We spend so much of our lives chasing goals: big ones, small ones, some we barely remember choosing. But what if the goals we’re working toward aren’t really ours? This week on Hello Monday, Jessi Hempel sits down with neuroscientist and author Anne-Laure Le Cunff to talk about how we really achieve the lives we want to live.
Anne-Laure is the founder of Ne ... Show More
Oct 19
Building a Career for a 100-Year Life
We plan our careers like life is short. Go to school, climb the career ladder, retire. But as we live longer, the model doesn’t hold up. London Business School professor Lynda Gratton joins Jessi to offer a model for the arc of a long career. After selling a million copies of The ... Show More
29m 41s
Oct 12
Brené Brown on Leading with Courage and Vulnerability
After more than two decades exploring courage, vulnerability and leadership, Brené Brown’s work has helped millions of people and changed how we talk about shame and belonging. In her latest book, Strong Ground, Brené introduces the idea of “grounded confidence,” a practice of le ... Show More
28m 3s
Apr 2025
How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World | Anne-Laure Le Cunff
<p dir="ltr">Award-winning neuroscientist and entrepreneur Anne-Laure Le Cunff joins Google to talk about her book, "Tiny Experiments: How to Live Freely in a Goal-Obsessed World." Her book is a guide for how to live a more experimental life, turn uncertainty into curiosity, and ... Show More
54m 33s
Sep 2025
747: How to Get Out of a Rut, with Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Anne-Laure Le Cunff: Tiny Experiments Anne-Laure Le Cunff is an award-winning neuroscientist, entrepreneur, and writer. She is the founder of Ness Labs and author of its widely read newsletter, a researcher at the ADHD Research Lab, and an advisor for the Applied Neuroscience Ass ... Show More
29m 23s
Jun 2025
How To Live Freely In A Goal-Obsessed World - Anne-Laure Le Cunff - #957
Anne‑Laure Le Cunff is a neuroscientist, founder, and an author. We live by unconscious mental scripts. Most of the time, we don’t even realize it, until we wake up and see the life we’re living isn’t what we truly want. So how do we unlearn what no longer serves us and rewire ou ... Show More
1h 10m
Mar 2025
SPI 860: Quick Experiments to Quit Your 9-To-5 Job with Anne-Laure Le Cunff
<p>#860 What would you invest your time and attention in if money were no object? Essentially, what would you do just for the sake of it? Developing this sense of taste, knowing what you like and don't like, is one of the best mindset hacks in business! To explore this topic, I'm ... Show More
38m 54s
Apr 2024
Self-Discovery and the Power of Inner Transformation with Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Anne-Laure Le Cunff is a neuroscientist, writer, and founder of Ness Labs, a platform dedicated to exploring the intersection of neuroscience and personal development. Not only has she cultivated a thriving online community, she also has a remarkable track record of academic achi ... Show More
1h 37m
Jul 2025
Your Brain Needs More Space, Not More Hacks | Dr. Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Can being "too smart" actually hold you back socially? In this episode of Social Intelligence, AJ Harbinger and Johnny Dzubak sit down with Anne-Laure Le Cunff—founder of Ness Labs and a former Googler turned neuroscience researcher—to explore the psychology of overthinking, soci ... Show More
1h 1m
Feb 2023
TCC Podcast #331: Neuroscience, Productivity, and Building Something Unique with Anne-Laure Le Cunff
Anne-Laure Le Cunff is our guest on the 331st episode of The Copywriter Club Podcast. After deciding to go back to school to study neuroscience, Anne-Laure created a newsletter that turned into the thriving business known as Ness Labs, a science-based learning community to become ... Show More
1h 14m
Mar 2021
When Achievement Undermines Our Larger Goals
In many ways, being driven to achieve our goals is a good thing. But what happens when being a high-achiever causes us to lose sight of our larger objectives like being kind or leading a team? In this episode, the author of “How to Be Happy at Work: The Power of Purpose, Hope, an ... Show More
41m 39s
