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 Welcome to Season 2 of Unfiltered—this time, we're going global.Success isn't a solo sport. Behind every breakthrough, every bold move, and every moment of real growth, there's someone else in the picture—a mentor, a rival, a co-founder, a friend.This season, we're diving deep into the partnerships that shape us. The people who push us. Challenge us. Make the impossible possible.And in this episode, in collaboration with The Marketing Academy, we're tearing up the career rulebook with Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, the brilliant minds behind The Squiggly Career. Why traditional career paths are dead (and what's replacing them) How to embrace uncertainty & turn it into opportunity The skills you actually need to thrive in a squiggly world Why your career is a story, not a ladder—so it's time to write your ownIf you've ever felt stuck, lost, or just over the whole “ladder-climbing” thing—this one's for you. Hit play and start squiggling! 

Modern careers are full of change, uncertainty, and opportunity, rather than following a linear path. Helen Tupper of 'Squiggly Careers' fame outlines the five key skills needed to thrive in this new world of work, including understanding your values, leveraging your strengths, building confidence, networking effectively, and exploring diverse career possibilities. With the rise of AI and other technological disruptions, Helen emphasises the importance of embracing the uncertainty and developing the skillset to navigate a constantly evolving job market. My links: Book: https://www.simonmundie.com/book YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/YouTubeSimonMundie Website: simonmundie.com Substack Newsletter: https://simonmundie.substack.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/simonmundie/

Want your own Brand or Business Podcast? Try out our NEW Podcast Calculator: boxlight.io Mastering Future Careers: Insights on Remote Work, AI, and Career Growth Join Jimmy & friends in this special live-recorded episode of the 'Career Collective' featuring insightful discussions with career experts Helen Tupper, Sarah Ellis, Bruce Daisley, and Isabel Berwick. The episode dives into the workforce, the dynamics of remote versus in-office work, strategies for asking for pay rises and promotions, and crucial insights into career pivots. The panel also explores the impact of AI on employment and personal development, offering practical advice on using AI tools like ChatGPT and MidJourney. 00:00 Introduction and Recap of Tony Blair Episode 01:21 Live Episode with Career Experts 02:23 Teamwork Dynamics: Remote vs. Office 05:47 Addressing Loneliness at Work 09:43 New Year Career Development 14:19 Pitching for Pay Rises and Promotions 16:18 Boxlight Production Company Expansion 19:11 Navigating Awkward Conversations with Alter Egos 19:40 Creating a Good Work Folder 20:09 Understanding Organizational Costs and Challenges 20:27 Trading Titles for Pay: A Caution 20:54 Quarterly Planning and Win Watch 21:17 Advice on Career Pivots 21:59 Identifying Transferable Talents 23:11 Building Relationships Beyond Your Day Job 24:13 Spotting and Addressing Skill Gaps 25:28 AI in the Workplace: Practical Insights 26:35 Experimenting with AI Tools 28:42 AI's Impact on Jobs and Employment 35:25 Learning Goals Beyond AI 38:10 Conclusion and Recap ********** Follow us on socials! Instagram: instagram.com/jimmysjobs Tiktok: tiktok.com/@jimmysjobsofthefuture Twitter / X: twitter.com/JimmyM Linkedin: linkedin.com/in/jimmy-mcloughlin-obe/ Want to come on the show? hello@jobsofthefuture.co Sponsor the show or Partner with us: sunny@jobsofthefuture.co Credits: Host / Exec Producer: Jimmy McLoughlin OBE Producer: Sunny Winter Editor: Sunny Winter & The Squiggly Team Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Your career and earnings massively impact your financial future, but with skills fast becoming obsolete, how can we make sure we succeed? Helen Tupper, author of The Squiggly Career, suggests ditching the career ladder mindset - progress and more pay can come from moving sideways, not just up.

Choosing your career path can feel like a huge decision and lead to a lot of anxious thoughts. What if you don't enjoy the work as much as you hoped, or you find the culture at your new job doesn't suit you? Is it okay to switch industries, or will that mean you don't progress? There can be so many choices and expectations that it can be easy to feel pressured.  This week on On Your Marks, we sit down with career coach Helen Tupper. She's the author of 'Squiggly Careers' and founder and CEO of Amazing If,  an organisation that helps everyone feel more satisfied with their working lives. We dig into how to build a career journey that's right for you, from figuring out your values to what really matters to you in the workplace, and discuss practical steps we can all take towards feeling more confident in our career path.  This is On Your Marks. Because you'll never know until you try.  Hit follow now so you never miss an episode, and let us know what you think by leaving a rating or review.  For more information about ACCA exams, you can go to www. accaglobal.com/exams To watch the video version of this podcast, head to www.accaglobal.com/onyourmarks On Your Marks is a Fresh Air Production for ACCA. The Executive Producer is Annie Day, the Senior Producer is Eva Higginbotham, with support from Sarah Moore. The videographer is Yohan Forbes. The Sound Engineer is Basil Oxtoby. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Helen Tupper is the co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, a company on a mission to make careers better for everyone. Helen joins Elliot to talk about how the traditional career ladder no longer reflects the unpredictable, changing world of work and we need to embrace - as she says - a squiggly career and invest more successfully in our development.

“We are not expected to all develop in the same direction. Success isn't the same for all of us and we can't plan our way to some kind of predictable future.”  40 Minute Mentor is fast approaching its 12th season.  With over 250 episodes published, we know that not every single one of our listeners will have been around from the beginning.  To share some of our earlier mentorship with you, we're running another one of our Replay feature seasons.  In today's Replay episode, we're revisiting our 40 minutes of pocket-sized mentorship with the brilliant Helen Tupper.  Helen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Amazing If, a bestselling Author and Co-Host of the popular Squiggly Careers podcast.  In these 40 minutes, you'll find out…  Episode chapters: ➡️ Joining for the company, not the job [03:25]   ➡️ Working for big brands [04:30]  ➡️ Defining your career values [08:30]  ➡️ Taking the plunge into entrepreneurship [10:20]  ➡️ Building a business with your friend [15:15]  ➡️ Defining a Squiggly Career [20:45]  ➡️ Building your confidence [26:45]  ➡️ Starting the Squiggly Careers podcast [30:35]  ➡️ The secret to community building [35:20]  ➡️ Advice on career pivots [35:45]  ⛳ Helpful links: ➡️ Follow Helen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/helentupper?originalSubdomain=uk  ➡️ Find out more about Amazing If: https://www.amazingif.com/  ➡️ Listen to the Squiggly Careers podcast: https://www.amazingif.com/listen/  ⭐Enjoyed this episode?⭐️ Keep up to date with all our latest episodes, by hitting the subscribe button on your favourite podcast platform. And for any feedback on what you enjoy the most and ideas on what we can do to make 40 Minute Mentor even better, please leave us a review on https://ratethispodcast.com/40mm Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As organizations continue to face fierce competition for talent, HR leaders have upheld internal mobility as a lever to retain talent, yet many employees remain unaware of the career opportunities in their organization. In this episode of the Talent Angle, Helen Tupper illustrates how championing squiggly careers — or nonlinear career paths — can deliver on the promise of internal mobility by giving employees relevant and engaging opportunities. By intentionally empowering talent to apply their skills across a diverse set of experiences, HR leaders can create meaningful careers for individuals while also serving the needs of the organization. Helen Tupper is the co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, a company with an ambition to make careers better for everyone. Together with her business partner Sarah Ellis, she is the author of two Sunday Times bestsellers: “The Squiggly Career” and “You Coach You.” Their “Squiggly Careers” podcast is the U.K.'s No. 1 careers podcast, and their TEDx talk “The Best Career Path Isn't Always a Straight Line” has over 1.5 million downloads. Helen also works as a trustee for Working Families, a U.K. charity with a mission to support families and caregivers with their work and life commitments. Prior to Amazing If, she held leadership roles for Microsoft, Virgin and BP and was awarded The Financial Times and 30% Club's Women in Leadership MBA Scholarship. She is mum to Henry and Madeleine and lives with her husband in Buckinghamshire. You can find her on Instagram @amazingif. Dion Love is a vice president of research and advisory services at Gartner. He's a labor market expert, focusing on global labor market trends and what they mean for organizations' talent and business strategies, as well as broader social and economic issues. In his work at Gartner, Dion advises clients on key aspects of talent acquisition, including talent acquisition function planning and management, talent needs definition and internal recruiting, employment branding and recruitment marketing, and talent sourcing and selection. He has co-authored more than 12 strategic research studies at Gartner. His work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review and industry publications, as well as Gartner HR Leaders Monthly and Smarter With Gartner.

Out with career ladders and in with the Squiggly Career!The best career path isn't always a straight line.  and more and more people are leaning into the idea of the Squiggly Career - a brilliant phrase (and bestselling book) coined by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis, the co-founders of Amazing If, the award-winning company with a mission to make squiggly careers better for everyone.The days of linear career progression for everyone are well and truly over. In this week's episode, Ally chats with Sarah to discover why the Squiggly Career concept has resonated with so many people, and to explore the challenges, thrills and adventures of a Squiggly business leader - and discover what height your helicopter should be flying at.Follow Amazing If on LinkedIn or find out more on their website.Sounding good?If you have enjoyed listening to this podcast, remember to subscribe and rate it to help us reach more listeners. If you would like to support the show, we would love it if you could share it with someone you think would find it helpful for overcoming the barriers to growth in their own business, solve their people problems to unlock sustainable business growth. Remember to check out all our other episodes, which you can find here on our podcast website.Do you have an people puzzle you'd like us to help you solve? Do you have a story to share about your journey? We would really love to hear from you, so please do feel free to connect with us on our LinkedIn or Instagram, find out more on our website, or get in touch with us at hello@peoplepuzzles.co.ukSocial Media LinkedIn: LinkedIn Instagram: Instagram. Website: www.peoplepuzzles.co.uk Thanks for listening!

In 2023, expert guests joined the Gartner Talent Angle to  share their advice about key drivers of employee engagement, retention and performance: flexible work, wellbeing and internal mobility. Stanford professor Nicholas Bloom discusses the impact of flexible work on employee productivity and on organizations' bottom lines. Siemens chief people and sustainability officer Judith Wiese shares how Siemens commits to well-being to drive talent outcomes and to position the organization for sustainable success. Author Helen Tupper makes the case for nonlinear career paths to deliver on the promise of internal mobility by giving employees relevant and engaging opportunities.   Nicholas Bloom is the William Eberle Professor of Economics at Stanford University. Nick's research focuses on working from home, management practices and uncertainty. He previously worked at the U.K. Treasury, McKinsey & Company and the IFS. He has a BA from Cambridge, an MPhil from Oxford, and a PhD from University College London. Nick is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the recipient of the Guggenheim and Sloan Fellowships, the Frisch Medal and a National Science Foundation Career Award. He was elected to Bloomberg50 for his advice on working from home.   Judith Wiese has been a member of the Managing Board of Siemens since 1 October 2020. She is the chief people and sustainability officer as well as labor director for Siemens. In addition, Judith is responsible for global business services (GBS) at Siemens. Judith has more than two decades of international experience in various HR fields. From 2017 to 2020, she was chief human resources officer at DSM, a Dutch company specializing in health, nutrition and sustainable living. Before that, she worked for the U.S. food company Mars, most recently as head of people and organization.   Helen Tupper is the co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, a company with an ambition to make careers better for everyone. Together with her business partner Sarah Ellis, she is the author of two Sunday Times bestsellers: “The Squiggly Career” and “You Coach You.” Their “Squiggly Careers” podcast is the U.K.'s No. 1 careers podcast, and their TEDx talk “The Best Career Path Isn't Always a Straight Line” has over 1.5 million downloads. Helen also works as a trustee for Working Families, a U.K. charity with a mission to support families and caregivers with their work and life commitments. Prior to Amazing If, she held leadership roles for Microsoft, Virgin and BP and was awarded The Financial Times and 30% Club's Women in Leadership MBA Scholarship. She is mum to Henry and Madeleine and lives with her husband in Buckinghamshire. You can find her on Instagram @amazingif.  

Helen Tupper is a trailblazer. As the co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, Helen has created a company with an ambition to make careers better for everyone. As if she wasn't busy enough, together with her business partner Sarah Ellis, she is the author of two Sunday Times bestsellers The Squiggly Career and You Coach You, with a third book on the way. Helen is also the co-host of the UK's number one careers podcast Squiggly Careers and was recently awarded a much-coveted place on the Ernst & Young entrepreneurial winning women programme. In this episode, host Gemma Greaves and Helen discuss her uncomfortable feeling of stopping, how to process difficult conversations, and the power of forging your own path.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Squiggly Careers podcast has been hugely influential and useful for anyone interested in Career Development community. In this episode I talk to Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper, the brilliant pair behind the podcast, the two bestselling books that have come out of it – Squiggly Careers and You Coach You – and the company they have founded, Amazing if.We discuss:How, in looking to throw out the old model of the ‘career ladder', they arrived at that fascinating idea and language of the ‘squiggle'How they've found a much more engaging way to talk to people about confidence issues, and why it worksWhy dullness in large organisations is often a kind of conformityHow to be a ‘helpful rebel' in big companies if you want to help shake up dull practicesAlong the way, they talk about a fascinating idea: ‘the long aha' – that realisation that comes to you sometime after an engaging moment in a meeting, prompting you to question something you are doing, when you realise how pervasive that practice and issue has been in your life. As fascinating and useful as you would expect from the inimitable Sarah and Helen.Listen to the Squiggly Careers podcast Find out more about Amazing If's work Helen and Sarah's books:The Squiggly CareerYou Coach You ________Connect with Adam on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/adam-morgan-3a473a/ Follow eatbigfish on Linkedin and Instagram See what's coming up on the podcast at The Challenger Project With thanks to our editor Ruth and producer Ross. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Listen to our new podcast episode where we explore what it means to have a Squiggly Career with Helen Tupper!  Helen is the co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, a company with an ambition to make careers better for everyone. Together with her business partner Sarah Ellis, she is the author of two Sunday Times bestsellers The Squiggly Career and You Coach You. Their Squiggly Careers podcast is the UKs #1 careers podcast. Helen also works as a Trustee for Working Families, a UK charity with a mission to support families and carers with their work and life commitments. She's held leadership roles for Microsoft, Virgin and BP. To learn more about Helen click here. To listen to the Squiggly Career Podcast click here.  Breakthrough Global website: https://www.breakthroughglobal.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/breakthrough-group/Dr Bart Sayle: https://www.bartsayle.com/

