Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

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 News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.*Special thanks to Pink Martini for the use of their music in this episode. "But Now I'm Back" is available on their Splendor in the Grass album. "Finnisma Di" is available on their Je Dis Oui! album.

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

To celebrate the fourth (!) anniversary of Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel, we're sharing a series of bonus episodes featuring some of the advice that Jessi has implemented into her own life. On today's bonus episode, Jessi shares some of her favorite advice from her conversation with Tiago Forte. Tiago is the author and creator of online course Building a Second Brain, which focuses on capturing, organizing, and sharing knowledge using digital note-taking. Tiago tells Jessi how the simple action of transferring our thoughts onto an external medium that we can refer to, can reduce stress, remind us of insights, provide inspiration, and create a valuable resource for the future. Jessi walks us through how she makes use of these tools and what using a digital second brain has done to improve her life.Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and check out her debut memoir!Follow Tiago Forte on LinkedIn and learn how to build your own second brain here.Subscribe to the HelloMonday newsletter and join our community on LinkedIn!

Every life is, at some point, touched by grief and sorrow. But some people seem to be handed an unthinkable amount of loss. Bozoma Saint John, best known as a marketing expert with stints at several top companies, is in that group. She’s channeled her experiences into a beautiful meditation on perseverance through love and loss called The Urgent Life. In this episode, Boz joins Jessi to share the events that led her to write her life story, and the wisdom she’s gained on her journey.Follow Bozoma Saint John on LinkedIn, and check out her debut memoir.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

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