Podcast appearances and mentions of Sarah Ellis

Download; Sarah Ellis, The Golden Rule, Bassett Street Sermons, 41 mins,

Welcome back to our special series on motherhood and work. We're so excited to bring you today's episode with Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis, who you will probably know from their best selling book, Squiggly Careers. In this episode, you are going to learn what makes a career squiggly (the non-linear route to success) and the ways motherhood has impacted Sarah and Helen's ambition and careers. They talk about how they made the transition from corporate into running their own careers consultancy and the amazing, quite surprising, advice they have for anyone wanting to do the same thing. You're also going to learn the five key skills that you need to have squiggly career and how to develop them if you're looking to pivot, experiment with your work or make a change. This episode is honest and packed full of practical advice which will hopefully leave you with inspiration to start your own squiggly career. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations' Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women's supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Discover the May App here: ⁠⁠⁠https://app.adjust.com/1od0zbe1?campaign=The+Motherkind+Podcast⁠⁠⁠  For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MOTHERKIND at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpodContinue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In a special programme exploring 'mistakes' and our relationship with the word Nuala McGovern speaks to clinical psychologist and best-selling author of Open When, Dr Julie Smith, and hears why we dislike making mistakes in our personal and professional lives.Journalist Nicole Mowbray tells Nuala how she felt when her mistake at The Observer caused an 'international incident'.Are women judged more harshly for the mistakes they make in the workplace? Sarah Ellis, co-founder of Amazing If and the co-host of the Squiggly Careers podcast, and marketing specialist and co-host of the Working On It podcast, Lauren Spearman, discuss how to deal with errors that occur at work.What impact does it have on you growing up if you were told you were conceived by ‘mistake'? Nuala speaks to journalist Sophie Heawood, who says she got pregnant by ‘mistake' and journalist Bethan Ryder who was the baby of a ‘mistake', they discuss what the word means to them.And maths teacher, Gloria Dalafu tells Nuala how her love of mistakes inspires her pupils to make their own mishaps.Presenter: Nuala McGovern Producer: Sophie Powling

 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! 

In the February episode of Chattering With International Cat Care, host Yaiza Gómez-Mejías discusses the new consensus guidelines on the diagnosis and management of feline lower urinary tract disease in cats with authors Sam Taylor and Rachel Korman. They discuss the challenges and nuances of developing these guidelines and emphasize the importance of comprehensive history-taking for accurate diagnosis. Additionally, Sarah Ellis interviews Noema Gajdoš Kmecová, the winner of the International Cat Care Welfare Research Award, about her study on the Home Feline Stress Score (HFSS). Gajdoš explains how her research, inspired by a previous study, highlights the connection between physical and mental health in cats, advocating for a holistic approach to feline veterinary care. For further reading material please visit:2025 iCatCare consensus guidelines on the diagnosis and management of lower urinary tract diseases in cats.Development of the home feline stress score as a tool for assessing owner perception of stress in their cats at home (Pg 6 / e440) - This study inspired Noema and explores how owners can evaluate stress in their catsFor iCatCare Veterinary Members, full recordings of each episode of the podcast are available for you to listen to at portal.icatcare.org. To become an iCatCare Veterinary Member, or find out more about our Cat Friendly schemes, visit icatcare.orgHost: Yaiza Gómez-Mejías, LdaVet MANZCVS (Medicine of Cats) CertAP (SAM-F) Acr AVEPA, Veterinary Community Co-ordinatorSpeakers:Samantha Taylor, BVetMed(Hons), CertSAM, DipECVIM-CA, MANZCVS, FRCVS, Feline Medicine Specialist and ISFM Academy LeadRachel Korman, ​​BVSc, MANZCVS (Int Med), FANZCVS (Fel Med), Specialist in Feline Internal Medicine Sarah Ellis,BSc, PGDip, PhD,Head of Cat Wellbeing and Behaviour at International Cat Care, independent feline welfare educator, writer and consultant.Noema Gajdoš Kmecová, MVDr., PhD, Researcher at University of Veterinary Medicine and Pharmacy in Košice

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

You thought you were getting that big promotion – but you missed out. What are your next steps? Isabel Berwick speaks to Sarah Ellis (co-founder of careers consultancy Amazing If) and FT Management Editor Anjli Raval to find out. They discuss how to keep your emotions in check after suffering professional rejection, who you should turn to for advice, and why ‘squiggly' careers are more popular than ever.Want more? Free links:What can I do if I hit a career plateau?‘The flattening': tech sector calls time on middle managersA big internal movePresented by Isabel Berwick, produced by Mischa Frankl-Duval, mixed by Simon Panayi. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa. Cheryl Brumley is the FT's head of audio.Read a transcript of this episode on FT.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Grab a drumstick and sweeten your potatoes, because this week we're getting stuffed. Frank and Joanne arrive for their long-awaited Thanksgiving Day celebration and the tea -- and the gravy -- is piping hot. Meet Frank's family. That's it. No puns or wordplay, just ...Frank's family. Buckle up. The Good Story Guild is thankful for YOU this season! In less than a year, we have shared ups and downs and milk out our noses, and the gratitude is irrepressible. If you'd take a moment to review the show, or share us with someone you're thankful for, we can keep this virtuous cycle of goofs and love going strong. Our cuties this week are Kyle Prue, Sarah Ellis, Amanda Sykes, Frank Romeo, Johnny Pirkis, Jennifer Jiles, Martin Olson, River Romeo and Grace Gladstone. *** Josie's Lonely Hearts Club is a semi-improvised audio drama set in the studio of New Mexico's 2nd-best relationship call-in show. On-air, Josie mends the broken hearts of a weekly collection of hilarious improvisers. Off-air, listeners get to eavesdrop on the life of Josie's secret identity: shy, unassuming Joanne Holtzinger. Join Joanne and her puckish producer Frank as they navigate the pitfalls of love and fame as the show slowly becomes a national sensation. Created by Maximilian Clark and Rachel Music.  Josie's Lonely Hearts Club is brought to you by the Good Story Guild. Keep track of us on Instagram @goodstoryguild and join our Discord. If you enjoyed the show, consider leaving a rating and/or review on your preferred podcast listening platform. Nighty night, cuties. https://www.goodstoryguild.co Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recorded in front of a live audience at the Leicester Square Theatre, Trish, Lorraine and their special guests share inspiring stories and practical advice about the life-changing moments that can pivot you to new adventures and career success. Helping you to reignite your passion for what you do, turn a side hustle into a business, retrain in something new or just chuck it all in and escape on your dream escapade are adventure activist Jessica Hepburn, business leader Karen Blackett OBE and careers expert Sarah Ellis, co-author of Squiggly Careers. Discover their tips on decision making, networking & skillset assessing, to writing a winning CV & measuring your success milestones. This episode is brought to you in support of the Careers Can Change campaignHandy linksFind career change resources & advice: careerscanchange.co.ukDiscover our content website & sign up for our newsletters : Postcards From Lorraine & TrishContact us: hello@postcardsfrommidlife.comFollow us on Instragram: @postcardsfrommidlifeJoin our private Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/681448662400206/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Frank finally takes a vacation and what does he have to show for it? 15 unheard voicemails. Get excited, he and Joanne are back to work with a new season October 9th. Josie's Lonely Hearts Club was created by Maximilian Clark (Superhuman Public Radio) and Rachel Music. Our story editor is Aliza Brugger. This episode features Sarah Ellis, John Nelson Dorsey IV, Jessie Cannizzaro, Geoff Grimwood, Tristan Miller, Chelsea Lang, & Marnina Schon. Josie's Lonely Hearts Club is brought to you by the Good Story Guild. Keep track of us on Instagram @goodstoryguild and join our Discord. If you enjoyed the show, consider leaving a rating and/or review on your preferred podcast listening platform. Night night, cuties.

