#153: Ask The Expert: Adaptability with Steven Bartlett

Squiggly Careers

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Management, Careers, Business

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 18 June 2020

⏱️ 15 minutes

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In the final episode of our six-part Ask the Expert series, Helen talks to CEO and founder of Social Chain, Steven Bartlett, about the importance of adaptability as a skill and how to cultivate it. In their discussion, Steven shares his thought on the importance of 'adaptability outliers', making sure people have an incentive to be adaptable and permission to fail. He also talks about the importance of reflection and writing in helping him to personally stay adaptable in his career. Follow Steven @steven on instagram. 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 everybody and welcome back to the Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Helen Tupper. I'm one of the co-host of the podcast, but I'm not joined by Sarah for this episode. Instead, I'm going to be joined by Stephen Bartlett because this is one of our Ask the Expert special episodes. And the topic of our conversation is going to be adaptability. It's one of the skills that we think is
0:21.5	hugely important to people and their careers right now. And Stephen is an amazing person to talk to
0:27.5	about adaptability because it's really defined him, his life and his career, actually. If you don't
0:32.8	know, Stephen, he's the CEO of Social Chain, which is a global social media company.
0:37.3	They're a listed company that in the last financial year turned over $200 million.
0:41.9	They employ over 700 people.
0:44.9	And Stephen runs a podcast, the Diary of a CEO, which has over 1 million downloads.
0:49.3	He's got over 1.5 million followers on social media.
0:53.9	His career and the growth of the organisation that
0:56.9	he started when he was 21 is amazing, particularly in the context of someone that was expelled from
1:02.6	school when he was 17 and dropped out of university. And to top all of this, this person that is
1:07.7	thriving in the fast-moving world that is social media, he's 27. So it's an
1:14.2	amazing person to learn about how to really, you know, make adaptability practical, what he's
1:19.1	learned from being at the front end of that in his career that we can apply to our own careers.
1:23.7	So this episode, just like the others in our Ask the Expert series, is supported by the Booper UK Foundation.
1:29.6	They're a charity whose purpose is to help people live longer, healthier and happier lives.
1:34.7	And they do that through funding practical projects which have a positive impact on people's mental wellbeing.
1:40.2	That includes things like wellbeing workshops for educators.
1:43.5	They work with minds to empower better
1:45.1	mental health in young people and also through online resources and funding community mental
1:50.1	wellbeing projects. And now on to my conversation with Stephen. So hello and welcome Stephen Bartlett
1:57.3	to the Squiggly Careers podcast. Hi. Pleasure to be here. And I was reading a quote that you'd shared and it said, COVID-19 has been the truest test of
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