Quick Fixes: How to level up, job craft, and manage colleagues you can’t stand | Fixable
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🗓️ 1 September 2025
⏱️ 20 minutes
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In this Quick Fixes episode, Anne and Frances work to solve three different callers’ tricky work problems in under 20 minutes. One listener searches for the best way to level up his small business, the next plans to approach their manager about a dramatic role change, and a final caller is interviewing for a new leadership position that would require him to manage problematic colleagues.
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| 0:00.0 | Mickey could try to sell his car privately. |
| 0:03.0 | Or get it sold today with weed by any car. |
| 0:07.0 | He could spend days on end trying to sell to a bunch of time wasters. |
| 0:13.0 | Or selling a flash and head to the fun fair with the kids. |
| 0:17.0 | Proper gutted. |
| 0:20.0 | Or proper impressed. To get a quote in 30 seconds, kids. Proper gutted. |
| 0:22.6 | Or proper impressed. |
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| 0:33.2 | Hi everyone. |
| 0:39.5 | As summer vacation wraps up, some of you might not feel as enthusiastic about returning to the workplace, or maybe you're looking for ways to make your business or professional life flourish more. |
| 0:45.2 | Today, we're sharing an episode of Fixable, another TED podcast. Fixable is hosted by a leadership |
| 0:51.6 | coach, Ann Morris, and Harvard Business School professor Francis Fry, where they solve listeners' tricky work problems in under 20 minutes. |
| 0:59.7 | I think you'll enjoy today's episode about how to ask for that promotion, manage difficult coworkers, and grow your business. |
| 1:07.0 | If you enjoy this episode, check out more episodes of Fixable wherever you get your podcasts. |
| 1:16.2 | Welcome back to Fixable from the TED Audio Collective. |
| 1:19.7 | I'm your host, Anne Morris. |
| 1:21.2 | And I'm your co-host, Frances Fry. |
| 1:23.2 | Princess, this is a show where we believe meaningful change happens fast. |
| 1:26.9 | And we're going to model that for everyone today by answering three caller questions as thoughtfully as we can |
| 1:33.5 | in a single episode. |
| 1:34.9 | We're doing another quick fix, people, another quick fix. |
| 1:37.9 | We're going to cover a lot of ground today, as always, how to grow a new business, returning |
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