In this episode of Chattering with ISFM, Nathalie Dowgray interviews Dr Hugo Swanstein about his JFMS Clinical Spotlight article on Feline-Friendly Point of Care Ultrasound (POCUS). We also return to Dr Sarah Ellis and Dr Daniel Mills for Part Two of their conversation on the use of pheromones in cats.Dr Ellis and Dr Mills delve into the methods of delivering pheromones in veterinary care, how to use them effectively, and the scepticism surrounding these products. They clarify the differences between pheromones and odour therapy, while touching on the industry's lack of regulation.Later, Dr Dowgray and Dr Swanstein discuss the practical application of feline-friendly POCUS, with Dr Swanstein explaining its differences from formal ultrasound exams. He shares tips for integrating POCUS into daily practice, emphasising its value beyond emergency cases and how it can be mastered with brief, regular practice. He also addresses concerns about time and cost, highlighting POCUS's efficiency and affordability, and advocates for training the entire veterinary team, including technicians, in its use. For further reading material please visit:Pheromonatherapy: Theory and applicationsStress and Pheromonatherapy in Small Animal Clinical BehaviourJFMS Clinical Spotlight Article: Feline Friendly POCUS, How to implement it into your daily practiceFor ISFM members, full recordings of each episode of the podcast is available for you to listen to at portal.icatcare.org. To become an ISFM member, or find out more about our Cat Friendly schemes, visit icatcare.orgHost: Nathalie Dowgray, BVSc, MANZCVS, PgDip, MRCVS, PhD, Head of ISFM, International Society of Feline Medicine, International Cat Care, Tisbury, Wiltshire, UK Speakers: Sarah Ellis, BSc, PGDip, PhD, Head of Cat Wellbeing and Behaviour at International Cat Care, independent feline welfare educator, writer and consultant.Daniel Mills, BVSc PhD CBiol FRSB FHEA CCAB Dip ECAWBM(BM) FRCVS, Professor of veterinary behavioural medicine & RCVS, European and ASAB recognised specialist in clinical animal behaviourHugo Swanstein, Cand Med Vet, Doctor of Veterinary Medicine & JFMS Published Author

Sarah Ellis, co-author of the no.1 Sunday Times Business Bestseller 'The Squiggly Career', and co-founder of Amazing If.

Join us as we discuss the fascinating world of feline communication, exploring howcats use chemical signals to interact with their environment and each other. Additionally, we shall shed light on a rational approach to using gastroprotectants in cats, providing invaluable insights for veterinary practitioners.In Part One of our discussion, Dr Sarah Ellis and Dr Daniel Mills talk about thecomplexities of pheromone use in cats, emphasising the differences between scents and pheromones and their impact on emotional processing. They also highlight the importance of understanding pheromones in assessing feline behaviour. Part Two of their discussion will be available in next month's episode, so make sure you're signed up to Chattering With ISFM on your preferred podcast platform if you don't want to miss out!Following this, Dr Kelly St. Denis and Dr Katie Tolbert discuss Dr Tolbert's JFMS Clinical Spotlight article on the rational use of gastroprotectants in cats. They cover the risks of using these medications, especially the differences in how cats and dogs metabolise drugs, and the potential benefits of soluble fibres in preventing GI ulceration. They also address the careful use of gastric acid suppressants and gastroprotectants in clinical practice, with a focus on patient comfort and proper administration.For further reading material please visit:Pheromonatherapy: Theory and applicationsStress and Pheromonatherapy in Small Animal Clinical BehaviourJFMS Clinical Spotlight Article: A Rational Approach To The Use Of Gastroprotectants In CatsFor ISFM members, full recordings of each episode of the podcast is available for you to listen to at portal.icatcare.org. To become an ISFM member, or find out more about our Cat Friendly schemes, visit icatcare.orgHost:Nathalie Dowgray, BVSc, MANZCVS, PgDip, MRCVS, PhD, Head of ISFM, International Society of Feline Medicine, International Cat Care, Tisbury, Wiltshire, UKSpeakers:Sarah Ellis, BSc, PGDip, PhD, Head of Cat Wellbeing and Behaviour at International Cat Care, independent feline welfare educator, writer and consultant.Daniel Mills, BVSc PhD CBiol FRSB FHEA CCAB Dip ECAWBM(BM) FRCVS, Professor of veterinary behavioural medicine & RCVS, European and ASAB recognised specialist in clinical animal behaviourKelly St. Denis, MSc, DVM, DABVP (Feline), Co-editor of the Journal of Feline Medicine and Surgery and JFMS Open Reports, St Denis Veterinary Professional Corporation, Powassan, Ontario, CanadaKatie Tolbert, DVM, Ph.D., DACVIM (SAIM, SA nutrition), Clinical Associate Professor in Small Animal & Comparative Gastroenterology & JFMS Author.

Download; Sarah Ellis, Jesus as the Great High Priest, Bassett Street Sermons, 27 minsYou can also grab Sarah's slides here.

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.

A quiet church night in 1890 turns violent when 18-year-old Rosa Cannon reports being attacked and sexually assaulted by an intruder in her home. Suspicion very quickly falls on Willie Leaphart. But this individual story brings into sharp focus issues of race, class and power in 19th-century Lexington, SC. Rosa tells her own story of that night in an archival police statement. ***** Bristow Marchant is the reporter on this podcast. It is a a production of The State and McClatchy, and produced by Loumay Alesali, Jennifer Molina, Kata Stevens, Hrisanthi Pickett and Joshua Boucher. Special thanks to Don Blount, Sarah Ellis and Jeff Wilkinson.

Willie Leaphart was tried on a charge of raping a white woman just 25 years after the end of slavery. His judge, William Wallace, is a former Confederate general. There are warnings he may be lynched. George Graham is reluctantly appointed to be his attorney, but it does not go well. ***** Bristow Marchant is the reporter on this podcast. It is a a production of The State and McClatchy, and produced by Loumay Alesali, Jennifer Molina, Kata Stevens, Hrisanthi Pickett and Joshua Boucher. Special thanks to Don Blount, Sarah Ellis, David Travis Bland and Jeff Wilkinson.

After the trial, Graham makes an appeal for clemency to the governor. He presents evidence he was prevented from bringing forward at trial, including witnesses who place Willie at church at the time of the attack. He also has first-hand evidence casting doubt on Rosa's story. Excerpts from Graham's own handwritten appeal. ***** Bristow Marchant is the reporter on this podcast. It is a a production of The State and McClatchy, and produced by Loumay Alesali, Jennifer Molina, Kata Stevens, Hrisanthi Pickett and Joshua Boucher. Special thanks to Don Blount, Sarah Ellis and David Travis Bland.

