Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

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: DrawnFollow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and pre-order her memoir, The Family OutingJoin 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 LinkedinFollow Jessi Hempel 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. 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 LinkedinFollow Alan Henry 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.

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 LinkedinFollow DJ DiDonna 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. 

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 LinkedInFollow James Peyer 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. 

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 LinkedinFollow Chelsea Clinton 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. 

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 LinkedInFollow guests Reid Hoffman and Ben Casnocha 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. 

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 offers insights she's gained throughout the last few years.Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedInVisit Angela Garbes on the webJoin the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the newsletter, and join the Hello Monday Office Hours conversation on the LinkedIn News page, Wednesdays at 3p ET. 

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, The Social Dilemma.