Happy New Year! It's time to reinvent ourselves.

Each December, my family celebrates the Solstice. We gather around a bonfire in my in-laws' backyard in Tupelo, Mississippi. My wife is from a sprawling family, and there are always several dozen people: Cousins. Aunts & Uncles. So many children running everyone as the fire burns. It's a hopeful evening. We crowd around the flames to invite the light. From this point in the year, the days grow longer.

I'm thinking about this evening as I send you our first Hello Monday episode of 2022. This year, my wife and I almost missed Solstice. We spent the preceding week in quarantine after a friend tested positive for Covid. As we made the long drive South from our New York home, we talked about when the current spike of infections might end, and how we needed to adjust our lives in the interim. I don't know about you, but I'm just so tired of adjusting plans constantly, worrying about being sick or making others sick, canceling birthday parties, and all the other forms of uncertainty that the pandemic perpetuates.

During the past two years, we’ve all had to learn so much about how to adapt to changes that are mostly beyond our control.?It's something that Hello Monday has addressed constantly.

This year, it's time to flip the script.

The pandemic hasn’t gone away, but two years in, things are different. We’re different. Sure, we can’t control for the future any better than we’ve ever been able to, but we’ve learned so much about how to manage through ambiguity. Change will remain a constant, but we are stronger. On Hello Monday, this is the year that we don't just survive change. We choose it. It’s the year of reinvention.

Every Monday, I'll bring you shows about people who have made radical career changes. I'll talk to people who changed cultures at companies, and people who changed their mindsets, in ways they didn’t think possible. I’ll look for people who have tools to make change easier, or whose stories make us braver.

And this year, I want to hear even more from you, listeners.?A podcast at its best is a community of people who share the same curiosities. Many of you join me for coffee every Wednesday afternoon. I plan to bring more of our show guests to Office Hours, and I'll bring more of your voices to the show.

As I was thinking about this year's programming, I listened to some of our most important past episodes. And, I wanted to start our year-long conversation by surfacing a little bit of what this show has taught me about reinvention so far. You'll hear from Peloton's Robin Arzon about making a radical career shift, and from Activist Glennon Doyle on navigating uncertainty. You'll hear from Stanford professors Dave Evans and Bill Burnett on designing your work life. And then Debbie Millman will bring us home with her ten-year plan.

Here's the episode. Please listen, and let me know what you think in the comments.

???Office Hours : Reinvention

That’s where reinvention begins: we have to decide what we want. This is harder than you think. It takes imagination and the will to let go, first, of the constraints we put on ourselves. So many of you are in the process of reinventing yourselves right now. So let’s start the year by talking about it. Join us for Office Hours, Wed afternoon at 3pm ET. We’ll go live from the LinkedIn News Page . You can find us here .

Or, email us a Voice Memo at [email protected] . We really love hearing from you, and we want to bring more of you on the show.