Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

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Welcome to Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel – a show where LinkedIn’s Jessi Hempel explores the changing nature of work, and how that work is changing us. What does work mean to us? Should we love what we do? How can we switch it up? Join Jessi as she talks with guests such as Reid Hoffman, Roxane Gay, and Guy Raz to unearth lessons that apply to our own careers. New episodes each week.

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05.29.2023

This week marks the start of June, and with it, Pride month in the US. To celebrate, we're sharing a very special episode featuring Hello Monday’s own Jessi Hempel as the guest. In this episode, guest host Leah Smart interviews ...

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05.29.2023 Jessi Hempel on the power of coming out This week marks the start of June, and with it, Pride month in the US. To celebrate, we're sharing a very special episode featuring Hello Monday’s own Jessi Hempel as the guest. In this episode, guest host Leah Smart interviews ...
05.22.2023 The price women pay to be good with Elise Loehnen Whether or not we are individually religious, a lot of our lives are governed by our relationships to what the Christian church calls the Seven Deadly Sins - pride, greed, lust, envy, gluttony, wrath, and sloth. As Elise Loehnen explores ...
05.18.2023 Feed Drop: Possible, a new podcast by Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger Happy Thursday! Here's a new podcast to check out. It's called POSSIBLE, and it's hosted by two friends of Hello Monday - Reid Hoffman and Aria Finger. This episode takes on the future of work and features a cameo from ...
05.15.2023 Parenting: Getting timing right Parenthood can change a work trajectory like little else. So when and how do you decide to have kids, especially if you’re going to be the person carrying that pregnancy? On today’s episode, Jessi talks to several parents about their ...
05.08.2023 Sheena Iyengar on how to be creative Are you a creative person? According to Sheena Iyengar, the answer is YES - everyone is. Sheena’s work is devoted to showing that creativity is not magic. It’s a process, and it can benefit from a solid framework. But Sheena ...
05.01.2023 Nicaila Matthews Okome on building your side hustle These days a lot of people seem to be pursuing a second career right alongside the first. They’re side hustling. To learn more about how successful side hustlers are making it work, this week, we hear from Nicaila Matthews Okome. ...
04.24.2023 Susan Cain on introversion A few months ago, we spun up a Hello Monday community group on LinkedIn. (You can join it here.) When we asked people to introduce themselves by sharing five things not on their LinkedIn profiles, a LOT of community members ...
04.17.2023 Gretchen Rubin on appreciating all five senses Do you notice the impact of your senses on your life, or does it feel like you function on autopilot a lot? Author Gretchen Rubin has a new book out right now - Life In Five Senses - that helps ...
04.10.2023 Daniel Pink on perfecting our timing Timing is everything. This week on Hello Monday, we’re listening back to our conversation with Daniel Pink, the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. When we first spoke to Dan in 2019, we talked all about making ...
04.03.2023 Brian Lowery on understanding the social self We’re independent! We make our own choices and do our own thing, and march to the beat of our own drum. Right? Turns out, not nearly as much as we thought. In today’s conversation, Jessi visits with Brian Lowery. He’s ...
03.30.2023 Bonus: What works for me - Rethinking criticism! We've got another bonus episode recorded in honor of the fourth anniversary of Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel. This episode features Jessi sharing the emotional experience of writing, releasing, and receiving reviews of her debut memoir and how she was ...
03.27.2023 Ari Shapiro on the adventures of a lifetime Are your career ambitions tied to landing one specific role or working on one specific company? Or are they guided by your core values? Jessi’s guest for this episode, NPR’s Ari Shapiro, learned the value of the latter approach early ...
03.23.2023 Bonus: What works for me - My Ten Year Plan! We're continuing to celebrate the fourth (!) anniversary of Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel by sharing another bonus episode featuring advice that Jessi has implemented into her own life. On today's bonus episode, Jessi shares the power of the Ten-Year ...
03.20.2023 Joanne Lipman on reinvention Sometimes, we just feel… stuck. Jessi’s having a moment like that with her writing right now. She shares her struggle and the conversation she had in hopes of addressing it, with Joanne Lipman, veteran journalist and the author of NEXT: ...
03.16.2023 Bonus: What works for me - Building a Second Brain! To celebrate the fourth (!) anniversary of Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel, we're sharing a series of bonus episodes featuring some of the advice that Jessi has implemented into her own life. On today's bonus episode, Jessi shares some of ...
