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From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jessie Hempel and this is Hello Monday.

There are some people who seem to skate through life without ever losing anyone they love.

That's not most of us of course. Most of us experience loss and the grief that accompanies it

at some point. I know I have, but then there are people who seem to get more than their fair share.

Just a huge helping of it served up all at once. That's like today's guest, Bozema St. John.

You may have heard of Boz. She's a prominent marketing executive. She's been CMO at Netflix and

Endeavor in Head of Brand at Uber. That's where I first wrote about her career when I was a tech

journalist at Wired. Bozema was head of global marketing for Apple Music and iTunes before that,

and she spent years building her career at Pepsi. What I want you to know about Bozema's career

is that it was demanding and she was and is a star. But that's not what we're going to talk

about today. Nearly 15 years ago, Boz lost her first daughter. A few years after her second

daughter was born, her husband was diagnosed with cancer and he died too. The scope and substance

of this loss changed her. Imagine for a second, trying to show up at work while grieving an infant,

caring for a toddler, and preparing to lose your husband. I don't know, maybe you don't have to

imagine, maybe you too have lived some version of this extraordinary experience. Boz has just released

a memoir called The Urgent Life, my story of love, loss, and survival. It's remarkable not

for what is unique about her story, but for what is universal. Through these experiences, Boz

learned a lot about how she wants to show up in her career as a mother and in her life. There are

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