Hi, I'm Helen Tupper. And I'm Sarah Ellis. And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast where each week we talk about the ups and downs and ins and outs of our squiggly careers and hopefully give you some helpful things to help you navigate it and lots of ideas for action that you can take away after listening. And today we are going to be talking about how to own your reputation at work.

It is a topic that Sarah and I have, we've written about three different formats for this conversation

today, everyone, because I tried to make it as practical as possible. But reputation is a really,

really big topic. And I've managed to make us have a matrix. I feel like we've been missing a matrix on

the podcast for a little while, Sarah. And today is a matrix moment. Brilliant. I think we could

have kept talking about this for even longer. So it's a good one, hopefully, to get you started and to

really think about the actions that you can take to build your reputation.

And we were reflecting on why does reputation matter in the work that we do and in the careers and where our careers could take us. I think it's really important. If you know what you want

to build your reputation for and that intent is consistent with the impact that you're having,

you are much more likely for yourself, I think, to spot opportunities to do more of the work that you want to do,

but also to be spotted for work and for possibilities and opportunities.

And I think because you never now know in Squiggly Careers, where your career could take you,

Helen described us to me,

and it really made sense in my mind, is sort of like your reputation ripples. So once you know

what you want to build your reputation for, if you can create as many reputation ripples as

possible, you just stand more of a chance, I think, of doing interesting work that feels really

meaningful. It's interesting now. I was at a party last night.

So we're recording early in the morning now.

I was at party last night where I met lots of people that I wasn't aware of,

but they were aware of me because my reputation ripples, I think, had gone quite far in

the work that we do.

And there was quite a lot of consistency in what I was known for in that particular room. And so for me, that's kind of signal of the ripples are going quite far

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