Why quitting works with Julia Keller

Hello Monday with Jessi Hempel

Careers, Business

4.8 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 7 August 2023

⏱️ 28 minutes

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In a culture that values perseverance, quitting is often seen as failure. We’re encouraged to stick out jobs, hobbies, and often, people as to not be labeled a “quitter”. So what do we do when something just isn’t going to work for us? Pulitzer prize winning journalist and author Julia Keller is shifting the narrative around walking away with her book “Quitting: A Life Strategy”. She joins us today to talk about the power of quitting and how sometimes, it’s just the thing we need to set us free. As we produced this episode, we reached out to our Hello Monday community to hear your thoughts on what you learned and what you gained when you quit something. We feature a couple of your terrific thoughts in this episode during our Quick Tips segment, but there is so much more to explore. You can find those conversations in the comments to this post. Our team is so grateful to everyone who took the time to reach out. For more on Julia Keller visit her website, and check out 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 for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET. To continue the conversation with other listeners, this week and every week, join our free LinkedIn group. https://lnkd.in/hellomondaygroup

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0:00.0	The anxious achiever is the podcast about your mental health and your work where
0:05.0	leaders from top companies, entrepreneurs, athletes, celebrities, and leading
0:09.6	experts share how they've managed through anxiety, depression, and other mental
0:14.4	health challenges and how they've become better leaders in the process. You'll
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0:28.8	the Mental Health America 2023 Media Award. Get the anxious achiever, wherever
0:34.2	you find your podcasts.
0:45.2	From the news team at LinkedIn, I'm Jesse Hempel and this is Hello Monday.
0:51.5	Sometimes you just have to know when to walk away. We're in the dog days of
1:01.6	summer over here and my son Jude is at soccer camp this week. He's four well
1:06.8	four and a half. It's hot here. That scorching humid heat that makes fun
1:11.8	things just unfun. And this morning, Jude announces he's quitting camp. He wants
1:17.7	to stay home in play or I don't know, maybe watch TV. He wants downtime. Now I'm
1:24.3	still new enough at parenting that I'm not sure what to do in these moments. Do I
1:28.6	say fine? Or do I push him to go and follow through on a commitment? But this
1:34.4	morning, Jude was not going like crying and refusing to let go of his other mom's
1:38.9	leg and then making his body all stiff that way that little kids can do. Until
1:43.6	finally we're all like, okay, you can quit soccer camp. And I know this doesn't
1:49.2	seem like a big deal, but it gets to the very heart of what we're going to talk
1:53.1	about today. Quitting. And is it okay to quit something? Today's guest is Julia
2:00.0	Keller. Julia's a Pulitzer Prize winning journalist from Huntington, West
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