5 formulas for a high impact introduction

Squiggly Careers

AmazingIf

Careers, Business, Management

4.9 • 838 Ratings

🗓️ 27 January 2026

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

How do you introduce yourself in a way that turns a polite “nice to meet you” into a genuine “tell me more”? In this episode, Helen and Sarah are Borrowing brilliance from Rebecca Okamoto’s TED Talk How to Introduce Yourself and Get Hired. They unpack five simple formulas you can use to make high-impact introductions — whether you’re meeting someone new, speaking at an event, or kicking off a meeting. This episode is all about short, practical introductions that help you be heard, remembered, and taken seriously. Episode 526 🦞 Pre-order Learn Like A Lobster 🇺🇸 PRH US - https://bit.ly/3KxTeBn 🇬🇧 Amazon UK - https://amzn.to/3KcRZaR 🎯 What You’ll Learn - How to introduce yourself clearly and confidently - Five practical formulas you can adapt for different situations - Why “tell me more” is the goal of a great introduction - How to make introductions feel natural, not scripted - How to use questions to build connection quickly 📚 Resources Mentioned How to Introduce Yourself and Get Hired — Rebecca Okamoto (TED Talk) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_N3PGvnVKg Impactful Introductions GPT - https://bit.ly/Impactful_Introductions 🔔S𝐮𝐛𝐬𝐜𝐫𝐢𝐛𝐞 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐮𝐩𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬:https://www.youtube.com/@SquigglyCareers?sub_confirmation=1 If you enjoyed this episode, you may also like: ▶️ https://youtu.be/NwgbPJ-pvao ▶️ https://youtu.be/c4Bm6IDGOKM ▶️ https://youtu.be/jdhXZrrc6nY For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, please email helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers: 📩 Download our free career tools: https://www.amazingif.com/toolkit/ 📮 Get Squiggly Careers in Action in your inbox: https://bit.ly/SquigglyCareersInAction 📚 Read our books: The Squiggly Career and You Coach You: https://www.amazingif.com/books/ 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, it's Helen from the Squiggly Careers podcast. And before you listen to today's episode, I just
0:04.9	want to let you know about some news that Sarah and I are very excited about. And that is that our new
0:09.3	book, Learn Like a Lobster, is ready to pre-order now. We really care about everybody learning and
0:15.9	growing at work, but we know it is not easy to do. And so we're borrowing some brilliance from lobsters to help you to do it.
0:22.9	The book takes three inspiring and surprising abilities of lobsters in terms of how they grow
0:29.0	and applies it to how we can learn at work. So if you want some inspiration and you need some
0:34.0	practical insights to support your learning, growth and development. This is the book for you.
0:38.6	And if you pre-order now and send your pre-order to hello at learn like a lobster.com,
0:43.9	you can join the lobster library where we have a community of lobster learners ready for you to learn with,
0:50.1	some live sessions, and this will all happen before the book arrives.
0:55.4	So pre-order the book now,
1:00.7	send it to hello at learn like a lobster.com and get started with your learning straight away.
1:02.9	Now let's get on to today's episode.
1:10.4	Hi, I'm Sarah and I'm Helen. And this is the Squiggly Careers podcast where every week we borrow some brilliance from a person,
1:12.5	a place, even an object from time to time, and we turn that curiosity into ideas for action
1:19.1	for you and your squiggly career in a way that we hope is useful and relevant wherever you are
1:25.1	and whatever you do.
1:27.0	And so today it is my turn to borrow a bit of
1:29.1	brilliance and use it to spark our conversation. And I've got a person times a place. So the person
1:35.6	is Rebecca Okamoto and the place is Ted. And we're going to talk about her new talk,
1:40.7	which is called How to Introduce Yourself and Get Hired. And I saw it, I think I, I don't know what email came into my inbox, but I clicked for two reasons.
1:50.1	Are you applying for some jobs?
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