Octavia Raheem on rest

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 2 January 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

We’re gearing up to host a big year of conversations about optimism. But before that, we need to rest and recharge. Where better to turn than Octavia Raheem, author of Pause, Rest, Be: Stillness Practices for Courage in Times of Change. In this conversation from the Hello Monday archives, Octavia talks with Jessi about the transformative power of rest and how best to incorporate it into our lives today. Follow Octavia Raheem on LinkedIn and buy her book here. Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir. Join the Hello Monday community: Subscribe to the Hello Monday newsletter, and join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET.

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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 leader shaped 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
0:19.0	Happy New Year!
0:21.0	It's Jesse Hempel, host of Hello Monday and I'm spending today here in thought and reflection.
0:27.0	Because here at LinkedIn, it is the final day of our holiday season.
0:32.0	And I've been working on my own vision for the year to come.
0:35.0	Hello Monday is going to have a fresh episode for you next week and it's going to kick off a year of powerful programming.
0:41.0	This is the fifth year of our show friends and this year's theme, it's more than a title.
0:47.0	I've been working on it with our producer Sarah Storm.
0:50.0	This is an embodiment of everything that I dare I say that we believe.
0:55.0	This year we're going all in on the case for optimism.
1:00.0	We need it because things are changing around here so fast.
1:04.0	And this way that humans think about these things, this negativity bias that we bring, it doesn't help us here.
1:10.0	It leads us to fear.
1:12.0	Pandemics, climate change, social unrest, the integrity of our elections, layoffs, a recession, artificial intelligence that can write a love story better than I can.
1:22.0	In biblical language, in less than 10 seconds.
1:26.0	How do any of us make sense of all of this change?
1:30.0	Optimism.
1:32.0	Optimism is the promise that we have agency and our own belief that we can exercise that agency in any given moment to create better circumstances for ourselves, better solutions to our most intractable problems, better lives for our children and their children.
1:48.0	Optimism is a bet on humanity.
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