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Career clarity for an unstable work life.
Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel is a reflective career show about the pressures reshaping modern work. Its best conversations make big ideas feel personal, from AI and entry-level jobs to menopause, screen time, ambition, and the fragile business of staying hopeful.
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Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel is a career show for people who suspect work has changed faster than the advice surrounding it. It does not treat a job as a simple ladder. It treats work as a place where identity, health, money, technology, ambition, family, and power keep colliding. The show often begins with a pressure many people recognize. The job market feels ugly. Screens are hard to control. A career break takes longer than expected. A body changes at the same moment a career is supposed to crest. A person is told to be authentic, then discovers that authenticity is not equally safe for everyone. From there, the conversations move slowly enough to make room for useful distinctions. Craft is different from a job. Hope is something learned, not a default setting. Reaction is not the same as response. Agility can be practiced. Health inequity can become workplace inequity. The guest list gives the show range, but the center stays consistent: serious ideas are tested against ordinary working life. Jodi Cantor's advice to new graduates becomes a conversation about AI, mentorship, and finding work that cannot be taken away so easily. Jonathan Haidt's warnings about screens and the attention economy become a family and workplace question, not just a technology story. Melinda French Gates and Regina Dugan connect women's health to opportunity and leadership. Joanna Strober brings menopause into the open as a power issue at work. Amy Webb frames the future as something shaped by present decisions. Liz Tran argues for agility as a form of intelligence. Tomas Chamorro-Promuzic complicates the easy comfort of being told to bring the whole self to work. The result is measured, practical, and humane. It is not hustle culture in softer clothes. It is a place to think through how to keep agency when the systems around work feel less stable than they used to.
Made for: For thoughtful professionals, managers, career changers, parents, and younger workers who want sharper language for the uncertainty around modern work. It especially suits listeners who like practical ideas with emotional context.
What sets it apart: The show connects workplace trends to lived consequences instead of leaving them as abstract business themes. It makes room for ambition, fatigue, caregiving, health, attention, and identity in the same conversation.
Ever wish you had a pal who could break down the biggest ideas of the new world of work and distill them into actionable insights you could apply to your own life, right away? Meet LinkedIn's Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel! Each week, Jessi explores the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us. Jessi welcomes big thinkers to share their best ideas: everyone from game-changing entrepreneurs like Aurora James, to research-based experts like Daniel Pink, to notable figures like Megan Rapinoe and Bozoma Saint John. Start your week by joining us every Monday for a dose o...
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Jessi Hempel makes workplace psychology usable by pressing guests for distinctions that clarify power, motivation, money, ambition, and uncertainty.
Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel treats work as a human problem, tracing how beliefs, ambition, uncertainty, money, and technology shape decisions on and beyond the job.
Jessi Hempel turns workplace anxiety into better questions, so your Monday spiral leaves with homework.
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A hard-headed case for craft and human mentorship when the job ladder feels unstable.
Hello Monday treats a bleak job market as a plain conversation about craft, leverage, and mentorship. Jessi Hempel and Jodi Cantor keep coming back to the same question: what still belongs to a worker when hiring is shaky and the usual entry points feel less secure?
A direct look at how screens and the attention economy are reshaping childhood.
The episode turns Jonathan Haidt into a conversation about screens as a family issue, not a side topic. It stays close to ordinary life, from screen time in the household to what devices are doing to kids, then widens into the attention economy that now reaches well beyond…
A clear-minded look at beliefs, agency, and the work of changing what feels fixed.
Nir Eyal and Jesse Hempel keep returning to a practical question: if beliefs are tools rather than truths, what actually changes when someone starts using them that way?
Rest comes through as a practical route to focus, creativity, and better work.
Jessi Hempel treats rest less like a luxury than a working tool, and Octavia Rahim makes that case with practical force. She ties rest to focus, writing, and the kind of work that actually holds up. The ending exercise helps too.
Ambition is recast as self-trust, not performance.
This episode treats ambition as something messier than career polish. Jessi Hempel starts with her own discomfort with the word, then works through why it can feel gendered, boxed in, and out of step with the competence people have already shown.
A calm framework for questions that do not resolve on command.
The episode treats uncertainty as a work and life pressure, not a slogan. Jessi Hempel keeps the focus on what happens when people freeze in the face of an unclear future, and Elizabeth Weingarten gives that problem some shape by separating quick questions from pawpaw questions,…
A measured case for making no count.