In episode #292 of The Hormone P.U.Z.Z.L.E Podcast, our guest Dr. Sarah Ellis, talks about The Microbiome and Your Fertility. More about Dr. Sarah: Dr. Sarah Ellis is a Naturopathic Doctor and Clinical Science Liaison dedicated to helping everyone improve their health and feel their best. She uses nutrition, nutraceutical supplementation, and lifestyle adjustments to help her patients become the best versions of themselves. She has a passion for women's health (specifically PCOS, Endometriosis, & fertility), gut health, nutrition, pediatrics, and family health. Thank you for listening! This episode is made possible by Puzzle Brew's Fertility Tea: https://hormonepuzzlesociety.com/fertility-tea Follow Jessica on Instagram: @‌dr.sarahellis Follow Dr. Kela on Instagram: @‌kela_healthcoach Get your FREE Fertility Meal Plan: https://hormonepuzzlesociety.com/ FTC Affiliate Disclaimer: The disclosure that follows is intended to fully comply with the Federal Trade Commission's policy of the United States that requires to be transparent about any and all affiliate relations the Company may have on this show. You should assume that some of the product mentions and discount codes given are "affiliate links", a link with a special tracking code This means that if you use one of these codes and purchase the item, the Company may receive an affiliate commission. This is a legitimate way to monetize and pay for the operation of the Website, podcast, and operations and the Company gladly reveals its affiliate relationships to you. The price of the item is the same whether it is an affiliate link or not. Regardless, the Company only recommends products or services the Company believes will add value to its users. The Hormone Puzzle Society and Dr. Kela will receive up to 30% affiliate commission depending on the product that is sponsored on the show. For sponsorship opportunities, email HPS Media at media@hormonepuzzlesociety.com

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.  

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.

If you're like Laurence and Carlos, following a squiggly life isn't just a matter of circumstance, it's in your nature.Sarah Ellis, cofounder of AmazingIf, says in her TED talk with her cofounder Helen Tupper “The legacy of the ladder is all around us.” That's the career ladder; the linear view of life where work is all about straight line progression.Many of us were led to believe that progressing in life was as simple as ABC: school to university to graduate training scheme to skilled professional to moving up the hierarchy to getting paid more, to success.However, Carlos and Laurence didn't follow that path. Instinctively they knew that it didn't suit them. It didn't excite them.They followed a more meandering road. Carlos been an academic, a web designer, a freelancer, an entrepreneur, an event manager, a retreat host, an online course creator, a community builder and a coach… This wasn't a path that he'd predicted but for him it's now all starting to make sense.When you follow a squiggly path it's hard to understand how all your skills, knowledge and experience thread together, and therefore how to use them in the next stage of your journey.“A squiggly career is both full of uncertainty and full of possibility. Change is happening all the time. Some of it is in our control, and some of it's not.” says Helen in her and Sarah's talk.Accepting this change is the secret to your resilience and understanding the meaning of your squiggly path is key to taking advantage of your future opportunities. However, you can only understand what it all means when you spend time pausing, reflecting, and asking yourself the right questions.On this episode, Laurence and Carlos are joined by one of the cofounders of AmazingIf and co-author of the books Squiggly Careers and You Coach You, Sarah Ellis.They talk about Sarah's own squiggly career, her transition to entrepreneurship and what success means to her. This conversation is designed to inspire you to make important changes in your career and also make you feel more comfortable with living a squiggly life.

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/

Sarah Ellis is the co-founder of Amazing If, the company on a mission to make careers better for everyone, whether you're climbing the corporate ladder, freelancing, or building your own business. She's also co-host of the UK's number 1 career podcast, Squiggly Careers, and a self-confessed introvert. On this episode of Sound Advice: Entrepreneurs Unfiltered, Sarah shares her journey as an introverted entrepreneur, with her tried-and-tested tips on how to network and navigate the world of business with confidence. 

PCOS is the most common reproductive metabolic condition. It affects 4-12% of women in the U.S. and is linked to heart disease, infertility and much more. Here to talk about this and her own challenges with PCOS is Dr. Sarah Ellis.     Resources talked about in this episode: Website: https://ellisfamilywellness.com Podcast: The Black Girl's Guide to Natural Medicine Social media: @dr.sarahellis on Instagram & TikTok YouTube: Dr. Sarah Ellis, ND  

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

In this ninth Episode of Public Square 2.0, the re-launch of The Public Theater's podcast, Public Square, host Garlia Cornelia Jones speaks to leaders in the industry about the future of theater and digital spaces. For our Season Finale, Garlia sits down with Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director of The Public Theater for an inside look on the responsibilities of an artistic director. She also speaks with Scarlett Kim, Associate Artistic Director and Director of Innovation and Strategy at Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and Sarah Ellis, Director of Digital Development at Royal Shakespeare Company about the role of digital media in legacy institutions. Executive Producer: Garlia Cornelia Jones, Director - Innovation and New Media Producer, Co-Script Writer and Video Editor: John Sloan III, Ghostlight ProductionsAudio Producer: Justin K. Sloan, Ghostlight ProductionsAssistant Producer: Emily White - New Media Associate Graphics by Tam Shell, Art Director - Brand Studio Music Credits: ""Baby I'm Stuck In a Cone " by Ge Filter Fish, Artlist.io "Latte" by Sunny Fruit, Artlist.io "This Is the Life" by Yuval Maayan, Artlist.io "Beatrix" by Notize, Artlist.iorr "Northern Glory" By The SoundKeeper, Artlist.io "Catch Me" By Russo, Arlist.io ______ Show Notes The project Scarlett mentions at the end, Hella Iambic, is created by Glow Up Games.

This podcast is a commentary and does not contain any copyrighted material of the reference source. We strongly recommend accessing/buying the reference source at the same time. ■Reference Source https://www.ted.com/talks/sarah_ellis_and_helen_tupper_the_best_career_path_isn_t_always_a_straight_line ■Post on this topic (You can get FREE learning materials!) https://englist.me/95-academic-words-reference-from-sarah-ellis-and-helen-tupper-the-best-career-path-isnt-always-a-straight-line--ted-talk/ ■Youtube Video https://youtu.be/-Z3HViFMBbg (All Words) https://youtu.be/OcAgp6HwBJU (Advanced Words) https://youtu.be/Lix-R-kxWo0 (Quick Look) ■Top Page for Further Materials https://englist.me/ ■SNS (Please follow!)

In this Episode of Women Lead Nadia takes the reins solo (while Tiana is off on an exotic holiday) and interviews SAP's Head of Global Influencer Marketing Ursula Ringham.They discuss Ursula's journey from Adobe to SAP and talk all about: Growing up in Silicon ValleyGetting ahead in your career as both an introvert and an extrovert How to keep your team creativeThe importance of speaking up and askingThe benefits of having a trusted friend and ally at workTips and strategies for effective influencer marketing Getting your drive to get back to work after some parenting yearsUrsula also recommends:Books:“Work Would Be Great If It Weren't For the People: Making Office Politics Work for You” By Ronna LichtenbergPodcasts:On - Kara SwisherPivot - Kara Swisher with Scott GallowayNPR podcasts are all great!Nadia recommends:Podcast Squiggly Careers with Sarah Ellis and Helen TupperAnd you can catch Tiana's questionable holiday headwear decisions on her instagram account @tianapix.Produced and Hosted by Nadia KoskiEngineered by Phil McDowellProject Lead Dennis KirschnerYou can contact the show at womenleadpodcast@the-digital-distillery.comor go to the website.Find us on LinkedIn, Facebook & Instagram

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.

