Work is Weird Now
Work is Weird Now
Podcast Description
Welcome to Work is Weird Now—the podcast that explores the mysteries and oddities of work in the modern age. If you’re at a mid-career impasse, questioning your career choices, looking for inspiration, or just wondering what on earth is going on —you're in the right place.Meet your hosts: Alice Phillips: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-phillips-17847b7/Dan Emery: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-emery-08869b3a/
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This podcast covers a plethora of themes related to modern work dynamics, including AI's impact on employment, the rise of mass entrepreneurialism, gender dynamics in leadership, and mental health in the workplace. Notable episodes explore topics like the biases in AI affecting women and the significance of neurodiversity in fostering inclusive workplaces.

Welcome to Work is Weird Now—the podcast that explores the mysteries and oddities of work in the modern age. If you’re at a mid-career impasse, questioning your career choices, looking for inspiration, or just wondering what on earth is going on —you’re in the right place.
Meet your hosts:
Alice Phillips: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alice-phillips-17847b7/
Dan Emery: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielle-emery-08869b3a/
What if the safest career move right now is… refusing to be one thing?
In this episode, Alice Phillips and Dan Emery are joined by Charlie Rogers, founder of Undefineable Life Design and author of a new book launching this March.
Charlie introduces the idea of the “undefinable” — people whose working lives don’t fit neatly into a single job title, industry, or identity. Not because they’re unfocused, but because they’re layered.
Against a backdrop of AI acceleration, job instability, and the slow collapse of the linear career ladder, Charlie argues that being meaningfully unique across several things is more resilient than being average at one. He calls it the automation of the average — and explains why your edge now lies in synthesis, lived experience, and perspective.
We explore:
- Why traditional career labels are breaking down
- The Undefineable Ascent: a practical framework for designing work that actually holds up
- The case for being “semi-pro” in multiple things, not obsessed with one
- Why energy, not ambition, is the missing piece in most career advice
- What organisations need to learn as careers become less linear and more ecosystem-based
This is a conversation about clarity without confinement — and designing a working life that’s sustainable, human, and genuinely yours.

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