This Hello Monday episode treats saying no as a skill people often have to unlearn. Jessi Hempel starts with the habits that reward being good, nice, and agreeable, then follows that logic into adulthood, where refusal can still feel loaded when the other person has more power.
A grounded look at money, independence, and the work of rebuilding after life changes.
The episode keeps its attention on the human cost of money: losing financial independence, losing a career identity, and trying to start over after a relationship ends and years away from work.
Journalist Ashley Milne-Tyte interviews researchers and authors on women, money, bias, and burnout.
Isabel Berwick and FT colleagues dissect CEO loneliness, burnout and workplace power shifts.
The job market feels ugly and scary.
Screens are not a side issue at home anymore.
Helplessness arrives first.
This episode explores how women's health issues, such as career breaks linked to health moments, contribute to workplace inequity, featuring insights from Melinda French Gates and Regina Dugan.
This episode features an interview with futurist Amy Webb discussing her insights on future trends, creative destruction, and how present decisions shape the future.
This episode explores AQ (agility quotient) as a new form of intelligence focused on handling change and uncertainty, featuring leadership coach Liz Tran discussing how to measure and improve it.
This episode explores how menopause affects women's power and leadership in the workplace, featuring an interview with Joanna Strober of Midi Health about transforming midlife women's health from a private burden into leadership infrastructure.
This episode explores whether the common career advice to 'be yourself' is actually harmful, featuring psychologist Tomas Chamorro-Promuzic discussing authenticity's limitations in professional success.
Jessi Hempel frames this Hello Monday replay as a President’s Day rest conversation with Octavia Rahim, a rest coach and returning guest.
This episode explores the myth of AI taking jobs and emphasizes human agency and responsible leadership in shaping AI's impact on work.
Jessi Hempel interviews Jonathan Smith about negotiation, listening, and reducing conflict at work.
This episode explores how Peter Marsh won a major advertising deal with British Rail by creating an immersive, emotionally resonant pitch that mirrored customers' negative experiences.
Jessi Hempel opens by saying her 2026 resolution is turning off her cell phone at 9 p.m.
Jessi Hempel interviews executive coach Muriel Wilkins about identifying and overcoming blocking beliefs that limit leadership potential.
Jessi Hempel introduces the annual dream job exercise to help listeners imagine and achieve their ideal careers in a changing work landscape.
Jessi Hempel introduces a classic episode about taking time off and shares a personal story about a backpacking trip to escape work.
Uncertainty asks for better questions.
Jessi Hempel discusses navigating career transitions and disruption with coach Victoria Foster, focusing on redefining professional identity beyond skills.
Elyse Myers discusses her late autism diagnosis and how it reshaped her understanding of herself.
Jessi Hempel opens with an uncomfortable personal truth.
Money is only where the episode starts.
Jessi Hempel interviews Mark Cuban about his entrepreneurial journey, risk-taking, and business mindset.
Jessi Hempel interviews executive coach Kate Mason about the success likability paradox and how women can communicate effectively to be both powerful and likable at work.
Jessi Hempel interviews Melody Hobson about her children's book on money and how to impart financial perspectives to kids.
Jessi Hempel discusses navigating constant change in the workplace with author and speaker Elisa Bodell.
Jessi Hempel explores how to become a better communicator with guest Charles Duhigg, author of Super Communicators.
Jessi Hempel discusses reexamining personal and professional goals with neuroscientist Anne-Laure LeCompte, focusing on understanding how we work to achieve what we want.
Jessi Hempel argues that consulting is the best career path for mid-career and senior professionals in 2025, offering advice on how to niche down and succeed.
Jessi Hempel interviews Dr.
Jessi Hempel interviews Shannon Watts, founder of Moms Demand Action, about turning personal outrage over the Sandy Hook shooting into a national grassroots movement for gun violence prevention.
Jessi Hempel explores the changing nature of work and fatherhood through a conversation with Paul Sullivan about being a lead parent.
Jessi Hempel shares a personal story about her two-mom family and reflects on the significance of marriage equality a decade later.
Jessi Hempel introduces a bonus episode featuring Susie Welch discussing her new book on aligning authenticity with market demands for career success.
Jessi Hempel interviews anti-ageism activist Ashton Applewhite about how ageism affects our work lives and perceptions.
Jessi Hempel discusses sponsorship and gender differences in failure with Melinda French Gates, exploring career pivots and showing up powerfully at work.