Everyday Better with Leah Smart
Everyday Better is your guide to creating positive change at work, at home, in your relationships, and beyond.
Each week, Leah Smart, LinkedIn's Senior Editor and a certified coach specializing in self-improvement, shares inspiring conversations with trusted voices and curates research-backed strategies to help you navigate transitions, challenges, and uncertainties with clarity and intention. Because work and the rest of your life don’t exist in silos, and what happens in one always finds its way into the other.
Discover fresh perspectives, get unstuck, and take small steps every day, toward the life you want. New episodes every Tuesday.
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Ryan Roslansky on Finding Our Way
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In the Arena Program Note
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Jessi Hempel Jumps in with Lisa Orbe-Austin on ...
Is Impostor Syndrome weighing you down? In our final post from the Hello Monday series on overcoming career challenges, Jessi Hempel talks with Dr. Lisa Orbé-Austin about proactively managing careers as well as understanding impostor syndrome and how to ...
33 min
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Jessi Hempel Jumps in with Angela Duckworth on ...
This week, we're featuring researcher Angela Duckworth and Hello Monday’s Jessi Hempel as they chat about grit. Grit's not just about talent. Angela outlines her philosophy on grit, explains why grit isn’t the only trait that matters and shows how each o...
33 min
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Jessi Hempel Jumps In with Dorie Clark on Start...
This week, executive coach, author, and self-reinvention expert, Dorie Clark and Hello Monday’s Jessi Hempel chat about taking a chance and starting fresh in your career. They talk about how everyone can make a Plan B, the importance of having a growth m...
29 min
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Listen More and Talk Less: The Power of Coaching
With so much curiosity and misunderstanding around coaching, we're diving into how influential our training as coaches has been in our own transformation. We're laying out some of the core skills anyone can use to change the way they connect and support ...
45 min
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Jumping in With Rosanna Durruthy on Self-Accept...
The week we're jumping in with Rosanna Durruthy, Vice President of Diversity, Inclusion, and Belonging at LinkedIn. She’s a well-known leader in D&I, grounded in her personal power and candor. You'll hear how the importance she places on her relationship...
38 min
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Jumping In with Marc Brackett on Permission to ...
We live in a world where it has become critical to be aware of our emotions for self-development and interpersonal interactions, yet most of us were never taught these skills. In this week’s episode, we’re jumping in the arena with Marc Brackett, Ph.D., ...
49 min
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Laughter is the Best Medicine
This week we're talking about one of the oldest human languages. Inspired by the book Humor, Seriously by Dr. Jennifer Aaker and Naomi Bagdonas, we share ways you can be intentional about creating moments of laughter in your life. From a stronger immune ...
22 min
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Jumping In with Yung Pueblo on Clarity & Connec...
This week we jump back in with one of our favorite guests, Yung Pueblo (Diego Perez). His second book, Clarity & Connection, poetically delves into what it means to move through a personal transformational process. In our conversation, Diego clarifies th...
43 min
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Jumping In with Scott Shute on The Full Body Yes
This week we're talking to Scott Shute, Head of Mindfulness and Compassion at LinkedIn, about his new book The Full Body Yes. While it's categorized as a business book, its focus is on the deeply human experience of knowing oneself, loving oneself, maste...
72 min
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The Words of Others
Leaning on the words of others during hard times has a powerful way of helping us get to the other side of our struggles. In this week’s episode, join us as we share the most memorable quotes we’ve collected throughout our lives. No matter what you’re fa...
6 min
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Pt. 2: On Race in America and Earning Allyship
This week we’re re-releasing two episodes from last June recorded at the height of racial violence. We kick off with personal stories from our Asian colleagues at LinkedIn who were brave enough to share them. With the violence and hate targeting Asian Am...
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Pt.1: On Race in America and Earning Allyship
This week we’re re-releasing two episodes from last June recorded at the height of racial violence. We kick off with personal stories from our Asian colleagues at LinkedIn who were brave enough to share them. With the violence and hate targeting Asian Am...
39 min
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Real Talk on Impostor Syndrome
Impostor Syndrome is something many of us have felt yet do not often talk about. This week, we're navigating the ambiguous waters of this “syndrome” by sharing real experiences from listeners. Combining experiences, stories and research we're shedding li...
31 min
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Jumping In with Dan Shapero on The Inner Game o...
This week, we jump in the arena with Dan Shapero, COO at LinkedIn, for an open conversation around his professional journey. By weaving in stories from his life, Dan shares what he believes makes a strong leader, the 3 questions he asks to determine if ...
33 min
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Change Your Habits, Change Your Life
This week we're sitting down together to talk about the book that kicked off our year, Atomic Habits by James Clear. With over 1 million copies sold, this powerful book shares simple tactics around how to create better habits and get rid of bad ones. Tog...
26 min
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Jumping in with Jon Haidt on The Happiness Hypo...
What is the formula for happiness? We connected with author and social psychologist Jon Haidt to talk about his first book, The Happiness Hypothesis. In this conversation, Jon shares how we get in our own way of achieving the happiness we desire, where h...
52 min
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Jumping In with Valorie Burton on Letting Go of...
This week, we're sitting down with life strategist, bestselling author and positive psychology expert, Valorie Burton, to talk about her recent book Let Go of the Guilt. In her work, Valorie stumbled upon the emotion of guilt after noticing how it kept s...
45 min
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Infinite Possibility:The 3-Step Framework to Ge...
Join us In the Arena as we share a framework to create anything you want in your life. We’re discussing moving from unconscious reactions to cultivating a clear mindset and discovering what's most important to you. Anything is possible!
23 min
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You at Your Best: Designing The Life You Truly ...
Join Jackie Goldberg and Leah Smart in the arena as they share the different ways you can connect to your mind, body, and spirit to be the best version of yourself. Explore the key things that might be keeping you from being fully connected and ways you ...
25 min
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Jumping in with Yung Pueblo on Going Inward
Leah Smart and Jackie Goldberg sit down with Diego Perez (Yung Pueblo). Diego is a meditator, speaker, and author of the best-selling book Inward. They discuss ways we can bring more clarity and peace to our lives. When we achieve peace and clarity, we c...
54 min
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Jumping In with Hoby Darling on Humanity 2.0
Leah and Jackie sit down with Hoby Darling, Senior Executive at Logitech and Co-Founder of Liminal Collective- a community with the desire to enable humanity's greatest endeavors. Hoby's experience working with elite performers across diverse disciplines...
56 min
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Jumping In with Kevin Delaney on Leading an Ext...
If life is a container, what are you going to put in it? Jackie Goldberg and Leah Smart sit down with Kevin Delaney, VP of Learning and Development at LinkedIn to discuss his new book, A Life Worth Living. This inspiring and action-oriented read focuses...
54 min
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Listen More and Talk Less: The Power of Coaching
With so much curiosity and misunderstanding around coaching, Jackie and Leah dive into how influential their training as coaches have been in their transformation. They lay out some of the core skills anyone can utilize in personal and professional relat...
44 min