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The Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS2, E10 The Career Coven: NegotiationIn the last episode of season 2, Bec and Annie discuss the skill of negotiation. Bec has a strong belief that everything in life is about negotiation, and this is one of her favourite skills to practice. Annie tends to rush negotiations, and push for outcomes, something which is a development area.Bec talks through how she prepares for negotiations, so that she feels confident and calm in her position. She outlines how firm but fair is often the best approach to negotiations - as in the majority of cases you’re negotiating with people who you will wo...2025-03-0659 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS2, E9 The Career Coven: The Ultimate 360 with Francesca Ward & Dani ConlonThis week’s episode is a risky experiment. Bec and Annie decided to put their chat to the test - by interviewing two people they’ve recently managed about what they’re really like. Annie interviews Francesca Ward, who Bec is currently managing. Francesca has done not one but two jobs with Bec - so knows her like the back of her hand. Bec has a chat with Dani Conlon, who was part of the team which Annie managed most recently. Dani doesn’t hold back - highlighting that Annie’s a ‘horse girl’…We’ve learned a lot about each o...2025-02-2043 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS2, E8 The Career Coven: Hiring & Careers with Clare MullenIn this week’s episode, Annie speaks to Clare Mullen. Clare is the Chief People Officer at the health-tech startup Scan.com. She works across the UK and the US to build that team. Annie and Bec decided, having an expert in interviewing on the show, we should probably focus on how to get a job from the perspective of someone who has really seen it all… over 20,000 interviews.Listen in to hear a discussion about: The top 3 most common problems you see in first interviews from the hirers perspective (and how to avoid them) Tips for...2025-02-0643 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS2, E7 The Career Coven: Career Planning & Self-DevelopmentIn this week’s episode Bec and Annie talk through self development, and how they’ve both approached building their careers. Whilst Bec has taken a very structured and deliberate approach to building her career, Annie’s career moves have been more opportunistic and often led by passion and gut instinct. Bec has a 3 year life plan, that helps her focus in on her progression and goals. They discuss the merits of both different approaches.Listen to this episode to hear more about: Resources we recommend to think about career progression and structure The roles we’ve both...2025-01-2346 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS2, E6 The Career Coven: Coaching with Seb AgertoftThis weeks episode is all about coaching. Both Annie and Bec have benefitted from coaching at different points in their career. They’ve also spoken about coaching at various points across season 1 and 2 of the Career Coven. In this weeks episode Bec speaks to Annie’s former coach - Seb Agertoft.This episode is for people who are either thinking about getting a coach or are interested in becoming a coach. By the way - Annie highly recommends working with Seb (the best coach she’s worked with in terms of outcomes).This episode covers: Se...2025-01-0950 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS2, E5 [Bonus!] The Career Coven: Listener QuestionsIn this week’s episode of the Career Coven Bec and Annie answer a series of questions from the listeners. They cover: Is there a dream job for everyone? How to balance finding your ‘dream job’ with working where you are now? Should we all be purpose driven in our jobs? How can you change culture in a highly political organisation? What to do when you’re managing engineers that don’t like to change their behaviour…And much more….Enjoying this content? Please rate and subscribe on your preferred platform, and let us know what you think...2024-11-2831 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS2, E4 The Career Coven: Building a Great Team with Lizzi AmarteyIn this week’s episode, Annie speaks to Lizzi Amartey. Lizzi is the Head of People at the UK non-profit Founders Pledge. Lizzi has worked across the globe in HR, and is passion about how to build diversity into teams. Annie and Bec decided that given Lizzi’s incredible background, we should focus the chat on how to build diverse and high performing teams.Listen in to hear a discussion about: Is there a ‘right’ construction of a team? What most often goes wrong when trying to build a team How to remove ‘bad apples’ from the team Ho...2024-11-1447 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS2, E3 The Career Coven: Being InterviewedThis week on the Career Coven, we talk about the process of being interviewed for a new job. It covers how to make a good first impression, how to