Welcome to foHRsight – a podcast about making work better brought to you by future foHRward.In this week's episode of foHRsight, Mark connected with Heather Colquhoun to talk about her career in HR.Having spent time working in consulting and within organizations across a range of the talent management disciplines in addition to working on boards and inspired by the best-selling book by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis, Mark refers to Heather's career as a squiggly one!We talk about her inspirations, her choices, her north star and her advice for other professionalsYou can follow Heather on LinkedIn here - https://www.linkedin.com/in/heathercolquhoun/This is the link to the squiggly career resources - https://www.amazingif.com/And if you want a random check-in generator - try this one - https://checkin.daresay.io/Quick reminderDon't forget to sign up for our weekly newsletter foHRsight at www.futurefoHRward.com/foHRsight.Follow us on LinkedIn:Mark - http://www.linkedin.com/in/markedgarhr/Naomi - www.linkedin.com/in/naomititlemancolla/future foHRward - www.linkedin.com/company/future-fohrward/And on InstagramAnd finally big shout out to our Producer Emily Milling at the Ultimate Creative for making us sounds great! Learn more here - https://emilymilling.com/foHRsight+ is a private digitally-powered community for forward thinking senior HR leaders committed to making work better. Sign up here to be part of the next cohort!Support the show

Work is fundamentally important to the quality of our lives and we are surrounded by more change and choice than ever before. Our careers have become far less predictable and increasingly 'squiggly'. In this episode I have a chat with Helen Tupper, co-founder of Amazing If and co-author of "The Squiggly Career: Ditch the Ladder, Discover Opportunity, Design Your Career".Subscribe to the podcast on YouTube ->Find out more about Helen: The Squiggly Career Book Squiggly Careers Podcast Amazing If Helen's LinkedIn What we covered in this episode: How Helen and Sarah started their business on napkin Why the career ladder is not necessarily the path to success 5 years of experimentation to develop the Squiggly business How Helen and Sarah went from starting The Squiggly Careers Podcast to 330 episodes How to create a growth flywheel for your brand or business - making content more useful Why creating something of huge value for free is the key to B2B growth - remaining relevant Trusting in reciprocity - why helping people authentically is so important for growth Why you shouldn't worry about your weaknesses The Squiggly Careers Book - The 5 Key Skills you need The importance of deliberately choosing what you want to be known for Your 2 week energy audit - How to discover your core skills and values Jon and Helen's 12 month career high and why it mattered Building high trust teams and emotional safety Less budget =  happy teams Confidence Gremlins and limiting beliefs Teaching yourself to draw on the positive Learning how to fail.... and that this means for success The pressure pedestal - we are not all Simon Sinek! Jon's advice on presentation skills Networking Events - how to reframe the fear Fired? Redundant? How to get back into employment....fast! Why you should only share what you really care about How curious career conversations will set you up well in you next job Creating a constant flow of future job opportunities How to use your mobile phone contacts to find the perfect role Redefining the definition of progression Helen shares whom Squiggly Careers is for and whom it can help Helen's advice on crafting your best career story Follow Jon: LinkedIn Twitter

I'm Dr Anne Budenberg, and I'm a dentist with over 30- years' experience in NHS and private practice, including roles in secondary care, dental education, risk management and mentoring. I started this podcast to show the diversity of views, and choices dentists and dental care professionals can, and do make, on their career paths, and about creating a fulfilling career. This is for anyone interested in UK dental careers - for those working, or planning to work as adentist or dental care professional in the UK. Dental careers are no longer simply linear, or binary choices, but we have many possibilities for hopping on and off whichever career path, or ‘squiggly career,' you chose to take.Sometimes the path is planned; at other times, it takes unexpected twists and turns, and you end up at a place you did not expect to find yourself.‘Squiggly careers' is a phrase coined by career development consultants, Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, and I love this concept, and the fact that every ‘squiggly career' will be drawn differently, and is unique.We'll be exploring some of the opportunities, challenges, and adapting to change throughout your career, as the landscape changes.In this episode, we're going to chat about Dental Audio Notes (DAN). Dr Alekandra (Ala) Rozwadowska and Adam Marsh are a husband & wife team, who have developed Dental Audio Notes (DAN), which allows dentists to effortlessly make complete, accurate and contemporaneous records in every situation. Ala works in Dental Practice in Evesham, and has been there since 2012. Her further experiences include practising in New Zealand, aid work in Mexico and travelling to Italy and Seattle for courses. In addition to their work with DAN, Ala and Adam are joint secretaries for the Gloucester Independent Dentists (GID), the UK's largest independent study group for the entire dental team. Adam is the technical lead for DAN, and is an engineer and natural problem solver, with broad experience delivering and managing industrial products and software systems. Resources:· Career Pathways in Dentistryhttps://cgdent.uk/career-pathways/· Clinical Examination & Record Keeping (College of General Dentistry) https://cgdent.uk/standards-guidance/· Dental Audio Notes (DAN)https://dentalaudionotes.com/· Engaging works has a free survey to help you assess your workplace happiness: WorkLhttps://app.workl.co/happiness-survey· Gloucester Independent Dentists (GID)https://gid.org.uk/about· Happier Workforce = Higher returnshttps://lordmarkprice.com/

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Confidence Gremlins live in your head. They are assumptions you make about your ability and why you can't do something. This week I'm in conversation with Helen Tupper from the incredible Amazing-If to help you understand and overcome your confidence gremlins at work. What's your confidence gremlin? Are you ready to say good bye to it?https://www.amazingif.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/AmazingIf_Confidence-Gremlins_.pdfhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXh_qSKCmXAhttps://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7049397766589992960/https://bond7.weareupfront.com/https://workshop.weareupfront.com/Sign up for UPFRONT's email newsletter hereClick here to sign up for Bond 7Follow Lauren and UPFRONT:Twitter: twitter.com/_laurencurrie_Instagram: instagram.com/_laurencurrie_ and instagram.com/upfrontglobalLinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/laurencurrie/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

As organizations continue to face fierce competition for talent, HR leaders have upheld internal mobility as a lever to retain talent – yet only half of employees are aware of the career opportunities in their organization. In this episode of the Talent Angle, Helen Tupper illustrates how championing “squiggly careers” can deliver on the promise of internal mobility by giving employees relevant and engaging opportunities. By intentionally empowering talent to apply their skills across a diverse set of experiences, HR leaders can create meaningful careers for individuals while also serving the needs of the organization. Helen Tupper is the co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, a company with an ambition to make careers better for everyone. Together with her business partner Sarah Ellis, she is the author of two Sunday Times bestsellers The Squiggly Career  and You Coach You. Their Squiggly Careers podcast is the UKs #1 careers podcast and their TEDx talk The best career path isn't always a straight line has over 1.5m downloads. Helen also works as a Trustee for Working Families, a UK charity with a mission to support families and carers with their work and life commitments. Prior to Amazing If she held leadership roles for Microsoft, Virgin and BP and was awarded the FT & 30% Club's Women in Leadership MBA Scholarship. She is mum to Henry and Madeleine and lives with her husband in Buckinghamshire. You can find her on Instagram @amazingif. Dion Love is a vice president of research and advisory services at Gartner. He's a labor market expert, focusing on global labor market trends and what they mean for organizations' talent and business strategies, as well as broader social and economic issues. In his work at Gartner, Dion advises clients on key aspects of talent acquisition, including talent acquisition function planning and management, talent needs definition and internal recruiting, employment branding and recruitment marketing, and talent sourcing and selection. He has co-authored more than 12 strategic research studies at Gartner. His work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review and industry publications, as well as Gartner HR Leaders Monthly and Smarter With Gartner.

Hello Bright Minds, my guest today is Elena Gorman, a UX designer at an experience transformation studio in the north of England. She's a mother two of two, married to Tim and has two naughty cats, Bella and Isaac, and lives in Gateshead.  Elena experienced PND after her first child and again after her second. Whilst working as a project manager she stumbled across UX design and fell in love with it and it's totally changed her career and where she sees it going. She also has PhD in theology and wanted to be a costume designer but never followed it up. In this episode we cover: knowing what your career needs arebeing prepared to take a riskhow to make a career changehow to expand your professional networkmaking yourself visible to the people who might have the job you really wantplanning how you'll cope with post-natal depression with your second child after having severe PND first time aroundand how brilliant professor Sue Black isA book Elena read that helped her through her PND is What Am I Thinking: Having a Baby After Postpartum Depression by Karen KleimanShe also found “Squiggly Careers” very helpful for her career change by Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper – and when we'd finished recording she said she was taking some time this afternoon to go and read “She's in Ctrl” by Anne-Marie Imafidon. This reminded me of the advice Emmie Faust gave in episode 52 about coming back from burnout and how she was learning to stop doing, doing, doing and to be able to take time to sit and read.I also wanted to mention the work of an organisation I first read about in The Times over a decade ago called careershifters – their website is a go-to destination for people who want to make a career change and a member of our coaching team, Shiobhaun, does some work with them so I can whole-heartedly say what they're doing is good quality. Finally, Elena talked about the environment Professor Sue Black has created at the University of Durham, and that's uncommon practice. MORE FOR YOU DM Jessica on instagram @comebackcommuk Join a free expert 'Comeback Conversation' Q&A event Read Mothers Work! How to Get a Grip on Guilt and Make a Smooth Return to Work by Jessica Chivers. Watch five coachees talk about working with us Tell your HR team about Comeback Community with this 1 minute explainer film

I'm Anne Budenberg, and I'm a dentist with over 30- years' experience in NHS and private practice, including roles in secondary care, dental education, risk management and mentoring. I started this podcast to show the diversity of views, and choices dentists and dental care professionals can, and do make, on their career paths, and about creating a fulfilling career. This is for anyone interested in UK dental careers - for those working, or planning to work as adentist or dental care professional in the UK. Dental careers are no longer simply linear, or binary choices, but we have many possibilities for hopping on and off whichever career path, or ‘squiggly career,' you chose to take.Sometimes the path is planned; at other times, it takes unexpected twists and turns, and you end up at a place you did not expect to find yourself.‘Squiggly careers' is a phrase coined by career development consultants, Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, and I love this concept, and the fact that every ‘squiggly career' will be drawn differently, and is unique.We'll be exploring some of the opportunities, challenges, and adapting to change throughout your career, as the landscape changes. In this episode I'm speaking to Josh Jackson, who qualified from Liverpool Dental School in 2020. After Dental Foundation Training, he took up an Academic Clinical Fellowship (ACT) post in Newcastle. We chatted about his thoughts during the early part of his ACF post.Resources:Academic Clinical Fellowshipshttps://dental.hee.nhs.uk/dental-trainee-recruitment/academic-clinical-fellowships-acfsBritish Endodontic Society Early Career Grouphttps://britishendodonticsociety.org.uk/professionals/bes_early_career_group.aspxBritish Endodontic Society - Early Careers Guidehttps://britishendodonticsociety.org.uk/_userfiles/pages/files/earlycareersguidev12.pdfCareer Pathways in Dentistryhttps://cgdent.uk/career-pathways/COPDEND - Postgraduate Traininghttps://www.copdend.org/postgraduate-training/Dental Core Training (DCT) Recruitmenthttps://dental.hee.nhs.uk/dental-trainee-recruitment/dental-core-training-dct Integrated Academic Traininghttps://www.nihr.ac.uk/explore-nihr/academy-programmes/integrated-academic-training.htm

I'm Anne Budenberg, and I'm a dentist with over 30- years' experience in NHS and private practice, including roles in secondary care, dental education, risk management and mentoring. I started this podcast to show the diversity of views, and choices dentists and dental care professionals can, and do make, on their career paths, and about creating a fulfilling career. This is for anyone interested in UK dental careers - for those working, or planning to work as adentist or dental care professional in the UK. Dental careers are no longer simply linear, or binary choices, but we have many possibilities for hopping on and off whichever career path, or ‘squiggly career,' you chose to take.Sometimes the path is planned; at other times, it takes unexpected twists and turns, and you end up at a place you did not expect to find yourself.‘Squiggly careers' is a phrase coined by career development consultants, Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, and I love this concept, and the fact that every ‘squiggly career' will be drawn differently, and is unique.We'll be exploring some of the opportunities, challenges, and adapting to change throughout your career, as the landscape changes.In this episode I'm speaking to Jenny Russ. Jenny qualified from Manchester Dental School in 2019. After Dental Foundation Training, she went on to complete Dental Core Training 1 (DCT1), and Dental Core Training 2 (DCT2). It was during her DCT2 year , we chatted about her thoughts on her career path so far.Resources:Career Pathways in Dentistryhttps://cgdent.uk/career-pathways/COPDEND - Postgraduate Traininghttps://www.copdend.org/postgraduate-training/Dental Core Training (DCT) Recruitmenthttps://dental.hee.nhs.uk/dental-trainee-recruitment/dental-core-training-dctWorking Abroadhttps://bda.org/careers/Othercareeroptions/Pages/Workingoverseas.aspx

I'm Anne Budenberg, and I'm a dentist with over 30- years' experience in NHS and private practice, including roles in secondary care, dental education, risk management and mentoring. I started this podcast to show the diversity of views, and choices dentists and dental care professionals can, and do make, on their career paths, and about creating a fulfilling career. This is for anyone interested in UK dental careers - for those working, or planning to work as a dentist or dental care professional in the UK. Dental careers are no longer simply linear, or binary choices, but we have many possibilities for hopping on and off whichever career path, or ‘squiggly career,' you chose to take.Sometimes the path is planned; at other times, it takes unexpected twists and turns, and you end up at a place you did not expect to find yourself.‘Squiggly careers' is a phrase coined by career development consultants, Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, and I love this concept, and the fact that every ‘squiggly career' will be drawn differently, and is unique.We'll be exploring some of the opportunities, challenges, and adapting to change throughout your career, as the landscape changes.In this episode I'm speaking to Dr. Janine Brooks MBED.Med Eth, MSc, FFGDP(UK), MCDH, DDPHRCS, FAcadMed, BDSJanine retired from the NHS in June 2011 (following redundancy) and went on to develop her own business. Prior to that she was a dentist for 27 years, both as a clinician and latterly in strategic, national roles. She remains active within post graduate education where she provides lectures and tutorials on a wide range of topics to include communication, professionalism, ethics, reflective practice, mentoring/coaching and leadership. She is a registration assessment panelist for the General Dental Council; Director of Dental Coaching Academy: CEO of Dentalia Coaching and Training Consultancy; Co-Founder of Dental Mentors UK; Trustee of the Dentists' Health Support Trust; Author; MBTI practitioner, Trustee of the NHS Retirement Fellowship and a Fellow for the Society of British Dental Nurses. Her specific interests are in education, coaching, mentoring and medical ethics. She is a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators and an Honorary Fellow of the College of General Practice. She currently privately coach/mentors a number of dentists (and some doctors) in personal development, leadership, career development and fitness to practise remediation. She specialises in coaching dental professionals experiencing difficulties, particularly those who have been referred to the General Dental Council. She has published four books, plus a number of articles and papers over the years. A fifth book will be published in 2023.Please join us, and don't forget to share your feedback & ideas on what's important to you about this topic. Annebud62@me.comReferencesClutterbuck, D., 2014. Everyone needs a mentor. 5th ed. London:CIPD.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Everyone-Needs-Mentor-David-Clutterbuck/dp/1843983664· Connor, M., Pokora, J., 2017. Coaching and Mentoring at Work: Developing Effective Practice. 3rd ed. London: McGraw-Hill.https://www.amazon.co.uk/Coaching-Mentoring-at-Work-3rd/dp/0335226922· Dental Mentors UK

