Hi everyone and welcome to this week's Squiggly Career podcast. I'm Sarah, one of the founders of

Amazing If and I'm joined by my co-host Helen. Hello everyone. And tonight we're going to be talking

about a long overdue topic because we keep promising to talk about it but never actually talk

about it, which is values.

And we thought it would be helpful just to start with values, thinking about what they are, why they matter, why they matter for you, and also really why they matter in the context of Squiggly Careers.

Because that's all what this podcast is all about for anyone who's a new listener this week.

Hello and welcome. And everything we tried to do on the Squiggly Career podcast is all about for anyone who's a new listener this week, hello and welcome. And everything we try to do

on the squiggly career podcast is all about helping people to develop the skills that we all need

in this increasingly squiggly career and world of work. And values are essentially the things that

make you, you. And I think a good way to think about values are they're the

things that motivate and drive you. They're very personal to you and they're really the things that

when you're living your values, both in work and outside of work, you feel really happy

and motivated and they have a really big impact I think on how much you're

enjoying what you're doing and when those values are not around or not present or get taken

away in some way shape or form it's often when you become really unhappy in your career

and that squiggle is sort of more a sad squiggle rather than aaggle. A squaggle.

So I think the thing to think about when you think about values are these are the things that are really important to you.

And in terms of this squiggly career, the thing that I found most valuable discovering my

values has been that they help you to make better choices about your career in terms of

what are the things you want to do and why do you want to do those things.

And the kind of slight health warning at the start of talking about values, which is probably

why we've not taken it on, to be honest, until now, is that values definitely take time to

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