Sarah Ellis & Philippa Ross aka We Are Twinset are best known as influencers, content creators & brand owners as well as being best friends and business partners. The weekly show is a place to celebrate fierce friendship, motherhood, entrepreneurship, girl power, girl bossing, funny stories, epic fails, advice, daily obsessions, ultimate hacks & what milk they're drinking this week. As a listener you will hear Sarah & Philippa discuss it all with honesty, laughter & raw conversations. You can expect occasional guests as well as reader stories & questions. For us to answer you questions in future episodes follow @wearetwinset @watthebrand and send us a message.

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  

This month we talk to acclaimed children's author Sarah Ellis and Illustrator Nancy Vo, who made the life story of Glenn Gould accessible to a younger audience through their new children's book, As Glenn as Can Be. Sarah Ellis is an acclaimed Canadian children's author of over 20 books and has won numerous prizes, including the Governor General's Literary Award and TD Canadian Children's Literature Award. For “As Glenn as Can Be,” she teamed up with the talented artist Nancy Vo to bring to life the story of Gould's childhood in Toronto during the 1930s, to present a moving portrait of a solitary, deeply creative child who experiences the world differently from his peers, and finds liberating solutions to his challenges through technology. Go behind the scenes and listen to the thought and process behind the beautiful illustrations and story of the book and discover musical easter eggs hidden in the pictures.

Introduction to Current Perspectives of Medical Aid in Dying, written by Marie MacWhyte and narrated by Sarah Ellis.

This month's free story is "The Place Where Heroes are Made" by Sarah Ellis, narrated by Dee Reed. Our sponsor this month is Literotica. For an ad-free version of the podcast, support us on Patreon.  

