In episode #12 of My 2.0 Archives, guest Jessi Hempel, Host of the Hello Monday podcast and Senior Editor at Large at LinkedIn, shares her personal transition story as well as what she has experimentally learnt through her podcast.
Jessi has wanted to be a writer since 3rd grade, and went to college to become a journalist. She wrote for Time Asia, Business Week, Fortune and Wired. She was always seeing clearly the next rung of the ladder and was able to climb it. But that started to change as she got to Conde Nast in 2018. While her position was secure, she knew the company was in financial trouble and that she was a part of a dying industry. She also knew she was at the top of her food chain and that it was time to move on.
She has always been interested in and fascinated with technology. So when LinkedIn approached her in 2018 to start their podcast, giving her all the resources, smart people and freedom to further her career, she didn’t very long to make that decision.
She does not think we need a full skill set to transition to a new career but she feels that women in particular feel the need to.
Some transition myths she would like to debunk are that there is a right time to transition. In her opinion, there is not. They should happen when they are supposed to happen. She further mentions one of her guests Bruce Feiler who thinks transitions will be lifelong, happening one every 7 years.
Below are some of the topics we talked about from a few of her episodes at Hello Monday.
Reinventing ourselves. Dorrie Clark.
Burnout. Emily and Amelia Nagosky.
Designing your life. Bill Burnett and Dave Evans.
Career change. Robin Arzon.
What does it mean to have it all?
Jessi’s question to me. What’s the one thing I didn’t know that I know now.
To which I responded that transitions are hard, take their own time and are best when planned and gradual. And we don’t need a full skill set to turn to a new career and definitely need cheerleaders along the way.
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