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 fellow co-founder Helen. Hello everybody. And we're here as always with our

weekly dose of career actions, hints, tips, inspiration, all about how to successfully

navigate the squiggly careers that we all find

ourselves in these days. And today's topic, I think, is a particularly interesting one. It's how to be

yourself at work. I've been thinking a lot about how to be yourself at work this week in preparation

for this podcast. And it's one of those areas where I think it's really easy to say and it's great in theory but the actual practice of this is really hard

and we were looking to see who was kind of the real leader

in terms of thought leadership in this area

and there's a guy called Mike Robbins who's worth checking out actually

and he's done some videos about bringing your whole

self to work written a book about the topic and he actually defines this area as

showing up authentically leading with humility and remembering that we're all

vulnerable imperfect human beings doing the best that we can I feel that's quite it's

almost like we're just doing the best we can everybody I know it that that's quite, it's almost like we're just doing the best we can everybody.

I know.

It's quite honest.

Yeah.

But I like the kind of the mix of things.

There's actually quite a lot in what you just said.

And to kind of typify this, I've actually had the kind of the perfect experience today of meeting not for the first time a lady called Pip Jameson and Pip is the founder

one of the few female tech founders actually of a company called the dots and if you've not heard

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