Success isn't linear: 5 steps to finally start defining your own path with The Squiggly Career experts

The Motherkind Podcast

Parenting, Kids & Family

4.8 • 837 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Welcome back to our special series on motherhood and work. We're so excited to bring you today's episode with Helen Tupper and Sarah Ellis, who you will probably know from their best selling book, Squiggly Careers. In this episode, you are going to learn what makes a career squiggly (the non-linear route to success) and the ways motherhood has impacted Sarah and Helen's ambition and careers. They talk about how they made the transition from corporate into running their own careers consultancy and the amazing, quite surprising, advice they have for anyone wanting to do the same thing. You're also going to learn the five key skills that you need to have squiggly career and how to develop them if you're looking to pivot, experiment with your work or make a change. This episode is honest and packed full of practical advice which will hopefully leave you with inspiration to start your own squiggly career. Click Here to order your copy of 'Motherkind: A New Way to Thrive in a World of Endless Expectations’ Motherkind is sponsored by Wild Nutrition, the brand raising the bar for women’s supplements. Want to feel the Food-Grown difference yourself? Get 50% off for three months at wildnutrition.com/motherkind. Ts and Cs apply. Discover the May App here: ⁠⁠⁠https://app.adjust.com/1od0zbe1?campaign=The+Motherkind+Podcast⁠⁠⁠ For a £100 sponsored job credit, visit Indeed.com/ Motherkind Get 40% off a Calm premium subscription at calm.com/motherkind Get 15% off OneSkin with the code MOTHERKIND at https://www.oneskin.co/ #oneskinpodContinue the Conversation: Join our community over on Instagram for inspiration, tips, and sometimes a bit of humour to get us through our day - @zoeblaskey Join our mailing list to receive news, updates and new episode releases Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Motherkind. We are proudly sponsored by wild nutrition's women's supplements. I am your host, Zoe Blaski, and this is the show that's going to grab you by the hand and be your guide through the wild ride. That is modern motherhood. Every week, I bring you
0:21.5	world leading experts and thinkers to give us new ideas, new tools, new support, new
0:26.2	inspiration for our lives as mothers. We span everything from work to relationships, to mental
0:32.2	health and healing, to parenting. And I am very happy that you are here. This is the Motherkind
0:37.4	work mini-series,
0:38.8	which you have all been loving, especially the first episode of the series where I shared for the
0:43.5	first time ever my journey from exiting corporate to starting motherkind. So if you haven't
0:49.2	listened to that, definitely go back and check it out. In fact, go back and check out all the
0:53.0	series so far with three episodes in and it is going to be so supportive wherever you are on your work, motherhood
0:59.6	path. So on to this episode, I'm so excited for you to hear this one. It is with Helen Tupper and
1:05.7	Sarah Ellis. He will probably know from their best selling book, Squiggly Careers. In this episode, you are going to learn
1:11.9	what makes a career Squiggly, the non-linear route to success. The different ways motherhood has
1:18.5	impacted Sarah and Helen's ambition and careers and how they made the transition from corporate
1:23.7	into running their own careers consultancy and the amazing quite surprising advice
1:29.2	they have for anyone wanting to do the same thing you're also going to learn the five
1:34.2	key skills that you need to have a squiggly career and how to develop them if you want to
1:40.3	pivot experiment with your work or change careers i I loved this episode. It's honest.
1:47.1	It's packed full of practical advice. And I hope it's going to leave you with inspiration and
1:52.6	hopefully a feeling of possibility for your own squiggly career. Please do share this episode if you
2:00.5	loved it. Pop it in your mum's WhatsApp group,
2:02.9	pop it on LinkedIn. There is so much noise and pressure and judgment out there for us mothers.
2:09.2	Let's be the moms. Let's be those people that are spreading positivity and possibility.
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