Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

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.

Lisa Congdon began her career as a visual artist when she was 39 years old. Prior to that, she had a whole separate career in education. In this episode from the Hello Monday archives, host Jessi Hempel talks to the artist and illustrator about what it’s like to be a late-bloomer, and gets Lisa’s advice on starting in a creative field. Follow Lisa Congdon on LinkedIn and explore her art 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.

Author Gina Bianchini discusses the power of purpose and designing communities in our lives. She shares tips on finding personal meaning, creating positive communities, and the impact of expressing purpose within a group. Gina introduces 'purpose 30,' a device-free method for self-reflection to uncover our life's purpose and emphasizes the importance of authentic digital relationships in shaping the future.

Nobody pays it forward quite like Guillermo del Toro. In his two most recent projects, Cabinet of Curiosities and Pinocchio, both with Netflix, he made it a point to showcase and protect the voices of his artistic collaborators. It’s the most recent evolution of his commitment to nurturing talent and community. In this conversation with Hello Monday’s Sarah Storm, he offers insights into his vision and his process and guidance on how to grow community and live a great life.Follow Guillermo del Toro on LinkedIn and watch Pinocchio in select theaters and on Netflix.Follow Sarah Storm on LinkedIn and catch her in Fleishman is in Trouble.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.