#484 How Role modelling leads to rewards for your career

Squiggly Careers

The Squiggly Career

Management, Careers, Business

5 • 809 Ratings

🗓️ 17 June 2025

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

We often talk about the value of having a role model - someone to learn from and be inspired by. But what about the impact of being a role model?

In this week’s episode, Helen and Sarah explore how being a role model can support your development, raise your profile, and help you build stronger connections at work. When you're intentional about how you show up, you attract opportunities and create a community around your work. They explore practical ideas to help you decide your role model focus, borrow brilliance, and put role modelling into practice in your day-to-day work.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen and this is the Squiggly Careers podcast. Every week we talk about a
0:08.7	different topic to do with work and share some ideas and actions to help us all navigate our
0:14.0	increasingly Swiggly Careers without a bit more confidence and control. And if you are a fan at the
0:18.9	Squiggly Careers podcast you probably already know that we have a weekly newsletter called Squiggly Careers in action but if you are a fan at the Squiggly Careers podcast, you probably already know that we
0:21.5	have a weekly newsletter called Squiggly Careers in Action. But if you are new, we suggest you sign up
0:26.3	because you'll get all the links to the podcast, you'll get all of our tools to help you keep learning,
0:30.4	and you'll get some secret-ish behind-the-scenes stuff too. I mean, secret-ish, it's probably on LinkedIn already. But, you know, if you're not on LinkedIn every day,
0:39.7	sign up to the newsletter and you'll see some of the fun stuff that we get to do as well.
0:41.0	You get to watch Helen how-toes,
0:42.6	which lots of people are talking to me about.
0:44.6	Good, I'm glad.
0:45.2	You with your giant yellow post-it notes.
0:47.1	I do think sometimes you must be like,
0:48.8	what is she doing now?
0:51.1	I've gone past that. Yeah, have you? Great. Good to know. Good to know.
0:54.5	Freedom is one of my values.
0:56.1	I know. I just leave it.
0:58.9	So today the topic that we are tackling is role modelling.
1:02.9	But perhaps from a slightly different perspective than we might normally talk about role modelling.
1:07.0	I think we might sometimes think about, you know, who is your role model.
1:10.6	And today we're going to think a bit more about the benefits of being a role model and how it is something that you can sort of be quite intentional about.
1:20.4	Because there are quite a lot of benefits for you in your career about being a role model.
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