Bozoma Saint John on Surviving Loss

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 36 minutes

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This week, Hello Monday is dipping into the archives to bring you one of our favorite conversations. In this episode, Jessi speaks with Bozoma Saint John, author of The Urgent Life. We welcomed her to the show to talk to us about her incredible journey and how she’s managed to move through grief. Follow Bozoma Saint John on LinkedIn, and check out her debut memoir. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir, now in paperback. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group for Hello Monday listeners: https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	LinkedIn News. with an episode from our archives. This is one of our most popular episodes of last year, and there's a reason.
0:17.0	Bozema St. John brings everything to this conversation. You may know her from her career as a very
0:25.3	successful marketing executive. She's worked at tons of companies with names that
0:30.0	are familiar to you like Uber and Netflix, but this conversation took us to new places.
0:36.9	She talked about the grief she's experienced in her life.
0:40.5	There's this one point of that episode, probably two-thirds of the way through where she
0:44.8	stumbles on what feels like the truth of the message. We owe each other more grace than
0:50.7	we give each other.
0:52.8	Think about that a second.
0:54.4	We owe each other more grace than we give each other.
0:59.0	Keep that in mind as you listen to today's episode. We'll see you next week.
1:07.0	Hey, I'm Michael Kavnat,
1:09.0	host of the Next Big Idea Daily.
1:11.0	The show is a master class in better living from some of the smartest writers around.
1:15.8	Every morning Monday through Friday, we'll serve up a quick 10 minute lesson on how to strengthen
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1:29.2	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemple and this is Hello Monday.
1:40.0	There are some people who seem to skate through life without ever losing anyone they love.
1:45.6	That's not most of us of course.
1:47.4	Most of us experience loss and the grief that accompanies it at some point.
1:51.6	I know I have. But then there are people who seem to get
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