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 sits down with Amy Gallo. Amy’s an expert in conflict, communication, and workplace dynamics, and the co-host of Harvard Business Review’s hit podcast, Women at Work. Follow Amy Gallo on LinkedIn and check out her podcast and books. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn an...
Nov 07, 2022•34 min•Ep. 187
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 humor to combat racism (yes, you read that right) in their new project: DO THE WORK!: An anti-racist activity book. They join host Jessi Hempel for a frank and funny conversation about doing more to build a better world for everyone. Follow W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz on...
Oct 31, 2022•31 min•Ep. 186
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 inspiration and instruction with an even wider audience in their newly released book - Creative Hustle: Blaze Your Own Path and Make Work That Matters. They join Jessi to discuss lessons from the book on marrying values and talent to passion. Follow Olatun...
Oct 24, 2022•33 min•Ep. 185
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 discuss her research into this, and her new book, When Women Lead, which focuses on women-led startups, and what we can all learn from their experiences. Follow Julia Boorstin on LinkedIn and order her book here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir h...
Oct 17, 2022•37 min•Ep. 184
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 our voices with authority, and how to take meaningful action. Follow Luvvie on LinkedIn and check out Professional Troublemaker here. Follow Jessi on LinkedIn and check out her debut memoir, The Family Outing, here. Join the Hello Monday community: Subsc...
Oct 10, 2022•34 min•Ep. 183
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 Mo...
Oct 03, 2022•53 min•Ep. 182
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 ...
Sep 26, 2022•33 min•Ep. 181
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: ...
Sep 19, 2022•37 min•Ep. 180
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. ...
Sep 12, 2022•39 min•Ep. 179
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
Sep 05, 2022•24 min•Ep. 178
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 pro...
Aug 29, 2022•32 min•Ep. 177
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...
Aug 22, 2022•30 min•Ep. 176
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 Lin...
Aug 15, 2022•32 min•Ep. 175
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 T...
Aug 08, 2022•34 min•Ep. 174
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...
Aug 01, 2022•30 min•Ep. 173
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...
Jul 25, 2022•34 min•Ep. 172
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 He...
Jul 18, 2022•33 min•Ep. 171
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 RELATION...
Jul 11, 2022•33 min•Ep. 170
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 ...
Jul 04, 2022•31 min•Ep. 169
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...
Jun 27, 2022•28 min•Ep. 168
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 ...
Jun 20, 2022•31 min•Ep. 167
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.
Jun 13, 2022•33 min•Ep. 166
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, ...
Jun 06, 2022•31 min•Ep. 165
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.
May 30, 2022•30 min•Ep. 164
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 new...
May 23, 2022•27 min•Ep. 163
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 an advocate, investor, storyteller, and mom. Follow Jessi Hempel on Linkedin Follow Chelsea Clinton 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....
May 16, 2022•31 min•Ep. 162
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 startup. This episode was recorded live at LinkedIn’s New York City Studios on May 5, 2022. Stay tuned after the show for Jessi’s conversation with Verizon Business’s Chief Revenue Officer, Sampath Sowmyanarayan. Follow host Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn Follow gue...
May 09, 2022•30 min•Ep. 161
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 challenge even before the pandemic. But now? It’s a crisis. So many caretakers, especially women, have dropped out of the workforce because it’s just too much. Angela shares her own journey, talks about how her life has been changed by her "pandemic pod," and offer...
May 02, 2022•35 min•Ep. 160
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. Alex Kantrowitz, a Silicon Valley journalist who's interviewed the world's top tech CEOs — from Mark Zuckerberg to Larry Ellison — is the host. In this episode, he interviews Tristan Harris, the subject of the recent Netflix documentary,...
Apr 28, 2022•56 min
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 host of LinkedIn News' Get Hired, a newsletter and live show—and now a podcast—sits down with Jessi to share tips and insights, along with stories of his own career path.
Apr 25, 2022•25 min•Ep. 159
