Making Sense of Money, Jobs, and the Economy with Kyla Scanlon

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 13 October 2025

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

The economy can feel overwhelming, confusing, and even intimidating. But it doesn’t have to be. As markets shift, housing costs rise, and labor shortages disrupt industries, economist Kyla Scanlon believes the way forward is understanding how the economy really works—and seeing the human connections at its core. Kyla is the founder of the financial education company Bread and the author of In This Economy? How Money and Markets Really Work. She creates viral, accessible content that makes economics understandable, actionable, and even empowering. In this episode from our Hello Monday archives, Jessi Hempel sits down with Kyla to break down how money, markets, and macroeconomic forces impact our everyday lives—and how shifting from scarcity to abundance can help us navigate them. Jessi and Kyla discuss: Why understanding the economy starts with people, trust, and relationships How labor shortages, the housing crisis, and renewable energy challenges really work The mindset shift from scarcity to abundance—and why it matters for decision-making How economic systems can feel complicated but are actually predictable Practical ways to make informed financial choices in personal and professional life Why the economy isn’t just numbers—it’s human, and it can even be beautiful Continue the conversation with us at Hello Monday Office Hours! Join us Wednesday at 3 PM ET on the LinkedIn News page.

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0:00.0	People would rather talk about bowel movements than talk about money.
0:03.0	And so I think that's like part of the issue is no one wants to talk about it.
0:07.0	There's no art that's ever made about finance or economics,
0:10.0	even though like there's so much beauty in it.
0:13.0	It's philosophy, but with money.
0:15.0	The economy is just a series of human interactions.
0:19.0	And I think that's really lovely.
0:22.0	We leave so many people out because we make it so intangible.
0:28.8	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel, and this is Hello Monday.
0:33.3	It's our show about the changing nature of work and how that work is changing all of us.
0:38.3	There's only one class that I flat out failed in college.
0:42.3	It was economics.
0:44.3	I was mired in these textbooks with terms like elasticity and market efficiency, and they just didn't really mean anything to me.
0:52.3	It wasn't until years later when I got into business reporting that I started to get it.
0:58.0	Economics is really just all about people.
1:01.2	It's about how we get the things we want, how we get the things we need, and why we sometimes
1:06.4	don't.
1:07.6	That's why I'm so excited to introduce you to today's guest.
1:16.6	We have in the studio, the economist and finance creator, Kyla Scanlan. Now, Kyla had a book out not so long ago.
1:19.6	It was called, In This Economy, How Money and Markets Really Work.
1:24.6	She's so thoughtful about the structure of these things. What's more, Kyla speaks to a
1:30.1	generation of 20-somethings, people who have come up in a very different world than I do, a world that
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