#23 Stepping out of your comfort zone

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Business, Management, Careers

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 27 March 2018

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Comfort zones feel nice and safe, but they can hold you back from having a happy and fulfilling career. In this week's episode Helen and Sarah share what they have learned from stepping out of their comfort zones, including Sarah's reflections on being interviewed on BBC news this week! Listen to hear how doing jobs you don't know how to do yet and building a support team can make the difference between stretch and stress. 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 this week's episode of our Squiggly Careers podcast.
0:09.0	If it's the first time you've listened, we should probably introduce ourselves.
0:12.0	I'm Helen Tupper. I'm one of the co-founders of Amazing If and it was a business started by Sarah Ellis and myself five years ago and it was focused on and it still is focused on
0:21.2	helping people have happy careers. And hi everybody. I'm Sarah. Actually, one of my friends who
0:27.0	listened to the podcast recently said that Helen and I have similar voices, which I think we
0:31.6	sound really different but hopefully you'll be able to tell us apart as we go through the podcast
0:35.4	today. So each week then, it's Helen again,
0:39.2	we are taking on a career challenge that we know you are likely to be facing now or in the future.
0:45.7	And what we do in our weekly podcast is we share our experiences, our ideas, and we give you
0:51.0	some actions we think can help you to tackle it. And to give you all this
0:54.7	advice, what we do is we combine our learning from working in sales and marketing roles for
0:59.0	over 30 years now between us for big companies and for small companies and also all of our
1:04.2	insights from running Amazing If. So hopefully we'll be able to share something that can help you.
1:09.0	And today we're going to focus our podcast session
1:11.1	on the lovely warm place that is the comfort zone and how to take a big brave leap outside of it
1:17.2	to help your career. And I think before we go into all of our advice and some kind of our own
1:21.8	experiences, I think it's worth talking about why it's valuable to take a step out of that
1:27.4	lovely warm comfort zone in the first place. Sarah, what do you think about why it's valuable to take a step out of that lovely warm comfort zone in the first place.
1:30.0	Sarah, what do you think about why people should do this for their career?
1:33.9	Well, I think it's worth almost making sure that people are clear about the difference between going out of your comfort zone and strengths and weaknesses.
1:41.5	Because I think this is not about weaknesses weaknesses this is not about just doing a load
1:46.3	of stuff that you're not very good at because as we've kind of talk about with our podcast and lots of the
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