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Squiggly Careers

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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 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 Squiggly Careers newsletter.

Latest episodes

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#609 How to Learn More in Meetings

Meetings might not be everyone’s favourite part of the working week, but they can be a great opportunity to learn. In this episode, Helen and Sarah share five ways to lea

Nov 10
41 min

#608 How to respond to feedback you don't agree with

How do you respond to feedback you don’t agree with? It can be hard to know what to say in the moment. You might feel you need to defend yourself or rush to work out what

Nov 5
5 min

#607: Accountability: How to Take Ownership at Work

What does it mean to take accountability at work, and how can you get better at it? In this episode, Helen and Sarah explore how taking ownership of your actions, decisi

Nov 3
45 min

#606 How to find more focus

How often do notifications interrupt your working day? In this Squiggly Careers Shortcut, Sarah shares five practical ways to reduce notifications and find more focus. L

Oct 29
8 min

#605 Career magnetism: how to attract what you want at work

What if you could pull the right career opportunities toward you while pushing away the work that drains you? In this episode, Helen and Sarah explore how the physics of

Oct 27
41 min

#604 5 ways to have a more confident day at work

Building self-belief into your working day can help you feel more confident. In this Shortcut, Sarah shares five ways to have a more confident day at work, practical idea

Oct 22
8 min

#603 Ask the Expert: Vibe and Building Better Connections with Adam Grant

What helps us connect with the people we work with, and what happens when that connection is missing? In this episode, Sarah is joined by organisational psychologist and

Oct 20
43 min

#602 High performance habits for your Squiggly career

What’s one small thing you could do today that your future self would thank you for? In this squiggly shortcut, Helen shares four high performance habits that compound ov

Oct 15
6 min

#601 How to use profilers for your career development

Profilers can help you understand yourself, find words for your strengths and choose where to focus your development. But your results are clues to explore, rather than l

Oct 13
48 min

#600 Everyday actions for everyday resilience

When your week gets busy, do you find yourself dropping the things that help you feel good? It can be easy to put rest, support and time outside work on hold just when yo

Oct 8
8 min

#599 Friction: Why making things harder can make you better

Is something at work feeling harder than it needs to be? It could be a meeting that takes too long, a decision that goes back and forth, or a process with more steps than

Oct 6
43 min

#598 How to understand and take action with your ambition

In this shortcut, Helen, talks about a matrix that can help you to understand where your ambition is right now and what is the most effective action to take to support yo

Oct 1
8 min

#597 How thinking inside the box will lead to more opportunities for your squiggly career.

Could putting more constraints on your career actually create more possibilities? In this episode, Helen and Sarah borrow brilliance from David Epstein's book (Inside th

Sep 29
42 min

#596 3 ways teams can learn when they are not together

The people you work with make a significant difference to your development. In this shortcut, Sarah shares 3 ways to learn more from the people around you. 🎯 What You'll

Sep 24
8 min

#595 How to Answer AI Questions in Job Interviews

Getting ready for a job interview can feel daunting, but what happens when you have to face an AI interviewer or answer tough questions about how you use artificial intel

Sep 22
46 min

#594 How to increase your autonomy

Increasing your autonomy has a proven impact of work wellbeing and fulfilment and in this shortcut, Helen talks through 3 practical actions to help you to earn more auton

Sep 17
6 min

#593 No Regret Skills: How to Get Better at Adaptability

When things change at work, how good are you at changing how you think or act in response? In the second part of our No Regret Skills mini-series, Helen and Sarah turn t

Sep 15
37 min

#592 How to look for leaders you can learn from

The leaders you surround yourself with make a significant difference to your squiggly career. In this shortcut Sarah shares 3 ways to look for leaders to learn from and w

Sep 10
5 min

#591 No Regret Skills: How to Make Better Decisions

With so many skills competing for our attention, how do you decide which ones are worth investing in? In this episode, Helen and Sarah explore the idea of 'no regret ski

Sep 8
34 min

#590 How to increase your impact in every meeting

We spend a lot of our working week in meetings, but how much impact are you having when you're in them? In this Shortcut, Helen shares three simple ways to increase your

Sep 3
4 min

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#28
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#89 ▲ 69 Careers US

What listeners say

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This podcast is just a life saver. Cannot thank the producers enough for sacrificing some of their time to give these amazing talks and advices. You really helped me a lot and I look forward to your weekly episodes.

sambezos · Jul 2023

Sarah and Helen’s practical coaching advice helped me as I recently searched for my next internal role (more than the materials provided by my organization). I’ve gained confidence in so many aspects of work thanks to this podcast and the supporting podsheets. They are a joy to listen to!

Yogiruns2314 · Jul 2022

This podcast is like my morning coffee - warm, energizing, and a highlight of my day! I appreciate the variety of episodes, the super practical takeaways, and the sincere humility of Helen and Sarah to share all this amazing knowledge with the community for free. 🙏

oliviabaker13 · Jun 2022

I can’t say how much this podcast has revolutionized my thinking about my career. Quick back story-I started a new job in March 2020, 5 days into the USA’s COVID lockdown. This job move was squiggly to begin with on top of a global pandemic that changed everything! I was in uncharted waters to say the least and feeling lost. I first heard Sarah on Emma Gannon’s Ctrl Alt Delete podcast about 2 months ago and was transfixed! I have been listening to the weekly pod release and working my way up from the first episode. I have seen major progress in the way I approach my work, team members, clients and managers since becoming a squiggly careerist. I even bought the Squiggly Career book and have been reading it as well. The first 10 episodes about confidence gremlins were a game changer for me, Like I said I was feeling lost and had a big FOBFO problem. I now have the tools to “cage” my confidence gremlins and have put them to good use! My husband has even started listening and our conversations about careers and our future have really leveled up! I’ve already seen a change it how he is approaching his work, taking steps to proactively progress his career versus waiting for a position to become available. You ladies are truly doing amazing work and I look forward to reading the new book once it’s released in the states (I’ve already pre-ordered it on Amazon!). Many thanks! Cheers!

PJ_Blue_ · Apr 2022

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