What if the traits that once got you in trouble could actually be your greatest strengths? Viral creators Penn and Kim Holderness have built careers—and a family life—around embracing ADHD. They join Jessi Hempel to talk about how understanding the ADHD brain can transform frustration into creativity, connection, and confidence.
Penn and Kim Holderness—viral content creators, parents, and partners—have built an entire career on laughter, honesty, and showing what real family life looks like. With over 5 million followers and hundreds of millions of views, they’re known for turning everyday chaos into hilarious and heartfelt videos about marriage, parenting, and mental health.
In this episode of Hello Monday, they sit down with Jessi Hempel to talk about how embracing ADHD has reshaped their lives, their marriage, and their work—and why understanding neurodiversity can be the key to unlocking success.
In this episode, Penn and Kim open up about:
How shame and misunderstanding often mask ADHD’s gifts
The systems and strategies that make their partnership work
Why reframing “fixation” as “hyperfocus” can change everything
How parents and leaders can support ADHD brains—at home and at work
The growing cultural awareness around neurodiversity and creativity
Whether you’re raising a neurodivergent child, leading a team, or navigating your own diagnosis, this conversation offers a roadmap for understanding difference as strength.
Check out Penn and Kim’s new children’s book: All You Can Be with ADHD
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Dr. Jennifer Freed on Creativity, Healing, and the Power of Self-Understanding
In the age of endless scrolling, the antidote to overconsumption is creativity.
Dr. Jennifer Freed believes that when we spend less time consuming and more time creating, we reconnect to something essential: our vitality. A clinical psychologist and astrologer with over 40 years of experience, Jennifer combines psychology and spirituality to help people understand themselves more deeply and live more fully. Her client list includes everyone from celebrities like Gwyneth Paltrow to teens in her nonprofit program AHA!, which supports emotional intelligence, empathy, and inclusion.
In this episode of Hello Monday, Jessi Hempel sits down with Jennifer to explore how creativity, self-awareness, and collective action can help us navigate a world in flux. They discuss how to turn grief into imagination, why nostalgia can hold us back, and how astrology can serve as a “map” to our potential—not a prediction of our fate.
Jessi and Jennifer discuss:
Why creativity is the antidote to consumption
How grief and reinvention go hand in hand
The difference between astrology as prediction and astrology as self-understanding
What it means to find “immunity” from collective despair
Why spiritual bypassing keeps us stuck—and how to move through pain instead
The discipline of daily creation (even when you’re not “good” at it)
What Jennifer learned from writing her first novel and redefining success
Why our human longing for love, meaning, health, and purpose unites us all
Jennifer’s work bridges the head and the heart. Her message: less consumption, more creation. When we make something—however imperfect—we resist the pull of cynicism and reclaim our power to imagine a better future.
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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Jen Hatmaker on Speaking Out, Breaking Down, and Beginning Again
When your story falls apart, how do you begin again?
Jen Hatmaker has lived through more than one public unraveling. Once an acclaimed evangelical Christian leader and author, she lost much of her audience when she began to publicly speak out against racism and homophobia within the church. And then, a few years later, she lost her marriage too. But instead of retreating, she rebuilt her life from the ground up.
In this episode of Hello Monday, Jessi Hempel sits down with Jen to talk about faith, identity, and what happens when you decide to live in alignment with your values, even when it means losing the world you built. Jen shares what she’s learned about listening to her intuition, rewriting her story, and building a new identity rooted in honesty and self-trust.
Her new book, Awake, begins the night everything changed—and chronicles how she moved from shock and grief to calm and clarity.
Jessi and Jen discuss:
What it means to lose everything you thought defined you
How to tell the truth about your life, even when it breaks the story you wanted
How to listen to intuition when fear is loud
Jen’s experience of public cancellation after confronting racism and affirming LGBTQ+ rights
The difference between recovering and truly flourishing
How identity evolves after faith, marriage, and public failure
What it takes to move from rupture to renewal
Jen’s story is about more than resilience. It’s about the power of starting over and finding freedom on the other side of letting go.
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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Making Sense of Money, Jobs, and the Economy with Kyla Scanlon
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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The Truth About Vulnerability and Leadership from Brené Brown
Brené Brown has spent more than two decades studying courage, vulnerability, and leadership. Her work has changed how we talk about shame and belonging—and helped millions of people lead with more humanity.
In her new book, Strong Ground, Brené introduces the idea of “grounded confidence”: a practice of leading with consistency, clarity, and courage instead of bravado. She argues that the strongest leaders aren’t the loudest or the most certain. They’re the ones willing to hold paradoxes, set boundaries, and strip away the armor that keeps us stuck.
In this episode of Hello Monday, Jessi Hempel sits down with Brené to talk about what it really takes to lead today, and why developing human skills, like courage and empathy, matters more than ever.
Jessi and Brené discuss:
Why we’ve been “building on dysfunction” at work—and how to stop
How to embrace paradox instead of rushing toward certainty
Why grounded confidence is a stronger foundation than bravado
What leaders get wrong about vulnerability
How values clarify choices and protect against resentment
Practical ways to set boundaries and build trust
Why human skills are the real core muscles of work today
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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