About AndiAndi Gutmans is the General Manager and Vice President for Databases at Google. Andi's focus is on building, managing and scaling the most innovative database services to deliver the industry's leading data platform for businesses. Before joining Google, Andi was VP Analytics at AWS running services such as Amazon Redshift. Before his tenure at AWS, Andi served as CEO and co-founder of Zend Technologies, the commercial backer of open-source PHP.Andi has over 20 years of experience as an open source contributor and leader. He co-authored open source PHP. He is an emeritus member of the Apache Software Foundation and served on the Eclipse Foundation's board of directors. He holds a bachelor's degree in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology.Links Referenced: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andigutmans/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/andigutmans TranscriptAnnouncer: Hello, and welcome to Screaming in the Cloud with your host, Chief Cloud Economist at The Duckbill Group, Corey Quinn. This weekly show features conversations with people doing interesting work in the world of cloud, thoughtful commentary on the state of the technical world, and ridiculous titles for which Corey refuses to apologize. This is Screaming in the Cloud.Corey: This episode is sponsored in part by our friends at Sysdig. Sysdig secures your cloud from source to run. They believe, as do I, that DevOps and security are inextricably linked. If you wanna learn more about how they view this, check out their blog, it's definitely worth the read. To learn more about how they are absolutely getting it right from where I sit, visit Sysdig.com and tell them that I sent you. That's S Y S D I G.com. And my thanks to them for their continued support of this ridiculous nonsense.Corey: Welcome to Screaming in the Cloud. I'm Corey Quinn. This promoted episode is brought to us by our friends at Google Cloud, and in so doing, they have gotten a guest to appear on this show that I have been low-key trying to get here for a number of years. Andi Gutmans is VP and GM of Databases at Google Cloud. Andi, thank you for joining me.Andi: Corey, thanks so much for having me.Corey: I have to begin with the obvious. Given that one of my personal passion projects is misusing every cloud service I possibly can as a database, where do you start and where do you stop as far as saying, “Yes, that's a database,” so it rolls up to me and, “No, that's not a database, so someone else can deal with the nonsense?”Andi: I'm in charge of the operational databases, so that includes both the managed third-party databases such as MySQL, Postgres, SQL Server, and then also the cloud-first databases, such as Spanner, Big Table, Firestore, and AlloyDB. So, I suggest that's where you start because those are all awesome services. And then what doesn't fall underneath, kind of, that purview are things like BigQuery, which is an analytics, you know, data warehouse, and other analytics engines. And of course, there's always folks who bring in their favorite, maybe, lesser-known or less popular database and self-manage it on GCE, on Compute.Corey: Before you wound up at Google Cloud, you spent roughly four years at AWS as VP of Analytics, which is, again, one of those very hazy type of things. Where does it start? Where does it stop? It's not at all clear from the outside. But even before that, you were, I guess, something of a legendary figure, which I know is always a weird thing for people to hear.But you were partially at least responsible for the Zend Framework in the PHP world, which I didn't realize what the heck that was, despite supporting it in production at a couple of jobs, until after I, for better or worse, was no longer trusted to support production environments anymore. Which, honestly, if you can get out, I'm a big proponent of doing that. You sleep so much better without a pager. How did you go from programming languages all the way on over to databases? It just seems like a very odd mix.Andi: Yeah. No, that's a great question. So, I was one of the core developers of PHP, and you know, I had been in the PHP community for quite some time. I also helped ideate. The Zend Framework, which was the company that, you know, I co-founded Zend Technologies was kind of the company behind PHP.So, like Red Hat supports Linux commercially, we supported PHP. And I was very much focused on developers, programming languages, frameworks, IDEs, and that was, you know, really exciting. I had also done quite a bit of work on interoperability with databases, right, because behind every application, there's a database, and so a lot of what we focused on is a great connectivity to MySQL, to Postgres, to other databases, and I got to kind of learn the database world from the outside from the application builders. We sold our company in I think it was 2015 and so I had to kind of figure out what's next. And so, one option would have been, hey, stay in programming languages, but what I learned over the many years that I worked with application developers is that there's a huge amount of value in data.And frankly, I'm a very curious person; I always like to learn, so there was this opportunity to join Amazon, to join the non-relational database side, and take myself completely out of my comfort zone. And actually, I joined AWS to help build the graph database Amazon Neptune, which was even more out of my comfort zone than even probably a relational database. So, I kind of like to do different things and so I joined and I had to learn, you know how to build a database pretty much from the ground up. I mean, of course, I didn't do the coding, but I had to learn enough to be dangerous, and so I worked on a bunch of non-relational databases there such as, you know, Neptune, Redis, Elasticsearch, DynamoDB Accelerator. And then there was the opportunity for me to actually move over from non-relational databases to analytics, which was another way to get myself out of my comfort zone.And so, I moved to run the analytic space, which included services like Redshift, like EMR, Athena, you name it. So, that was just a great experience for me where I got to work with a lot of awesome people and learn a lot. And then the opportunity arose to join Google and actually run the Google transactional databases including their older relational databases. And by the way, my job actually have two jobs. One job is running Spanner and Big Table for Google itself—meaning, you know, search ads and YouTube and everything runs on these databases—and then the second job is actually running external-facing databases for external customers.Corey: How alike are those two? Is it effectively the exact same thing, just with different API endpoints? Are they two completely separate universes? It's always unclear from the outside when looking at large companies that effectively eat versions of their own dog food, where their internal usage of these things starts and stops.Andi: So, great question. So, Cloud Spanner and Cloud Big Table do actually use the internal Spanner and Big Table. So, at the core, it's exactly the same engine, the same runtime, same storage, and everything. However, you know, kind of, internally, the way we built the database APIs was kind of good for scrappy, you know, Google engineers, and you know, folks are kind of are okay, learning how to fit into the Google ecosystem, but when we needed to make this work for enterprise customers, we needed a cleaner APIs, we needed authentication that was an external, right, and so on, so forth. So, think about we had to add an additional set of APIs on top of it, and management, right, to really make these engines accessible to the external world.So, it's running the same engine under the hood, but it is a different set of APIs, and a big part of our focus is continuing to expose to enterprise customers all the goodness that we have on the internal system. So, it's really about taking these very, very unique differentiated databases and democratizing access to them to anyone who wants to.Corey: I'm curious to get your position on the idea that seems to be playing it's—I guess, a battle that's been playing itself out in a number of different customer conversations. And that is, I guess, the theoretical decision between, do we go towards general-purpose databases and more or less treat every problem as a nail in search of a hammer or do you decide that every workload gets its own custom database that aligns the best with that particular workload? There are trade-offs in either direction, but I'm curious where you land on that given that you tend to see a lot more of it than I do.Andi: No, that's a great question. And you know, just for the viewers who maybe aren't aware, there's kind of two extreme points of view, right? There's one point of view that says, purpose-built for everything, like, every specific pattern, like, build bespoke databases, it's kind of a best-of-breed approach. The problem with that approach is it becomes extremely complex for customers, right? Extremely complex to decide what to use, they might need to use multiple for the same application, and so that can be a bit daunting as a customer. And frankly, there's kind of a law of diminishing returns at some point.Corey: Absolutely. I don't know what the DBA role of the future is, but I don't think anyone really wants it to be, “Oh, yeah. We're deciding which one of these three dozen manage database services is the exact right fit for each and every individual workload.” I mean, at some point it feels like certain cloud providers believe that not only every workload should have its own database, but almost every workload should have its own database service. It's at some point, you're allowed to say no and stop building these completely, what feel like to me, Byzantine, esoteric database engines that don't seem to have broad applicability to a whole lot of problems.Andi: Exactly, exactly. And maybe the other extreme is what folks often talk about as multi-model where you say, like, “Hey, I'm going to have a single storage engine and then map onto that the relational model, the document model, the graph model, and so on.” I think what we tend to see is if you go too generic, you also start having performance issues, you may not be getting the right level of abilities and trade-offs around consistency, and replication, and so on. So, I would say Google, like, we're taking a very pragmatic approach where we're saying, “You know what? We're not going to solve all of customer problems with a single database, but we're also not going to have two dozen.” Right?So, we're basically saying, “Hey, let's understand that the main characteristics of the workloads that our customers need to address, build the best services around those.” You know, obviously, over time, we continue to enhance what we have to fit additional models. And then frankly, we have a really awesome partner ecosystem on Google Cloud where if someone really wants a very specialized database, you know, we also have great partners that they can use on Google Cloud and get great support and, you know, get the rest of the benefits of the platform.Corey: I'm very curious to get your take on a pattern that I've seen alluded to by basically every vendor out there except the couple of very obvious ones for whom it does not serve their particular vested interests, which is that there's a recurring narrative that customers are demanding open-source databases for their workloads. And when you hear that, at least, people who came up the way that I did, spending entirely too much time on Freenode, back when that was not a deeply problematic statement in and of itself, where, yes, we're open-source, I guess, zealots is probably the best terminology, and yeah, businesses are demanding to participate in the open-source ecosystem. Here in reality, what I see is not ideological purity or anything like that and much more to do with, “Yeah, we don't like having a single commercial vendor for our databases that basically plays the insert quarter to continue dance whenever we're trying to wind up doing something new. We want the ability to not have licensing constraints around when, where, how, and how quickly we can run databases.” That's what I hear when customers are actually