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From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemple.

And this is a special mini episode of Hello Monday. It's a show where I investigate

the changing nature of work and how that work is changing us. And I do not do it alone.

I'm here with our producer Laura Sam, hey Laura.

Hi Jesse, it's great to be here on the other side of the mic.

So for those of you who don't know, my name's Laura, I'm a freelance producer.

I'm the one who makes Hello Monday every week and I work with

Jesse here at LinkedIn. We book interviews, we conduct the interviews together, I listen in

while she's talking to our guest and then I edit it all together.

That's what I do.

And maybe you're wondering why Hello Mondays sometimes sounds like more than a show.

It sounds like a warm funny club that you've stumbled into.

And that is probably because you don't know this,

but Laura has done something like,

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