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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, and what gifts await on the other side of the courage to live out loud. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir here.  Follow Leah Smart here and check out In the Arena here. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.

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.  Learn more about Dr. Laurie Santos here and check out The Happiness Lab podcast. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and preorder her upcoming memoir here.  Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET on the LinkedIn News page.

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. Follow Rabbi Ruttenberg here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and preorder her upcoming memoir.  Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET on the LinkedIn News page.

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. Follow Kwame Christian here and check out his podcasts on the LinkedIn Podcast Network. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and preorder her upcoming memoir here.  Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET on the LinkedIn News page.

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 join the Get Hired community at https://lnkd.in/ghpodcast Follow Jessi on LinkedIn and preorder her signed memoir from Books Are Magic

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. Follow Dan Pink on LinkedIn and learn more about his work here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and preorder a signed copy of her forthcoming memoir here. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and let us know what you think of the episode by commenting there, or getting in touch by email or voice memo. Reach us at HelloMonday@LinkedIn.com.

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. Follow Chloe Freeman on LinkedIn and check out For Them. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and let us know what you think of the episode by commenting there, or getting in touch by email or voice memo. We're HelloMonday@LinkedIn.com.

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. Follow Anne Helen Petersen on LinkedIn. Check out Culture Study here. Follow Jessi Hempel and Sarah Storm on LinkedIn Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET on the LinkedIn News page.

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. Follow McKenna Moore on LinkedIn Follow Hannah Williams on LinkedIn and check out Salary Transparent Street Follow Allison Venditti on Linkedin and visit Moms At Work Follow Jessi Hempel and Sarah Storm on LinkedIn Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET on the LinkedIn News page.

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. Follow Padma Warrior on LinkedIn and check out Fable.co Follow Jessi Hempel and Sarah Storm on LinkedIn Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.

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.  Follow Gregory Warner on LinkedIn and Rough Translation wherever you listen! Follow Jessi Hempel and Sarah Storm on LinkedIn Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET on the LinkedIn News page.

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, Jessi talks to Katy Milkman, a behavioral scientist at Wharton and the author of HOW TO CHANGE: The science of getting from where you are to where you want to be, and Sarah and Jessi chat about what they’ll each be trying to change using some of Katy’s advice.  Follow Katy Milkman on LinkedIn Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn Follow Sarah Storm on LinkedIn Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET on the LinkedIn News page.

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. If you’re wondering how, we’ve got you. Over the next six weeks, we’ll be looking at six big questions on what it means to make the most of our new workplace realities. To start things off, Jessi sits down with Carole Robin, the co-author of CONNECT: BUILDING EXCEPTIONAL RELATIONSHIPS WITH FAMILY, FRIENDS, AND COLLEAGUES, and a professor of the affectionately known “touchy feely” class at Stanford Business School. Carole walks Jessi through some tips for how to connect with coworkers in the office and through a screen. Then Jessi breaks it down with producer Sarah Storm.  Follow Carole Robin on LinkedIn Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn Follow Sarah Storm on LinkedIn  Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for H

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 next career moves, and what it all means to him more than a decade down the road. Follow Charlie Ayers on LinkedIn Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter and bring your thoughts to the conversation using the hashtag #HelloMonday.

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 Mississippi. Now, she sits down with Hello Monday host Jessi Hempel to reflect on the way the decision to be outspoken has shaped her life and career.  Visit Tig on the internet and check out her new show, Tig Notaro: Drawn Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and pre-order her memoir, The Family Outing Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.  To help us grow, rate/review us on your favorite app - and be sure to follow or subscribe. Thanks!

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 us all through how to keep track of the important stuff.  Follow Tiago Forte on Linkedin Follow Jessi Hempel on Linkedin Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.  To help us grow, rate/review us on your favorite app - and be sure to follow or subscribe. Thanks!

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 Follow Alan Henry on Linkedin Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.

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 on how to plan for - and take - time away from our work. Follow Jessi Hempel on Linkedin Follow DJ DiDonna on Linkedin Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. 

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 career, to what it takes to unlock creativity, and finally why it's so important to make work for yourself.

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 conversation on what led him to create Cambrian Biopharma, and why unorthodox ideas are so critical to the development of society and culture. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn Follow James Peyer on LinkedIn Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.