Hello everyone and welcome to this week's Squiggly Careers podcast. I'm Helen and I am joined by my co-host Sarah.

Hi everyone. Today we're going to be talking about happiness at work, which is sort of implied in I think in every episode we do.

It's all about helping people to be kind of happier at work and to be their best at work. But we've never actually covered it as a single episode. And so we wanted to get into a little bit of some of the

research around happiness at work, why it's important, why it matters where we're at at the

moment in terms of like happiness levels at work, maybe share a little bit about our definitions

of what happiness means to us and then really get into some small actions that make a big difference

in terms of all of our happiness at work.

And whether that's for you or maybe things that you can do to help other people,

that's the main focus of today.

And at the end of the podcast, we've started to introduce a new mini feature

where people are sharing their best pieces of career advice with us.

And today you'll hear from Joe, who runs Amazing If over in Amsterdam.

And if you'd like to get your voice and your words of wisdom on the podcast, just record

your advice as a sound clip. Helen has done an Instagram post on how to do this.

And you just email it to us at get in touch at amazing if.com.

If somebody has told you something that has just really stuck with you or just been worth

its weight in gold, let us know and hopefully it will make an appearance on the podcast at some

point. So shall we kick off now with a bit about what we know about happiness and how to

think about happiness at work? I think that probably the most fundamental thing on happiness that I've seen more from a research

perspective is Sean Acker's work.

And Sean is a positive psychologist.

And in summary, the thing that he's proven with his research is that success doesn't

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