Hello and welcome to this week's Squiggly Career Podcast. My name is Helen and one of the co-founders of a business called Amazing If and I am here as ever with my other co-founder Sarah. Hi everyone. And if you're new to the Squiggly Careers podcast, I should probably just take one minute to tell you what it is, why we spend our time talking to you every week about careers. Sarah and I,

and what we do with Amazing If, it's all about helping people to develop the skills to succeed

in a squiggly career because what we recognise is that the shape of careers has changed quite a lot.

The careers that we thought we might have had were kind of more predictable, more linear,

but the careers that we are experiencing and a lot of the people that we coach and train are experiencing, there's a lot more change in them.

They're moving around their organisations more.

They're not staying in roles as long as they thought they would.

Maybe they're moving professions or countries.

Maybe they're trying different types of work, so they're doing full-time or part-time or

flexible or remote.

And there's just still almost a lot more

more diversity and what we've realized is that that can feel great because it can give you loads more

chances to grow but it can also feel a bit scary if you've not got the right skills to help you stay in

control of that and that is exactly why we want to help people in all the ways that we do that. This podcast is just one of the ways.

You can go to Amazingif.com if you want to read about some of the other things that we do.

But this is our kind of weekly dose of actionable stuff to help you with your career.

And this week, the thing that we're going to be talking about is kind of like career funks,

when you feel a bit stuck in your career.

And where this came from was we do a daily Instagram story where we do a really really quick career tip every day on Instagram stories

and I was doing one about two weeks ago because I was having a bit of a day and work and I was

like oh I can't find my mojo basically and I did a poll not thinking much

about it asking the people that watch those stories every day you know whether they felt fine

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