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This holiday weekend, we’re bringing back last year’s conversation on negotiation with Barry Nalebuff. Barry is an entrepreneur and Professor at Yale University’s School of Management. He's the author of Split the Pie: A Radical New Way to Negotiate. In this episode, he balances fairness and power to show us all a better way to negotiate through collaboration.  Follow Barry Nalebuff on LinkedIn, and check out his book Split the Pie: A Radical New Way to Negotiate Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir.  Join the Hello Monday community! Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter and get this and future episodes in your inbox. You can also join our LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners and continue the week’s conversation here: https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

We’re nearing the end of Pride month for 2023, and this year visibility, equity, and safety seem more critical than ever. Olympic gold medalist and USWNT soccer star Megan Rapinoe, now Chief Equality Officer at software startup Trusaic, joins Jessi for a conversation about pay equity, the importance of standing and speaking up, and the unassailable human rights of every member of the LGBTQIA+ community. In this conversation, Megan shares the journey to establishing equal treatment and pay for the US Women’s National Team, how building a diverse team on the field and in the business sector leads to wins for everyone, and why fostering belonging is a critical necessity everywhere. Check out Megan’s soccer career with the USWNT here and visit Trusaic on Linkedin and the web to learn more about her pay equity advocacy. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir. You can also help Jessi spread visibility this Pride by requesting or sponsoring a copy of her book, The Family Outing. Gift it forward

In the final installment of our Good Jobs series, Jessi meets with journalist Simone Stolzoff, author of the new book, The Good Enough Job: Reclaiming Life From Work. Simone, who goes by Simo, wants to flip the script on good jobs entirely. Instead of putting all our energy into work and shoehorning our life into the margins, he says our work lives should give us plenty of time to look for meaning outside of our jobs.  The conversation between Simo and Jessi explores the decline of community organizations and the increasing reliance on the workplace for meaning and belonging. Simo pushes back on various workplace myths and encourages listeners to critically assess these beliefs and find the intersection between their personal values and market values. The episode concludes with actionable insights on how to reframe work's role in our lives, including creating boundaries to prioritize non-work activities and cultivating sources of identity and meaning outside of the job. We also hear from a beloved Hello Monda

The conversation on Good Jobs is happening all over the LinkedIn newsroom these days. In this episode of our sister show, This is Working with Daniel Roth, former President Barack Obama shares the passion for working Americans that prompted him to create the new Netflix series - Working, What We Do All Day - through his and Michelle Obama's Higher Ground production company. The show looks at how people from various backgrounds and industries spend their workdays, and why. In this conversation with LinkedIn Editor-in-Chief Daniel Roth, President Obama shares the reasons he wanted to draw attention to this topic, his thoughts on why work isn't always the best place to seek personal fulfillment, and his perspective on generative AI. Follow President Obama and Daniel Roth on LinkedIn. Subscribe to Dan's newsletter, also called This is Working, for more insights from top leaders.

In this second installment of our Good Jobs series, Jessi sits down with Zeynep Ton, founder of MIT’s Good Jobs Institute and author of the new research-driven book, The Case for Good Jobs: How Great Companies Bring Dignity, Pay, and Meaning to Everyone's Work. Zeynep argues that a good job should provide sufficient pay to give individuals agency in their personal and professional lives. She dives into the importance of stable schedules and adequate hours, as well as the need for companies to consider the entire system of a good job, not just isolated aspects. She emphasizes the need for businesses to break the cycle of mistrust and invest in their workforce to drive success. This conversation provides valuable insights into what constitutes a good job and how businesses can transform their approach to benefit both employees and the bottom line. Follow Zeynep Ton on LinkedIn, and check out her new book. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir.  Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to

Once upon a time, many kids in the American middle class were told the same story: Go to the best college possible. Study hard, then do what you love. That is your (linear) path to a good job, and from there to meaning and success. But that path seems ill-equipped to survive our current reality of burnout, inflation, and layoffs. So what do we do now? The idea that it's time to divorce pay from meaning is going mainstream. More of us are less willing to sacrifice everything to the grind. Instead, we’re redefining the idea of work. So over the next three weeks, Hello Monday is taking a look at what makes a good job today. To kick things off, Jessi sits down with author and researcher Bruce Feiler. His latest book, The Search: Finding Meaningful Work in a Post-Career World, offers a new framework for writing your personal story of work satisfaction and success.  Follow Bruce Feiler on LinkedIn, and check out his new book, THE SEARCH. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir.  Join the Hello M

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 Jessi about her 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.

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 in her new book, On Our Best Behavior: The Seven Deadly Sins and the Price Women Pay to be Good, that leads us to uphold patriarchy, and sometimes to hurt ourselves and each other. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In a candid conversation driven by curiosity and hope, Elise and Jessi explore what we stand to gain when we re-examine our most complicated feelings. Follow Elise Loehnen on LinkedIn, and check out her new book. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. Join our new LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners and continue this week’s conversation here: https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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 our own Jessi Hempel. If you like it, we hope you'll subscribe! You can find and follow Possible wherever you listen.

