#240 Sarah Ellis (Part 2): Confidence Gremlins & Squiggly Motherhood

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🗓️ 16 January 2020

⏱️ 33 minutes

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Today's guest is Sarah Ellis who spent the first part of her career working in Marketing & Corporate Responsibility for brands including Boots, Barclays and Sainsbury's. She co-founded Amazing If - as a side-hustle - with her friend Helen Tupper. They describe their path as being accidental entrepreneurs and they recognise that the world of linear and predictable career ladders are disappearing. Instead, careers are now much more 'squiggly', where changing roles, industries and careers frequently and fluidly is becoming the new normal. Together they wanted to help everyone to develop the skills to succeed in a squiggly career in a way that is useful and relevant for today's world of work. Sarah has an MBA with distinction from Warwick Business School and has studied at both London and Harvard business schools.

In this episode we discuss confidence gremlins, getting comfortable with disagreements, and the highs and lows of motherhood.

This is part two of our Squiggly Career conversation, check out part one if you haven't already!

I deffo recommend getting a copy of the Squiggly Career! It's a fantastically helpful book. You can also listen to their weekly podcast 'Squiggly Careers' - I've also been on as a guest recently. If you liked this episode please do rate or review so others can find it :)

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0:00.0	This episode of Control-Or Delete is sponsored by King Fisher, the company behind
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0:41.0	competitive salaries, private health care for the family, and an outstanding pension scheme.
0:46.0	So if you're interested, go to careers. Kingfisher.com today to find out more about their tech and digital roles.
0:53.7	Thank you so much to King Fisher for sponsoring this podcast.
0:56.7	Hello and welcome back to another episode of Control-Alt Delete.
1:07.0	This is part two of my conversation with Sarah Ellis, co-founder of Amazing If, an author of the Squiggly Career Book.
1:14.4	It's a book about playing to your strengths, discovering your values, overcoming confidence
1:19.1	gremlins, and building better support networks.
1:22.4	If you haven't already, go back and listen to part one with
1:25.6	Sarah before you continue. It's all about embracing a squiggly career, explaining what it is, and
1:31.5	why it seems most of us are saying goodbye to the outdated notion of the career ladder.
1:37.0	I really like this quote from the first episode. She says,
1:40.0	spend 80% of your time making your strengths stronger and spend 20% mitigating your weaknesses
1:46.4	so that you're just good enough. I think so many of us try and be good at absolutely
1:51.5	everything and it's just not possible so I really like what she was saying there.
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