Podcast · 128 episodes
Squiggly Careers, page 5
by The Squiggly Career · English
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.
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7 Types of Rest to Recharge and Do Your Best at WorkDr. Saundra Dalton-Smith’s “seven types of rest” framed as a dynamic, designable process to recharge for work performance; includes a team conversation approach and an AI prompt to personalize rest…18 Nov 2025 · 31 min · 18 chapters
Squiggly Shortcut: How To Be a Speed Learner in 5 MinutesSpeed learning at work—contrasting “slow learning” (deep, time-consuming understanding) with “speed learning” (more surface-level, frequent accumulation), and offering five practical ways to learn…13 Nov 2025 · 6 min · 8 chapters
The Marshmallow Test: How to Master Delayed Gratification for Career SuccessIn this episode, the hosts explore the concept of delayed gratification inspired by the famous marshmallow experiment, discussing how it applies to career choices and the trade-offs between immediate…11 Nov 2025 · 31 min
Squiggly Shortcut: You Don’t Need a Perfect Plan to Change Careers — Here’s What to Do InsteadHow to start and succeed at a “squiggly” career change without needing a perfect plan, using small experiments, networking, transferable skills, and bridging roles.6 Nov 2025 · 7 min · 8 chapters
Team Emotional Intelligence: The Secret to High-Performing TeamsTeam emotional intelligence—how teams build awareness and action through shared habits, routines, and norms to improve collective performance.4 Nov 2025 · 41 min · 22 chapters
Squiggly Shortcut: 3 Ways To Stand Out To Senior StakeholdersHow to stand out to senior stakeholders (managers or influential business leaders) to gain support, sponsorship, and learning opportunities.30 Oct 2025 · 5 min · 5 chapters
The Psychology of Seats: How To Boost Your Impact & Influence At WorkHow “seat psychology” affects influence and engagement at work—events, in-person meetings, and virtual meetings—plus practical ways to choose seats intentionally.28 Oct 2025 · 34 min · 13 chapters
Squiggly Shortcut: How to Quieten Your Inner Critic“Squiggly Shortcut” on caging “confidence gremlins” (beliefs, fears, doubts like fear of failure, impostor feelings, comparison, being caught off-guard) using three reframes: can’t→can,…23 Oct 2025 · 6 min · 3 chapters
Map Your Career: 5 Visual Tools to Find Clarity and DirectionThe Squiggly Careers podcast episode “Map Your Career: 5 Visual Tools to Find Clarity and Direction” argues that career planning works better when you use visual “maps” with a clear purpose.21 Oct 2025 · 36 min · 17 chapters
Squiggly Shortcut: 4 Questions to Help You Make a Difficult Career DecisionA “Squiggly Shortcut” framework for making difficult career decisions without self-doubt or outsourcing.16 Oct 2025 · 5 min · 4 chapters
Are You Wasting Your Talent? (Why Moral Ambition Matters)The episode discusses Rutger Bregman’s book Are You Wasting Your Talent? and argues that “moral ambition” means the longing to make a difference and leave a legacy.14 Oct 2025 · 30 min · 10 chapters
Squiggly Shortcut: How to ask for a pay riseHow to ask for a pay rise, framed as “shortcut” guidance with practical steps: don’t wait, understand the company’s pay-rise process, expect multiple conversations over months, lead with pay, explain…9 Oct 2025 · 9 min · 4 chapters
Why Bringing Your Authentic Self To Work Is Bad AdviceThe episode challenges the advice “bring your authentic self to work,” arguing that career success depends more on trust, emotional intelligence, and situationally effective authenticity than on…7 Oct 2025 · 24 min · 7 chapters
How to Stop Being a People Pleaser Without Guilt (3 Easy Tips)How to stop people pleasing without guilt using three practical communication changes: pause before saying yes, use “I don’t” instead of “I can’t,” and practice a personalized “no vocabulary.”2 Oct 2025 · 6 min · 6 chapters
Learn Smarter: The Feynman Technique, Don’t Know Notebook & Problem TestingBorrowed Brilliance episode on Richard Feynman’s learning methods—Feynman Technique (teach to a child), a “Don’t Know Notebook” (track unknowns and convert them into questions), and “Problem Testing”…30 Sep 2025 · 30 min · 11 chapters
Learn Like a Lobster: How to Keep Growing in Your CareerSquiggly Careers podcast episode promoting “Learn Like a Lobster” and explaining how to grow in a non-linear career by learning continuously, especially during “shell-shedding” (hard) moments, and by…23 Sep 2025 · 45 min · 13 chapters
AI Skills Sprint: How To Design Your Future Career Using AIDay five of the “Squiggly Careers” AI Skills Sprint focuses on using AI to expand “future possibilities” for career resilience, then practicing conversations to act on those ideas.19 Sep 2025 · 11 min · 4 chapters
AI Skills Sprint: How To Make Networking Easy with AIThe episode is about using AI to make networking easier and more authentic.18 Sep 2025 · 11 min · 4 chapters
AI Skills Sprint: How to cage confidence gremlins that are getting in the way of your growthDay three of Squiggly Careers’ “AI Skills Sprint” on confidence “gremlins”—hidden beliefs/doubts/fears that limit learning and growth.17 Sep 2025 · 11 min · 3 chapters
AI Skills Sprint: How To Identify Your Values (Your Filter For Your Future)Day two of the Squiggly Careers Skill Sprint focuses on identifying personal work values as a “filter for your future” to guide career decisions amid uncertainty, more confident choices, and better…16 Sep 2025 · 11 min · 5 chapters
AI Skills Sprint: How To Discover Your Strengths Using AI (in 10 Minutes)Strengths at work and how to use AI prompts to discover, refine, and apply personal strengths (including creating a “strengths constellation,” updating LinkedIn, and using strengths conversations in…15 Sep 2025 · 11 min · 5 chapters
Welcome to the Squiggly Careers AI Skills Sprint 2025 🥇Welcome episode for Squiggly Careers AI Skills Sprint 2025, a 5-day program (10 minutes/day) teaching five “squiggly skills” (strengths, values, confidence, networking, possibilities) and exploring…14 Sep 2025 · 4 min · 3 chapters
#496 4 Team Habits That Are Holding You Back (and What to Do Instead)How to critically review team habits that quietly reduce effectiveness, covering four areas: repeating meeting roles, recurring meetings, one-to-ones, and communication/collaboration practices.9 Sep 2025 · 40 min · 12 chapters
#495 The September Reset: Stop Old Habits, Start New WinsSeptember “reset” habits—what to start and stop to protect your future self, plus a team exercise to share starts/stops and ask for support.2 Sep 2025 · 39 min · 15 chapters