I'm Anne Budenberg, and I'm a dentist with over 30- years experience in NHS and private practice, including roles in secondary care, dental education, risk management and mentoring. I started this podcast to show the diversity of views, and choices dentists and dental care professionals can, and do make, on their career paths, and about creating a fulfilling career. This is for anyone interested in UK dental careers - for those working, or planning to work as a dentist or dental care professional in the UK. Dental careers are no longer simply linear, or binary choices, but we have many possibilities for hopping on and off whichever career path, or ‘squiggly career,' you chose to take.Sometimes the path is planned; at other times, it takes unexpected twists and turns, and you end up at a place you did not expect to find yourself.‘Squiggly careers' is a phrase coined by career development consultants, Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, and I love this concept, and the fact that every ‘squiggly career' will be drawn differently, and is unique.We'll be exploring some of the opportunities, challenges, and adapting to change throughout your career, as the landscape changes.In this episode I'm speaking to Prof Rhiannon Edwards, BSc. Econ, M.A., D.Phil., Hon. MFPH Professor of Health Economics and the founding Director of Health Economics research at Bangor University. She specialises in economic evaluation of public health interventions, and particularly behavioural interventions, including dentistry.We're talking about Health Economics, what it is, and why it's relevant to dentistry.Prof Rhiannon Edwards leads the Public Health Economics Research Group (PHERG) at CHEME which takes a life-course approach to the methodology and conduct of economic evaluation of public health interventions. Prior to being at Bangor University, Rhiannon was Lecturer in Health Economics at Liverpool University with an Honorary position with Liverpool Health Authority.She was Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Excellence in Health Promotion Economics, University of Chicago. She published papers on choice in health care and co-authored an international comparison of waiting lists in public health care systems following her fellowship to the USA.Please join us, and don't forget to share your feedback & ideas on what's important to you about this topic.References:· Cost‐effectiveness Analysis of the Dental RECUR Pragmatic Randomized Controlled Trial: Evaluating a Goal‐oriented Talking Intervention to Prevent Reoccurrence of Dental Caries in Children (Published, Jan 2022)https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9021113/· Dentistry and why it's a great career (July 2017)https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2017.617· GROW modelhttps://www.performanceconsultants.com/grow-model

Today, we're talking about what might be holding back your career development. I leaned heavily on a December 21, 2022 article in the Harvard Business Review by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis for this episode. Here's a fact: for most of us, and the companies in which we work, career development is rarely a priority. There are too many urgent matters to attend to every day…and career planning takes a back seat. One challenge is when…when we have time for career development. This essentially separates our career development from our job, rather than viewing the two as integrated. The solution: Chunk down your career development into short, manageable 5- to 10-minute time blocks where you can coach yourself to increase your self-awareness and identify new opportunities for action. I recommend journaling your responses. Here are some possible questions: What do I want to build a reputation for?  If I were to leave my current position tomorrow, what tasks would I want to bring with me, and why? What tasks would I want to leave behind, and why? What is something I've always wanted to learn – or learn more – about, and why? How might this interest play into my professional life?  What do I really like about my current employer/industry? What do I dislike?  Who is someone I admire professionally, and what do I admire about them? How might this admiration play into my career?  If money were no object, what have a long been attracted to, and why? How might I incorporate this interest into the career field I am in (or want to be in)?  As you uncover your responses to these prompts, come up with a game plan to answer the “now what?” question. Perhaps you want to meet with your boss, sign up for a class or program, or find a mentor to address a specific issue.  Another challenge is who…who can help you with career development. This puts your career progression in the hands of other people. Sometimes, it isn't possible for your direct supervisor to be your most valuable source of support, so consider peer-to-peer learning. These could be colleagues in your current organization or outside, with which you can share challenges, generate ideas, and learn together. To get started, use a tool like Slack or WhatsApp and share the purpose of the group with about five people who share the same interest. You can then grow the group by giving everyone the option to invite one person. Ask everyone to share something they have read, watched, or listened to that they've found helpful in their current role.  Yet another challenge is what…if you aren't sure what area, or even what field, you want to develop in, you might never get started. The first step here is what the article calls a “learning navigator” – a way to prioritize what you learn; to distinguish between what you need to know from what's nice to know – as well as what's relevant to your current role, versus what might be relevant for future roles. Here's a quadrant map: Need to Know                    Nice to Know  Important for Today         Important for the Future This process also helps you to spot common skills, which can help you determine where to start.  The final challenge is where…if there are no perceived career development opportunities where you currently work, you may become frustrated and lose motivation. The response: Write down one internal opportunity you would like to make happen. Answer the prompt: This opportunity is important to me because…Next, identify 2-3 ways you could get the result you are looking for. Here's an example: -I would like to become known as a SME for change management -This is important to me because I am passionate about helping people and organizations navigate change, I'm a strong communicator, and I enjoy helping others. -Ways to achieve this: 1.    Talk to my boss about getting on a change management team 2.    Seek out a change management certification program and ask my boss if the company will pay 3.    Ask the head of change management in my area if he would be willing to mentor me The bottom line is this: Not every organization offers structured career development, and even fewer do it well. Ultimately, it is your responsibility – and your obligation to yourself – to think strategically about where you want to get to and how to get there. Are you in the wrong job that chips away at you every day? The CareerSpring document and coaching program will help you find a job that uses your zone of genius, recognizes your value, and pays you what you're worth.  If you're ready to take your job search to the next level by working with a highly experienced professional with a track record of client success, schedule a complimentary consult to learn more:  https://calendly.com/lesaedwards/zoom-meetings2  

If you feel your income needs a boost, or you want a pay rise, then this is the podcast for you. We discuss top tips on how to negotiate a higher salary. Official figures show that wages have grown at the fastest rate in more than 20 years - but prices are rising even faster and the gap between public and private sector pay is at close to record levels. On the expert panel are, Helen Tupper, CEO of 'Amazing If', a career development company, Radha Vyas, CEO and Co-Founder of Flash Pack, and Ed Rossiter co-founder and CEO of Phoenix, a recruitment agency. Presenter: Ruth Alexander Producer: Amber Mehmood Editor: Jess Quayle (First broadcast, 3pm Wednesday 18th January, 2023)

I'm Anne Budenberg, and I'm a dentist with over 30- years experience in NHS and private practice, including roles in secondary care, dental education, risk management and mentoring. I started this podcast to show the diversity of views, and choices dentists and dental care professionals can, and do make, on their career paths, and about creating a fulfilling career. This is for anyone interested in UK dental careers - for those working, or planning to work as a dentist or dental care professional in the UK. Dental careers are no longer simply linear, or binary choices, but we have many possibilities for hopping on and off whichever career path, or ‘squiggly career,' you chose to take.Sometimes the path is planned; at other times, it takes unexpected twists and turns, and you end up at a place you did not expect to find yourself.‘Squiggly careers' is a phrase coined by career development consultants, Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, and I love this concept, and the fact that every ‘squiggly career' will be drawn differently, and is unique.We'll be exploring some of the opportunities, challenges, and adapting to change throughout your career, as the landscape changes.In this episode I'm speaking to dentist, Rahail Kumar, who qualified from Kings College, London in 2019, and he is talking about his Dental Core Training, and his thoughts for the future.From Dental Foundation Training into Dental Core Training; DCT1 and DCT2, and possible next steps, including applying for medicine. We are speaking about early dental careers in secondary care, the opportunities, and the choices. Please join us, and don't forget to share your feedback & ideas on what's important to you about this topic.Resources· Careers in Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery (OMFS)https://www.baoms.org.uk/professionals/careers_in_omfs.aspx· Career Pathways in Dentistry https://cgdent.uk/career-pathways/· Education & Training - British Association Oral & Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) https://www.baoms.org.uk/professionals/education_training.aspx· Medicine (Graduate Entry) (4 years) courses.https://www.healthcareers.nhs.uk/career-planning/course- finder?field_leading_to_a_career_in_tid=165&field_region_tid=1&field_qualification_type_tid=62&field_study_mode_tid=All&items_per_page=25· Qualified Dentists wishing to pursue a career in Oral And Maxillofacial Surgery. A number of UK Medical Schools offer an accelerated 3-year MBChB programme for qualified dentists. This is one example from Birmingham Medical School.https://www.birmingham.ac.uk/schools/medical-school/applying-to- medicine/entry-requirements-five-year-programme.aspx

I'm Anne Budenberg, and I'm a dentist with over 30- years experience in NHS and private practice, including roles in secondary care, dental education, risk management and mentoring. I started this podcast to show the diversity of views, and choices dentists and dental care professionals can, and do make, on their career paths, and about creating a fulfilling career. This is for anyone interested in UK dental careers - for those working, or planning to work as a dentist or dental care professional in the UK. Dental careers are no longer simply linear, or binary choices, but we have many possibilities for hopping on and off whichever career path, or ‘squiggly career,' you chose to take.Sometimes the path is planned; at other times, it takes unexpected twists and turns, and you end up at a place you did not expect to find yourself.‘Squiggly careers' is a phrase coined by career development consultants, Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, and I love this concept, and the fact that every ‘squiggly career' will be drawn differently, and is unique.We'll be exploring some of the opportunities, challenges, and adapting to change throughout your career, as the landscape changes. In this episode I'm speaking to dentist, Harry Marshall, who qualified from Newcastle Dental School in 2018.We are speaking about his early dental career; about his thoughts on the choices he has made, on his path from Dental Foundation Training, to associate in NHS practice, and into Private practice. What he thinks makes his career fulfilling, the opportunities he has taken so far, and how he is developing his skills in Orthodontics in Primary Dental Care.Please join us, and don't forget to share your feedback & ideas on what's important to you about this topic.Resources· British Orthodontic Societyhttps://www.bos.org.uk/Information-for-Dentists· Career Pathways in Dentistryhttps://cgdent.uk/career-pathways/ · Engaging works has a free survey to help you assess your workplace happiness: WorkLhttps://app.workl.co/happiness-survey· Happier Workforce = Higher Returnshttps://lordmarkprice.com/· The Ortho Course Practical GDP Orthodontics Reinventedhttps://theorthocourse.co.uk/

In this episode we share our thinking for leaders who may well be questioning if they should stay or if they should leave their organisation.At various points in your career you may find yourself in the situation where you feel like it might be time for you to move on or there might well be signals that you should be considering your next steps as a leader. We talk about the things you should consider, owning the narrative and ensuring you have the right support.As always we share our own views, thoughts and experiences:05:02 – sometimes your face doesn't fit anymore07:54 – leaving a corporate role10:52 – understanding if you're ready for a new challenge17:15 – what sort of leader does your organisation need?23:23 – handling being managed out of an organisation33:38 – how do you support your team if you are moving on? 40:55 – the How to...We share our top takeaways focused on how you create the conditions to consider whether you should stay or go as a leader. We recommend using the career priorities wheel to support your thinking and making time to reflect and consider your circumstances - DM Lee or email hello@sundayskies.com if you would like a copy.In this episode we reference The Squiggly Career by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis. ------------------------If you enjoyed this episode why not subscribe to the podcast. We would love it if you left us a rating or review and feel free to share the link to this episode with anyone else you think would find it interesting, using #HowToTakeTheLeadNew episodes will be released every Thursday and you can listen/ download on your favourite platform.To find out more visit www.howtotakethelead.com Enjoy this series and let us know what you would like us to cover in future episodes on Instagram @howtotakethelead or Twitter @How2TakeTheLeadMentioned in this episode:Join the How to Take the Lead communityWe're now on substack. Join a community of people who want to lead their own way. Get extra content and behind the episode discussions, take part in 'ask us anything' bonus episodes and a new leadership book club, plus much more. Visit www.howtotakethelead.com to sign up.

Have you ever wondered how you can ditch the career ladder and find an alternative route to success, where progression doesn't just depend on promotion? Have you asked yourself, what am I good at? What do I stand for? What motivates and drives me? This week Holly speaks with Helen and Sarah, co-founders of Amazing If, an award-winning career development company with a twist.  Champions of the Squiggly Career, Helen and Sarah are at the forefront of a fundamental shift that's happening in the workplace. Where the traditional linear path is being replaced with a squiggly line that can allow you a career every bit as unique as you are. One that is full of opportunity, freedom and purpose – without having to constantly move roles and companies in order to progress. Currently, 65-70% of us feel we have to leave a job in order to change our role or position, but what if you just needed to squiggle? Amazing If is a platform that allows each of us to challenge the status quo. Not only arming us with the right tools and skills we need to thrive in a career we love, but also crucially instilling the inner confidence to recognise our strengths, where we can apply them to widen our expertise and believe that you can pursue the career you deserve. So are you looking to make a move in your career? Listen, as you might not have to change as much as you think. If you enjoyed this conversation, you might also enjoy Holly's episode with  Edward Perry, founder of Cook.  Enjoying listening to these unfiltered chats? Subscribe to Holly's weekly newsletters on our website, where she shares small business inspiration of all kinds, exclusive nuggets of wisdom from her and her guests, plus offers, creative ideas and topical, 'ungoogleable' business advice. 

Sign up for Intelligence Squared Premium here: https://iq2premium.supercast.com/ for ad-free listening, bonus content, early access and much more. See below for details. Bruce Daisley is one the world's most respected thought leaders on workplace culture and the future of work. He was Vice-President of Twitter in Europe for 12 years and has four times been voted the ‘fantasy hire' that most business leaders would like to make. In August 2022 he came to Intelligence Squared to talk about the themes of his new book Fortitude: Unlocking the Secrets of Inner Strength. Dispelling the myth that to succeed in life we need to be tough and self-reliant, he unpicked the overused concept of resilience, explained how it really works, and put forward a new programme for building self-confidence and tenacity. Drawing on his personal experience and recent scientific research, he showed how we can draw on those around us to build confidence and find our inner strength. Our host for today's discussion is Sarah Ellis, co-founder along with Helen Tupper of Amazing If, an award-winning company with a mission to make careers better for everyone. Sarah is also co-host of the Squiggly Careers podcast and has published books including You Coach You. … We are incredibly grateful for your support. To become an Intelligence Squared Premium subscriber, follow the link: https://iq2premium.supercast.com/  Here's a reminder of the benefits you'll receive as a subscriber: Ad-free listening, because we know some of you would prefer to listen without interruption  One early episode per week Two bonus episodes per month A 25% discount on IQ2+, our exciting streaming service, where you can watch and take part in events live at home and enjoy watching past events on demand and without ads  A 15% discount and priority access to live, in-person events in London, so you won't miss out on tickets Our premium monthly newsletter  Intelligence Squared Merch Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This episode of Mother of All Solutions, with content creator Vivi Koroma Kala, is part interview part book chat! Vivi is Head of Content for Amazing If and also the creator of the bookstagram, The Cultured Life, which she set up whilst on maternity leave. We talk about her career choices and changes, and have a conversation about the 3 books Vivi chose for us to read and review together: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman The Book You Wish Your Parents Had Read (and Your Children Will be Glad That You Did) by Philippa Perry The Squiggly Career by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis I hope you enjoy learning more about content creation and the books we discuss!  Vivi is on Instagram as the @thecultured.life and her website is www.theculturedmarketer.co.uk You can connect to Laura via Instagram and Twitter via @SolutionsMother Thank you for listening - if you can rate or review the episode that would be amazing. And do subscribe for future episodes! Mother of All Solutions is hosted and produced by Laura Broderick, with music by Ros Fraser. 

