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. 
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Choosing optimism with Jamil Zaki

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.
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Katherine Morgan Schafler on perfectionism’s surprising gifts

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.

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Satya Nadella on growth mindsets

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.

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How to make change with Alex Budak

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. 
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Octavia Raheem on rest

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. 
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Lisa Congdon on starting over

What can thirty minutes with a pen and paper, away from our tech, do for our imaginations and our planning? Author Gina Bianchini says it will change our lives. In this conversation with Jessi Hempel, Gina, the author of PURPOSE: Design a community and change your life, shares her journey to purpose and her tips for making meaning in our own lives.
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The Purpose 30 with Gina Bianchini

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.
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Guillermo del Toro on crafting art and life

Ever feel the pang of impostor syndrome as you move through your career? Us too. Thankfully, we know Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin. Lisa is one of our most popular guests, and our resident expert on impostor syndrome. She and her husband, Dr. Rich Orbé-Austin, are the authors of a new workbook: Your Unstoppable Greatness: Break Free from Impostor Syndrome, Cultivate Your Agency, and Achieve Your Ultimate Career Goals. Their work is grounded in rigorous research. In this conversation with Hello Monday host Jessi Hempel, Lisa shares her thoughts on toxic workplace cultures, the impact of perfectionism and burnout on impostor syndrome, and how we can each use our agency to forge a better workplace experience. 
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Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin on thriving in the workplace

In this episode from the Hello Monday archives, Jessi talks with coach, business professor, and author Dorie Clark. They talk through making a good Plan B, staying willing to learn, and why you shouldn't wait for things to seem dire before planning for what might come next.
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Dorie Clark on Reinventing You

If you’ve recently been laid off, see a possible layoff coming, or know someone who is affected, we made this episode especially for you. You’ll hear other Hello Monday listeners talk about past layoff experiences - how it affected them, what they learned, and where they got to. Then, we present an in-depth conversation with Andrew Seaman, LinkedIn’s Managing Editor for Jobs and Career Development. In just over 30 minutes, we’ll offer some camaraderie and lots of practical and tactical tips on how to survive this period of your working life. 
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A guide to surviving layoffs

Actor and author Christopher Rivas has written a lyrical, literary, and emotional new memoir: Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America. He joins Jessi to talk about the complexity of identity, our cultural obsession with “fairness,” and what it’s like to navigate this world in a brown body.
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Brown Enough with Christopher Rivas

Need help working with a difficult colleague? From time to time almost everyone does. Maybe we’ve even been one before. (No judgment - we’re only human!) To figure out how to get along with even the most challenging coworkers, Jessi sits down with Amy Gallo. Amy’s an expert in conflict, communication, and workplace dynamics, and the co-host of Harvard Business Review’s hit podcast, Women at Work.
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HBR’s Amy Gallo on working with difficult people

Humor can be a powerful tool for talking about uncomfortable things. It sometimes allows us to cut closer to the emotional truth of an issue, or stay in conversation about it longer. W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz have embraced humor to combat racism (yes, you read that right) in their new project: DO THE WORK!: An anti-racist activity book. They join host Jessi Hempel for a frank and funny conversation about doing more to build a better world for everyone.
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W. Kamau Bell and Kate Schatz on doing the work of anti-racism

Tunde and sam first partnered up at Stanford’s d.school to share their wisdom of “creative hustle” in a class that equally drew participants from Stanford’s student body and the nearby community of East Palo Alto. Now they share their creative inspiration and instruction with an even wider audience in their newly released book - Creative Hustle: Blaze Your Own Path and Make Work That Matters. They join Jessi to discuss lessons from the book on marrying values and talent to passion.
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Olatunde Sobomehin and Sam Seidel on finding your creative hustle

We’re heading toward the end of 2022, and yet there’s still an incredible lack of diversity in most C-suites. When you look at which startups get funded, the problem is even worse. CNBC’s Julia Boorstin sits down with Jessi to discuss her research into this, and her new book, When Women Lead, which focuses on women-led startups, and what we can all learn from their experiences. 
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Julia Boorstin on women in leadership

In this favorite from the archives, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, the author of Professional Troublemaker: The Fear-Fighter Manual, joins Jessi, to share her framing mechanisms for taking on fear. She advises us on how to know ourselves deeply, how to use our voices with authority, and how to take meaningful action.
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Luvvie Ajayi Jones on fighting fear

This week, we’re doing things a little differently. Guest host Leah Smart interviews Hello Monday’s own Jessi Hempel about her new memoir, The Family Outing. From the guest chair, Jessi shares what she’s learned about identity, the bonds of family, and what gifts await on the other side of the courage to live out loud.
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Jessi Hempel on coming out

Dr. Laurie Santos teaches people how to be happier. She’s the host of the Happiness Lab podcast on Pushkin, and the creator and teacher of Yale’s most popular class, known on Coursera.com as “The Science of Wellbeing.” She sits down with Jessi to share her journey with the science of happiness, what many people misunderstand about how joy works, and how we can each increase our own happiness. 
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Dr. Laurie Santos on increasing happiness

We are all capable of harm, even when we try to do the opposite. And we all have to grapple with the effects of our actions. This episode focuses on how we can work to make things right after a wrong. Jessi sits down with author and rabbi Danya Ruttenberg to discuss the lessons outlined in her new book, On Repentance And Repair: Making Amends in an Unapologetic World.
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