Meticulously Crafting The “Essence” Of Guest Hebba Youssef (And So Much Soulful R&B) (Ep 3)
Play This At My FuneralShow Notes
💐 Episode Summary In this episode host Dinah Alobeid talks to Hebba Youssef, Chief People Officer of Workweek, about her meticulously curated funeral playlist. Hebba shares how the first 10 songs capture “the essence of me,” tracks 11-45 are her beloved “let’s party” songs, and the final set offers a “peace out moment,” where the songs collectively bid an official goodbye to her friends and loved ones. Put on your best lavender accessories, let your curly hair down, and get ready to discover your next favorite artist (Maggie Rogers, anyone!) and rediscover some sexy and soulful R&B hits. 💿 Songs Mentioned “I See Fire” by Ed Sheeran
“Put It All On Me” by Ed Sheeran
“Walking Away” by Haim
“Gone Now” by The Bleachers
“Too Much” by Carly Rae Jepsen
“Don’t Take It Personal” by Monica
“Show Me Love” by Robyn
“Love Me Down” by INOJ
“Want You Back” by Haim
“Falling Water” by Maggie Rogers
“Alaska” by Maggie Rogers
“Very Few Friends” by Saint Levant
“It’s All Coming Back To Me Now” by Celine Dion
You can listen to Hebba’s playlist on Spotify. You can watch the famous Maggie Rogers NYU Pharrell video here. Maggie Rogers “Falling Water” music video 🎙 About the Guest Hebba Youssef is the Chief People Officer at Workweek and founder and creator of “I Hate it Here.” Her weekly newsletter has over 170,000 engaged readers and focuses on how HR/People teams can build great work cultures. Hebba has led a global learning and development team, ran talent management teams, and was most recently the Head of People at a fintech startup. She’s built People Ops teams from the ground up and scaled companies to double their size. Hebba has worked across several industries like tech, fintech, and media and was most recently at Axios and Lithic. In her free time, you can find her reading sci-fiction or fantasy novels and playing board games with her family. 🌹 About Play This At My Funeral Play This At My Funeral is a deeply fun, slightly macabre, always heartwarming show about the songs that shape our lives — and the ones we’d play at our funerals. Each episode invites a guest to curate the playlist for their own (hypothetical) send-off and share the stories that made those songs matter. In each episode, host Dinah invites a guest on to talk through the soundtrack of their life: the songs that have held them in moments of anguish, haunted them on the regular, and maybe just maybe even saved them. It’s a cozy, 45-minute-ish journey through meaningful lyrics, vivid memories, and the emotional mixtapes that mark our most human moments. Think Desert Island Discs meets Films To Be Buried With — but with more vibes and fewer survival scenarios. The show is created and hosted by Dinah Susan Alobeid and is edited and co-produced by Alice Marcondes. 💜 Stay Connected Subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts
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🎙 About the Host Dinah Susan Alobeid is a writer, dancer, and VP of Communications & Content by day (not always in that order). She’s the creator and host of the newly launched “Play This At My Funeral” podcast. Her fiction has appeared in Porter House Review, Five on the Fifth, and Reverie Literary Magazine and her nonfiction and poetry can be found in Spectrum Magazine, MediaPost, and more. She lives in New Jersey (even though she’s a born and bred New Yorker) with her partner and their rambunctious toddler. I hearby declare that I do not own the rights to any music or lyrics played during the recording of this podcast. All rights to the music and audio belong to their respective owner(s).
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