Becoming You: Suzy Welch’s Guide to Authenticity

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Summary

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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0:00.0	LinkedIn News.
0:07.2	Hey, it's Jesse coming at you with a special bonus episode of the show.
0:12.6	Hello Monday.
0:14.2	So last spring, we had Susie Welch into the studio.
0:18.1	You know, Susie.
0:19.5	She's an incredible journalist and writer and thinker and
0:24.7	author. She was the wife and intellectual thought partner of the late Jack Welch. And at NYU,
0:32.7	where she teaches, she is among the most popular professors. She does this incredible course about how you align your
0:40.5	authenticity and your values with what the market wants of you to figure out what the heck to do with your life.
0:46.6	You know, last spring we were talking a lot about return to office, RTO policies. Here at LinkedIn,
0:53.8	I am back in the office every Tuesday, Wednesday,
0:57.0	and Thursday. Everyone on my team is there is a lot of talk to be had still about what the right
1:03.7	policies are. But Susie had a really great thinking about that. That was influenced by her point
1:09.5	of view, which is that you need to be clear about
1:12.7	why you're doing what you do. And that will help you make an informed decision about where you do it.
1:18.3	Now, here's the good news. That thought and that course at NYU has now become a book,
1:25.6	a book that you yourself can get your hands on. It's out this week.
1:29.4	It is called Becoming You, the proven method for crafting your authentic life and career.
1:35.2	So I thought, in honor of Susie's launch week, we'd share the episode again.
1:40.3	I hope you enjoy it.
1:44.0	From the news team at LinkedIn, this is Hello Monday, and I'm Jesse Hempel, and I have a cold this week.
1:51.0	I know you're going to hear it. I hope you'll stick with me.
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