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HR BESTIES — 143 episodes

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HR Besties: Private Jets, Silhouettes and an Update on SHRM

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HR Besties Happy Hour: Bestie Updates and the Latest on SHRM

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HR Besties: Recapping our Holiday Do's and Don'ts, SHRM Verdict, and Cheers to the New Year!

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HR Besties: HR Horror Stories... The Unhinged Files

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HR Besties: The Secret Life of the Overemployed

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HR Besties: When Layoffs are the new normal: shifting trends and culture

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HR Besties Happy Hour: Troubling Updates on SHRM

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HR Besties: Questies for the Besties

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HR Besties: Culture of fear

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HR Besties: When your Work Bestie is the only thing keeping you employed

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HR Besties Happy Hour: What's Going on in SHRM's World?

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HR Besties: AI Anxiety

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HR Besties: Remote Doesn't Mean Flexible Anymore

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HR Besties: Opting out of Leadership

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HR Besties: Boo! Ghost Job Epidemic

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HR Besties: Crashing Out at Work: What to Do When You're Mad, Sad, or Spiralling

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HR Besties: How to Get Promoted: Career Advice Straight from HR

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HR Besties Happy Hour: Updates From Jamie and Taylor Swift

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HR Besties: Gen Z Work Culture Clashes

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HR Besties: Coping With Job Loss

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HR Besties: Work Life Balance

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HR Besties: Toxic Positivity

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HR Besties: Workhuman Live 2025 with KeyAnna Schmiedl

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HR Besties: Our Top Ten Most Memorable Cringe Corporate Speak Moments

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HR Besties: Our Top Ten Most Memorable (and Cringe) Watercooler Stories

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HR Besties: How to Make the Most of Paid Time Off

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HR Besties: Coaching Difficult Coworkers (Without Losing Your Mind)

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HR Besties: Why HR is Needed with Matt Taylor, President of Guardian HR

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HR Besties: Start Ups 101

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HR Besties: What to Do if You Hate Your Job

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HR Besties: Hot Topic Happy Hour - Sipping the Legal Drama Tea

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HR Besties: Global Employment with Nicole Sahin, CEO of Globalization Partners (G-P)

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HR Besties: Ageism with Special Guest and Meeting Crasher Maureen Wiley Clough

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HR Besties: Managing Up

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HR Besties: It's Quittin' Time!

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HR Besties: Hot Topics Happy Hour - DEI and Government Employees

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HR Besties: The Overlap Between Customer Experience and Employee Experience with Max Farber

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HR Besties: Unequal Treatment at Work

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HR Besties: "Other Duties As Assigned": Surprise Changes at Work

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HR Besties: Out of Touch Leadership

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HR Besties: Effective Goal Setting: From KPIs, OKRs to Personal

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HR Besties: Workplace Trends in 2025

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HR Besties: Bonus Happy Hour - Drones, SHRM and Jingle Jingle

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HR Besties: Bonus Episode - HR as the Complaint Department

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HR Besties Bonus Happy Hour - Friday Frustrations and Ohio State Updates

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HR Besties: Questies For The Besties and Cheers to Season 4!

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Hot Frosty, Bug Infested Christmas Trees and Thanksgiving

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HR Besties: Romantic Relationships at Work

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HR Besties Happy Hour: Glamping and Noncompete Updates

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HR Besties: Content Creation 101

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HR Besties Happy Hour: Fur Bear-ter or For Worse

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HR Besties: Employee Benefits, Open Enrollment and Everything in Between

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Sag Szn, Leigh's Dreams and Politics in the Workplace

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HR Besties: Corporate Social Responsibility - Charities and Volunteering

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HR Besties Happy Hour - SHRM Hearing and Scare Tactics

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HR Besties: HR Department of One

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HR Besties Happy Hour - National Work Besties Day

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HR Besties: You Didn't Get Your Dream Job, Now What?

