Closing the confidence gap with Kelli Thompson

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 8 April 2024

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We often hear about disparities in the workplace based on things like gender and race. But how do these disparities affect our confidence levels? Kelli Thompson is the author of “Closing the Confidence Gap: Boost Your Peace, Your Potential, and Your Paycheck.” Kelli sits down with Jessi to talk about the tough life moments that made her doubt herself, and how she grew from them. She opens up in hopes that more women will live up to their true potential at work, unafraid to ask for what they deserve. Follow Kelli Thompson on LinkedIn and check out her new book here. 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.
0:05.0	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemple and this is Hello Monday. I want to start today by telling you about one morning in Kelly Thompson's life.
0:22.0	Now to really understand the weight of this morning,
0:26.0	you have to know something about Kelly.
0:28.0	She was born a rule follower,
0:31.0	an overachiever, something I can really relate to, actually.
0:34.7	When she was a teenager she made this checklist for herself.
0:38.8	It had a list of all the things that she would need to do in order to be successful.
0:43.7	Finish college, check.
0:45.2	Good job, check.
0:46.9	Mary young and have kids early, check and check.
0:50.7	Fancy car, check.
0:52.2	Big house, check. Is it really surprising that by the time that
0:56.8	Kelly got to the end of this list that she'd checked every single box her
1:01.6	life didn't feel like what she wanted it to.
1:06.4	On this morning that I'm talking about, Kelly was somewhere in her 30s.
1:11.2	She just ended this very long relationship, one that she thought would be the one, and she was exhausted.
1:17.0	She was living paycheck to paycheck and raising a daughter on her own.
1:22.0	And that dream job that she'd started a year earlier, raising a daughter on her own.
1:22.6	And that dream job that she'd started a year earlier.
1:26.2	Well, it was no longer dreamy.
1:28.6	And she was questioning whether she was even
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