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Actor and author Christopher Rivas has written a lyrical, literary, and emotional new memoir: Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America. He joins Jessi to talk about the complexity of identity, our cultural obsession with “fairness,” and what it’s like to navigate this world in a brown body.
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Actor and author Christopher Rivas has written a lyrical, literary, and emotional new memoir: Brown Enough: True Stories About Love, Violence, the Student Loan Crisis, Hollywood, Race, Familia, and Making It in America. He joins Jessi to talk about the complexity of identity, our cultural obsession with “fairness,” and what it’s like to navigate this world in a brown body.
Follow Christopher Rivas on LinkedIn and check out his memoir, podcast, and acting.
Follow Jessi Hempel on LinkedIn and order her debut memoir.
Jessi Hempel, host - linkedin.com/in/jessihempel
Christopher Rivas, guest - linkedin.com/in/rivaschristopher
Subscribe to Hello Monday on LinkedIn: lnkd.in/gbUA3Yu
And join us on the LinkedIn News page each week for Hello Monday Office Hours, Wednesdays at 3p ET on the LinkedIn News page.





![Mathieu Flamini went from hating chemistry in school to CEO of a biochemical company
Is there a leading figure, or company, within the #sustainability movement you admire?
Regardless of what your answer is, it’s clear that GFBiochemicals (GFB) is aiming to be one. The Paris-based company, which announced a €15 million funding round earlier this year, is dedicated to combating climate change by producing “green” alternatives to the petrochemicals that serve as key ingredients in the making of household products like shampoo and detergent.
“What were trying to achieve here is to target ingredients which are used in our products of every day… And we are replacing those ingredients by bio-based ingredients, which [are] coming from agriculture waste, and which are much safer for people and much safer for the planet,” CEO Mathieu Flamini told LinkedIn News senior editor Joseph Milord.
Flamini also happens to be a former French national soccer team player. He co-founded GFB over a decade ago while still actively playing and assumed the role of chief executive earlier this year.
Check out the video below to learn more about Flamini, GFBiochemicals and its goal of taking on the petrochemical industry. Mathieu Flamini went from hating chemistry in school to CEO of a biochemical company](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LgAWrZEaP7Y/mqdefault.jpg)