develop a narrative around your own skills and whether or not to have notes in front of you during an interview. Bec shares her best and worst of interviews, and how she finds it easier to interview for jobs where your own experience is directly relevant. Annie share how candidates should also leave an interview with some value - it shouldn’t just feel like a one sided interrogation....2024-10-3146 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS2, E2 The Career Coven: Pregnancy at Work with Alice PeltonIn this week’s episode of the Career Coven, Bec interviews Alice Pelton who is the founder and CEO of the Lowdown. The Lowdown is a health platform - where women can research their health choices (used by over 2 million women per year). Alice and Bec have an honest conversation about what it’s really like being pregnant at work, and being a leader. Bec felt that there were lots of parts of becoming pregnant which were not explained to her at all, and both Bec and Annie feel that pregnancy at work is something that is not openly disc...2024-10-1756 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS2, E1 The Career Coven: How to Quit (and some life updates!)On the first episode of their second season, Annie and Bec talk how to quit your job. They discuss when to quit, how to quit, and whether it’s ever a good idea to go out in a blaze of glory. Like most people, Annie and Bec debate whether it’s always best to have your next job lined up when you quit, or just to go.Listen to this episode to hear more about: How to think about job tenure Job scenarios when you may want to quit Job scenarios when you don’t want to qui...2024-10-0352 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS1, E10 The Career Coven: FeedbackIn this last episode of season one, Annie shares her deep love of feedback, and some techniques to help make giving feedback less painful. As usual, Bec holds Annie to account on giving clear examples of these tools things actually work in practice. Whilst we both agree giving feedback is important, and that it should be specific and not vague but Bec is possibly less obsessed with feedback than Annie overall. Listen into this episode to hear us answer listener questions on: Is all feedback worth listening to? When I get feedback I don’t want to hear, I...2024-07-1249 min
The Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS1, E9 The Career Coven: Hybrid WorkingIn this episode we talk about the importance of trust in making hybrid working work! Bec is a huge fan of hybrid working, whilst Annie can see more benefits of working in the office for some of the week. Listen into this episode to get tips on: How to get your team to come back into the office (carrot vs stick) The social importance of working in the office How employers have a responsibility to make the office environment productive Which work is best done in an office vs at home How hybrid working has positively impacted caregivers...2024-06-2750 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS1, E8 The Career Coven: ResilienceWe all need resilience - in work, and in life. Recovering from setbacks is part of everyones journey. In this episode, Bec and Annie cover times when we’ve not felt resilient, our own ‘watch out’ signs that our resilience may be low, and what we both do to maintain our resilience now. They talk about the importance of having a longer term mindset, and spending time on self care can be critical to increasing your resilience and recovering from burnout.Listen to find out answers to: Do you have be optimistic to be resilient? Can you fi...2024-06-1455 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS1, E7 The Career Coven: Imposter SyndromeThe most requested topic by our listeners - attempted by us for the first time. Annie and Bec discovered in researching imposter syndrome that they’ve both had it, and they’ve both recovered (almost) from it. We cover what imposter syndrome, and how it’s linked to structures in society. We also discuss the importance of having a growth mindset in overcoming imposter syndrome, as well as more light hearted tips and tricks that can help you in moments where you feel like an imposter.This entire episode is structured around listener questions, and we look at a c...2024-05-301h 03The Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS1, E6 [Bonus!] The Career Coven: Listener questionsIn this episode, Annie and Bec give you a career coven palate cleanser and answer some audience questions which have been left since the start of the podcast. It’s a “snippy snappy” episode, to use Bec’s words, where we both alternate in giving answers.We cover questions like: Born to lead, or learn to lead? Can you have work-life balance as a leader? How to build up your confidence after set backs How can you start a side hustle alongside a job? How useful is it to do an MBA?Enjoying this content? Please c...2024-05-1645 min
The Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS1, E5 The Career Coven: Managing UpAnnie takes the lead in this episode, having strong feelings about how she likes her team to manage upwards to her. We discuss the importance of preparing for your line management meetings, knowing and communicating exactly what you need from your line manager, and establishing your boundaries early. Annie shares how one of the most common things people forget when managing upwards is that often, you are a small part of your managers whole job and responsibilities. Sometimes, this can lead to people feeling overlooked or unimportant - when really it’s about the time people have to invest ac...2024-05-0346 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS1, E4 The Career Coven: AssertivenessIn this episode, Bec and Annie discuss the importance of being assertive but how it takes energy and is not always needed. Bec finds being assertive very easy - but this means she sometimes has to watch her tone and hold her breath. Whilst Annie is perceived as very assertive or direct, but doesn’t actually think she is assertive for much of the week.You’ll hear about how being assertive is related to confidence, but not exactly the same thing. We agree that assertiveness is generally important for progression, but it’s a tool that’s part o...2024-04-1845 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS1, E3 The Career Coven: LeadershipIn the third episode of the Career Coven, Bec and Annie discuss leadership. We discuss the best and worst leadership characteristics we've seen our respective careers. You'll hear about how leaders can't be everything to the people they lead; and how expectations differ on female and male leaders. We both agree on the importance of a ‘well done’. You'll hear about our own personal leadership styles and values, and some of the mistakes we've made in leadership.You’ll also hear us unpack some great questions from women on: Why are there so many people in leader...2024-04-0542 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS1, E2 The Career Coven: BoundariesOur second ep of the Career Coven is on boundaries - the things that keep you sane, and can also drive you insane. In this episode we hear from Bec who has spent a lot of time thinking about boundaries, and Annie who is in her boundary ‘discovery’ era. We talk about types of boundaries, experimentation, the opportunity cost of saying ‘yes’ to everything, professional boundaries, the role of communication, powering through the awkwardness and guilt, and why is it that senior leaders all have weird niche hobbies? Because they have boundaries.You’ll also hear us unpack som...2024-03-2242 minThe Career Coven, with Bec & AnnieS1, E1 The Career Coven: Confidence (and a warm welcome!)Welcome to the first episode of our podcast The Career Coven with Bec Ellul and Annie Coleridge (and Annie’s dog Susan, who loves to have her voice heard too). We want to help women in their careers shortcut the hard parts we have faced through candid conversation and sharing what’s helped us, to accelerate women into leadership.Our first episode is a biggie and it’s on confidence. In this episode we’ll cover the role of confidence as a motivator and indicator of more likely successful outcomes; perfectionism vs the 80/20 rule; how we handle our peri...2024-03-071h 02
The NDA PodcastWalk Like a ManFemale leadership is on everyone’s radar, as the industry works to reverse the sad statistics of the gender split at the top. While we should be celebrating the women who’ve made it there, not many people are asking, how did you manage it? With all the barriers and biases in the way, how did you tackle them? Especially in environments that aren’t set up for women to succeed.In this week’s episode, we hypothesise that the changing of the tide might not be because the industry is creating space for female leadership, but beca...2022-09-281h 06
DENTRO DEL CÍRCULO | con Javier ReyDDC 29 / 31 MAR / Steep GlossDentro Del Círculo es un programa creado por Javier Rey, que se emite en el canal de Audiotalia en Twitch. El programa de esta entrada corresponde a la emisión del 31-03-2022 y esta disponible 60 días después de su emisión, en su formato original audio visual en Twitch y en formato podcast de audio en vuestras plataformas favoritas.
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Hoax Busters Call: Conspiracy or just Theory?Call 527-Hoax Busters-Texas Wll Fry Your BaconIn sum, thought and reflection have been rendered thoroughly pointless by the circumstances in which modern men and women live and act. -Jacques Ellul Air Conditioning DIY Recharge(hypothetical), The Ozone Hole, The BP Oil Spill, Sunglasses, The Bates Method, Cheetos, Retarded House Cats, World as Laboratory by Rebecca Lemov, Beardsley Ruml, Social Engineering, Tavistock, Texas Prison Pigs Get Cool Climate,-Inmates Get Unbearably Hot,-TDCJ Gets Money, Podcasting,Artificial Intelligence. hoaxbusterscall.com2017-07-2500 min