In this special Thursday bonus episode, we’re returning to Jessi Hempel’s conversation with Suzy Welch, a professor at NYU Stern School of Business, business advisor, and three-time NYT bestselling author. Suzy’s latest book, Becoming You, came out this week, in which she synthesizes her wildly popular NYU course of the same name.
In conversation with Jessi, Suzy shares her insights on the importance of values, authenticity, and personal growth. She emphasizes the need to align our professional lives with our deepest values and aptitudes to achieve true satisfaction and happiness.
Suzy and Jessi discuss:
The importance of living an authentic life
How values shape our career decisions
The role of authenticity in finding career satisfaction
Navigating the tension between personal and professional values
This episode is a must-listen for anyone trying to find fulfillment and live authentically at work and beyond.
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Suleika Jaouad on Living Well Through Uncertainty and the Healing Power of Creativity
How do you live well when life falls apart? Suleika Jaouad has a powerful answer. In this deeply moving episode of Hello Monday, host Jessi Hempel sits down with Suleika Jaouad, bestselling author, speaker, and cancer survivor, to uncover what it truly means to live well in the face of uncertainty. From her fight with leukemia to her remarkable creative journey, Suleika has learned to turn adversity into art, and pain into purpose.
Her latest work, The Book of Alchemy, is a soulful invitation to embrace creative practices that help build resilience, joy, and connection, even in our darkest moments. Jessi and Suleika dive into topics that challenge conventional ideas of success and encourage listeners to live more intentionally.
They discuss:
Why curiosity and play can be powerful daily rituals
How a 100-day journaling challenge sparked a creative breakthrough
What it means to redefine productivity through values like kindness and bravery
The healing power of deep friendships and chosen family
How creativity helps us process adversity and transform it
Continue the conversation with us at Hello Monday Office Hours! Join us here, on the LinkedIn News page, this Wednesday at 3 PM EST.
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You’ve just been laid off. Here’s what to do next.
If you have found your way here right now, you are most likely at a turning point in your career, maybe in your life. Layoffs are a challenging and often unexpected part of our careers. In today's episode, Jessi Hempel dives deep into the emotional and practical aspects of navigating layoffs. Whether you're facing a layoff yourself or supporting someone who is, this episode offers valuable insights and actionable advice.
Tune in to gain valuable insights and support for navigating your career journey during challenging times.
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Moral Ambition: Rutger Bregman on Building a Career That Makes a Difference
We’ve been taught to chase fancy job titles and large salaries, but what if we aimed for moral ambition instead? In this week’s episode of Hello Monday, host Jessi Hempel sits down with historian and best-selling author Rutger Bregman to explore moral ambition: the idea that the core metric of a successful career should be the positive impact we have on the world.
Rutger’s new book, Moral Ambition: How to Stop Wasting Your Talent and Start Making a Difference, calls on all of us to rethink what we’re really working for. If you’ve ever felt like there should be more to your job than climbing the ladder, this conversation is for you.
Jessi and Rutger dive into:
What moral ambition is—and why we need more of it
Why “follow your passion” is the wrong advice
How to shift from success-driven to service-driven work
Why young professionals are funneled into finance and consulting
The real-world heroes solving the world’s biggest problems
How to build coalitions and collaborate for impact
This episode is a call to action for anyone who wants to do good—and do it well.
Join the conversation at Hello Monday Office Hours! We’ll be live on the LinkedIn News page this Wednesday at 3PM EST. Bring your questions and your curiosity; we’d love to hear what moral ambition looks like for you.
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Ageism Exposed: Ashton Applewhite’s Guide to Age Equity at Work
Age bias is everywhere: online, at work, even in the stories we tell ourselves. Ashton Applewhite wants us to see age not as a limitation, but as a source of strength. In today’s episode, Jessi Hempel sits down with the anti-ageism activist to unpack the hidden ways ageism shapes our workplaces, and how we can push back.
Ashton is a leading voice in the age equity movement. She’s the author of This Chair Rocks: A Manifesto Against Ageism and founder of the Old School Hub, a resource center filled with free tools to combat age bias. In this conversation, she shares practical strategies for navigating ageism at work, whether you’re feeling “too old,” “too young,” or just underestimated.
Jessi and Ashton discuss:
• Why age has less to do with competence than we think
• How internalized ageism holds us back, and how to recognize it
• What managers can do to build age-diverse teams
• How to tell your story in a way that challenges bias
• Tips for job seekers facing age-based assumptions
• The power of language in shaping workplace perceptions
Continue the conversation with us at Hello Monday Office Hours! Join us on the LinkedIn News page this Wednesday at 3 PM ET.
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