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Stay Safe Besties

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HR Besties: Using AI at Work

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Unless They Are Crowning in the Conference Room…

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HR Besties: Beyond Compliance: Accommodating Disabilities at Work

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Vegas is Still Vegas

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HR Besties: Investigations 101 - Best Practices

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Lonely No More, Besties!

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HR Besties: When HR Doesn't report under the CEO

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HR Besties Happy Hour - People Be Peopling Everywhere

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HR Besties: Establishing (and Keeping!) Healthy Boundaries

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Do Celebrities Go To Iceland?

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HR Besties: Pay Transparency

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Employee Engagement Event No-No's

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HR Besties: Favoritism and Nepotism

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Stressed Spelled Backwards is Desserts

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HR Besties: Congrats, You're a New Leader! Oh no, You're a New Leader!

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Hot Gossip and Secondhand Embarrassment

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HR Besties: HR Pet Peeves

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Does HR Make You Miserable?

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HR Besties: Someone Just Quit... What (Should) Happen Next?

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Antics, Olympics and Politics

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HR Besties: Friends at Work

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Spilling the Cup of Tea

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HR Besties: Resumes, Resumes, Resumes!

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Performance Management with Mr. Roboto

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HR Besties: Quiet Vacationing

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HR Besties Season 3 Recap

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HR Besties Happy Hour - $HRM Says No to Equity

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HR Besties: Imposter Syndrome

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Recapping SHRM and Missing Jamie

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HR Besties: Bringing Your True Self to Work

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Getting Ready for SHRM and Beach

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HR Besties: Corporate Politics

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HR Besties Happy Hour – Unhinged or Free Spirited?

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HR Besties: Toxic Positivity

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HR Besties Happy Hour – Atlanta Has Some Explaining To Do

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Personality Hires

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HR Besties Happy Hour – Hiss (and harnesses)

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Work Travel

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HR Besties Happy Hour - See? It's Not All Bad!

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Green Flags in the Workplace

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HR Besties Happy Hour – Besties vs Butker (aka Butthead)

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The Right To Disconnect

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HR Besties Happy Hour – Sh*tty Travel Stories

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LinkedIn Cringe

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HR Besties Happy Hour – Mental Health and Legal Updates

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Feedback Culture or Nah?

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Eat, Pray, Love for Besties

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Questies for the Besties

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HR Besties Happy Hour – Nepo, Baby!

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Employee Engagement Surveys

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HR Besties Happy Hour – San Antonio Shenanigans

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Toxic Leadership (and how we survived it)

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HR Besties Happy Hour – Watercooler Gossip and Besties Meet In San Antonio!

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Finding Success in HR

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HR Besties Happy Hour – Advice For Leaders, Courtesy of the All In Podcast

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When the Watercooler's Lit AF

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HR Besties Happy Hour – Gargoyles in the Workplace

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Corporate Ghosting

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Roman Empires, Love Languages and Answering the Burning Bestie Questions

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Free Food (in Lieu of Pay)

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HR Besties Happy Hour - Topless Technical Teammate

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Who's the HR for HR?

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HR Besties Happy Hour – Show Me the Money

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Big News, Besties!

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Giving & Receiving

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"Sorry I can't share that, I have an NDA"

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Why Job Postings Suck

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Bonus All Hands Meeting with Miss Excel Kat Norton

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All Aboard!

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Remotely Remote Working

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New Year, Same You?

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Season 2 Trailer

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Holiday Bonus Time!

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The Tough Talks

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Don't Kill The Messengers / Us

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Conversations On Conflict (and the P word)

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BONUS BESTIES: Open To Work (Gobble Gobble)

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Even More Wisdom From HR Guru Dave Ramsey

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Meet Dave, HR Guru

139

Bosses Behaving Badly

140

Today's Your Last Day

141

Who Charted?

142

We Are Not The Enemy

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WELCOME TO HR BESTIES