talking about open-source versus proprietary databases. Is that what you see or do you think that plays out differently? Because let's be clear, you do have a number of database services that you offer that are not open-source, but are also absolutely not tied to weird licensing restrictions either?Andi: That's a great question, and I think for years now, customers have been in a difficult spot because the legacy proprietary database vendors, you know, knew how sticky the database is, and so as a result, you know, the prices often went up and was not easy for customers to kind of manage costs and agility and so on. But I would say that's always been somewhat of a concern. I think what I'm seeing changing and happening differently now is as customers are moving into the cloud and they want to run hybrid cloud, they want to run multi-cloud, they need to prove to their regulator that it can do a stressed exit, right, open-source is not just about reducing cost, it's really about flexibility and kind of being in control of when and where you can run the workloads. So, I think what we're really seeing now is a significant surge of customers who are trying to get off legacy proprietary database and really kind of move to open APIs, right, because they need that freedom. And that freedom is far more important to them than even the cost element.And what's really interesting is, you know, a lot of these are the decision-makers in these enterprises, not just the technical folks. Like, to your point, it's not just open-source advocates, right? It's really the business people who understand they need the flexibility. And by the way, even the regulators are asking them to show that they can flexibly move their workloads as they need to. So, we're seeing a huge interest there and, as you said, like, some of our services, you know, are open-source-based services, some of them are not.Like, take Spanner, as an example, it is heavily tied to how we build our infrastructure and how we build our systems. Like, I would say, it's almost impossible to open-source Spanner, but what we've done is we've basically embraced open APIs and made sure if a customer uses these systems, we're giving them control of when and where they want to run their workloads. So, for example, Big Table has an HBase API; Spanner now has a Postgres interface. So, our goal is really to give customers as much flexibility and also not lock them into Google Cloud. Like, we want them to be able to move out of Google Cloud so they have control of their destiny.Corey: I'm curious to know what you see happening in the real world because I can sit here and come up with a bunch of very well-thought-out logical reasons to go towards or away from certain patterns, but I spent years building things myself. I know how it works, you grab the closest thing handy and throw it in and we all know that there is nothing so permanent as a temporary fix. Like, that thing is load-bearing and you'll retire with that thing still in place. In the idealized world, I don't think that I would want to take a dependency on something like—easy example—Spanner or AlloyDB because despite the fact that they have Postgres-squeal—yes, that's how I pronounce it—compatibility, the capabilities of what they're able to do under the hood far exceed and outstrip whatever you're going to be able to build yourself or get anywhere else. So, there's a dataflow architectural dependency lock-in, despite the fact that it is at least on its face, Postgres compatible. Counterpoint, does that actually matter to customers in what you are seeing?Andi: I think it's a great question. I'll give you a couple of data points. I mean, first of all, even if you take a complete open-source product, right, running them in different clouds, different on-premises environments, and so on, fundamentally, you will have some differences in performance characteristics, availability characteristics, and so on. So, the truth is, even if you use open-source, right, you're not going to get a hundred percent of the same characteristics where you run that. But that said, you still have the freedom of movement, and with I would say and not a huge amount of engineering investment, right, you're going to make sure you can run that workload elsewhere.I kind of think of Spanner in the similar way where yes, I mean, you're going to get all those benefits of Spanner that you can't get anywhere else, like unlimited scale, global consistency, right, no maintenance downtime, five-nines availability, like, you can't really get that anywhere else. That said, not every application necessarily needs it. And you still have that option, right, that if you need to, or want to, or we're not giving you a reasonable price or reasonable price performance, but we're starting to neglect you as a customer—which of course we wouldn't, but let's just say hypothetically, that you know, that could happen—that you still had a way to basically go and run this elsewhere. Now, I'd also want to talk about some of the upsides something like Spanner gives you. Because you talked about, you want to be able to just grab a few things, build something quickly, and then, you know, you don't want to be stuck.The counterpoint to that is with Spanner, you can start really, really small, and then let's say you're a gaming studio, you know, you're building ten titles hoping that one of them is going to take off. So, you can build ten of those, you know, with very minimal spend on Spanner and if one takes off overnight, it's really only the database where you don't have to go and re-architect the application; it's going to scale as big as you need it to. And so, it does enable a lot of this innovation and a lot of cost management as you try to get to that overnight success.Corey: Yeah, overnight success. I always love that approach. It's one of those, “Yeah, I became an overnight success after only ten short years.” It becomes this idea people believe it's in fits and starts, but then you see, I guess, on some level, the other side of it where it's a lot of showing up and doing the work. I have to confess, I didn't do a whole lot of admin work in my production years that touched databases because I have an aura and I'm unlucky, and it turns out that when you blow away some web servers, everyone can laugh and we'll reprovision stateless things.Get too close to the data warehouse, for example, and you don't really have a company left anymore. And of course, in the world of finance that I came out of, transactional integrity is also very much a thing. A question that I had [centers 00:17:51] really around one of the predictions you gave recently at Google Cloud Next, which is your prediction for the future is that transactional and analytical workloads from a database perspective will converge. What's that based on?Andi: You know, I think we're really moving from a world where customers are trying to make real-time decisions, right? If there's model drift from an AI and ML perspective, want to be able to retrain their models as quickly as possible. So, everything is fast moving into streaming. And I think what you're starting to see is, you know, customers don't have that time to wait for analyzing their transactional data. Like in the past, you do a batch job, you know, once a day or once an hour, you know, move the data from your transactional system to analytical system, but that's just not how it is always-on businesses run anymore, and they want to have those real-time insights.So, I do think that what you're going to see is transactional systems more and more building analytical capabilities, analytical systems building, and more transactional, and then ultimately, cloud platform providers like us helping fill that gap and really making data movement seamless across transactional analytical, and even AI and ML workloads. And so, that's an area that I think is a big opportunity. I also think that Google is best positioned to solve that problem.Corey: Forget everything you know about SSH and try Tailscale. Imagine if you didn't need to manage PKI or rotate SSH keys every time someone leaves. That'd be pretty sweet, wouldn't it? With Tailscale SSH, you can do exactly that. Tailscale gives each server and user device a node key to connect to its VPN, and it uses the same node key to authorize and authenticate SSH.Basically you're SSHing the same way you manage access to your app. What's the benefit here? Built-in key rotation, permissions as code, connectivity between any two devices, reduce latency, and there's a lot more, but there's a time limit here. You can also ask users to reauthenticate for that extra bit of security. Sounds expensive?Nope, I wish it were. Tailscale is completely free for personal use on up to 20 devices. To learn more, visit snark.cloud/tailscale. Again, that's snark.cloud/tailscaleCorey: On some level, I've found that, at least in my own work, that once I wind up using a database for something, I'm inclined to try and stuff as many other things into that database as I possibly can just because getting a whole second data store, taking a dependency on it for any given workload tends to be a little bit on the, I guess, challenging side. Easy example of this. I've talked about it previously in various places, but I was talking to one of your colleagues, [Sarah Ellis 00:19:48], who wound up at one point making a joke that I, of course, took way too far. Long story short, I built a Twitter bot on top of Google Cloud Functions that every time the Azure brand account tweets, it simply quote-tweets that translates their tweet into all caps, and then puts a boomer-style statement in front of it if there's room. This account is @cloudboomer.Now, the hard part that I had while doing this is everything stateless works super well. Where do I wind up storing the ID of the last tweet that it saw on his previous run? And I was fourth and inches from just saying, “Well, I'm already using Twitter so why don't we use Twitter as a database?” Because everything's a database if you're either good enough or bad enough at programming. And instead, I decided, okay, we'll try this Firebase thing first.And I don't know if it's Firestore, or Datastore or whatever it's called these days, but once I wrap my head around it incredibly effective, very fast to get up and running, and I feel like I made at least a good decision, for once in my life, involving something touching databases. But it's hard. I feel like I'm consistently drawn toward the thing I'm already using as a default database. I can't shake the feeling that that's the wrong direction.Andi: I don't think it's necessarily wrong. I mean, I think, you know, with Firebase and Firestore, that combination is just extremely easy and quick to build awesome mobile applications. And actually, you can build mobile applications without a middle tier which is probably what attracted you to that. So, we just see, you know, huge amount of developers and applications. We have over 4 million databases in Firestore with just developers building these applications, especially mobile-first applications. So, I think, you know, if you can get your job done and get it done effectively, absolutely stick to them.And by the way, one thing a lot of people don't know about Firestore is it's actually running on Spanner infrastructure, so Firestore has the same five-nines availability, no maintenance downtime, and so on, that has Spanner, and the same kind of ability to scale. So, it's not just that it's quick, it will actually scale as much as you need it to and be as available as you need it to. So, that's on that piece. I think, though, to the same point, you know, there's other databases that we're then trying to make sure kind of also extend their usage beyond what they've traditionally done. So, you know, for example, we announced AlloyDB, which I kind of call it Postgres on steroids, we added analytical capabilities to this transactional database so that as customers do have more data in their transactional database, as opposed to having to go somewhere else to analyze it, they can actually do real-time analytics within that same database and it can actually do up to 100 times faster analytics than open-source Postgres.So, I would say both Firestore and AlloyDB, are kind of good examples of if it works for you, right, we'll