Is This Working?

*This week's episode of Is This Working is brought to you by Worksome, the platform for discovering and hiring the best freelance talent in the UK: https://worksome.co.uk*

In this week's episode, we're talking about burnout. Is modern work to blame or could it be the cure? Anna shares a story about feeling disengaged at work and not knowing why. We discuss the current conversation around burnout and talk about strategies for overcoming it.

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Links 

• How Millennials Became The Burnout Generation by Anne Helen Peterson for Buzzfeed: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/annehelenpetersen/millennials-burnout-generation-debt-work
• The World Health Organisation's definition of burnout: https://www.who.int/mental_health/evidence/burn-out/en/
• An Alternative Freelance Narrative by Anna Codrea-Rado: https://theprofessionalfreelancer.substack.com/p/an-alternative-freelance-narrative
• Four Ways to Prevent Burnout, Kati Morton on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AzghhXXmNRo
• Burnout, The Secret to Solving The Stress Cycle by Emily & Amelia Nagoski
• Worksome: https://worksome.co.uk

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*This week's episode of Is This Working is brought to you by Worksome, the platform for discovering and hiring the best freelance talent in the UK: https://worksome.co.uk/*

On the show, we talk about getting fired and why there's such a stigma around losing our jobs. Tiffany talks about how she got fired from a startup and Anna shares her own experiences of redundancy.

We discuss why getting fired is still such a taboo and we share practical tips for dealing the loss of a job.

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We want to hear from you because this podcast is all about how we can improve your working lives. Get in touch with any questions you have about your working life. 

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Links

• Getting Fired At 29 Was The Best Thing To Happen To Me, Tiffany Philippou for Refinery29: https://www.refinery29.com/amp/en-gb/2019/07/237705/getting-fired-how-to-get-another-job
• The Mental-Health Consequences of Unemployment, Rebecca J Ronse for The Atlantic: https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2014/06/the-mental-health-consequences-of-unemployment/372449/
• 25 Famous Women on How Getting Fired Makes You Stronger by Julie Ma for The Cut: https://www.thecut.com/2017/01/25-famous-women-on-getting-fired-and-how-it-makes-you-stronger.html
• Dear HBR podcast on firings: https://hbr.org/podcast/2018/07/firings
• Worksome: https://worksome.co.uk/

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In this week’s episode we’re talking about privilege and we’ve invited journalist and campaigner, Vicky Spratt to talk to us about what class has to do with our work. 

Vicky Spratt reports on housing and society. Her Make Rent Fair campaign led to the introduction of the Tenants Fee Act, which has resulted in the ban on letting fees for tenants renting in the private sector. Her first book, Tenants, will be published next year. Her work centres on a central theme – how the mechanisms of class structure in this country inform our social policy and affect all of our lives, whether we realise it or not.

The three of us sit down and have a hard conversation about privilege and we get to grips with how difficult it is for those from diverse backgrounds to break into elite professions. 

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Links 

• I changed my accent to make myself sound posher – even that wasn’t enough for some wealthy friends, Vicky Spratt, The i paper: https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/i-changed-my-accent-to-make-myself-sound-posher-even-that-wasnt-enough-for-some-wealthy-friends/ How to Break into the Elite, BBC Two: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000772n
• Only 7% of the general population have been privately educated, but a third of MPs have been privately educated: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-32692789
• Two thirds of Boris Johnson’s cabinet are privately educated: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/private-school-boris-johnson-cabinet-reshuffle-ministers-sutton-trust-eton-college-a9020266.html

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In this week’s episode, we ask what’s really making us ditch the 9-5 to go freelance?

Anna shares her experience of going self-employed after losing her job in a round of redundancy. She talks about how she found the experience of working for herself a lot more fulfilling and empowering than she’d expected but that at the same time, the solution to feeling discontented in a job can't be for everyone to just quit. 

We then discuss what the rise in freelancing, particularly among women, tells us about work culture as a whole (spoiler alert: it’s broken.) 

In our final segment, we talk about what we can do to improve our individual situations if we’re struggling with a work problem and what needs to change on a macro level to make work better suited for everyone.

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We want to hear from you because this podcast is all about how we can improve your working lives. Get in touch with any questions you have about your working life. 

Email: [email protected]

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Buy Tiffany Philippou's book, Totally Fine (and other lies I've told myself): https://buff.ly/3FpHKZa

Listen to our new podcast: Totally Fine with Tiffany Philippou: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/totally-fine-with-tiffany-philippou/id1612599165

Buy Anna Codrea Rado's book, You're the business: https://linktr.ee/yourethebusiness

Links 

Work Isn't Working: The Real Reason More Women Are Going Freelance, Anna Codrea-Rado, Refinery 29: https://www.refinery29.com/en-gb/2019/07/236272/how-to-go-freelance

IPSE research on the rise in solo employment: https://www.ipse.co.uk/resource/self-employment-in-the-modern-economy.html

Twitter thread on why more women journalists are going freelance: https://twitter.com/LucyPasha/status/1155921657636302849

IPSE research disabled people choosing to go freelance: https://www.ipse.co.uk/ipse-news/news-listing/disabled-self-employment-let-down-government.html 

NYU study on the allure of self-employment for women and minorities: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S1053482203000214

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On this week's episode, we ask what does success look like in the Instagram age? 

Anna shares her story about the early days of what is now her very successful newsletter, The Professional Freelancer. She talks about that moment when she almost gave up but tells us why she didn’t. 

