Squiggly Careers

In this week's Squiggly Careers podcast, Helen and Sarah talk to two inspirational women about their fascinating and very squiggly career journeys. Sarah talks to award-winning social entrepreneur Dr Caroline Casey, who took a life changing decision at 28 to leave her successful career as a management consultant and travel across India on an elephant. Since then, Caroline's career has been committ...

Helen and Sarah are back with week 2 of their special series of squiggly career stories. This week they are talking to journalist, writer and comedian Viv Groskop, compulsive connector Roland Harwood and Roma Agrawal, a structural engineer who designed The Shard. Hear about how to make role transitions, build strong networks, manage career lows and celebrate the highs. For more on this episode, he...

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 and podcaster Emma Gannon to discuss how she has curated her career and inspired others to do the same. They are also joined by Levi Roots, who talks...

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 own. The full list of 20 questions can be found at www.amazingif.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about yo...

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 found at www.amazingif.com. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/ad...

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 all the challenges that were faced along the way. In this week's episode of the Squiggly Careers podcast, hosts Helen and Sarah talk about failure, ch...

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 your storytelling abilities at work and the stories to focus on first. For links mentioned in this week's episode, head to www.amazingif.com Hosted on Acast. Se...

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 extraordinary, creating a world of work without bias and helping women around the world see and use their power. Listen to Tom and James (founders of Tempes...

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 tapping into the energy and expertise around us and using our own talents on what we do best not just what needs to be done. In this week's episode,...

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's podcast, Sarah and Helen share 6 different ideas that you can put into action. You can find a summary of the key points and thinks to resources over at a...

This week Sarah interviews Jennifer Petriglieri, an Associate Professor at INSEAD and author of 'Couples that Work – how dual-career couples can thrive in love and work.' Jennifer has spent five years researching ‘dual career couples’ from over thirty countries from executives to entrepreneurs, from couples at the beginning of their careers to dual career grandparents. They discuss what ‘dual care...

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 and value. In this week's Squiggly Careers podcast, hosts Helen and Sarah talk about how to measure and grow your self-confidence, sharing tools and top...

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 default. In this week’s podcast, Helen and Sarah talk about how to say ‘no’, sharing their experiences of getting it right (and getting it wrong).They t...

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’. First up Viv shares why her unofficial and unpaid job is to be Michelle Obamas biggest fan, and shares how we can all be more Michelle. A big part...

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 this week's podcast, Sarah and Helen share their experiences and their top advice is this is something you find yourself experiencing. For links to further...

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 importance of creating a vision and how you build your resilience. For resources and links, head over to www.amazingif.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy...

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 connects to a growth mindset. Together they discuss how learning by doing and learning from unexpected places helps us to solve problems in new ways and what...

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 on common wisdom to make them better. They conclude with tips and approaches that work for them and might also be useful for you too. For links to ad...

In celebration of 100 episodes of the Squiggly Careers podcast, hosts Helen and Sarah bring together 4 people that are making work better for everyone with a live studio audience. In this episode you'll hear from Simon Biltcliffe about how marxist-capitalism creates a new operating model for work, Pip Jamieson and Dan Murray-Serter about the entrepreneurs reality of launching and running The Dots...

This week Sarah interviews special guest Dame Stephanie Shirley; tech pioneer, entrepreneur and philanthropist. In this episode we talk about what it was like to start a tech business as a woman in 1962 with a £6 initial investment (she went on to make £150m, at least £65m of which she has given away). We talk about her book Let It Go and her secrets to success including having faith in others, re...

Do you ever struggle to speak up or feel frustrated in your ability to share your views and opinions at work? If so, don't worry, in this week's Squiggly Career podcast Helen and Sarah share their top 5 tips for preparing for and engaging in a courageous conversation. Listen to their stories and insights to increase your confidence and inspire action. For additional resources, head over to www.ama...

This week Sarah is joined by special guest and co-author of the book, No Hard Feelings, Mollie West Duffy. Mollie shares her insights and ideas about the new rules of emotions at work including: be less passionate about your job, inspire yourself and why your feelings aren't facts. Together they discuss how you can use your emotions at work positively and the benefits it will bring for both you an...

This week, Helen talks to Rachael Glynne from LinkedIn to help you make the most of the platform. Whether you are an active user or you’ve let your profile gather dust, this week’s podcast will help you to standout on LinkedIn and build your brand and network. Head to www.amazingif.com to access links to any resources mentioned. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn mo...

Emails. Projects. Meetings. The long list of things you want to do and things you think you should do! Our work can sometimes feel overwhelming and difficult to manage. In this week’s Squiggly Careers podcast, Helen and Sarah talk about how to cut through the noise and prioritise your work. They cover tools, tips and tricks that you can put in place to give you more control over and confidence in...

If you haven't heard of Heather McGregor, you need to listen to this week's Squiggly Careers podcast! Heather is one of the most squiggly and brilliant people we have met and have long been inspired by her journey. Her book 'Careers Advice for Ambitious Women' sparked the thinking for our business Amazing If and we have been inspired by her career journey ever since. Listen to this week's podcast...