Hi, I'm Helen and I'm Sarah.

And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast, a weekly podcast where we dive into the ins, outs, ups and downs of careers and give you some ideas for action, some tools to take away.

We basically just try to help people have a little bit more confidence and control over their career development.

And today we're talking about the five skills to succeed in a squiggly career.

We're so proud that we've now got to a point where we've sold 50,000 copies of the squiggly career,

which when I think back to writing that book, if somebody had told me that many people are going to read it,

I think I would have got, you know, writer's block and probably would have never finished it.

But we're really grateful to everybody who has spent time with either the Squiggly career.

Perhaps you've tried out our new video book or you've just been listening to the podcast for three, four years now.

And everything that we tried to do, we really want it to be useful.

Useful is our number one value at Amazing If. So our books are designed to be scribbled in.

The video book has got worksheets to download as you watch. Our podcasts have always got the

one page pod sheet summaries and the pod notes and pod plus. And so we really want to make

sure that you have got ideas for action that are really useful today, tomorrow, next week,

and that you can keep coming back to and keep using. So that's why we thought we've actually

never done an episode on the Five Skills to Sucigley Career, which was sort of the starting point actually for

our workshops back in 2013. So we've been testing these ideas for a long time. And so what we've

tried to do today is bring together. It's almost sort of the best of what we know has worked with

all of our learners. And I think if you've got the book, it's a good recap. And if you're maybe

thinking about it, it's just a good insight into what more is there within the pages. And so really quick recap of

the skills to succeed in a squiggly career. There are five. The first one is strengths, then values,

confidence, network and possibilities. And we're going to go through exactly what those skills are and why we think

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