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 journeys, shares some thoughts about her own, and finally gets advice on what to consider from expert Daisy Dowling, author of Workparent: The complete guide to succeeding on the job, staying true to yourself, and raising happy kids. Daisy has lots to think about - including a few things that may not be top of mind right away. Follow Ashley K. Stoyanov Ojeda, Kelly Shorr, Garlia Cornelia Jones, Danielle Pickens, and Daisy Dowling on LinkedIn. These parents do so much, in and out of the parenting field. Be sure to check out Ashley’s book, Garlia’s podcast and theater festivals, Danielle’s coaching, and Daisy’s coaching and book.  Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir.  Join the Hello Monday community to share your thoughts on balancing starting a family with

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 doesn’t turn to brainstorming or design thinking for this. She believes those processes need revising. And so she’s created an alternative framework for innovation. In this conversation with Jessi, she shares that framework and her inspiration for her new book, THINK BIGGER. Follow Sheena Iyengar on LinkedIn and check out her new book, Think Bigger.  Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir.  Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.  Join our new LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners and continue this week’s conversation here: https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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. Nicaila is a social media strategist and the host of the popular entrepreneurship podcast, Side Hustle Pro. Her show features tips, advice and interviews with Black women entrepreneurs who’ve transformed their own side hustles into impressive gigs. In this conversation with host Jessi Hempel, Nicaila traces her career journey, shares what learned while building up her side hustle into a full-time endeavor, and offers tips and advice for anyone looking to test the waters of a potential new business or venture by side hustling. Follow Nicaila Matthews Okome on LinkedIn, and check out her podcast Side Hustle Pro. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir.  Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page fo

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 - more than half - self-identified as introverts. And that made us want to take a closer look at introversion. Enter Susan Cain, author of the longtime best-seller Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking and the more recent bestseller, Bittersweet: How Sorrow and Longing Make Us Whole. In this conversation, Susan and Jessi talk about why it’s so helpful to know where on the introvert-extrovert spectrum you land, how introverts can make the most of today’s office norms, and touch on the connection we all share when we experience the fragility of life.  Follow Susan Cain on LinkedIn. For more on her work, check out her books, Quiet and Bittersweet, her course, and her newsletter. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir.  Join the Hello Monday com

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 us use our senses to keep us present and intentional. In this conversation with Jessi, Gretchen shares her experiences exploring and researching the senses as she worked on writing this book, and gives us a peek into how Gretchen became the author she is today.   Follow Gretchen Rubin on LinkedIn, and check out her new book, Life in Five Senses. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir.  Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.  Join our new LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners and continue this week’s conversation here: https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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 the most of your mornings, but what if you and mornings just don’t mix? Have no fear, today we’re focusing on what it takes to find your personal perfect timing to make the most of your day. After our convo with Dan, Scott Olster joins us in his new book segment to tell us all about The Courage of Compassion by The Bail Project’s Robin Steinberg. Follow Dan Pink on LinkedIn, and check out his book, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn, and order her debut memoir.  Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.  Join our new LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners and continue this week’s conversation here: https://lnkd.i

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 a social psychologist who runs the Leadership for Society program at the Stanford Business School. His new book is SELFLESS: The Social Construction of “You.” And he’s here to explain that we are all influenced by others, just as we are influencing them, too. Brian shares his philosophy of the social self alongside thoughts on how we can make big changes to ourselves and our communities - by being more consciously in community.  Follow Brian Lowery on LinkedIn, and check out his book, SELFLESS. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir.  Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. 

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 helped through this by reflecting on her early Hello Monday conversation with celebrated actress Laura Linney. Jessi shares excerpts of their award-winning conversation on criticism and the tension between art and brand. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and check out her debut memoir. Laura Linney returns to Broadway this spring in David Auburn's Summer, 1976 at Manhattan Theater Club. Become part of the conversation: subscribe to the HelloMonday newsletter and join our community on LinkedIn.

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 on, and this has served him throughout a career that is both wildly successful and eclectic. He’s co-hosted All Things Considered since 2015. He’s a singer with the "little orchestra" Pink Martini* and made his performance debut with them at the Hollywood Bowl. And now, he’s out with his first book, THE BEST STRANGERS IN THE WORLD: Stories from a life spent listening. In this conversation, Ari shares his take on creating a professional life full of adventure and meaning. Order Ari Shapiro's debut memoir, and check out his music with Pink Martini, and his cabaret, Och and Oy!, with Alan Cumming. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, be a part of our group, and join us on the LinkedIn N

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 Plan, featuring her conversation with Debbie Millman. Debbie is a writer, designer, educator, artist, brand consultant and host of the podcast Design Matters. Debbie walks us through the history and power of her Ten-Year Plan exercise and Jessi shares the story of using a plan like this to design and then attain her dream job. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and check out her debut memoir! Follow Debbie Millman on LinkedIn. Check out her work here and explore Your Ten-Year Plan.com - the website mentioned in the episode. Become part of the conversation: subscribe to the HelloMonday newsletter and join our community on LinkedIn.

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: The Power of Reinvention in Life and Work. They dig into Joanne’s framework for navigating big change, and talk through some of the real life reinventions Joanne covers in her book.   Follow Joanne Lipman on LinkedIn and get her new book, NEXT.  Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir.  Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.  :speech_balloon: Join our new LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners and continue this week’s conversation here: https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup