In Episode 9, The Occupational Philosophers chat with Eleanor Tweddle - a podcaster, an entrepreneur, and author, with a best-selling book, Why losing your job could be the best thing that ever happened to you! (and she is also an amazing coach, consultant, and very funny)
After 23 years of corporate life, working for brands such as Costa Coffee, RAC, Virgin Atlantic, and Vodafone, Eleanor found herself redundant and so began a journey of self-discovery - getting really curious and asking herself questions about who she was and how she wanted to be, reimagining a new way of working and living, and connecting with lots of people - and now Eleanor helps other people thrive in the face of redundancy with her own business ‘Another Door’.
Eleanor has been featured in The Guardian, The Financial Times, Glamour, and Grazia.
In this episode, they explore:
They also discover:
As always, there are some great thought experiments such as:
Links
https://www.eleanortweddell.com
https://www.anotherdoor.co.uk
https://www.anotherdoor.co.uk/read-the-book
The Wombles https://www.womblesofficial.com/meet-us
Ep. 67 - Inbetweeners: Bias, filters, perceptions - how are yours?
Ep.66 - Inbetweeners: Blue Poles, Time Travel, Long Socks for Business and Outrage
Ep.65: Guest episode with the Dr Jason Fox - Rogue Scholar, Best Selling Author and Wizard Philosopher
Ep.64: Inbetweeners - Dirty Habits of creative, interesting, innovative people....
Ep. 63: Guest episode with Start Up Queen Jemma Enright
Ep.62 - Inbetweeners: When is a pen not a pen? (and other GPT questions)
Ep.61 - Inbetweeners: How to tackle wicked problems (and other HIP HOP related challenges)
Ep. 60: Guest episode with Julian Baggini - Philosopher, Journalist and Author (20 books!)
Ep.59 - Inbetweeners: How much coal does it take to send an email?
Ep.58: Inbetweeners - If you are the smartest person in the room, you are in the wrong room
Ep.57 - Inbetweeners - The Elephant in the room
Ep.56: Guest episode with Dr Samuel West - Author, Academic, Psychologist and Curator of the Museum of Failure
Ep.55: Guest episode with Kathy Taberner and Kirsten Siggins - Communication gurus from The Institute of Curiosity
Ep. 54: Well, that didn’t go so well.....Mea Culpa
Ep.53 - The 12 days of Christmas: Day 1
Ep. 52 - Inbetweeners: Does your organisation have a Chief Philosophy Officer? They will soon...
Ep.51 - Inbetweeners: Corporate sayings that really need to DIE...
Ep.50: Guest episode with Ian Gilbert - award-winning author, editor, speaker, innovator, entrepreneur & the man behind Independent Thinking.
Ep.49 - Inbetweeners: Beware of flying mammals...they are innovation killers
Ep.48 - Guest episode with Dr Barbara Doran and Rodger Watson: Authors, Innovators & Creative Rebooters
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