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We're not recording is a business podcast hosted by Roxanne Petraeus. It has 60 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

I’m Roxanne Petraeus—CEO at Ethena, Army vet, and mom—joined by Melanie Naranjo, our CPO and animal mom. Together, we talk about all things HR: the hiring fails, the leadership wins (and disasters), and the stuff you’d never hear in a corporate training. This is candid, messy, and way too fun to be a boring business podcast.

business ·en ·60 episodes

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1

Teams Earn the Right to Win W/Tiffany Stevenson

2

From Managing Teams to Measuring Impact W/ Brad Wilkins

3

AI Just Gave You a Promotion W/Ben Lagner

4

No One Leads Through Change Without Being Changed by It W/ Stephen

5

The AI Era Might Reward the Most Human Leaders W/David Hanrahan

6

When trust is missing at the top, HR feels like climbing Everest without oxygen W/Angela Kiniry

7

How an HR Leader Decides When Change Is the Right Move W/ Jeff Bettinger

8

Staying Curious as an HR Leader While Navigating Complexity W/Matt Taylor

9

Integrity Opens the Door and Courage Takes the Wheel W/ Valerie Workman

10

Your Employee Has Two Full-Time Jobs? W/Tracy Simek

11

Leaving the Safety Net of a Big Company to Bet on Yourself W/Andrea Cooper

12

When Personal Reinvention Becomes your Next Job

13

When Your Résumé Feeds Imposter Syndrome W/Jevan Lenox

14

The Perfect Match When a Legal Mind Meets a Human Heart

15

Diversify Your Happiness: Stop Putting All Your Happiness in One Basket

16

Strategic Parental Leave — and the Conversations Leaders Avoid

17

Everyone Needs an Executive Coach — and Maybe a Policy on Protests?

18

Company Culture Alignment Over Culture Optics w/ Ian White

19

Leading Change Without Losing Trust

20

Brex: From Scaling Fast to Recalibrating Deep W/ Heather Dunn

21

How the CEO ‘Roxanne’ Does Her Own Performance Review

22

Posting Through the Fear: HR, Grief & Going Viral W/Justin Clifford

23

Spicy Takes: College, Unlimited PTO, and Work Conversations Gone Off the Rails

24

How a People-First CEO Hires, Handles Crises, And Owns Mistakes W/Ben Sesser

25

Why HR Belongs in the Boardroom W/Katelin Holloway

26

Perks, Paychecks, and Pissed-Off Employees W/Kelli Dragovich

27

The Wildest HR “Oops” Moments from LinkedIn

28

Your AI Just Took Compliance Training

29

Managers Revolt Over AI in Performance Reviews W/Ashley Herd

30

What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Ditch the Managers, Skip a Generation, Almost Hire Spies. W/ Heather Doshay

31

Not Another AI Hype Episode: Just Tools That Actually Work w/Emily Mabie from @Zapier

32

Psychological Safety, Feedback Drama, and Other Leadership Nightmares w/Gina des Cognets

33

We Really Didn’t Want to Talk About the Coldplay Thing

34

Can a leader be too authentic? W/ Christina Luconi

35

What to do when facing an incompetent manager

36

Short employment stints

37

A hiring process gone wrong

38

What a scathing Glassdoor review says about your company culture w/Ashley Herd

39

Influencing leaders w/ Carrie Berg from @Teladoc

40

Should you have AI requirements when hiring? w/ Anna Binder from Asana

41

Culture problem - When an AI screenshot goes viral

42

An ethical revolution w/ Rob Chesnut

43

The position of people leaders

44

Work/Life balance?

45

Onboarding talent and investing in their future w/ Ali Partovi

46

A forced happy workplace

47

Reducing barriers of communication w/ Amy Jin

48

AI’s effect on managers

49

Meta communication & intent w/ Amy Jin

50

Making AI work for you w/ Robin & John Horton

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