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 with Jessi to share her journey with the science of happiness, what many people misunderstand about how joy works, and how we can each increase our own happiness. 

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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 wrong. Jessi sits down with author and rabbi Danya Ruttenberg to discuss the lessons outlined in her new book, On Repentance And Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.

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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: How to have difficult conversations about race. Kwame joins Jessi for a chat about why this work is so important, and how everyone can employ his Compassionate Curiosity framework to make sensitive conversations more meaningful and productive.

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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,

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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 guests, this episode illustrates the three different kinds of people: the larks, better known as morning people, the night owls, and the third birds. Dan shares his advice for managing your morning, whichever kind of bird you are, and shares some takeaways for better productivity for all of us.

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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 Chloe Freeman, actor, entrepreneur, and founder of queer wellness company For Them to dig into what it means to be nonbinary in today’s working world.

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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, why pretending to be perfect on social media can make it hard to ask for help, and what empathy can do for us all. Then Sarah joins Jessi for some final takeaways.

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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 colleague McKenna to disclose what she really makes, why Hannah Williams started her viral TikTok, Salary Transparent Street, and how we can be better advocates for better bottom lines.

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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 to tell when you’ve overstayed at a particular job. She also shares her inspiration for founding Fable, which encourages conversations around great books. Then, Jessi sits down with producer Sarah Storm to highlight key takeaways.

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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 out, Jessi talks to Gregory Warner, host of NPR’s Rough Translation podcast, about three stories of how work is changing around the world. Afterward, Sarah and Jessi talk through what working less might mean in the US. 

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