Saya membahas kalau perjalanan karir itu bukan seperti garis lurus, di mana kamu menaiki tangga satu per satu hingga mencapai karir yang tinggi. Ini merupakan rangkuman dari video TED Talk Sarah Ellis dan Helen Tupper yang berjudul The best career path isn't always a straight line dan diolah dari berbagai sumber. Pertumbuhan karir tidak selalu bentuknya seperti tangga, dimulai dari karyawan level bawah, naik jadi supervisor, manajer, dan seterusnya. Tapi, karir bisa saja sifatnya horizontal atau diagonal. Sesesorang di bagian sales bisa saja punya aspirasi dan kemampuan untuk jadi marketer yang hebat. Atau, seorang marketer mungkin saja punya passion untuk bekerja di bagian HR. Ini adalah sebuah fenomena yang lumrah terjadi dalam dunia kerja.

Buckle up! Careers are changing, and you need to be prepared. Dr. Bray looks at the upcoming changes forecast to occur in the workplace from a recent Gartner report and also a World Economic Forum report on employee retention and hiring. According to Gartner, the pace of employee turnover is forecast to be 50–75% higher than companies have experienced previously. The issue is compounded by taking 18% longer to fill roles than it did pre-pandemic. If you are an employee, this creates a significant opportunity for you, and Dr. Bray shares the steps you need to take in order to take advantage of this opportunity immediately. If you are a leader, be sure to listen to Dr. Bray's advice on what steps to take to retain your employees. Don't miss this episode! *HBR Online, It's Time to Reimagine Employee Retention by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis. July 04, 2022 QUOTES BY DR. BRAY “You need to be constantly upgrading and reskilling!” “Get up an hour earlier and spend the time learning.”

We just couldn't resist sharing another bonus episode because we are so excited about our first series of How To Take The Lead. New episodes will be released every Thursday at 6am and you can listen/download on your favourite platform.We wanted to take the opportunity to share more about those who have inspired us along the way and to thank some of the most amazing cheerleaders and supporters.In this bonus episode you'll hear more about the following fabulous podcast and book recommendations.Podcasts we love to listen to:Diary of a CEO – Stephen BartlettYou're My Comms HeroBehaviour Change Marketing Bootcamp – Ruth DaleThe Squiggly Careers PodcastInside the Hive with Quiet the HiveConversations with Cat's Pajamas (*blush* thanks Lee!)Trust Issues with Rachel BotsmanHow to Own the Room with Viv GroskopBooks* we love to read and share:I Am My Brand by Kubi SpringerHype Yourself by Lucy WernerThe Squiggly Career by Helen Tupper and Sarah EllisYour Dream Life Starts Here by Kristina KarlssonQuiet by Susan CainHow to Own the Room by Viv GroskopThe Confidence Code Katty Kay and Claire ShipmanAnd we share our thanks and love for all the support and encouragement from David, Jim, Carolyn, Vicky, Lee's coach Carol, Daniel, Carrie-Ann's coach Mikaela, Asif, Bob, Becca, Sara, Liz, Sam and Helen. You are all amazing!Finally a huge thank you to all of you for listening, sharing and getting in touch to share your views, experiences and ideas.If you enjoyed this episode why not subscribe to the podcast. We would love it if you left us a rating or review and feel free to share the link to this episode with anyone else you think would find it...

This week's episode comes with a twist as the podcast interviewer becomes the interviewee to celebrate the milestone of reaching 100 episodes. Stepping in to host this unique episode is Irish born, Sydney based guest Cathal Quinlan. Cathal holds over 20 years of experience working in corporate and has recently become the proud owner of Better@Work – helping people transform their working experiences and boosting performance personally and within others. This week, listeners will get to absorb so much more about the founder of Happier at Work as we dive into Aoife's personal and professional journey, learn about the evolution of her purpose and find out what the future looks like for the business. Listeners, get ready to embark on the squiggly road trip to Happier at Work. Whilst on the hot seat, Aoife will explore many topics that haven't been discussed before and reveals a fascinating opportunity. The main points throughout the episode include: - Stepping into employment after college. - Working abroad: making big moves for an international career. - Coping with feeling overloaded with work. - Dealing with empty promises and a lack of recognition at work. - The importance of confidence in the workplace. - Returning to work after a career break. - Falling in and out of love with your job. - Choosing a career and igniting your strengths. - Feeling unhappy at work and stepping into the unknown. - The damaging effects of micromanagement and value conflict at work. - Business attitudes: understanding the profile of an organisation. - How to enhance retention to avoid the great resignation. - When is Aoife happiest at work? - Podcast learnings and the power of gratitude. - The ongoing journey of Happier at Work and what is next for Aoife O'Brien. THE LISTENERS SAY: Do you have any feedback or thoughts on this discussion? If so, please connect with Aoife via the links below and let her know. Aoife would love to hear from you! Connect with Cathal Quinlan: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cathal-quinlan Connect with Happier at Work host Aoife O'Brien: https://www.happieratwork.ie https://www.linkedin.com/in/aoifemobrien https://www.twitter.com/HappierAtWorkHQ https://www.instagram.com/happieratwork.ie https://www.facebook.com/groups/happieratworkpodcast Resources: The Squiggly Career by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis. https://www.amazingif.com/ The No Asshole Rule by Robert I. Sutton PhD https://www.amazon.com/Asshole-Rule

Our focus for this Season is on ‘Getting To The Top' and I'll be talking to some incredible women and experts from around the world to share their real-life stories, advice and tips to inspire you in your career.It is an absolute pleasure to welcome Helen Tupper as my guest today. Helen is co-founder of Amazing If and together with Sarah Ellis is host of the Squiggly Career podcast and author of The Sunday Times Bestseller' The Squiggly Career' and their new book ‘You Coach You'. I'm delighted she's joining me today to talk about how getting to the top can sometimes be a bit squiggly and ‘How coaching yourself can help you progress'.  The Confidence Conversation podcast with Joy Burnford explores the world of women, work and what it takes to feel more confident. A lack of confidence is not a crime. So, if you need some motivation, inspiration or a boost of confidence, grab a cuppa, go for a dog walk, or escape for a drive and join us for today's conversation about confidence.A big thank you to Gail Morgan Style for sponsoring this season. Focusing on mindset, colours, style and wardrobe management, Gail has inspired me and thousands of other women to increase their visibility, impact, and influence by reducing wardrobe overwhelm and confusion. She truly is a master of her craft and completely understands how the ‘right' clothes can immediately increase your confidence and credibility. Gail Morgan Style is offering our listeners 15% off all colour analysis sessions, and any of her other styling services, when you reference this podcast.  To find out more, see the link in the show notes or visit www.gailmorganstyle.com.

Welcome to this trailer for my podcast, Let's Chat Dental.I'm Anne Budenberg, and I'm a dentist with over 30 years experience in NHS and private practice, including roles in secondary care, dental education, risk management, mentoring, and health coaching.This podcast is for anyone interested in UK dental careers…for those already working, or planning to work as a dentist,…or dental care professional in the UK. We're going to chat about the diversity of choice within the UK dental world, and about creating a happy & fulfilling career. Now dental careers are no longer simply linear, or binary choices, but offer many possibilities for hopping, on and off whichever career path, or ‘squiggly career,' we chose to take.'Squiggly career' was a phrase coined by career development consultants, Helen Tupper & Sarah Ellis, and I love this concept, and the fact that every ‘squiggly career' will be drawn differently, and individually. And it gives an implied freedom to our career choices.They defined this as: "…a career that isn't defined by climbing the corporate ladder but is fluid and can take many different paths”.We'll be exploring some of the opportunities, challenges, … and adapting to change, throughout our careers, … in a dynamic landscape.Please join us for the first episode. Don't forget to share your feedback & ideas on what's important to you about dental careers.

This a bit of a different episode of Life Lessons - a career special to mark National Careers week. My guest is Helen Tupper – who co-hosts the Squiggly Careers podcast with Sarah Ellis. They have also written two best-selling books, ‘the Squiggly Career'... and their new book is called ‘You Coach You'. It's about giving people the tools to become their own careers coach. Helen and Sarah are also founders of the award winning company Amazing If – through which they lead workshops across the world to help people navigate and take ownership of their careers with confidence.In this episode we get a taster of the work they do – by discussing the five key skills they have identified that people need to be able to thrive in a squiggly career.(Ps. There will be another Bitesized episode along tomorrow.)**Follow/message me:Instagram https://www.instagram.com/simonmundie/Twitter https://twitter.com/simonmundieAnd for the 'Mundie on Monday' newsletter - featuring three of the best Life Lessons from three years and 200 of these conversations - head to simonmundie.com (where you can also drop me an email)Please do share this episode with anyone who may benefit, and rate and review wherever you get your podcasts. It makes a big difference and is hugely appreciated. I will also give a shoutout on the show to anyone who does share this - or any other episodes - with two or more people on an upcoming episode.***Finally, a HUGE thanks to my sponsors, Puresport. Their range of CBD and Nootropics supplements have had a significant impact on how I sleep, manage stress, and focus throughout the day. I can't recommend them enough. I have many friends and family who have tried their huge range of products - and now swear by them. They have just rebranded and their products look superbCBD has been shown to have benefits for anxiety, inflammation, aches and pains - and it may even be good for long term brain and heart health. Puresport are paving the way in the natural wellness market with their unparalleled range of products. I am currently enjoying their Destress oil, with ashwaganda and the sunshine Vitamin D - ideal for this time of year. Plus, their unwind capsules - ideal for relaxing and deep sleep, and their muscle and joint balm is an absolute winner.The good news is that Life Lessons listeners can get 20% off all full prices products with code Life20 at checkout. Head to www.puresport.co to check out their extensive and frankly fabulous range and get your 20% discount. You won't regret it! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For many of us who've been on the chase of a purpose-driven job or jobs that create a positive impact on our communities and society, we are often met with the dilemmas of finding an interesting job and balancing other needs in our life such as our own financial security, self-growth, and other opportunities to better ourselves while creating impact. It is no news that we once lived in a generation where we were forced to pick sides such as working in for-profit vs non-profit sectors, but we now live in a time when we believe we can create all at the same time. Still, the problems to balance between these are no less big deliberations for many of us. In this episode of Modern Idealist, we dive into the concept of the career portfolio (and the squiggly career) and what it means to reject the concept of a linear career path in order to achieve our own definitions of purpose and success. Valerie discusses her career journey, growing up with high expectations from immigrant parents, and how this influenced her vocation and career trajectory. We then circle back to talk about jobs of the future and why we need to shake things up to create a more inspiring future workforce, now! Subscribe to us for more content! Instagram: Modern__idealist Follow Modern Idealist on: Spotify / Apple Podcast / Google Podcast How we can help Ukraine: https://www.npr.org/2022/02/25/1082992947/ukraine-support-help?t=1645782791891 Link to sources: Career Portfolio: Rinne, April. “Why You Should Build a ‘Career Portfolio' (Not a ‘Career Path').” Harvard Business Review, 13 Oct. 2021, https://hbr.org/2021/10/why-you-should-build-a-career-portfolio-not-a-career-path. The Squiggly Career: “The Best Career Path Isn't Always a Straight Line.” Performance by Sarah Ellis, and Helen Tupper, Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper: The Best Career Path Isn't Always a Straight Line | TED Talk, Feb. 2021, https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_ellis_and_helen_tupper_the_best_career_path_isn_t_always_a_straight_line?language=en. Accessed June 2021. “New Data Track Graduates of Six Popular Majors through Their First Three Jobs.” Philosophy Degrees and Sales Jobs: New Data Track Graduates of Six Popular Majors through Their First Three Jobs, Inside Higher Ed, 2 Aug. 2019, https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2019/08/02/new-data-track-graduates-six-popular-majors-through-their-first-three-jobs. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/modernidealist/message

Sarah Ellis is my return guest today! She is one of the founders of Amazing If, alongside Helen Tupper, which is an award-winning career development company. They are the co-hosts of the book and podcast, Squiggly Careers. Today, Sarah is back on the podcast to talk about her new book You Coach You, which I really enjoyed because it's all about how you can help yourself during those knotty difficult times during life and work. Sarah and Helen are really brilliant at giving really practical advice on supercharging your confidence, playing to your strengths and setting yourself up for success. So I hope you enjoy this conversation with Sarah, I definitely did! :)You can buy You Coach You here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9780241502730You can buy (Dis)Connected here: https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781529373127Check out this survey from The Post Office, a current sponsor of Ctrl Alt Delete!https://survey.euro.confirmit.com/wix/5/p299364423555.aspx See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Our guest today is Sarah Ellis,  co-founder of career- development company Amazing If. Founded with her long-time friend Helen Tupper, what began as a side project to help people with their careers has now grown to a full-on career-boosting powerhouse. They created the concept of 'squiggly careers'- the notion that in the modern world, people's careers are no longer linear with no defined and rigid growth ladders.  Sarah and Helen are the hosts of The Squiggly Careers podcast and the authors of two books, their first being a Sunday Times Bestseller. Their TED talk has also been viewed over 1.5 million times.   Their most recent book is called "You Coach You" and it forms the basis of today's discussion: that coaching works but it's often only available to the fortunate few.  Packed with practical exercises, tools and advice from inspiring people this book will help you to find answers, take action and achieve more in your career.I also wanted to quickly shout out to an amazing British entrepreneurial story in John Wardle. John is the creator of viral game Wordle and recently sold the game to the New York Times for a 7 figure sum.  Just a few months ago it was played by only a handful of people- it's now played by millions. It shows how something created for friends and family can blow up into something enormous. In today's episode with Sarah we talk about:What Amazing If doesWhat did Sarah did before Squiggly careers and Amazing IfWhat is the process of “co-blending” and did it work for Sarah?Successful career change always happens incrementallyThe upcoming book You Coach You its the key themes on coachingExplaining the difference between a coach and a mentorWhich chapters of her book are the most pwoerful.The importance of 'experimenting' rather than failing in your career. Any advice that would tell her former selfWhat's it like founding a business with a close friendHer podcast Squiggly Careers and the best episodes to listen to: #243 How to be a Learn it All and from the Ask the Expert series- Empathy with Roman KrznaricHer Favourite book: The Start-up of You by Reid Hoffman If you'd like to see more information about the job roles being offered please look at my Twitter @jimmym

Helen Tupper is the co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, a company with an ambition to make careers better for everyone. Together with her business partner Sarah Ellis, she is the author of The Sunday Times number one bestseller The Squiggly Career (Penguin) and host of the Squiggly Careers podcast. In January 2021 they recorded their TEDx talk Why squiggly careers are better for everyone at Abbey Road Studios in London. In this episode of The Places We'll Go Marketing Show Helen, talks about how Amazing If has developed from a small side hustle to a completely new way of transforming the world of work, advice she would give those that are too scared to start their own side hustle and how sticking to her values has led her to where she is today.

