Luvvie Ajayi Jones on fighting fear

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.7 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 10 October 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This year, we're focused on reinvention, which often requires setting big goals. We also have to figure out how to work with the fear that sometimes comes along with those big goals. Our guest for this episode, Luvvie Ajayi Jones, is the author of PROFESSIONAL TROUBLEMAKER: The Fear-Fighter Manual. In this conversation with Jessi, Luvvie shares her framing mechanisms for taking on fear. She advises us on how to know ourselves deeply, how to use our voices with authority, and how to take meaningful action.

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Ryan Roslansky, the CEO of LinkedIn. Listen to my new podcast, The Path.
0:05.0	Discover how today's greatest leaders shape their unique career paths and the lessons they learned along the way.
0:10.0	Tune in to new episodes weekly wherever you enjoy your podcasts.
0:14.0	LinkedIn News
0:20.0	Hey, it's Jesse. We're off this week as we celebrate Indigenous People's Day.
0:25.0	But we're bringing you one of our best episodes of the year, an episode from our archives.
0:30.0	Conversation with Lovey Ajayi Jones. She is fierce in this conversation.
0:35.0	She is inspiring as she talks us through how to fight fear.
0:40.0	I hope you enjoy it, and we'll see you next week.
0:46.0	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel, and this is Hello Monday.
0:52.0	It's our show about the changing nature of work, and how that work is changing us.
0:57.0	And today we are talking about fear.
1:00.0	Those early days of the pandemic, they gave us time to think.
1:04.0	To get clear about which dreams we've been too busy or too afraid to pursue.
1:09.0	This year on Hello Monday, we're focusing on how we go after those dreams.
1:12.0	It's all part of what it means to reinvent ourselves.
1:15.0	And a big part of how we do that, it's technical.
1:18.0	How do we build skills? Where do we look for opportunities?
1:22.0	But another aspect of reinvention.
1:24.0	One that we talk about a lot less.
1:27.0	It's managing our emotions.
1:29.0	Pursuing goals and dreams can be downright terrifying.
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