also continue to make investments so the amount of use cases you can use these databases for continues to expand over time.Corey: One of the weird things that I noticed just looking around this entire ecosystem of databases—and you've been in this space long enough to, presumably, have seen the same type of evolution—back when I was transiting between different companies a fair bit, sometimes because I was consulting and other times because I'm one of the greatest in the world at getting myself fired from jobs based upon my personality, I found that the default standard was always, “Oh, whatever the database is going to be, it started off as MySQL and then eventually pivots into something else when that starts falling down.” These days, I can't shake the feeling that almost everywhere I look, Postgres is the answer instead. What changed? What did I miss in the ecosystem that's driving that renaissance, for lack of a better term?Andi: That's a great question. And, you know, I have been involved in—I'm going to date myself a bit—but in PHP since 1997, pretty much, and one of the things we kind of did is we build a really good connector to MySQL—and you know, I don't know if you remember, before MySQL, there was MS SQL. So, the MySQL API actually came from MS SQL—and we bundled the MySQL driver with PHP. And so, kind of that LAMP stack really took off. And kind of to your point, you know, the default in the web, right, was like, you're going to start with MySQL because it was super easy to use, just fun to use.By the way, I actually wrote—co-authored—the tab completion in the MySQL client. So like, a lot of these kinds of, you know, fun, simple ways of using MySQL were there, and frankly, was super fast, right? And so, kind of those fast reads and everything, it just was great for web and for content. And at the time, Postgres kind of came across more like a science project. Like the folks who were using Postgres were kind of the outliers, right, you know, the less pragmatic folks.I think, what's changed over the past, how many years has it been now, 25 years—I'm definitely dating myself—is a few things: one, MySQL is still awesome, but it didn't kind of go in the direction of really, kind of, trying to catch up with the legacy proprietary databases on features and functions. Part of that may just be that from a roadmap perspective, that's not where the owner wanted it to go. So, MySQL today is still great, but it didn't go into that direction. In parallel, right, customers wanting to move more to open-source. And so, what they found this, the thing that actually looks and smells more like legacy proprietary databases is actually Postgres, plus you saw an increase of investment in the Postgres ecosystem, also very liberal license.So, you have lots of other databases including commercial ones that have been built off the Postgres core. And so, I think you are today in a place where, for mainstream enterprise, Postgres is it because that is the thing that has all the features that the enterprise customer is used to. MySQL is still very popular, especially in, like, content and web, and mobile applications, but I would say that Postgres has really become kind of that de facto standard API that's replacing the legacy proprietary databases.Corey: I've been on the record way too much as saying, with some justification, that the best database in the world that should be used for everything is Route 53, specifically, TXT records. It's a key-value store and then anyone who's deep enough into DNS or databases generally gets a slightly greenish tinge and feels ill. That is my simultaneous best and worst database. I'm curious as to what your most controversial opinion is about the worst database in the world that you've ever seen.Andi: This is the worst database? Or—Corey: Yeah. What is the worst database that you've ever seen? I know, at some level, since you manage all things database, I'm asking you to pick your least favorite child, but here we are.Andi: Oh, that's a really good question. No, I would say probably the, “Worst database,” double-quotes is just the file system, right? When folks are basically using the file system as regular database. And that can work for, you know, really simple apps, but as apps get more complicated, that's not going to work. So, I've definitely seen some of that.I would say the most awesome database that is also file system-based kind of embedded, I think was actually SQLite, you know? And SQLite is actually still very, very popular. I think it sits on every mobile device pretty much on the planet. So, I actually think it's awesome, but it's, you know, it's on a database server. It's kind of an embedded database, but it's something that I, you know, I've always been pretty excited about. And, you know, their stuff [unintelligible 00:27:43] kind of new, interesting databases emerging that are also embedded, like DuckDB is quite interesting. You know, it's kind of the SQLite for analytics.Corey: We've been using it for a few things around a bill analysis ourselves. It's impressive. I've also got to say, people think that we had something to do with it because we're The Duckbill Group, and it's DuckDB. “Have you done anything with this?” And the answer is always, “Would you trust me with a database? I didn't think so.” So no, it's just a weird coincidence. But I liked that a lot.It's also counterintuitive from where I sit because I'm old enough to remember when Microsoft was teasing the idea of WinFS where they teased a future file system that fundamentally was a database—I believe it's an index or journal for all of that—and I don't believe anything ever came of it. But ugh, that felt like a really weird alternate world we could have lived in.Andi: Yeah. Well, that's a good point. And by the way, you know, if I actually take a step back, right, and I kind of half-jokingly said, you know, file system and obviously, you know, all the popular databases persist on the file system. But if you look at what's different in cloud-first databases, right, like, if you look at legacy proprietary databases, the typical setup is wright to the local disk and then do asynchronous replication with some kind of bounded replication lag to somewhere else, to a different region, or so on. If you actually start to look at what the cloud-first databases look like, they actually write the data in multiple data centers at the same time.And so, kind of joke aside, as you start to think about, “Hey, how do I build the next generation of applications and how do I really make sure I get the resiliency and the durability that the cloud can offer,” it really does take a new architecture. And so, that's where things like, you know, Spanner and Big Table, and kind of, AlloyDB databases are truly architected for the cloud. That's where they actually think very differently about durability and replication, and what it really takes to provide the highest level of availability and durability.Corey: On some level, I think one of the key things for me to realize was that in my own experiments, whenever I wind up doing something that is either for fun or I just want see how it works in what's possible, the scale of what I'm building is always inherently a toy problem. It's like the old line that if it fits in RAM, you don't have a big data problem. And then I'm looking at things these days that are having most of a petabyte's worth of RAM sometimes it's okay, that definition continues to extend and get ridiculous. But I still find that most of what I do in a database context can be done with almost any database. There's no reason for me not to, for example, uses a SQLite file or to use an object store—just there's a little latency, but whatever—or even a text file on disk.The challenge I find is that as you start scaling and growing these things, you start to run into limitations left and right, and only then it's one of those, oh, I should have made different choices or I should have built-in abstractions. But so many of these things comes to nothing; it just feels like extra work. What guidance do you have for people who are trying to figure out how much effort to put in upfront when they're just more or less puttering around to see what comes out of it?Andi: You know, we like to think about ourselves at Google Cloud as really having a unique value proposition that really helps you future-proof your development. You know, if I look at both Spanner and I look at BigQuery, you can actually start with a very, very low cost. And frankly, not every application has to scale. So, you can start at low cost, you can have a small application, but everyone wants two things: one is availability because you don't want your application to be down, and number two is if you have to scale you want to be able to without having to rewrite your application. And so, I think this is where we have a very unique value proposition, both in how we built Spanner and then also how we build BigQuery is that you can actually start small, and for example, on Spanner, you can go from one-tenth of what we call an instance, like, a small instance, that is, you know, under $65 a month, you can go to a petabyte scale OLTP environment with thousands of instances in Spanner, with zero downtime.And so, I think that is really the unique value proposition. We're basically saying you can hold the stick at both ends: you can basically start small and then if that application doesn't need to scale, does need to grow, you're not reengineering your application and you're not taking any downtime for reprovisioning. So, I think that's—if I had to give folks, kind of, advice, I say, “Look, what's done is done. You have workloads on MySQL, Postgres, and so on. That's great.”Like, they're awesome databases, keep on using them. But if you're truly building a new app, and you're hoping that app is going to be successful at some point, whether it's, like you said, all overnight successes take at least ten years, at least you built in on something like Spanner, you don't actually have to think about that anymore or worry about it, right? It will scale when you need it to scale and you're not going to have to take any downtime for it to scale. So, that's how we see a lot of these industries that have these potential spikes, like gaming, retail, also some use cases in financial services, they basically gravitate towards these databases.Corey: I really want to thank you for taking so much time out of your day to talk with me about databases and your perspective on them, especially given my profound level of ignorance around so many of them. If people want to learn more about how you view these things, where's the best place to find you?Andi: Follow me on LinkedIn. I tend to post quite a bit on LinkedIn, I still post a bit on Twitter, but frankly, I've moved more of my activity to LinkedIn now. I find it's—Corey: That is such a good decision. I envy you.Andi: It's a more curated [laugh], you know, audience and so on. And then also, you know, we just had Google Cloud Next. I recorded a session there that kind of talks about database and just some of the things that are new in database-land at Google Cloud. So, that's another thing that if folks more interested to get more information, that may be something that could be appealing to you.Corey: We will, of course, put links to all of this in the [show notes 00:34:03]. Thank you so much for your time. I really appreciate it.Andi: Great. Corey, thanks so much for having me.Corey: Andi Gutmans, VP and GM of Databases at Google Cloud. I'm Cloud Economist Corey Quinn and this is Screaming in the Cloud. If you've enjoyed this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice, whereas if you've hated this podcast, please leave a five-star review on your podcast platform of choice along with an angry, insulting comment, then I'm going to collect all of those angry, insulting comments and use them as a database.Corey: If your AWS bill keeps rising and your blood pressure is doing the same, then you need The Duckbill Group. We help companies fix their AWS bill by making it smaller and less horrifying. The Duckbill Group works for you, not AWS. We tailor recommendations to your business and we get to the point. Visit duckbillgroup.com to get started.Announcer: This has been a HumblePod production. Stay humble.

