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Squiggly Careers

Squiggly Careers is a weekly podcast that will help you take control of your career development. Hosted by the founders of Squiggly Careers. (https://www.amazingif.com/), Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper, together they cover all things work: from how to manage stress and overcome your confidence gremlins to micro-aggressions and discovering your strengths. Each episode is full of ideas, actions, hints, and tips that

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#610 How to get rid of bad friction at work
Nov 2026 · 2 books
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Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less
Leidy Klotz
“I I've got like a couple of ideas here that came from the book and also just things that I think we have done. within our business without actually realising we don't without connecting the two concepts”
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Learn Like a Lobster
Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
“something that we wrote about in Learn Like a Lobster”
#609 How to Learn More in Meetings
Nov 2026
#608 How to respond to feedback you don't agree with
Nov 2026 · 1 book
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Learn Like a Lobster
Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
“it's actually a tool that we talk about in our book, Learn Like a Lobster”
#607: Accountability: How to Take Ownership at Work
Nov 2026 · 1 book
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You Coach: How to get the best out of yourself and others
Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
“Our paperback of Learn Like a Lobster comes out in January”
#606 How to find more focus
Oct 2026 · 2 books
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Learned Like a Lobster
Sarah and Helen
“Helen, who has worked very hard since we released Learned Like a Lobster, where we shared our notification number. Um in that book”
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How to Break Up With Your Phone
Catherine Price
“There is a really brilliant short book. I love a short book. called How to Break Up With Your Phone by Catherine Price”
#605 Career magnetism: how to attract what you want at work
Oct 2026 · 1 book
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Atomic Habits
James Clear
“I was also thinking of more about James Clear stuff. um where he talks about the identity”
#604 5 ways to have a more confident day at work
Oct 2026
#603 Ask the Expert: Vibe and Building Better Connections with Adam Grant
Oct 2026 · 2 books
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The Squiggly Career
Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper
“they held up the cover of our book, of the Squiggly Career”
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Give and Take
Adam Grant
“I always like the reciprocity ring. that you talk about in this book, and I think maybe in maybe in give and take”
#602 High performance habits for your Squiggly career
Oct 2026 · 2 books
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Learn Like a Lobster
Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
“I say that as somebody who has written a book called Learn Like a Lobster”
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Give and Take
Adam Grant
“He did um actually a very good TED talk about give and take and a good book on the same topic”
#601 How to use profilers for your career development
Oct 2026 · 2 books
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The 100-Year Life: Living and Working in an Age of Longevity
Lynda Gratton and Andrew Scott
“So you've got The Hundred Year Life, which was the first book that she wrote. um, over ten years ago now”
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The Squiggly Career
Sarah Ellis and Helen Tupper
“And of course people it h it turns out not everyone has memorised the squiggly queer book”
#600 Everyday actions for everyday resilience
Oct 2026
#599 Friction: Why making things harder can make you better
Oct 2026 · 2 books
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The Friction Project
Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao
“The friction project. Um Written by two I like uh Robert Sutton and Huggy Rao”
Cover of Learn Like a Lobster
Learn Like a Lobster
Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
“something that we wrote about in Learn Like a Lobster”
#598 How to understand and take action with your ambition
Oct 2026
#597 How thinking inside the box will lead to more opportunities for your squiggly career.
Sep 2026 · 3 books
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Range: Why Generalists Triumph in a Specialized World
David Epstein
“David Epstein, who wrote Range, um, who's been on the podcast before”
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Green Eggs and Ham
Dr. Seuss
“Green next in hand. Which we're gonna talk about. So that book came from a bet from their editor. Bennett. Seth, I'm gonna say, as a pronunciation. Bet him fifty dollars that he couldn't write an entire book using fifty different words. So green eggs and ham. has got fifty distinct words repeated throughout the book”
Cover of The Squiggly Career: Ditch the Ladder, Discover Your Own Path
The Squiggly Career: Ditch the Ladder, Discover Your Own Path
Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
“So we wrote a book called The Squiggly Career, which includes the five skills, the seed and squiggare career, which we're gonna talk about now”
#596 3 ways teams can learn when they are not together
Sep 2026
#595 How to Answer AI Questions in Job Interviews
Sep 2026 · 4 books
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Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World
Anne-Laure Le Cunff
“And actually I was talking to Anne Law, the brilliant author of Tiny Experiments, and she was saying like try and spot those like repeatable, predictable tasks”
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You Coach You: How to Overcome Challenges and Take Control of Your Career
Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
“which book is better? You coach you”
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Learn Like a Lobster
Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis
“or learn like a lobster for this challenge”
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We Are Not Machines: The Fight for the Future of Work
Sarah O'Connor
“Like I have just read um We Are Not Machines, which is Sarah O'Connor's new book”
#594 How to increase your autonomy
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us
Daniel H. Pink
“I think as a topic, it's something that I probably first started to consider when I came across Dan Pink's work on drive”
#593 No Regret Skills: How to Get Better at Adaptability
Sep 2026
#592 How to look for leaders you can learn from
Sep 2026 · 1 book
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Why Should Anyone Be Led by You?: What It Takes to Be an Authentic Leader
Rob Goffee and Gareth Jones
“Episode three hundred and thirty three. Um with Rob Joffy. who talks about why should anyone be led by you. My favorite leadership book”
#591 No Regret Skills: How to Make Better Decisions
Sep 2026 · 2 books
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Thinking in Bets
Annie Duke
“One is called Thinking in Bets, and the other one is called How to Decide”
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How to Decide
Annie Duke
“One is called Thinking in Bets, and the other one is called How to Decide”
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