03.13.2023 Bozoma Saint John on surviving loss Every life is, at some point, touched by grief and sorrow. But some people seem to be handed an unthinkable amount of loss. Bozoma Saint John, best known as a marketing expert with stints at several top companies, is in ...
03.06.2023 Work Friends with Kat Vellos In this episode, Jessi sits down with friendship expert Kat Vellos to learn all about how friendship works in adulthood. Spend 27 minutes with our show and learn: what we owe our friends, how reciprocity works, and how social media ...
02.27.2023 Victoria Pratt on leadership through procedural justice Systemic issues can feel impossible to change, but there’s hope. Today’s episode is focused on making changes from within large systems. Our guest is Judge Victoria Pratt, Executive Director of Odyssey Impact, and a former Chief Judge of Newark Municipal ...
02.20.2023 Adam Grant on when to help others It’s a holiday here in the US and we’re taking the day to recharge. Enjoy this episode from the Hello Monday archives, featuring workplace psychologist Adam Grant. He explains the secrets behind his wildly productive work life, shares how he ...
02.13.2023 Mindful living with Deepak Chopra Sure, we’re a show about work. But we’re all more than our jobs, and it benefits our personal and communal experiences to practice mindfulness and connection. Who better to teach us than Dr. Deepak Chopra? Today, Jessi sits down with ...
02.06.2023 Samara Bay on claiming permission to speak We know that voices convey power. There is a direct relationship between the sound that comes out of our mouths and the way we get treated. Today’s guest is Samara Bay, the author of Permission to Speak: How to change ...
01.30.2023 Choosing optimism with Jamil Zaki The news is often bleak, especially recently, and that could complicate our plans for a pragmatically optimistic year. Thankfully, we have psychology professor and researcher Jamil Zaki in the virtual studio this week to share some invigorating findings from his ...
01.23.2023 Katherine Morgan Schafler on perfectionism’s surprising gifts What if conventional wisdom on perfectionism - that it’s something to be fixed or overcome - were wrong? That’s the thesis behind Katherine Morgan Schafler’s new book, The Perfectionists Guide to Losing Control. She sits down with Jessi to walk ...
01.16.2023 Satya Nadella on growth mindsets This year, we’re cultivating informed optimism. Curiosity and flexibility live at the heart of this journey. In other words: we need to employ a growth mindset and prioritize willingness to learn rather than accept our intelligence as a static thing. ...
01.09.2023 How to make change with Alex Budak In 2023, we’re going all in on making a case for optimism. Optimism is the promise that we have agency, and it’s our own belief that we can exercise that agency in any given moment to create better circumstances for ...
01.02.2023 Octavia Raheem on rest We’re gearing up to host a big year of conversations about optimism. But before that, we need to rest and recharge. Where better to turn than Octavia Raheem, author of Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of ...
12.26.2022 Lisa Congdon on starting over Lisa Congdon began her career as a visual artist when she was 39 years old. Prior to that, she had a whole separate career in education. In this episode from the Hello Monday archives, host Jessi Hempel talks to the ...
12.19.2022 The Purpose 30 with Gina Bianchini What can thirty minutes with a pen and paper, away from our tech, do for our imaginations and our planning? Author Gina Bianchini says it will change our lives. In this conversation with Jessi Hempel, Gina, the author of PURPOSE: ...
12.12.2022 Guillermo del Toro on crafting art and life Nobody pays it forward quite like Guillermo del Toro. In his two most recent projects, Cabinet of Curiosities and Pinocchio, both with Netflix, he made it a point to showcase and protect the voices of his artistic collaborators. It’s the ...
12.05.2022 Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin on thriving in the workplace Ever feel the pang of impostor syndrome as you move through your career? Us too. Thankfully, we know Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin. Lisa is one of our most popular guests, and our resident expert on impostor syndrome. She and her husband, ...
11.28.2022 Dorie Clark on Reinventing You In this episode from the Hello Monday archives, Jessi talks with coach, business professor, and author Dorie Clark. They talk through making a good Plan B, staying willing to learn, and why you shouldn't wait for things to seem dire ...
11.21.2022 A guide to surviving layoffs If you’ve recently been laid off, see a possible layoff coming, or know someone who is affected, we made this episode especially for you. You’ll hear other Hello Monday listeners talk about past layoff experiences - how it affected them, ...
11.14.2022 Brown Enough with Christopher Rivas Actor and author Christopher Rivas has written a lyrical, literary, and emotional new memoir: Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America. He joins Jessi to talk about the ...
11.07.2022 HBR’s Amy Gallo on working with difficult people Need help working with a difficult colleague? From time to time almost everyone does. Maybe we’ve even been one before. (No judgment - we’re only human!) To figure out how to get along with even the most challenging coworkers, Jessi ...
10.31.2022 W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz on doing the work of anti-racism Humor can be a powerful tool for talking about uncomfortable things. It sometimes allows us to cut closer to the emotional truth of an issue, or stay in conversation about it longer. W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz have embraced ...
10.24.2022 Olatunde Sobomehin and Sam Seidel on finding your creative hustle Tunde and sam first partnered up at Stanford’s d.school to share their wisdom of “creative hustle” in a class that equally drew participants from Stanford’s student body and the nearby community of East Palo Alto. Now they share their creative ...
10.17.2022 Julia Boorstin on women in leadership We’re heading toward the end of 2022, and yet there’s still an incredible lack of diversity in most C-suites. When you look at which startups get funded, the problem is even worse. CNBC’s Julia Boorstin sits down with Jessi to ...
10.10.2022 Luvvie Ajayi Jones on fighting fear In this favorite from the archives, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, the author of Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual, joins Jessi, to share her framing mechanisms for taking on fear. She advises us on how to know ourselves deeply, how to use ...
10.03.2022 Jessi Hempel on coming out This week, we’re doing things a little differently. Guest host Leah Smart interviews Hello Monday’s own Jessi Hempel about her new memoir, The Family Outing. From the guest chair, Jessi shares what she’s learned about identity, the bonds of family, ...
09.26.2022 Dr. Laurie Santos on increasing happiness Dr. Laurie Santos teaches people how to be happier. She’s the host of the Happiness Lab podcast on Pushkin, and the creator and teacher of Yale’s most popular class, known on Coursera.com as “The Science of Wellbeing.” She sits down ...
09.19.2022 Rabbi Danya Ruttenberg on repentance and repair We are all capable of harm, even when we try to do the opposite. And we all have to grapple with the effects of our actions. This episode focuses on how we can work to make things right after a ...
09.12.2022 Kwame Christian on how to have difficult conversations about race Kwame Christian is the founder and Managing Director of the American Negotiation Institute, a podcast host, and one of LinkedIn Learning’s most popular instructors. Now, he’s putting his considerable talents to work with a new book that teaches its title: ...
09.05.2022 Get Hired with Andrew Seaman on the explosive history of Labor Day In this special episode of our sister podcast, Get Hired with Andrew Seaman, Andrew sits down with labor historian Jefferson Cowie to get a short and powerful history of organized labor in the United States, Follow Andrew on LinkedIn and ...
08.29.2022 Make the Most of Your Mornings In this episode from the Hello Monday archives, Jessi sits down with writer Dan Pink for a conversation about getting more out of our very first hours of the day. Featuring the morning routines of some of Hello Monday's earliest ...
08.22.2022 For Them’s Chloe Freeman on gender What is gender, anyway? For some folks this question is answered with a swift commitment to the gender binary - male or female. But for a growing number of people, the answer is not so simple. Jessi sits down with ...
08.15.2022 Anne Helen Petersen on the culture of work It’s the final week of our series, Navigating the New Office, and Jessi is sitting down with culture writer Anne Helen Petersen to make sense of it all. She and Jessi talk about how our relationship to offices have changed, ...
08.08.2022 Navigating the New Office: Pay Transparency It’s the fifth week of our series, Navigating the New Office. This week, we’re doing a deep dive on a hot button topic: Pay Transparency - actually talking about what you make. This week, we learn what prompted our LinkedIn ...
08.01.2022 Navigating the New Office: New job opportunities It’s the fourth week of our series, Navigating the New Office. To help us understand the career-long relationship between learning and earning, Jessi talks with Fable founder Padmasree Warrior. Padma breaks down the importance of skill building and the way ...
07.25.2022 Navigating the New Office: Working Less It’s the third week of our series, Navigating the New Office. This week, we look at the changing profile of work around the world: People are working less? What does that look like? Why does it matter? To figure this ...
07.18.2022 Navigating the New Office: How to Change It’s the second week of our series, Navigating the New Office. This week, we look at a core skill we need if we want to do just about anything: How do we change? To get to the bottom of this, ...

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