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October 23, 2025 5 mins

✨ Welcome to Squiggly Shortcuts — a series from the Squiggly Careers podcast, bringing you quick career tips in just 5 minutes, every Thursday. In this shortcut, Sarah shares three practical reframes to help you quieten your inner critic — the fears, doubts, and limiting beliefs that hold you back in your squiggly career. From fear of failure to feeling “not good enough” or being put on the spot, we all have gremlins trying to stop us.


Episode 505


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⏱️ Timestamps

00:00 What are confidence gremlins?

00:42 Reframe 1

01:38 Reframe 2

03:21 Reframe 3

04:55 Where to go next for more


🎯 What You’ll Learn

  • How to spot the confidence gremlins holding you back
  • Three practical reframes to shift your mindset and take action
  • Why focusing on small, achievable steps builds resilience and self-belief


🎧 Listen to Episode 387 to learn more: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3ORexpOPpBQgp94cOmR6FE?si=kPkUOUxcTduREjGiQZm4Vg


For questions about Squiggly Careers or to share feedback, please email helenandsarah@squigglycareers.com


More ways to learn about Squiggly Careers:

📩 Download our free career tools: https://www.amazingif.com/toolkit/

📮 Get Squiggly Careers in Action in your inbox: https://bit.ly/SquigglyCareersInAction

📚 Read our books: The Squiggly Career and You Coach You: https://www.amazingif.com/books/

🦞 Join our Learn Like a Lobster Sprint: https://bit.ly/4oZzJ3F


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