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Welcome to Work is Weird Now—the podcast that explores the mysteries and oddities of work in the modern age.
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E64: The 'What Now' series wrap with Alice and Dan (opens the original)
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What Now? Series wrap-up Every so often, work asks you a question you didn't plan for. The family you imagined doesn't arrive. The country you live in changes. The job disappears. And you're left with the same two words: what now? In this solo episode, Alice and Dan wrap up the What Now? mini-series, bringing together what three very different conversations with Chloe Alana Williams, Christer Berggren and Emy Cragoe revealed about career change, certainty and what we’re really working for. They
E63: You've been made redundant, Now what? With Emy Cragoe (opens the original)
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The third episode in our "What Now" mini-series, exploring the questions people are really asking themselves when the old rules of work and life no longer apply, tackles redundancy. This week's guest, Emy Cragoe, co-founder of Ori, a new platform rethinking how people understand themselves, navigate their careers, and communicate their value, makes the case for flipping the stigma around redundancy entirely. After redundancy prompted her own career rethink, Emy is now building the tool she wishe
E62: What if where you live matters more than what you do? With Christer Berggren (opens the original)
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Continuing our "What Now" mini-series on the questions people are really asking themselves when the old rules of work and life no longer apply, this episode turns to place. This week's guest, Christer "Chris" Berggren, a Swedish senior project and production professional, community builder and advocate for location independent living now based in Bulgaria, has spent three decades proving that where you live can matter more than what you do. Chris was living a nomadic life in touring and events b
E61: If family is no longer the plan, what are we working for? With Chloe Williams (opens the original)
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For generations, adulthood came with a promise: work hard, progress in your career, buy a house, start a family. This episode kicks off our new "What Now" mini-series, digging into the questions people are really asking themselves when the old rules no longer apply. Our first guest, strategist and writer Chloe Alana Williams, co-founder of 8th Day, describes the old promise as a three-legged stool. For anyone entering the workforce now, all three legs have been kicked out. In this episode, Chloe
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