As we start a new year considerations about the jobs we do have never been more prominent. One headline this year has already suggested that up to three-quarters of us might be considering changing jobs. Intriguingly money doesn't appear to be in the top five reasons to make a change.I wanted to understand what was going on here, and what any of should be doing about it. Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis are the UK's most respected careers coaches. Their first book The Squiggly Career is a perennial bestseller, and has become adopted into the lexicon of how we talk about a renegotiated relationship with our careers. Their TED Talk has received millions of views. They have a new book out, You Coach You, which offers practical coaching for anyone curious about changing their career. Some of their suggestions - like job scanning - will help you reorientate what you want from your job - and how you can achieve it.Whether you're thinking about changing work - or just have friends who are considering it - this is a great episode to help us reflect on what we want from our jobs.Buy You Coach You nowSign up for the newsletter See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this episode, Jim Barnish joins me and we talk about an alternative to climbing the career ladder. We also talk about how careers no longer follow straight lines; Jim shares how his career didn't follow a traditional straight line either. Jim has spent the last two decades growing tech companies as an entrepreneur, operator and consultant. Jim now runs Orchid Black, a growth services firm complete with growth experts, just like Jim, that share an incredible track record for making technology companies worth so much more.Key TakeawaysWhen considering job opportunities, don't only dwell on the functional aspects of the job but look closely at the company cultureSometimes your dream job isn't your ideal jobDon't underestimate the value of having a coachWhen looking for your ideal role, look beyond the career and personality testsIkigai is a fantastic tool to help find your purpose and ideal roleSuccess is not built on success. It's built on failure. It's built on frustration. Sometimes it's built on catastropheIt is okay to make mistakes, as long as you are learning from themPerseverance and working hard are the basic skills that everyone should developWherever you are on your career or entrepreneurial journey, there is always help availableEven if you are not a project manager, having those skills is importantKey transferable skills are communication, critical thinking, and problem-solvingBeing a team player means that you don't always get the wins yourself, but you help others to achieve those winsResources We discussed the following resources on the show:Ikigai on WikipediaThe Squiggly Career: The No.1 Sunday Times Business Bestseller - Ditch the Ladder, Discover Opportunity, Design Your Career by Helen Tupper and Sarah EllisHow Successful People Lead: Taking Your Influence to the Next Level by John C. MaxwellTrillion Dollar Coach: The Leadership Handbook of Silicon Valley's Bill Campbell by Eric Schmidt, Jonathan Rosenberg, and Alan EagleHow to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale CarnegieHow to Ikigai: Lessons for Finding Happiness and Living Your Life's Purpose (Ikigai Book, Lagom, Longevity, Peaceful Living) by Tim TamashiroConnect with JimListeners can learn more about and connect with Jim by visiting his LinkedIn page or the Orchid Black website.Support the show (https://www.buymeacoffee.com/gunterrichter)

CEO of @Amazing_If, co-host of Squiggly Careers podcast, co-author The Squiggly Careers and soon to be co-author of another book You Coach You, which she joins Adrienne to talk about today.The Power Hour podcast gets to know other people's processes to greatness. Join Adrienne as she invites guest speakers from coaches, creatives and innovators to discuss their daily habits and the key to achieving personal success and well-being. Whether you want to build a business, write a book or run a marathon, the Power Hour is going to help you get there faster! You can follow Adrienne on Instagram / Twitter / Facebook Outro music by Paul Herbert Music.Produced at Jamz Studio See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In today's 40 Minute Mentor episode, we're joined by Co-Founder and CEO of Amazing If, Co-Author of best-seller ‘The Squiggly Career', and Co-Host of the popular Squiggly Careers podcast (a JBM favourite!), Helen Tupper. Helen has enjoyed a hugely successful career at some of the biggest companies in the world – Virgin, Microsoft, BP and Capital One, to name a few – but decided to take the leap into the world of entrepreneurship together with her friend Sarah Ellis and start Amazing If – an award-winning training consultancy. At a time when so many of us are reassessing our post-pandemic careers, finding happiness and fulfilment at work has never felt more important. And that's where Helen and Sarah come in with their incredible coaching skills and resources. Speaking to Helen in today's episode was an absolute joy. She shares so many great insights and speaks with so much passion and enthusiasm about making work better for everyone. We cover a lot of ground in this episode, covering topics including: - Why the traditional linear career ladder isn't a realistic “one size fits all” career development strategy anymore and what companies need to do to support their teams' development better. - What a squiggly career actually looks like and how it will help with employee retention, when supported in the right way. - And what it's really like to build a successful business with a friend, without compromising your friendship. No matter what stage you're at in your career and whether you're in a big corporate or a Founder yourself, we know you'll take so much great advice from this episode with Helen. And a special thank you to our sponsors for this Series – Chipper Cash. The team have been on an incredible journey, having launched their borderless way to send money across Africa and beyond, in 8 countries so far and are widely considered to be Africa's most valuable Startup. To find out more, head over to their website, or tune into our 40 Minute Mentor episode with their Co-Founder and CEO, Ham Serunjogi. Enjoyed this episode? We'd love to hear your thoughts on this episode, so please leave us a review at https://ratethispodcast.com/40mm or get in touch at james@jbmc.co.uk If you want to find out more about Helen, take a look at her LinkedIn profile – https://www.linkedin.com/in/helentupper/ If you want to find out more about Amazing If, head over to – https://www.amazingif.com/ For the Squiggly Career podcast, simply head to - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/squiggly-careers/id1202842065 And to pre-order their new book ‘You Coach You', ask in your local bookshop or head over to - https://www.amazon.co.uk/You-Coach-Overcome-Challenges-Control/dp/024150273X

Helen Tupper is the co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, an award-winning career development company with a mission to make work better for everyone. She is co-author of The Sunday Times No.1 Business Bestseller: The Squiggly Career (Penguin) and host of the UK's no.1 careers podcast: Squiggly Careers. You can find her instagram @amazingif The Power Hour podcast gets to know other people's processes to greatness. Join Adrienne as she invites guest speakers from coaches, creatives and innovators to discuss their daily habits and the key to achieving personal success and well-being. Whether you want to build a business, write a book or run a marathon, the Power Hour is going to help you get there faster! You can follow Adrienne on Instagram / Twitter / FacebookProducer - Jack Claramunt Outro music by Paul Herbert Music.Produced at Jamz Studio See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

For this week's Better Managers Briefing, we are joined by Helen Tupper, Co-Founder, and CEO of Amazing If an award-winning career development company with the ambition to democratise career development. Helen also co-hosts one of the UK's no.1 careers podcast, Squiggly Careers, and is author of The Sunday Times Number One Business Bestseller 'The Squiggly Career'. We will be exploring Squiggly Careers and coaching. Find out more about CMI and the community of managers and leaders: https://mgrs.uk/3ed

We talk about Helen's own squiggly career which you can hear more about in her TEDx which she recorded in In January 2021 with Sarah. Both Helen and Sarah are living proof of the title of their talk ‘Why squiggly careers are better for everyone' and inspiring in their message. Prior to Amazing If she held leadership roles for Microsoft, Virgin and BP and was awarded the FT & 30% Club's Women in Leadership MBA Scholarship. Before making her way back to university friend Sarah to start up their incredibly successful business. She is mum to Henry and Madeleine and lives with her husband in Buckinghamshire. Helen also works as a Trustee for Working Families, a UK charity with a mission to support families and carers with their work and life commitments.  You can find her on Instagram @amazingif.  As for me – the second edition to my book Defining You – Build Your Unique Personal Profile and Unlock Your True Potential is now out: https://bit.ly/DefiningYou2ndEdAnd if you are curious about who you are, your brain and the influences in your life then please dip into my more recent book Mirror Thinking – How Role Models Make Us Human. https://bit.ly/MirrThinkhttps://bit.ly/MirrorUSACanhttps://bit.ly/2ylrc7HYou can find me on:My website: https://fionamurden.comInstagram: www.instagram.com/fiona_murdenTwitter: https://twitter.com/fionamurdenLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/fionamurden/   

