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Squiggly Careers

#24 How to work flexibly

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Business, Management, Careers

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 3 April 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Flexible working is thankfully on the rise, but that doesn't mean it's easy to ask for or to manage. Helen and Sarah share their experiences on when it's worked for them and when it's been a challenge. Listen to hear their tips on how to set yourself up for success with flexible working and what other resources might help you along the way. 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 to this week's episode of the Squiggly Career podcast. I'm Sarah and actually this week I'm joined by Helen and we're in the same room. I don't know that we often don't do these in the same room. So we're really excited about being in the same room. But often we record our podcasts over Skype or remotely, but today we're here together, so that's exciting.

0:24.0

And we've done now over 20 episodes of our podcast, which we hope is really helping you to

0:28.7

enjoy your career that little bit more, and we've had more than 16,000 listens, which I find

0:33.2

amazing.

0:33.5

I know, I know, it's so exciting.

0:35.2

But we were just saying that when you listen back, there are definitely some things that we need to get better at. So I hope those people

0:39.9

stick with us. And we've covered everything from overcoming fear of presenting to how to find

0:45.2

a new job, building your network, whether you're an introvert or an extrovert. And if there are

0:50.0

other topics that you're interested in as covering that you've not heard us talk about yet, please do you get in touch because we always really love to hear from you. I think it's one of the

0:57.6

things that I'm finding most rewarding as well, other than having time to talk to you every week

1:01.9

about stuff that we love, also hearing from people who have found value in our podcast or

1:08.5

they just want to share their thoughts with us and it's on i don't know it's on

1:11.6

lincoln or on twitter and i just it's so nice so please if you're enjoying this or you've got ideas

1:17.8

do get in touch with us because we read all of the comments and we take all of your feedback and ideas

1:22.3

into our kind of planning for the next podcast i think it's fair to say that we have both had quite a tough week

1:28.3

this week. Yeah. And for various different reasons. And I think the shining light in both of our

1:34.3

week has been individual WhatsApp messages or the occasional email saying how much people are

1:39.6

enjoying the podcast. Yeah. So we're here on a Friday recording it after quite a tough week,

1:43.6

but full of energy and feeling positive because of all of that lovely feedback. So we're here on a Friday recording it after quite a tough week, but full of energy

1:45.0

and feeling positive because of all of that lovely feedback. So thank you. Yeah, thank you very

1:50.0

much. So let's get on to today. We're going to be talking about, I think, a topic that we

1:54.7

have become increasingly passionate about over the past four or five years, and that's flexibility

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