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From the editorial team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hemphill, and this is Hello Monday,

our show about the changing nature of work

and how that work is changing us.

Every once in a while when the grind gets to fix it. and how that work is changing us.

Every once in a while when the grind gets to feeling like just too much, my wife tells me that she's going to quit her job.

I should too.

We'll move out of the city,

she'll carve wooden spoons.

All right. Somehow we'll make a living out of it.

You maybe have some version of this yourself.

And for most of us it feels like a fantasy.

But then you meet someone who just nails it, goes for it.

My guest this week are Matthew Swanson and Robbie Bear.

They write children's books, books that maybe your kids have read.

Matthew does the words, Robbie does the pictures.

Ten years ago they ditched the grind and moved into a barn in small town Maryland.

In the time since, they've started two small... into a barn in small town Maryland.

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