01 June 2021: Helen finds out what squiggly careers are and why they're better than the career ladder.  Elie Sarkis of Intoact tells us how to make money online. Dubai resident Ross tells us how he managed to turn things around after being locked out of the country and going on unpaid leave for months.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Skip the Queue is brought to you by Rubber Cheese, a digital agency that builds remarkable systems and websites for attractions that helps them increase their visitor numbers. Your host is  Kelly Molson, MD of Rubber Cheese.Download our free ebook The Ultimate Guide to Doubling Your Visitor NumbersIf you like what you hear, you can subscribe on iTunes, Spotify, and all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue or visit our website rubbercheese.com/podcastIf you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five star review, it really helps others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned in this episode.Competition ends August  27th 2021. The winner will be contacted via Twitter. Show references:https://museumofus.org/https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-haddan-88a7ba93/ James Haddan has been a resident of San Diego since 1998, and has worked in the museum field for almost two decades. As the Senior Director of Development and External Communications at the Museum of Us (formerly the San Diego Museum of Man), he is responsible for building a community of support for the institution. Recently, he and Museum CEO, Micah Parzen, led the effort to publicly launch the Museum’s new name, which embraces a more equitable and accessible identity dedicated to anti-racism and decolonizing work. Mr. Haddan holds both a Bachelor of Environmental Design and Master of Arts in Anthropology from Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas. His graduate work was associated with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology and included underwater archaeology fieldwork at the 17th-century port city of Port Royal, Jamaica. Transcription:Kelly Molson: Welcome to Skip the Queue, a podcast for people working in or working with visitor attractions. I'm your host, Kelly Molson. Each episode, I speak with industry experts from the attractions world. In today's episode, I speak with James Haddan, Senior Director of Development and External Communications at the Museum of Us in San Diego. We discuss the multifaceted process of decolonization and the process of changing the museum's 40-year-old name. If you like what you hear, you can subscribe on all the usual channels by searching Skip the Queue.Kelly Molson: James, it is absolutely lovely to have you on the podcast today. Thank you for joining me. James Haddan: Well, thank you, Kelly, for having me. I'm really looking forward to our chat.Kelly Molson: So am I. But first, icebreaker questions, as always. James, I know that you're a regular listener to the podcast, so you kind of know what's in store for you. What talent would you most like to grow and develop?James Haddan: I would really like to improve my ability with languages. That's something that I've tried over time and have not been really very good at keeping up and someday, in retirement, I'd love to live abroad, and so I really feel like I don't want to be one of those Americans living in a country that refuses to speak any other language but English. And so, I'd like to work on that.Kelly Molson: Yeah. I always say.. Yeah. It's that Brit abroad. For us, I always call it that Brit abroad thing where you go, okay, well, I'm going to go and retire to Spain, but I'm never going to learn a single word of Spanish. I'm just going to speak English the whole time there, so yeah. It's not the right thing to do. What language? What have you tried, or what would you like to learn?James Haddan: So, I did kind of that requisite year or two of high school French in the United States, which I didn't really learn much of anything. In college, I studied German, and in my graduate program, we actually were required to be able to translate in a foreign language. So, I actually, for a period of time, could read German. It wasn't a conversational knowledge of the language, but I could translate it. The German has left me, basically. James Haddan: So what I've been working on now, and I just started it in the pandemic, and please don't ask me to show it off because I'm not ready for that. I'm trying to learn some Portuguese. I really love Portugal. But Portuguese, the pronunciation is really difficult for me. I don't find it natural at all. Kelly Molson: Okay. It's interesting you mention German, actually, because we did French and German at school. And you could choose which one you went on and did for your GCSEs. And I chose German because it was the easier language because it was quite masculine.James Haddan: Mm-hmm (affirmative).Kelly Molson: It felt more similar to the British language. James Haddan: Yes.Kelly Molson: And so I found it easier to say. And that's why I went with German. But it has left me as well. I've been on the Duolingo app. I started doing Duolingo and learning in Spanish in lockdown. And I've been really consistent, so I've done it every day. I think I'm on a 190 day streak at the moment.James Haddan: I am on 390 of a streak of Portuguese.Kelly Molson: Whoa. We should hook up on there. I'll find you.James Haddan: I have been amazed at myself, but it does make it easy. It's not a long period of time, and I do feel like it's okay for me to pick it up for 10 minutes and it's-Kelly Molson: Yeah. I love that. Oh good. Okay. Well, I will find you on there and we'll hook up and we'll spur each other on to learn our languages. Okay, next one. What's the worst movie that you've ever watched?James Haddan: I will say, it's the worst in some ways, but I love it. It's one of those movies that I love but it... It's that Flash Gordon that was done in the eighties, I think. Kelly Molson: Film.James Haddan: And I really love the movie, but it was.Kelly Molson: It's not aged well.James Haddan: Yeah. But I loved it. But I kind of loved hated it, yeah.Kelly Molson: So, that's one of those movies, it's so bad it's good.James Haddan: Yes.Kelly Molson: Yeah. I love Flash Gordon. I think that's a great film. I might, I need to watch that now. Okay. Next one. If you could be in the Guinness World of Records, what record-breaking feat would you attempt?James Haddan: Oh. That's really a tough one. It would have to do with travel. I think it would be places visited or something... I know that's really kind of tough to do, but I'm really obsessed with travel and so, it would be something having to do with travel.Kelly Molson: All right. That's cool. I was thinking of something eating for me.James Haddan: Well, and that was my kind of backup one, that I almost said, was around pasta. Because, but then I think of, oh, the process of eating it for those eating challenges always seems so awful, and it would probably make me not ever want to eat pasta again. And so, that's why I switched over, but I also had an initial urge to choose eating pasta, or some kind of Italian food.Kelly Molson: A couple of years ago, my agency, Rubber Cheese, we did a big year-long charity fundraiser, and one of the challenges that we did was to try and break the world record for eating a can of cheddar cheese Pringles in the fastest amount of time. And we did break the world record for that. Not myself, personally, I was dreadful at it, but I have never eaten a cheese Pringle ever since. Ruined cheese Pringles for me for life, so. All right, James. What is your unpopular opinion?James Haddan: So, my unpopular opinion, which will be more unpopular in the United States probably than in the UK is that our crispy bacon is an abomination. Our idea of taking streaky bacon and essentially nuking it until it's just a piece of ash is horrible. I just don't understand why we insist on doing that to bacon. It seems like such a bad thing to do for lovely pigs who gave their lives for this delicious meat and we just shouldn't do that to bacon.Kelly Molson: I'm with you. I don't understand that. The whole making it, it shouldn't be rock hard, should it? James Haddan: Yeah.Kelly Molson: That's not nice. James Haddan: Yeah. It shouldn't shatter when you go in to bite it. And so I find when I'm in England, I have a much better experience with bacon because they don't assume that I want it... Well, sometimes because if they hear me speak and know I'm American, assume that I want it that way, but. It's like no, just prepare it the way you would normally prepare it. Kelly Molson: All right. Come to the UK, it's all about the good bacon. James Haddan: Yes.Kelly Molson: Selling the UK well.James Haddan: A bacon sandwich in the Uk is a wonderful thing.Kelly Molson: Completely agree with you on that one, James. Right. Let's get into the good stuff.James Haddan: Okay.Kelly Molson: So, James, you are, currently, Senior Director of Development and External Communications at the Museum of US in San Diego. Tell us a little bit about your career. How did you get to that point?James Haddan: So, it's been a long and varied route. And so I'll try to do the CliffsNotes version of it. But I kind of wanted to start off by saying I was one of those students growing up that loved so many different things to study. I loved architecture, I loved art, I loved the built environment, I loved archaeology. And so I was one of those students, I couldn't quite figure out what I wanted to do when I went to college, but I felt like I needed to make a decision and I started right away with aerospace engineering and immediately in the first week or two of that, said, no, this isn't going to be a good idea. Changed my major very quickly to architecture. James Haddan: And so, I did a bachelor's degree in... I went to Texas A&M and their program was a four-year undergraduate degree called environmental design, which then moved to a master's degree in architecture. And, so I did and completed the four years Bachelor of Environmental Design degree and I really loved that degree. But at the end of it, I realized that I would be a very mediocre architect and the world didn't need another mediocre architect. And so I was at a crossroads, I didn't know what to do. I wasn't very employable with that degree and so, like many people will do, oh, I'll just get a master's degree. James Haddan: And I really loved archaeology. And so I decided I would get a Master's degree in Anthropology, specialisation in Archeology. Again, I'm sure my parents and family were like, that's not a great decision in the job field. And so, why are you doing that? But I followed my heart and I was glad that I did that and in my anthropology program, my archaeology program, I worked with the Institute of Nautical Archaeology at Texas A&M, which is very famous, and did my fieldwork in Port Royal, Jamaica, which is a 17th century English port city that sank into what is now Kingston Harbour. And our program had been excavating there for about 10 years. So, really, very interesting work that I really loved doing. But I also, in that process, decided that a PhD and an academic life for me in archaeology or anthropology also wasn't really meant for me. James Haddan: And while I was doing my graduate work, I was invited to be a graduate assistant at an art gallery on campus. And the curator of the gallery wanted a graduate assistant who had really good research skills and also had good design skills. And he said "I would love an architecture student, but they just don't have time, and especially in their master's program, to work away from the studio. And I would love an anthropology student because they're really great at research, but they don't have any design background." So he kind of reached out to both departments. Well, both departments knew me and said oh, we have the unicorn for you.Kelly Molson: The perfect fit.James Haddan: The perfect fit. And so, I went over and I met with him and he was delighted and I started and that's where I started to realise that a role for myself in a museum was possible. That I had some really good skills that would work in the field. So that kind of lit the fire for me with the professional idea that I could work in museums. So, when I finished graduate school, I had moved to Phoenix to be with my partner, who had finished his graduate program a little earlier and already had a job. He was an engineer. He had a sensible job. James Haddan: And we moved to Phoenix and I was hired by the Arizona Historical Society to head an exhibits project that they were doing. They were opening a new museum. And I worked for them for about five and a half years and it was a really invaluable experience. I was very young and I didn't realize at the time the kind of amount of responsibility I was given. But people had just given me a lot to do and project manage and deal with grants and all kinds of things. Really, really gave me a great foundation to work in the museum field. Great job. James Haddan: I didn't really want to spend the rest of my life in Phoenix. And I had occasionally come to San Diego on holiday as many people in Phoenix do. It's hot in the desert and you drive six hours and you're by the seaside, and it's a very Mediterranean lovely climate. So I wanted to move to San Diego. So I just quit my job. I moved to San Diego. My partner, by that time, was my ex-partner. He had a spare room and he very graciously said you can stay with me rent-free. And so I loaded up, I moved to San Diego, and I got a job at the San Diego Natural History Museum as their Director of Membership. James Haddan: There's a long story about that, but I won't bore you about that. So, I was hired there and that was my first kind of work in the development realm. And my boss there, whose name was Anne Laden, and she was an amazing fundraiser and an amazing mentor. And she taught me so much. And I was there about four years and just kind of soaked in everything that she was doing. She was running this 30 million dollar capital campaign to build a new wing, and I just kind of soaked all of that up.James Haddan: I took a little detour after that. I decided I wanted to try something outside the nonprofit realm. I worked in healthcare for nine years, which taught me that I really wanted to be back in museums. And when I made that decision, the very day that I made the decision that I wanted to get back into the museum field, I started looking online for jobs. I looked at, what then was the San Diego Museum of Man, which is an anthropology museum, and that was my field of graduate study. And I had been to the museum but the kind of the old version of the museum wasn't very exciting for me. But I thought well, I'll see if they have a job. James Haddan: Well, they had a development manager job. And so I thought, I'll give it a try. I sent in my materials, and they called me right away and interviewed me. And in that studying up for the interview process, getting to know the museum actually before my interview, I realised that the museum was in a whole new direction from what it was. So suddenly, I was really excited and thought, oh, this will be a really wonderful place to work and I hope I get this job. And I got the job. And then, I've been at the museum since 2013, and my role has grown over time. And so, now I'm heading the department that I first started in. Kelly Molson: I love hearing how people's careers are so squiggly. James Haddan: Yes.Kelly Molson: There's a great podcast in the UK called Squiggly Careers. I think it's Helen Tupper that is the host of it. And it is fabulous. And it is all about these kinds of weird little directions that we take, that brings us to the perfect place. James Haddan: Yes.Kelly Molson: Now, this is what I want to talk about. So, you mentioned earlier that the museum was known as the San Diego Museum of Man. And I think that was, it had been named that for over 40 years-James Haddan: Yes.Kelly Molson: So it's a really long time. But now it's called the Museum of Us. What is it that prompted that change and how has this come about, that the museum has changed? Because there's quite a big story to this that I want to delve a little bit deeper into.James Haddan: Sure. So it's really interesting. We've done a bit of digging on the history of the name. First of all, the museum was founded in 1915 for the California Panama Exposition. We're located in Balboa Park, which was built for the Exposition. Its original name was not San Diego Museum of Man. It was a very kind of bland name, like California, San Diego Museum Association, or... I'm drawing a bit of a blank on that actually now. But in the forties, it became the Museum of Man and then, later on, San Diego was added to it too. So, it had that name for quite a bit of time and was very, that name, when you came to the museum, it was one of those anthropology museums that you expect to see of that time period. It was about ancient civilisations. Come see the exhibit on the Maya, come see an exhibit on ancient Egypt. James Haddan: Over time, and especially kind of beginning in the seventies, but you see it also in the eighties, there started to be a lot of kind of rumbling in the community about the name. And really, a lot of this was tied to kind of the Equal Right Amendment. Things that were going on at the same time in the United States about language and how our language tends to be very patriarchal and the use of man in that sense of it being humanity. It's really an old use of the word, which really wasn't used anymore in everyday speech. Academics might use it, but in everyday speech, it wasn't. James Haddan: And so, really in the late eighties, early nineties, there was even kind of petition drives that were submitted to the museum and said, "Please consider changing your name. We don't feel welcome with that name.Kelly Molson: Right.James Haddan: It sounds very patriarchal name, a very sexist name, and so please change it." And there were... Actually, the board considered it. At that time, there was a formal kind of membership that had to review those kinds of things. I think there was a vote that said, no, we're not going to change our name. But really, beginning in the nineties, there was a lot of talk about changing our name. And so that's when it really started. James Haddan: And so, in the last 10 years, when we really began changing what we do as a museum, which I think we'll probably talk about in a bit, we also really realised that that old name, the San Diego Museum of Man, didn't fit with what work the museum was doing now. There was really a brand disconnect.Kelly Molson: Okay. Cool. So, one of the things I want to talk about today, and I think it's a really interesting subject, but it's also quite a challenging subject to talk about and discuss about what, the changes that you've made. But it's about the decolonisation initiatives that you've run. Can you tell us when that started and what you've done to kind of facilitate that happening?James Haddan: Sure. Well, it's a very long process and it will be an ongoing process for decades. I mean, you don't decolonise a 100 plus year institution, and museums are, in many ways, deeply colonial structures, as institutions. So you just don't magically undo that. But I always look at, a turning point really for me in decolonising work was, we were talking about it, as I said, I've been here since 2013, and we were talking about it when I started. And I'm sure even before then. James Haddan: Our director came in 10 years ago, Micah Parzen. And so this has been an interest of his for a long time. But really in 2017, we submitted a grant request to IMLS, which is the Institute of Museum and Library Services in the United States. It's a government agency. And we submitted a very large grant to formally start decolonizing practices at the museum. So $300,000 plus grant, and we were awarded it. The review committee was really thrilled to see the museum really want to tackle this in a formal kind of way. And it was essentially a pilot project for us to start working with the Kumeyaay community. James Haddan: And the museum and San Diego, we're all located on Kumeyaay land. This whole land that was settled by Spanish and American settlers was the home of the Kumeyaay and continues to be the home of the Kumeyaay. And so there is a long history there. The cultural materials that we have, much of them are Kumeyaay materials. And so this grant really started that process for us to start building a relationship with the Kumeyaay community about the materials that we hold and to start really consulting with them in ways.James Haddan: And I'll talk, I'll really point to two pieces of really policy decisions that we made about the same time or as this process had gone. The first one was a policy on human remains, where the board formally decided that we would not exhibit human remains without the consent of descendant communities. So we pulled any human remains that we had on display. And so that was one of the first steps.James Haddan: The second step, which is even a bigger step, is called the colonial pathways policy. And what that, in a nutshell, it's a long policy, but what it does is it says that we will be consulting with descendant communities to see what materials that we should continue to hold. So, if materials came into our holdings through any kind of colonial path, we will return those to the descendant communities. And that's a big deal in the museum world. James Haddan: And so, those were some of the two key kinds of pieces of work. Now, since that time, the decolonizing efforts have expanded in every department, including my development department. We are finding ways to move forward in ways that embrace a decolonial paradigm to the work that we are doing. So, it's an ongoing process, but I really look to that IMLS grant as one of the first steps and then those two policy decisions that our board, and I can't kind of give enough kudos to our board for really taking a lead on that. And so, a lot of work had to be done building a board that was ready to make those kinds of decisions.Kelly Molson: How did you go about engaging with the community to do this? Because it's fabulous that those steps were taken. Absolutely the right thing to do. How do you then put that into practice? How do you engage with the community to understand what they want you to do? James Haddan: That's a great question. There are a lot of different layers to that. So, one of the key parts of that is to start having Indigenous and Native American people in the decision making positions on your staff. And so, for example, we have a Director of Decolonizing Initiatives, whose name is Brandie MacDonald and she's Choctaw and Chickasaw, and she's part of the four-member kind of senior executive team of the museum. So she is right in there with all the keys decisions being made at the museum.James Haddan: There's also a past history of the museum with the Kumeyaay community that wasn't a good one. I mean, the Kumeyaay community looked at the museum, rightly so, as an organisation that had their cultural patrimony and shouldn't have it and displayed it in ways that they weren't happy about. So, we needed to start truth-telling about that in the exhibits that we have and we also needed to apologise for that. James Haddan: And so our senior, our director, our deputy director, really our CEO and our Deputy Director went and have apologised for what we have done in the past and have really committed to changing those practices, but not surprisingly, those kinds of things are looked upon with a great deal of scepticism. So, it takes action to start building trust. And so, we're still building trust, but we've started. And we're making progress.Kelly Molson: That's wonderful. And like you say, it's not a quick fix, is it? It's something that going to progress and change over time. How granular do you look at those decisions that you're making now? In terms of, for instance, if there's a new exhibit that you'd like to showcase, do you consult with the community before that happens to make sure that they're happy for you to exhibit those artefacts? How detailed do you go? James Haddan: So that's really interesting because we've done a couple kind of pilots and tests, some kind of small work. For example, with our existing Kumeyaay exhibit, we were partially closed because of a seismic retrofit to our California tower, which is a very famous icon, and during that time, we had to close our Kumeyaay exhibit. And so we thought, this is a perfect time to kind of consult with the Kumeyaay community, which we were already doing, and at least ask what shouldn't be on display. What should we at least take off of display that you don't want us to? So, that gave us kind of the first taste of what do we do, and at least make this exhibit that is decades old less problematic. It still needs to change. James Haddan: But also during that process, and during this first IMLS grant, we were really working with the Kumeyaay and finding out, well, what did they want us to do next? What do they see this museum helping kind of elevate their voice? And they said you need a new Kumeyaay exhibit. You are not talking about us in the way that we want to be presented to the world, and not surprisingly, you don't know anything about us. You are white scholars who aren't Kumeyaay. James Haddan: And so, we just, in this last year, received a second grant from IMLS to actually work on the new Kumeyaay exhibit. And so we're really going to be trying to figure that out because it's that whole process because we want it to be a community-driven exhibit. We want the Kumeyaay community to tell us how their story should be told and to be a part of that. And not just consulting occasionally, but to be with it every step of the way. What's on display, what's on the design, where does it go in the exhibit, in the museum, all of those kinds of things. James Haddan: And so, when I say our decolonising work is a process, it's a process. And sometimes it's messy and we make mistakes. But we're trying to learn how to do it correctly. And so we're still in that process.Kelly Molson: And what's the reaction been from the Kumeyaay community? And then also, other communities that would visit the museum. How have people responded to the changes that you've made?James Haddan: So, I don't know and I wouldn't want to speak for the Kumeyaay on what their impression is of what our work is. From what I see with the partnerships that we've been building through our IMLS work, there's also NAGPRA work, which is another government type of work about the repatriation of ancestors and associated grave goods. It feels like trust is building and so I think that that means that, or is an indicator that there is some happiness about the work that's going. But I don't want to speak for them in any way. James Haddan: I will give one example that I feel shows, it really kind of impacted staff quite a bit. So, we had a visitor to the museum from the Maasai community, an ambassador from the Maasai community, and he was visiting and there was contact between our cultural resources staff and he wanted to come to see what we might have from his community. And so he can in and our staff pulled everything that we, as far as we knew, were Maasai materials. James Haddan: And the first question that we asked him was, should we have these? Should we even have these and should we be stewarding these for your community? And he said, "Yes, it's fine for you to have these. There's nothing that you have in your holdings here that you shouldn't have. But what you should be doing is caring for them differently."James Haddan: We use this very western, European sort of approach to stewarding materials. And so we wrap things in acid-free materials or sometimes different kinds of plastics, and I'm probably using the wrong terms, I'm not a conservator. But he said... And there was specifically a spear that he was looking at. And he said, "You really need to be rubbing this with lamb's fat, for example. And it's dead the way you're taking care of it. It can't live this way."James Haddan: And so, we started following the cultural care practices that he asked for us to do. And it's amazing how that spear changed. Suddenly, it shines in a different way. And it does feel like it's alive again. And so, from those kinds of reactions, it feels like we're on the right track and that we're doing the right thing morally.Kelly Molson: There's so many layers to that, isn't there?James Haddan: Mm-hmm (affirmative).Kelly Molson: When you start to engage with the community where these items have come from. You would never have known that at all about that artefact. James Haddan: Yeah.Kelly Molson: You would never, you wouldn't have read about that anywhere unless that man had told you about it. James Haddan: Yes.Kelly Molson: It's fascinating.James Haddan: And then it also means that I think that if we at some point in time, put that item on display, then also we have a contact who we can talk to and say, how should it be displayed? What story should we tell about this item? And then we can also feel good about it being on display and not feel like we are doing harm or causing trauma to a community by putting it on display.Kelly Molson: So how does this, if we just take a step back and go back to the name change, how have those things run in parallel with each other because they are intertwined, aren't they?James Haddan: They are very much intertwined. And I think we started kind of again, bringing up this idea of a name change two years, in 2018, we actually hired a firm to help us kind of start navigating the process around a name change. To have us kind of start testing names and all of those kinds of activities. We wanted to engage stakeholders with a name and no one was kind of sure what a name should, nobody had any name that just popped to their minds that seemed like a good one. James Haddan: But we knew we wanted to change our name. Also in those discussions, it was interesting because we were kind of told, don't change your name though, until your name, your name or your brand, until the experience in the museum is much different. You don't want there to be a disconnect between having a new name and then the visitor experience be very much different, not be very much different. James Haddan: And so in the back of our minds, we kept thinking, okay, well, at some point, we want to do this multimillion-dollar capital campaign and completely reimagine the visitor experience to the museum. And we had engaged this firm to help us start planning for that and had some really exciting plans around that. We still do. But it will cost a lot of money to make happen and that kind of capital campaign will take some years. We're not quite ready to do that yet. James Haddan: And so when we were thinking about changing our name, we kept thinking, okay, well, we've now gone out to the communities starting in 2018 saying we want to change our name but we're not quite ready to have a whole new visitor experience. How are we going to time this? This is really, this is hard to do and we, by that point in time, we had it kind of narrowed down to three names that we were thinking about. And then, the pandemic happened.James Haddan: Be honest, was part of the thing and I think, like many institutions, we started looking at ourselves and saying, how do we come out of this as a better version of ourselves? What can we learn from this time to make ourselves better? And we did a lot of self-examination and we realized that as an institution, we were already so much different than what we were 10 years ago, we were embracing and really doing all this decolonizing work. We have an exhibit called Race: Are We So Different? where we really tackle that whole idea about systemic racism and white privilege and all of those kinds of things. And that had become the centre point of our education programs. James Haddan: And so we're doing all this antiracism work. We were doing this decolonizing work. We were doing much more work in the social justice sphere. And we were doing, in the kind of traditional collecting of artefacts and showing artefacts from ancient civilizations. And that old name is associated with those old activities. Kelly Molson: Mm-hmm (affirmative).James Haddan: And we really realised that the old name didn't match what we were doing now. And it was causing a disconnect for people coming in. You come in with that old name and you start seeing, even though we still have some exhibits that are older, but we have new exhibits as well. So there's kind of a mixture. So there's a bit of a disconnect there. And we suddenly realised that no, we really needed to change our name. We had outgrown that old name. Or maybe that not the right word, but we weren't in the same place as that old name was. And we really needed to change the name to be in line with the work that we were doing now.Kelly Molson: Yeah. Even though, in the sense of the visitor experience, it hasn't changed that much in terms of how you walk around the building. James Haddan: Yeah.Kelly Molson: Actually, the initiatives that you have are so different from what they used to be-James Haddan: Yes.Kelly Molson: It was the right time to make that change. It's interesting, isn't it? That the pandemic has kind of, one of the positives of it is that it's given people a little bit of time to sit back and kind of be static and look at what's already been achieved up until this point.James Haddan: Yeah, and I think it also gave us permission... In our mind, we couldn't launch a new name without spending a huge amount of money and having everything, every sign redone, and every graphic, a whole new website, and all of those kinds of things. And so then when you think about well, oh, that's going to cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, to make that a reality. James Haddan: Suddenly we realised during the pandemic, people are probably going to forgive us if we don't do it in that way right now. Kelly Molson: Yeah.James Haddan: And so, there's actually now, our team was much reduced because of the pandemic. And so, now, I oversee development and marketing and I think the staff had previously been say, eight, it depends how you count them. And now there's two of us. Kelly Molson: Gosh.James Haddan: So there's me and Kelsey Pickert, who is just the greatest partner to have, in crime, so to speak. And we made it happen. We worked with a wonderful graphic designer named Helen Good, who had worked with us in the past, when we had been kind of working with stakeholder groups about the museum and things. And we contracted with her and we figured out a way to launch a new name and new brand. It's a transitional brand right now because we wanted to kind of let the community get used to fact that the old name is going away. But we did the first round in six weeks. Kelly Molson: Wow.James Haddan: Yeah. The board voted to change the name at the end of June 2020. That's when they officially picked the new name. And we had graphics ready to go. We had hoped that we might be able to reopen in July, so we'd kind of given ourselves a July deadline to kind of launch it. And we were ready to go, but we weren't allowed to reopen at that period in time and so we just kind of waited for a bit. And then months went by, and we weren't sure when we were going to be able to reopen. And we weren't sure when should we announce the new name and we finally just decided to do it in August, even though we weren't reopened. James Haddan: So we announced the name on August 2. The new name and had a front-page local news story about it. It ended up being picked up all over the world. The story went all over the world, the name change. And so then we had a brief reopening in September with the new name.James Haddan: It's interesting because we just installed the permanent sign on the exterior of the building in December and when we posted that on social media, I think it suddenly sunk into many people that we were serious, that the name really changed. Because people, all of a sudden, you changed your name. Well, yes, months ago. Kelly Molson: I can't believe how much you achieved in such a short space of time. I'm laughing because having worked with cultural organisations before, we all know that things do take an awful lot of time to get signed off. So that's a massive achievement.James Haddan: Yeah.Kelly Molson: With a team of two and your graphic designer. So, yeah. Hats off to you. I'd like to ask, there will be, in the UK no doubt, and I know this podcast gets listened to all over the world, thank you, listeners, there'll be other museums that will be thinking about this or starting this process or trying to understand how they start this process. What would be your best advice to those museums that are considering going down this path? James Haddan: So, I think one obvious one is for it not to be performative. For people to really think it through and to make sure that they are doing internal changes within their organisation because if you haven't started that work internally, the external communities that you start working with can feel that. And understandably don't want to be a part of that kind of tokenised process of being a performative process. James Haddan: They really have to understand that this is something that you're committed too, that's why I mentioned our board and our CEO earlier. This is a leadership shift and change that we have. And there also needs to be changes in leadership. We have a board which is, and I don't have the percentages right in front of me, but I think it's around half of the people of colour and I think more women on the board than men. And we have Native Americans on staff.James Haddan: So you have to start making your institution reflective of your community if you expect to be able to have a conversation and work with the community that you need to work with. And I want to be really clear about saying we still have a lot of work to do in that. We're not where we want to be in that. But I think after a number of years now, at least people are seeing that we're committed to it and that we're making real structural changes. Kelly Molson: Thank you, James. I think this has been such an interesting discussion and I really respect how honest you've been about the process that you've gone through and the changes that you've made, so thank you.Kelly Molson: We always ask our guests about a book that they would recommend. Now it can be a book that you love, it can be a book that's helped shape your career in some way. What have you chosen for us today?James Haddan: So, I have chosen Decolonizing Wealth by Edgar Villanueva. And I think it's a really brilliant book. And it's not a really long read and he writes in a way that really engaging and easy to digest. A lot of really kind of substantial ideas, but around philanthropy and the whole kind of nonprofit sector. And how the colonial paradigm is deeply embedded in that. And that to start making changes in other systems, we're going to have to start making changes there. James Haddan: And he really approaches it from idea of approaching it with an idea around Indigenous healing and how philanthropy, if it changes in certain ways, can be a part of the healing process. And I just think it's a really brilliantly written book and it's in a way that makes you think about those things differently but I think also doesn't scare you. It inspires you but doesn't scare you.James Haddan: I think a lot of these ideas are really scary for people because change can be scary. And so sometimes you need to read about it in ways where you realise that this sort of community healing is good for us all. When we help communities that have suffered and experienced trauma, it helps us all. Kelly Molson: Completely agree. What a perfect book for this podcast. As ever, listeners, if you would like to be with the chance of winning this book if you head over to our Twitter account, and you retweet this episode announcement with the comment, "I want James' book", then you will be in with a chance of winning it. Kelly Molson: James, before we go, I want to just go back, because there was a question that I wanted to ask that I completely missed off. You have reopened now in the US-James Haddan: Yes.Kelly Molson: Which is super exciting. It's really, it's so lovely to hear about positive reopening stories. What's next for the museum in terms of the initiatives that you have running?James Haddan: So our big initiative is really around, I mentioned that even my department, development and marketing, is embracing decolonising strategies. And so we have initiated this program called Membership on Us, which means for the price of a single-day admission, you have a membership to the museum for the rest of the year. James Haddan: And so, for the price of daily admission, you can come back as many times as you want over and over during the year. And we've done away with that traditional membership structure, which is very embedded in this idea of if you can pay more, you receive more benefits, you're treated differently at the museum, all of those kinds of things that are really antithetical to what the Museum of Us, which is about all of us, is about. And we want everyone to have a more equitable way of accessing the work that we do. James Haddan: And so we announced this new program just before we reopened, and we really think that it goes hand in hand with our new name, with the decolonizing work that we're doing and we're really super excited about it. And the response has already been really off the chart, really.Kelly Molson: Oh, that's really excellent to hear. That's really, really excellent to hear. James, thank you. I've really enjoyed this conversation. What I want to know though is next time you're in the UK, are you going to hit me up so that we can go for a bacon sandwich together? James Haddan: I definitely will. Kelly Molson: I'll introduce you to my favourite place to get a good cup of tea. James Haddan: I can't wait.Kelly Molson: James, thank you so much for coming on the podcast. It's been a pleasure. James Haddan: Thank you.Kelly Molson: Thanks for listening to Skip the Queue. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave us a five-star review. It really helps us others find us. And remember to follow us on Twitter for your chance to win the books that have been mentioned. 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A sabedoria convencional define o plano de carreira ideal como linear, uma escada a ser escalada com um único foco para chegar ao topo. As consultoras de desenvolvimento de carreira Sarah Ellis e Helen Tupper convidam você a substituir este modelo desatualizado e limitador por carreiras "irregulares": caminhos de crescimento dinâmicos e abertos feitos sob medida para suas necessidades, talentos e ambições individuais. Um repensar radical para quem se sente restrito e definido pelos limites da escada corporativa.

El conocimiento convencional muestra una carrera profesional ideal siguiendo una línea recta, una escalera que debemos subir con un solo enfoque para llegar a la cima. Las consejeras en desarrollo profesional Sarah Ellis y Helen Tupper nos invitan a reemplazar este modelo anticuado y limitante por carreras "irregulares", que sean dinámicas y sigan un camino hecho a la medida, sin límites para el crecimiento de nuestros talentos y ambiciones. Una nueva y radical manera de pensar para cualquiera que se sienta restringido y definido por los límites de la escalera profesional.

La sagesse populaire représente une carrière idéale comme une ligne droite - des échelons à gravir avec pour seul objectif d'atteindre le sommet de l'échelle. Sarah Ellis et Helen Tupper, consultantes en développement de carrière, vous invitent à remplacer ce modèle dépassé et limitatif par des carrières « embrouillées » : des parcours de développement dynamiques et ouverts, taillés sur mesure pour vos besoins, talents et ambitions individuels. Une remise en question radicale pour tous ceux qui se sentent contraints par les limites de ce système.

Conventional wisdom frames the ideal career path as a linear one -- a ladder to be climbed with a single-minded focus to get to the top. Career development consultants Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper invite you to replace this outdated and limiting model with "squiggly" careers: dynamic, open-ended growth paths tailor-made for your individual needs, talents and ambitions. A radical rethink for anyone who feels restricted and defined by the limits of the corporate ladder.

Conventional wisdom frames the ideal career path as a linear one -- a ladder to be climbed with a single-minded focus to get to the top. Career development consultants Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper invite you to replace this outdated and limiting model with "squiggly" careers: dynamic, open-ended growth paths tailor-made for your individual needs, talents and ambitions. A radical rethink for anyone who feels restricted and defined by the limits of the corporate ladder.

Conventional wisdom frames the ideal career path as a linear one -- a ladder to be climbed with a single-minded focus to get to the top. Career development consultants Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper invite you to replace this outdated and limiting model with "squiggly" careers: dynamic, open-ended growth paths tailor-made for your individual needs, talents and ambitions. A radical rethink for anyone who feels restricted and defined by the limits of the corporate ladder.

