us that ever are leaving our jobs in search...
Sep 25, 2018 · 45 min
#49 Top Tech for Work
In this week's episode, Sarah and Helen talk about the technology they use on a daily basis to help them succeed in their Squiggly Careers. They talk about when tech works for and against them and their top 10 list of apps and software that helps ...
Sep 18, 2018 · 40 min
#48 Taking Growth Mindset from theory to action
How much time do you spend in fixed vs. growth mindset at work? In this week's podcast, Sarah and Helen talk about how to identify your fixed mindset triggers and how you can coach yourself back to growth. They share their own experiences and how ...
Sep 11, 2018 · 34 min
#47 Getting Back to Work
Does September ever remind you of going back to school? This week's podcast is about the post holiday opportunity to hit refresh on your year. New Year's Resolutions might seem like a long lost memory, but this week Helen and Sarah talk throu...
Sep 4, 2018 · 37 min
#46 How Many Hours Should You Work
The 40 hour work week was established as part of the New Deal in 1937, yet it's still the prevailing work structure we work within. More recently, technology has blurred the boundaries of work and life, creating an always-on work culture that leav...
Aug 28, 2018 · 34 min
#45 How to Manage a Career Pivot
Over 60% of us would consider a complete change to our careers, but many people struggle to take the leap and put those dreams into action. In this week's episode, Helen and Sarah share their career pivots, moving from different industries, profes...
Aug 21, 2018 · 31 min
#44 Feeling Lonely at Work
Workplace loneliness is on the rise and in this week's podcast, Sarah and Helen talk about what is causing the increase, the times in their careers when they have felt most lonely and what coping strategies and techniques you can use to combat lon...
Aug 14, 2018 · 47 min
#43 Career Q&A
Helen and Sarah are back with another Squiggly Career Q&A, where they respond to questions from the Amazing If community. This week they cover how to get over a bad week, how to make time for yourself, whether meetings should be limited to 15 minut...
Aug 7, 2018 · 41 min
#42 How Knowing Your Values Unlocks Career Happiness
Values are what makes you you and knowing that can help you to make better decisions at work, leaving you more fulfilled and happy. This week, we share how you can start the process of exploring what your values are and make practical changes at work s...
Jul 31, 2018 · 40 min
#41 How to be Great at Interviews
Do you love interviews or loathe them? In this week's podcast, we share some of our best and worst interview experiences and what we have learnt about how to come across with authenticity and impact to give you the best chance of success.
Jul 24, 2018 · 42 min
#40 Introverts, extroverts and being your best at work
We all have a natural preference towards introversion or extroversion. In this week's podcast, Sarah and Helen talk about their own preferences and where this works for and against them at work. They discuss the critical career moments which can t...