#471 How To Cope And Stay Confident When Work Gets Toxic

Hi, I'm Sarah. And I'm Helen. And this is the Squiggly Careers Podcast, where every week we take a different topic to do with work and share some ideas and actions so that we can all navigate our squiggly careers with a bit more confidence, clarity, and control. And all of our episodes are supported with some other resources to help you in your squiggly career. So we've got pod sheets, their one page summaries, and we've also now created our Squiggly Careers in Action weekly email. So as well as the links to learn from this episode, you'll also get some insights into Sarah's borrowed brilliance, things that she's been learning about, and also my Helen's How Toos, so I'm going to go through a tool that I think will help you with your career. The link to sign up for that is in the show notes, or you can go to our website amazingif.com and you'll find everything you need. So we've got a tough topic this week. I know, I think I'm like taking a deep breath before we do it. But it's an important one. It is, it is, and it's actually sort of listener requested. So I think it is a we know that it's very very relevant for at least one person who's listening right now, but when we look at some of the data, we know I think this is relevant for one in ten people at work right now. So we're gonna talk about how to cope and stay confident in a toxic situation.

And that toxic situation could be anything from a toxic individual. So someone you work with who you kind of feel like actually this is really this this has kind of gone beyond being a bit challenging. but kind of really feels like it's starting to probably dominate your thoughts and your days. could be a manager, but also it could be a peer, could be someone in a different different team. Maybe it's a toxic tea.

So you feel like the team that you're in kind of really is working against rather than for you. And it could be a toxic culture or a kind of company. Or even sometimes a community or a network can can become toxic. All of it is bad. There is no upside. You know, there's no silver lining coming, unfortunately, today, so we can't kinda go, Oh, but the good news is you're going to learn this and this is gonna get better. I think this is

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