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Squiggly Careers

#106 How to say no (and when to say yes)

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Management, Careers, Business

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 29 October 2019

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Squiggly Careers are full of choice and opportunity which can sometimes mean we are faced with more decisions than we can handle. In absence of a clear and confident reason to say ‘no’, we can find ourselves drowning in the things we say yes to by default. In this week’s podcast, Helen and Sarah talk about how to say ‘no’, sharing their experiences of getting it right (and getting it wrong).They talk through their top tips for how to say no in a way that feels right for you and share other resources they think will help. Head to amazingif.com for links. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of the SquigglyCrees podcast. I am Helen and one of the co-hosts of the podcast and I'm here as ever with Sarah.

0:10.5

Hi everyone. Do you know what I say as ever but you know once a month we are torn apart for our guest interviews and Sarah last week Sarah did a podcast with Viv Groskop which is such a good podcast about

0:23.3

Own the Room which is Viv's book and Viv's podcast and I sort of listened to it as a bit of a fan

0:28.2

Sarah because I'm not on it I find it so much easier to listen to the podcast and I was so funny

0:33.6

how did you find it how was their their fan experience? It was really good.

0:37.6

So I was in London.

0:38.2

I was like between meetings and I was like, I need to listen to the podcast.

0:41.4

And I was listening to it and you and Viv start talking about some really great speeches

0:45.6

that are made, such as Oprah's, which she did on like the Me Too thing.

0:50.0

And it's reference in the book.

0:51.5

So basically, you and Viv are talking about speeches that are in the book that I hadn't watched or seen and thought,

0:56.3

oh, in order to understand this, I need to go and watch them.

0:59.5

So I was in a cafe, listen to the podcast, and I was in a cafe,

1:02.0

and I thought, I'll go and watch that Oprah talk that you both reference on the podcast.

1:06.9

I sat in this public place and I started crying.

1:12.6

It's such... I know, it's so embarrassing, it's so embarrassing.

1:14.9

But it's such a compelling the Oprah speech

1:17.8

when she gets the Lifetime Achievement Award.

1:20.2

And I think because Viv was talking about

1:21.8

when she makes someone told her to shorten that speech

1:24.1

and so her lips are dry or something like that.

1:26.8

And so she really enunciates

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