Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

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 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 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: 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 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/ghpodcastFollow 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 LinkedInJoin 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.