Trigger Warning: This episode discusses miscarriage.Now this is an episode that just sums up sisterhood for us.We are so excited to be joined by Sarah & Philippa from We Are Twinset to lift the lid on behind-the-scenes; we hear about the juggle with owning a business, pregnancies, IVF, supporting friends through conception challenges, and so much more.Sarah & Philippa's Favourite Products:HushhSnoozeShadeTiny LoveMORIYellow EggsKids Disco LightsListen by clicking ‘Play', subscribe or follow on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and Acast, and please do rate and review to help others find the podcast.Find a new episode every Tuesday & Friday and in the meantime check out Made By Mammas on Instagram: @madebymammas.Made By Mammas, this has been an Insanity Podcasts production. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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. 

Schwab, Sylviawww.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, LesartDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

Schwab, Sylviawww.deutschlandfunkkultur.de, LesartDirekter Link zur Audiodatei

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

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.”

The Guilty Feminist episode 311: Shakespeare for BeginnersPresented by Deborah Frances-White and Jessica Fostekew with special guests Sarah Ellis and Ann Ogbomo, plus Sophie Duker and Celya AB with music from Jess RobinsonRecorded 14 May at The Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford. Released 20 June 2022The Guilty Feminist theme by Mark Hodge and produced by Nick Sheldon.More about Deborah Frances-Whitehttps://deborahfrances-white.comhttps://twitter.com/DeborahFWhttps://www.virago.co.uk/the-guilty-feminist-bookMore about Jessica Fostekewhttps://twitter.com/jessicafostekewhttp://jessicafostekew.com/my-doingsMore about Sophie Dukerhttps://twitter.com/sophiedukeboxhttps://sophieduker.comMore about Jess Robinsonhttps://twitter.com/jessierobinsonhttps://www.jessrobinson.co.ukMore about our guestshttps://twitter.com/scarahnellishttps://www.instagram.com/annogbomoFor more information about this and other episodes…visit https://www.guiltyfeminist.comtweet us https://www.twitter.com/guiltfempodlike our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/guiltyfeministcheck out our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theguiltyfeministor join our mailing list http://www.eepurl.com/bRfSPTOur new podcasts are out nowMedia Storm https://podfollow.com/media-stormAbsolute Power https://podfollow.com/john-bercows-absolute-powerFOC it UP Comedy Club https://podfollow.com/foc-it-up-comedy-clubCome to a live recordingFOC it Up Comedy Club, from 19 June https://www.21-soho.com/foc-it-upSEVENTH BIRTHDAY SHOW in LONDON, 1 October https://www.eventim.co.uk/event/the-guilty-feminist-eventim-apollo-14545290/Australia/NZ tour https://guiltyfeminist.com/tour2022/Ulster Hall, 14 October: https://www.ulsterhall.co.uk/what-s-on/the-guilty-feminist/Thank you to our amazing Patreon supporters.To support the podcast yourself, go to https://www.patreon.com/guiltyfeminist See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With job tenures declining and job search technology booming, the traditional career ladder has vanished. How the new culture of job-hopping has created challenges and opportunities for workers and employers. The days of the decades-long single-employer career ladder are largely gone, a victim of factors ranging from aggressive job cutting by employers and the decline in union protections to reducing company loyalty and a thriving online job search industry fueled by technology. The defined career path has been replaced by a squiggly one. In this episode of Century Lives, we explore the reality of the 25-job career faced by Gen Z and Millennial workers by talking with economists, job seekers and recruiters; we even eavesdrop on a career counseling session. Guests include Sarah Ellis, podcaster and career coach; Jack Kelly, CEO of Wecruitr; Julia Pollak, chief economist at ZipRecruiter; and Timothy Taylor, managing editor at the Journal of Economic Perspectives.

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

Today's episode is a replay with Sarah Ellis. PART TWO on 'squiggly motherhood' is already live btw!Sarah is the co-founder of Amazing If, an award-winning career development company with an ambition to democratise career development. They are the co-hosts of the UK's no.1 careers podcast, Squiggly Careers and the book The Squiggly Career out now. In January 2021 they recorded their TEDx talk at Abbey Road Studios in London. Their work has lots of parallels with mine, they recognise that the world of linear and predictable career ladders are disappearing. Instead, careers are now much more 'squiggly'. I love their stuff. Hope you enjoy!Buy your copy of The Squiggly Careers here! https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9780241385845Buy your copy of The Multi-Hyphen Method here! https://uk.bookshop.org/a/153/9781473680128 See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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.

Whether you're happy in your role or thinking of moving on, it's a good idea to be thinking about what your next step will be and be working towards that. Gone are the days when we could rely on our line manager to recognise our potential and plan for our career development. In fact, I think that was always a bit of a myth! It's up to you to prioritise your career and development. Your next step doesn't have to be upwards - it could be a sideways move, a new sector or a new work-life balance so you can spend more time with the kids or starting your side hustle. In this episode, I'm sharing with you why investing in your own career development is one of the best investments you'll ever make and giving you 5 practical actions you can take to prioritise yours. RECOMMENDED BOOKS: F*ck Being Humble – Stephanie Sword-Williams: https://www.fuckbeinghumble.com/book     Why Losing Your Job Could be the Best Thing That Ever Happened to You: Five Simple Steps to Thrive after Redundancy – Eleanor Tweddell: https://uk.bookshop.org/books/why-losing-your-job-could-be-the-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-you-five-simple-steps-to-thrive-after-redundancy/9780241458976  The Squiggly Career – Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis: https://www.amazingif.com/books/  FREE CAREER ACCELERATOR Join the free 5-Day Career Accelerator! Starting on Monday 14 March, this is a free week-long experience to boost your confidence in your role, help you be seen as more credible or prepare for your next step.   Each day, you get career coaching from me through a short video and practical exercise plus extra coaching and bonuses inside our private Facebook group.  Join the Accelerator here: www.carlamillertraining.com/careeraccelerator   INFLUENCE & IMPACT Find out more Influence & Impact, my 12 month group training and coaching programme for female leaders who want to become brilliant at influencing, tackle self-doubt and make more impact at work.  Influence & Impact: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/influence-impact CONNECT WITH ME: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/carlamiller1/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thisiscarlamiller/ Website: https://www.carlamillertraining.com/  HOW CAN I SUPPORT THE PODCAST? Subscribe Share this episode with a friend or colleague Leave a review on Apple Podcasts or Spotify Thank you for listening, see you next week!

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