Sarah Ellis had a glittering corporate career; working in marketing, strategy and corporate leadership for a number of FTSE100 brands including: Sainsbury's and Barclays, until she stepped off the ‘straight and narrow' and co-founded ‘Amazing If' with Helen Tupper, exploring the ‘squiggly' career, a business with a mission to make work better for everyone. Together they co-host the very successful podcast ‘Squiggly Careers' and have written ‘The Squiggly Career', published by Penguin books. Sarah talks to David about how ‘squiggly' came into her life; she talks about curiosity as a life skill and a business opportunity; introversion as a super-power in a room full of extroverts and how to navigate our own squiggly lives and careers. You can follow Sarah on Facebook and Instagram @amazingif and Twitter @amazing_if amazingif.com Follow David on Twitter @DavidPearlhere & Instagram @davidpearl_here Wanderful is produced and edited by Andrew Paine @ItPainesMe

Vivi is a marketer with a great reading habit. You'll find her firmly planted in the non-fiction aisle, devouring books on mindset, marketing and memoirs. Vivi is on Instagram mainly - her grid is a book lovers' paradise. The authors she talks about are diverse and brave, Trevor Noah, Helen Tupper, James Clear, Simon Sinek and Michelle Obama.We chat about why Vivi started The Cultured Marketer Reads, juggling motherhood, female leadership and the issues around productivity and hustle culture.Keep being courageous,Rachael xYou can find out more about Vivi's work here: www.theculturedmarketer.co.ukWHO'S BEHIND THIS PODCAST?I'd ridden pretty high on the creative career rollercoaster. At times it was exhilarating (and occasionally it was terrifying.) It takes stamina, guts and more than a smattering of resilience. Don't panic, this isn't another podcast telling you to hustle harder. I've been there and got the burnout badge to prove it.I'm looking to find people who are doing the work they love, but it's been a bumpy ride.Starting over can be wonderful, agony and pants shakingly scary all at the same time. There are others who did it. Who are right in the centre of figuring that out. I'm trying to find the people, I needed to hear, at the time I felt I was free-falling from the loop-di-loop.BUILD A KICKARSE CREATIVE BUSINESSI'm able to make this podcast because I get a small income from some kickarse affiliate products. If you use any of these products with my link I can receive a small percentage back. Which honestly, does help!These are products that I use everyday to make Call On Courage happen. If you're running an online business they just make your life easier. Go to https://www.calloncourage.com/kickarse to find out more.PLEASE CAN YOU HELP THIS PODCAST REACH MORE PEOPLE?If you've enjoyed any of these episodes or think this conversation on courage would help a friend, I'd appreciate a review. It takes less than 30 seconds and can really boost the chances of Call On Courage being discovered by others. Thanks :)Go to https://ratethispodcast.com/courage

In this episode I connected with Helen Tupper who is the co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, an award-winning career development company with a mission to make work better for everyone. She is co-author of The Sunday Times No.1 Business Bestseller: The Squiggly Career and host of the UK’s no.1 careers podcast: Squiggly Careers. She also works as a Trustee for Working Families, a UK charity. Prior to Amazing If she held leadership roles for Microsoft, Virgin and BP. I first met Helen 12 years ago and we’ve gone on to collaborate a number of times over the years and I’ve always really enjoyed her enthusiasm and energy, and it’s great to see how she has gone on to thrive in her own squiggly career. To find out more about Helen and Squiggly Careers, please visit www.amazingif.com To find out more about Liminal or to join our community, please visit www.weareliminal.co

Helen Tupper is the co-founder and CEO of Amazing If, co-author of The Squiggly Careers, and the co-host of the Squiggly Careers podcast. She dedicates herself to helping people and organizations succeed through the unpredictable - or “squiggly” - nature of a career path. Helen describes herself as a positive force for good...work.I highly recommend the Squiggly Careers podcast. Each week, Helen and her co-founder and co-host, Sarah Ellis, take a work challenge and share tips and tools to help you with it. From looking for a new job to dealing with a difficult colleague, this podcast is incredibly useful. There are over 180 episodes ready for you to listen to and you can search for and subscribe to future Squiggly Careers episodes wherever you get your podcasts. Helen and Sarah are brilliant, and this interview with Helen will give you a small taste of their potentially life changing advice on how to really assess your career and, eventually, thrive in a happy one.Listen as we discuss:How Helen loved her jobs and wanted to do more outside the job to be better at it, but this was a hard sell for managementThe meaning of a "squiggly career", and what Helen's has looked likeThe mission of Squiggly Careers: make career support accessible to everyoneA linear career never goes backwards, but a squiggly career can go any directionThe combination of "What do I value?" + "What am I good at?"Build confidence and gain insight into your strengths to find your career pathHow to tame the "confidence gremlins" that stick us to limiting beliefsJudge yourself in the way you judge other peopleMy own squiggly career, and how I thrived in the corporate worldWhat exactly is a "career"?The historical origins of the career ladderShould you quit your job if it's not meeting your values?How to engage in Active RestStaying resilient in trying times for careers everywhereInstagram: @mo_gawdatFacebook: @mo.gawdat.officialTwitter: @mgawdatLinkedIn: /in/mogawdatConnect with Helen Tupper on Instagram @amazingif, Facebook @amazingif, on Twitter @helentupper, and on her website, amazingif.comDon't forget to subscribe to Slo Mo for new episodes every Monday and Thursday. Only with your help can we reach One Billion Happy #onebillionhappy.

This week Emily sits down with Helen Tupper, co-author of the Sunday Times Best-selling book ‘The Squiggly Career' to get some career advice. They talk CV tips, how to ace an interview and navigating the job market during COVID-19. There is also a copy of ‘The Squiggly Career' up for grabs! All you have to do is tell us what your favourite piece of career advice on this episode was by emailing studentcomms@soton.ac.uk or commenting in the 360 Degrees Podcast Community Group on Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/groups/240929520558411). The winner will be picked at random and announced in the episode on 5th November. Good luck!

This week, I'm talking to Becky Wong, a remote-working digital nomad, business manager, freelance writer, and the founder of digital nomad blog, Project Anywhere. Becky started Project Anywhere to champion and support others who are on the road to remote work or running remote businesses. She encourages you to choose your own “work adventure” and to show the multitude of colourful paths that you could go on – both in your work or in your personal life – that could end up taking you to absolutely anywhere (even in a post-Covid world)! In this episode, we talked about: Becky's journey from long-time Londoner to digital nomad How to become a digital nomad and/or remote worker - even if you're still in your 9-to-5 and have no idea where to start How digital nomadism and remote working is changing post-Covid, and why it can still work for everyone, regardless of job, circumstances, income, age or lifestyle How to overcome fear of failure when changing your life, and how to get comfortable with uncertainty What the best co-working communities are and how to find your people, wherever you go and whatever you do How to make work fit into your life, and not the other way around - and how to navigate the unexpected mindset blocks that come with that Becky's own mindset habits that keep her sane and feeling at home no matter where she is Plus, the joys of mountain views, rescue dogs, and vegan cooking! This conversation was wide-ranging, funny, and most importantly, in these difficult times, hopeful! May it inspire you to go on your very own career adventure, whether that involves planning a post-Covid trip or simply working from home however suits you! ------------ Resources + Show Notes Book: The 4-Hour Work Week by Tim Ferriss Quote: “Jump, and the net will appear.” Quote: “You can't be what you can't see.” Book: The Squiggly Career by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis Online yoga teacher extraordinaire: Yoga by Adriene ------------ Find out more about Becky and Project Anywhere: Website: Project Anywhere Instagram: @projectanywhere.co and @beckywong.co.uk ------------ Enjoying this podcast? The best way to support us is to leave a good rating + review, and share it on Instagram, tagging me @breathelikeabadass! Thanks so much for listening! Hannah xx

When we think about defining our career it is easy to get confined by an existing structure. What if we could breakaway and start to design our own career? This is what this book is about. ‘The Squiggly Career' by {insert names} describes that by taking advantage of 5 key career skills, you can put yourself in a position to start designing your own career. These 5 are: 1️⃣ Super Strengths 2️⃣ Values 3️⃣ Confidence 4️⃣ Networks 5️⃣ Future Possibilities The book is interactive. When you read through the book there are exercises that provide supplementation to the ideas in the book and make you more involved in the reading process.

Whether the treadmill slows down or your are suddenly forced to get off, there is opportunity for change during lockdown. Song B and Colleen discuss the challenges and recognizing opportunity to make a move and name the five tips to help make it happen from a best selling book 'The Squiggly Career' by Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis. This show talks about 'Becoming,' the documentary about Michele Obama. Our SHERO of the week is Stacy Abrams.

To provide a brief interlude from what’s going on in the world right now and look to a brighter future, today’s podcast is an interview with Helen Tupper, co-author and co-founder of the Squiggly Careers movement. If there’s something positive to cling onto today, it has to be that when we come out the other side of this situation, the world of work will not just go back to the way it was, and employers will be rebuilding and re-thinking everything with the help of their employees. I am hearing over and over again how this experience is causing people to question how we live our lives and spend our time. Squiggly Careers is all about guiding you through that questioning process and coming up with constructive challenges, accepting that careers these days, are very rarely a linear progression from A to B. Helen talks about having belief in yourself and other people believing in you too, building support systems and a mindset for success. It’s droplet of normality, calm and practical help in an ocean of madness right now.

Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis are host of the squiggly careers podcast, authors of the Squiggly Career book and founders of Amazing If. Their mission is to make work better. 

It's not enough to just know what you're great at. In order to do your best work you need to spend time making sure your strengths show up and stand out at work. When your strengths are visible to others, they can help to spot opportunities for you to use them more, which means you make a bigger impact and are happier in your work.In this week's episode of the Squiggly Careers podcast, hosts Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis share their top tips for taking control of your strengths and making sure you use them as much as possible in your work. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's guest Lizzie Penny is the co-founder of the Hoxby Collective and was nominated by Helen Tupper (episode 8). The Hoxby Collective is a global community of of more than 1,000 handpicked, talented and diverse freelancers who work remotely in 30 countries around the world providing future-proofing services plus marketing, creative, admin, innovation, PR and HR. In this episode we discuss how Lizzie and her co-founder Alex, set-up Hoxby as a purpose-led social enterprise build around their belief in diversity driving productivity. They are determined that the world of work has to fundamentally change to embrace different work styles and so that individuals are happier in work. References: The Hoxby Collective - https://hoxby.com Hoxby on Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/hoxbycollective/?hl=en Hoxby on Twitter - https://twitter.com/hoxbycollective Books/Talks discussed: Unfinished Business - Anne Marie Slaughter Anne-Marie Slaughter TED talk - https://www.ted.com/talks/anne_marie_slaughter_can_we_all_have_it_all The Multi-Hyphen Method - Emma Gannon Backing music: by "RSPN" by Blank and Kytt courtesy of Free Music Archive http://freemusicarchive.org Follow @whosnextpoduk on Twitter and Instagram for more details!

Today's guest is Sarah Ellis who spent the first part of her career working in Marketing & Corporate Responsibility for brands including Boots, Barclays and Sainsbury's. She co-founded Amazing If - as a side-hustle - with her friend Helen Tupper. They describe their path as being accidental entrepreneurs and they recognise that the world of linear and predictable career ladders are disappearing. Instead, careers are now much more 'squiggly', where changing roles, industries and careers frequently and fluidly is becoming the new normal. Together they wanted to help everyone to develop the skills to succeed in a squiggly career in a way that is useful and relevant for today's world of work. Sarah has an MBA with distinction from Warwick Business School and has studied at both London and Harvard business schools. In this episode we discuss confidence gremlins, getting comfortable with disagreements, and the highs and lows of motherhood. This is part two of our Squiggly Career conversation, check out part one if you haven't already!I deffo recommend getting a copy of the Squiggly Career! It's a fantastically helpful book. You can also listen to their weekly podcast 'Squiggly Careers' - I've also been on as a guest recently. If you liked this episode please do rate or review so others can find it :) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper are the creators of the Squiggly Careers podcast - and the authors of a brand new book, The Squiggly Career. If you're wondering what to do with your life Sarah and Helen might be the best person to help you find the right answers for you.This episode answers questions about what we should expect from our jobs - and the where happiness at work lives.Helen mentioned the values episode of their podcast and you'll find it here. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Founder of ‘Make Motherhood Diverse’, Candice Brathwaite and co-founder of ‘Amazing if’ and author of ’The Squiggly Career’, Helen Tupper join June Sarpong to discuss their experiences of finding that elusive successful balance between work life and home life. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Today's guest is Sarah Ellis who spent the first part of her career working in Marketing & Corporate Responsibility for brands including Boots, Barclays and Sainsbury's. She co-founded Amazing If - as a side-hustle - with her friend Helen Tupper. They describe their path as being accidental entrepreneurs and they recognise that the world of linear and predictable career ladders are disappearing. Instead, careers are now much more 'squiggly', where changing roles, industries and careers frequently and fluidly is becoming the new normal. Together they wanted to help everyone to develop the skills to succeed in a squiggly career in a way that is useful and relevant for today's world of work. Sarah has an MBA with distinction from Warwick Business School and has studied at both London and Harvard business schools. This part one of our Squiggly Career conversation, check out part two next week!I deffo recommend getting a copy of the Squiggly Career! It's a fantastically helpful book. You can also listen to their weekly podcast 'Squiggly Careers'. If you liked this episode please do rate or review so others can find it :) See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In this talk Helen gives a new, refreshing and exciting way to look at what a career is and how you can prepare for it. She first explains how the structure of careers have changed and what this means for you. Then focuses on 5 key skills that you can invest in and equip yourself with in order to help you take control of your career. This is a must listen if you're looking for career guidance or are just setting out on your career journey. 

Today's guest is Helen Tupper, co-founder of Amazing-If and the Squiggly Careers podcast. Both of these were set up with her business partner and friend Sarah Ellis, with the mission of making careers better for everyone. I actually met Helen for the first time at one of their brilliant career training sessions. Helen is so supportive, knowledgeable and genuinely passionate about providing accessible support to improve careers - there are lots of great career tips in this episode and I've shared more resources mentioned in the notes (below). We talk about the importance of knowing your values, confidence gremlins and the components she thinks are essential for setting up your own business. I loved recording this episode - I hope you enjoy listening! Some of the links mentioned: Follow: @amazingif - Instagram (for daily career tips!) @whosnextpoduk - Instagram @amazing_if - Twitter @whosnextpoduk - Twitter https://www.linkedin.com/in/helentupper/ LinkedIn Amazingif.com Values questionnaire: https://www.viacharacter.org Squiggly Careers podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6t6vYEeYl3Kmdd0AE6v3xj?si=th1nPecZQ8SzPujn-N14CQ Ep27 = Finding your Strengths Ep42 = How Knowing Your Values Unlocks Career Happiness Backing music: by "RSPN" by Blank and Kytt courtesy of Free Music Archive http://freemusicarchive.org Follow @whosnextpoduk on Twitter and Instagram for more details!

Graham talks to co-founder of Amazing If, Helen Tupper, about flexible working, embracing possibilities and exploring a squiggly career.

Graham talks to co-founder of Amazing If, Helen Tupper, about flexible working, embracing possibilities and exploring a squiggly career.

Helen Tupper, founder of Amazing If, podcast curator and Marketing Week columnist, chats to Sky’s Head of Women in Leadership Tamara Kaye. Topics include the challenges of recruiting a diverse team, how empathy from management will create a productive workplace culture and why marketing should spearhead fresh thinking and fresh ideas.

Fresh from the Female Founders Alliance Champion Awards, Sonia chats with Sage Ke’alohilani Quiamno of Ladies Get Paid about the takeaways from her Salary Negotiation 101 workshop. Then, Colleen interviews Microsoft Commercial Marketing Director for the UK market, Helen Tupper, who talks about managing “squiggly” careers and pursuing passion projects. Our hosts wrap it up with a look at Google’s 3D exhibit at the National Museum of African American History and Culture launched in conjunction with Black History Month. Be sure to listen to the end of the show for your mission.   Please subscribe, rate, and share the episode. Find us online at www.WIBT.com. Send any and all feedback to WIBT@microsoft.com or tweet @MicrosoftWomen.

Microsoft’s Helen Tupper and Direct Line's Mark Evans join Marketing Week’s Russell Parsons for the latest careers podcast.

Microsoft’s Helen Tupper, Sainsbury’s Sarah Ellis and scholars from The Marketing Academy join Marketing Week’s Russell Parsons for the latest careers podcast.

Graham talks to co-founder of [Amazing If](http://www.amazingif.com/), Helen Tupper, about flexible working, embracing possibilities and exploring a squiggly career. This episode is sponsored by the Alptitude retreat, a 7-day gathering for entrepreneurs and leaders who are bored with the traditional business retreat. Find out more at [alptitu.de](http://www.alptitu.de/). [Graham Allcott](http://www.grahamallcott.com/) is the founder of [time management training](http://thinkproductive.co.uk/ "Link: http://thinkproductive.co.uk/") company [Think Productive](http://thinkproductive.co.uk/). This podcast is produced by [Origin](https://origin.fm/).