Hi everybody and welcome to this week's Squeegly Career podcast for Amazing If.

I'm Sarah Ellis and I'm here with my co-founder Helen Tupper.

Hello.

And this week we're going to be talking about side projects.

Thank you to everybody who's been sending us in ideas and suggestions for topics to cover in each week's podcast.

And side projects is one of those things that comes up in the courses that we run

and people have been tweeting us about it.

So we thought we would take on the topic.

And it's something we also both feel really passionate about.

So it's not really a hardship to have to talk about side projects.

No, big side project advocates.

Half an hour or so.

So perhaps we'll just start with why side projects are the big side project advocates half an hour so so perhaps we'll just start with

why side projects are even interesting to individuals why should organisations care about people who do

side projects helen i know you've written quite extensively about this as a topic um what what have you

found from kind of the research and the things that you've looked at in terms of why side projects work for individuals and for organisations?

Yeah, so I'll share some of the things that I've found.

A lot of the sources of the data are in an article that I wrote recently for Marketing Week on side projects.

If people want to go and...

Or tweet it.

Yeah, we'll tweet that if you can explore that a bit deeper.

But some of the main reasons that individuals benefit from doing side projects are... go and go and tweet it. Yeah, we'll tweet that so if you can explore that a bit deeper.

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