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Squiggly Careers

#362 Squiggly Career Story: Pinky Lilani

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Business, Management, Careers

4.9838 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2023

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In this weeks episode Sarah talks to Pinky Lilani, CBE about her squiggly career story. Pinky shares how kindness, courage and people helping people have helped her to navigate her squiggly career so far. More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 1. Download our Squiggly Careers PodBook: https://rb.gy/orb0n5 2. Sign-up for PodMail, a weekly summary of the latest squiggly career tools https://rb.gy/2xyo8i 3. Read our books 'The Squiggly Career' and 'You Coach You' https://www.amazingif.com/books/ If you have any questions or feedback (which we love!) you can email us at helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com 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, I'm Sarah and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. Thanks so much to everybody who has

0:08.1

joined us for the 20-day skill sprint during August, or whenever you've been sprinting. We've had more

0:13.7

than 5,000 people signed up to sprint with us and the episodes aren't going anywhere so you can

0:18.3

start your sprints at any time that suits you. We'll also be sharing more ideas anywhere so you can start your sprint at any time that suits you.

0:26.1

We'll also be sharing more ideas for how you can sprint as a team or even as an organisation in September, so watch this space for those. If you've got any feedback on the sprint or podcast

0:31.8

topics that you'd like us to cover or even guests that you'd like to hear from, please get in

0:36.6

touch with us we're helen

0:37.7

and sarah at squiggly careers.com next week helen and i will be back with business as usual

0:43.5

exploring ideas and tools that will help you to find time to think who doesn't need to find a bit

0:48.9

more time to think during their working week but this week's episode is something a bit different

0:53.6

every so often we get the

0:55.7

chance to speak to someone about their squiggly career story. Stories are always such an inspiring

1:01.2

and memorable way to learn. And this week you're going to hear me in conversation with Pinky La Lana,

1:06.5

CBE. Pinky Squiggles include food guru, writer, entrepreneur, women's advocate, and Pinky brings to

1:14.5

life many of the skills we've been exploring together in the sprint, asking for help, curiosity,

1:19.5

resilience. But what particularly struck me about Pinky was her kindness, warmth and courage.

1:26.4

I have never felt so well looked after during a podcast

1:29.6

conversation. She invited me to her home and then cooked me an absolutely delicious curry for lunch

1:35.0

afterwards and sent me home with loads of snacks for my six-year-old Cern and things to try out.

1:41.1

And just spending time with Pinky left me with such a warm glow of opportunity and that

1:47.8

you can probably do more than you can imagine or give yourself credit for. I really hope by listening

1:52.8

to our conversation together, you get that same feeling and maybe this gives you the nudge that

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