We try to get to grips with why humans have always had the desire to be famous and how in modern culture success appears to happen overnight. We then ask how this drive for external validation in our society impacts normal working environments. 

In the last segment of the show, we share how we’ve redefined success so we hope you too can think about what success really means to you in today’s working world. 

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We want to hear from you because this podcast is all about how we can improve your working lives. Get in touch with any questions you have about your working life. 

Email: [email protected]

Tweet: @isthis_working

Links 

• Have we hit peak podcast? By Jennifer Miller in The New York Times: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/18/style/why-are-there-so-many-podcasts.html 
• Arianna Huffington’s The Iceberg Illusion on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/Bz_EHwyBkf9/
• Why The Rise Of 'Work Porn' Is Making Us Miserable, by Vicky Spratt in Grazia: https://graziadaily.co.uk/life/real-life/work-influencers-instagram
• On the Origin of Celebrity, by Robert Sapolsky in Nautilus: http://nautil.us/issue/5/fame/on-the-origin-of-celebrity 
• The Fame Motive by Benedict Carey in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/health/psychology/22fame.html 
• You Accomplished Something Great. So Now What? AC Shilton in the NYT: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/05/28/smarter-living/you-accomplished-something-great-so-now-what.html
• Happier: Learn the Secrets to Daily Joy and Lasting Fulfillment by Tal Ben-Shahar 
• Getting Fired At 29 Was The Best Thing To Happen To Me by Tiffany Philippou in Refinery29: https://www.refinery29.com/amp/en-gb/2019/07/237705/getting-fired-how-to-get-another-job
• A kinder, gentler definition of success, TED talk about Alain de Botton: https://www.ted.com/talks/alain_de_botton_a_kinder_gentler_philosophy_of_success 
• Phoebe Waller-Bridge on Elizabeth Day’s How To Fail podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/s5-ep2-how-to-fail-fleabag-is-back/id1407451189?i=1000443506972
• Reid Hoffman Masters of Scale podcast, Make Everyone A Hero episode: https://mastersofscale.com/reid-hoffman-make-everyone-a-hero/ 
• The Professional Freelancer, Anna’s newsletter on freelancing: https://theprofessionalfreelancer.substack.com/

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In the second episode of Is This Working? we talk about why money is so awkward and explore how we can be better with it.  

Tiffany tells the story of when she woke up one day and found out she was getting a six-figure sum in her bank account. She talks about how that felt and about her debt problems throughout her twenties. 

Anna and Tiffany then discuss the conversation that’s happening about money today and explore why people struggle to be transparent about money with friends and colleagues. We also share our own money stories, including our tips for negotiating pay. 

Buy Tiffany Philippou's book, Totally Fine (and other lies I've told myself) 

Amazon anywhere in the world: https://buff.ly/3FpHKZa

Other retailers in the UK: https://www.tiffanyphilippou.com/book

Listen to our new podcast: Totally Fine with Tiffany Philippou: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/totally-fine-with-tiffany-philippou/id1612599165

Buy Anna Codrea Rado's book, You're the business: https://linktr.ee/yourethebusiness

Get in touch

We want to hear from you because this podcast is all about how we can improve your working lives. Get in touch with any questions you have about your working life. 

Email: [email protected]

Tweet: @isthis_working

Links 

• Open Up: The Power of Talking About Money, by Alex Holder
• Money: A User’s Guide: The Sunday Times Bestseller Paperback by Laura Whateley 
• GO FUND YOURSELF instagram account by Alice Tapper: @go_fund_yourself
• Affluenza: How to be Successful and Stay Sane by Oliver James
• I Work to Make Money and There’s No Shame in That by Tiffany Philippou: https://medium.com/@tiffphilippou/i-work-to-make-money-and-theres-no-shame-in-that-dc9ddd26e6c8
• The complete guide to getting off on the right foot in a new job, Quartz, by Anna Codrea-Rado: https://qz.com/77183/the-complete-guide-to-getting-off-on-the-right-foot-in-a-new-job/

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Our first episode of Is This Working, the podcast that questions the impact of work on lives, is on time and how many of us feel like it’s our biggest enemy. 

Tiffany shares how she found herself lying on her sofa one morning, speeding up YouTube videos on productivity hacks because she felt like she didn’t have enough time to get everything done.

We get philosophical, unpicking where the mindset that time is in scarcity comes from and how that impacts our feelings of productivity and achievement.

We also share our tips on how to manage our time better and how to think smarter about how we’re using it. 

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Buy Tiffany Philippou's book, Totally Fine (and other lies I've told myself) 

Amazon anywhere in the world: https://buff.ly/3FpHKZa

Other retailers in the UK: https://www.tiffanyphilippou.com/book

Listen to our new podcast: Totally Fine with Tiffany Philippou: https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/totally-fine-with-tiffany-philippou/id1612599165

Buy Anna Codrea Rado's book, You're the business: https://linktr.ee/yourethebusiness

Links 

• Brené Brown’s TedxKC talk, The Price of Invulnerability 
• The Technology Trap: Capital, Labor, and Power in the Age of Automation by Carl Benedikt Frey
• The Big Leap: Conquer Your Hidden Fear and Take Life to the Next Level by Gay Hendricks
• The Pomodoro Technique

Get in touch

We want to hear from you because this podcast is all about how we can improve your working lives. Get in touch with any questions you have about your working life. 

Email: [email protected]

Tweet: @isthis_working

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