Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the squiggly careers podcast where every week we talk about a different topic to do with work and we share some ideas for action and tools to try out that we hope will help all of you as well as us navigate our squiggly careers with that bit more clarity, confidence and control.

And this week's topic is friendship at work. And it is a topic that has had a lot of interest

and we've had loads of questions from people when we talked about this being something

that we were potentially going to cover. And you know when you're like world's aligned because

you know you're going to talk about something? It was so today I was on LinkedIn and Reid Hoffman one of the co-founders of LinkedIn

has been posting a bit more content because they've updated their book the startup of you

which apparently Helen came out 20 years ago it's a bit daunting because we've got like an original copy.

Yeah.

How old does that make you feel?

I was like, oh my God.

So anyway, that came out 20 years ago.

They've updated it.

So he's obviously getting his opinion pieces out on LinkedIn.

And he's just delivered a speech at a graduation ceremony in the US.

And it was so interesting because he

chose to talk about friendship. So the thing that he picked as being important for career

success. And he said, oh, lots of people ask him about like mentoring and for lots of other bits

of advice. But his points are basically that friends, real friends will tell you what you need to

hear. And also you can end up almost like all helping each other. And you know that. points are basically that friends, real friends will tell you what you need to hear and also

you can end up almost like all helping each other and you know that sort of give us gain more

type mindset. So we'll link to it as part of the show notes and when we post the podcast just

because it's worth a watch. And also he clearly doesn't want to do too much of a formal graduation

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