Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

In this episode, Jessi sits down with friendship expert Kat Vellos to learn all about how friendship works in adulthood. Spend 27 minutes with our show and learn: what we owe our friends, how reciprocity works, and how social media can complicate the whole process. Also, we’ll get some fresh approaches to cultivating new friends - especially when there’s a screen between us.Follow Kat Vellos on LinkedIn, work with her on making your friendships more fulfilling, and learn how to make new friends.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

Systemic issues can feel impossible to change, but there’s hope. Today’s episode is focused on making changes from within large systems. Our guest is Judge Victoria Pratt, Executive Director of Odyssey Impact, and a former Chief Judge of Newark Municipal Court. She shares the story of how she used a four-part approach to procedural justice to transform her courtroom into a place that could both punish and heal, and offers the tenets of her leadership framework to everyone hoping to spur change within their own organizations and businesses.Follow Judge Victoria Pratt on LinkedIn, check out her book here, and learn more about Odyssey Impact. 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

It’s a holiday here in the US and we’re taking the day to recharge. Enjoy this episode from the Hello Monday archives, featuring workplace psychologist Adam Grant. He explains the secrets behind his wildly productive work life, shares how he manages his time and talks through how much of his time he gives away to help others. Later in the episode, Caroline Fairchild explores listeners' tips on how to say “no.”Follow Adam Grant on LinkedIn and check out his podcast, Work Life with Adam Grant. 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

Sure, we’re a show about work. But we’re all more than our jobs, and it benefits our personal and communal experiences to practice mindfulness and connection. Who better to teach us than Dr. Deepak Chopra? Today, Jessi sits down with Dr. Chopra to learn more about Royal Yoga - the subject of his new (93rd!) book, Living in the Light: Yoga for Self-realization. Follow Deepak Chopra on LinkedIn. Explore his work here, and learn more about his suicide prevention initiative here.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 each week 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

We know that voices convey power. There is a direct relationship between the sound that comes out of our mouths and the way we get treated. Today’s guest is Samara Bay, the author of Permission to Speak: How to change what power sounds like, starting with you. On today’s episode, we’ll learn how our voice stories are formed, why it’s important to check our own voice biases, and how to embrace the sounds that work best for us today.Follow Samara Bay on LinkedIn and order Permission to Speak here.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, Wednesday at 3p ET. Samara will be taking your questions!💬 Join our new LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners and continue this week’s conversation here: https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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 work running Stanford’s Social Neuroscience Lab. In this episode, he and Jessi talk about trust and how it’s changing. We learn more about the nature of the stories we tell ourselves. And Jamil will push us to embrace curiosity as we consider adjusting those stories. Follow Jamil Zaki on LinkedIn and explore his work here.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 each week 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

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 us through a different way to manage perfectionism. Learn how to accept who you are and how to manage life’s biggest challenges.Follow Katherine Morgan Schafler on LinkedIn and order her book here.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 each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.

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. To help us set the tone for the year ahead, we’re turning back to one of our all-time favorite interviews. In this episode from the Hello Monday archives, Jessi sits down with Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella to learn about the curiosity which imbues his life, the benefits of practicing a growth mindset, and his vision for Microsoft’s future.Follow Satya Nadella on LinkedInFollow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut 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.

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 ourselves, better solutions to our most intractable problems, better lives for the generations who will follow us. Sometimes, optimism demands change. For our first new episode of the year, Jessi speaks with Alex Budak, author of Becoming a Changemaker: An Actionable, Inclusive Guide to Leading Positive Change at Any Level. He shares insights into how anyone can start the process of making change.Follow Alex Budak on LinkedIn and order his book here.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 each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.

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 Change. In this conversation from the Hello Monday archives, Octavia talks with Jessi about the transformative power of rest and how best to incorporate it into our lives today. Follow Octavia Raheem on LinkedIn and buy her book here.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 each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.