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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Choosing optimism with Jami...

01.30.2023

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 ...

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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, ...
07.11.2022 Navigating the New Office: Carole Robin on relationships It’s time for Hello Monday’s summer series! This summer, we’re looking at Navigating the New Office. The pandemic drags on, and there’s more unrest now than ever, and yet, we’re all meant to show up and kill it at work. ...
07.04.2022 Striking It Rich with Charlie Ayers, Google's first chef In this episode from the Hello Monday archives, Jessi talks with Charlie Ayers. He won a cook-off to become employee #53 at Google. Then, the company went public. In this conversation, he reflects on how the "Google effect" shaped his ...
06.27.2022 Tig Notaro on bringing your whole self to work Comedian and performer Tig Notaro has spent the last decade being very upfront about her life. She’s discussed everything from her cancer diagnosis to the loss of loved ones on stage, through her comedy specials, and throughout her show, One ...
06.20.2022 Tiago Forte helps you build a second brain There’s so much information at our fingertips all the time! Tiago Forte, author of the new book, Building a Second Brain: A Proven Method to Organize Your Digital Life and Unlock Your Creative Potential, sits down with Jessi to walk ...
06.13.2022 Alan Henry on being Seen, Heard, and Paid Alan Henry, WIRED editor and author of the new book SEEN, HEARD and PAID: The New Work Rules for the Marginalized, joins Jessi for a conversation about how to make productivity hacks work for everyone. Follow Jessi Hempel on Linkedin ...
06.06.2022 DJ DiDonna on why sabbaticals are for everyone Sabbaticals, it turns out, aren’t only for people in academia. Jessi sits down with DJ DiDonna, founder of the Sabbatical Project to talk about what he learned from his own sabbatical experience and to get advice for all of us ...
05.30.2022 Elizabeth Gilbert on career vs calling In this audience favorite from the Hello Monday archives, Jessi sits down with Elizabeth Gilbert, best-selling author, whose titles include City of Girls, Big Magic, and Eat, Pray, Love. Their conversation ranges from when to choose a job over a ...
05.23.2022 James Peyer on unorthodox ideas Like a lot of successful entrepreneurs, James Peyer is a bit of an outlier. He thinks about something differently: Aging. To James, aging is a curable illness, something to be treated or prevented. He sits down with Jessi for a ...
05.16.2022 Chelsea Clinton on finding her voice Chelsea Clinton, host of the podcast IN FACT, sits down with Jessi for a candid conversation about what it was like growing up in the most public possible eye, and shares how she learned to step into her power as ...
05.09.2022 Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha on The Startup of You Social media pioneer and LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman joins Jessi alongside his co-author of The Startup of You, entrepreneur and investor Ben Casnocha, for a conversation about the future of work and the value of treating a career like a ...
05.02.2022 Angela Garbes on parenting through a pandemic Social activist Angela Garbes, author of the upcoming book ESSENTIAL LABOR: Mothering as Social Change, joins Jessi to discuss the essential work of caretaking. Caring for a child, a parent, or a spouse while keeping up a career was a ...
04.28.2022 Bonus: Big Technology feat. Alex Kantrowitz with Tristan Harris In this bonus episode we’ll introduce you to the BIG TECHNOLOGY PODCAST by Alex Kantrowitz, a part of #LinkedInPresents. The Big Technology Podcast takes you behind the scenes in the tech world featuring interviews with plugged-in insiders and outside agitators. ...
04.25.2022 Andrew Seaman on getting hired At the center of our work life is our job. Most people need a job to make money and pay the bills. And finding one, particularly as you grow more senior in your field, it’s a PROCESS. Andrew Seaman, the ...
04.18.2022 Ludmila Praslova on neurodiversity Ludmila Praslova is a Professor of Psychology at Vanguard University at Southern California. On this week's episode Ludmila chats with Jessi about ways organizations can create inclusive and equitable workplaces for the neurodiverse.
04.14.2022 Bonus Episode: SPARKED with Jonathan Fields In this bonus episode we’ll introduce you to the SPARKED podcast by Jonathan Fields. Which is now a part of #LinkedInPresents Every week Jonathan invites a listener to share what’s going on in their work & life, then pose a ...
04.11.2022 Rachel Botsman on rethinking your breakthrough On this week’s episode Rachel Botsman, author and host of podcast Rethink Moments chats with Jessi on the importance of reevaluating our breakthrough moments.
04.04.2022 Susannah Dawn on coming out On this week’s episode long time Hello Monday listener Susannah Dawn shares her transition story with the Hello Monday community.
03.31.2022 Bonus Episode: The Anxious Achiever with Morra Aarons-Mele In this bonus episode we’ll introduce you to The Anxious Achiever podcast with host Morra Aarons-Mele, now a part of #LinkedInPresents. In this episode Morra speaks with neuroscientist Dr. Judson Brewer, author of Unwinding Anxiety: New Science Shows How to ...
03.28.2022 Octavia Raheem on rest Octavia Raheem author of Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change chats with Jessi about the power of rest and how to incorporate it into our lives, the right way.
03.21.2022 Fran Hauser on setting career goals Work shifts as we move along in our careers, and oftentimes our interests do, too. Fran Hauser, author of Embrace the Work, Love your Career joins Jessi to discuss the best way to find the career you're passionate about.
03.17.2022 Bonus Episode: Winnie Sun's Yes Factor feat. Sharon Smith-Akinsanya In this bonus episode we’ll introduce you to Winnie Sun's Yes Factor podcast, now a part of #LinkedInPresents. In this episode, Winnie chats with Sharon Smith-Akinsanya, CEO and founder of the Rae Mackenzie Group. After spending over 20 years working ...

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