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HR BESTIES — 143 episodes
HR Besties: Private Jets, Silhouettes and an Update on SHRM
HR Besties Happy Hour: Bestie Updates and the Latest on SHRM
HR Besties: Recapping our Holiday Do's and Don'ts, SHRM Verdict, and Cheers to the New Year!
HR Besties: HR Horror Stories... The Unhinged Files
HR Besties: The Secret Life of the Overemployed
HR Besties: When Layoffs are the new normal: shifting trends and culture
HR Besties Happy Hour: Troubling Updates on SHRM
HR Besties: Questies for the Besties
HR Besties: Culture of fear
HR Besties: When your Work Bestie is the only thing keeping you employed
HR Besties Happy Hour: What's Going on in SHRM's World?
HR Besties: AI Anxiety
HR Besties: Remote Doesn't Mean Flexible Anymore
HR Besties: Opting out of Leadership
HR Besties: Boo! Ghost Job Epidemic
HR Besties: Crashing Out at Work: What to Do When You're Mad, Sad, or Spiralling
HR Besties: How to Get Promoted: Career Advice Straight from HR
HR Besties Happy Hour: Updates From Jamie and Taylor Swift
HR Besties: Gen Z Work Culture Clashes
HR Besties: Coping With Job Loss
HR Besties: Work Life Balance
HR Besties: Toxic Positivity
HR Besties: Workhuman Live 2025 with KeyAnna Schmiedl
HR Besties: Our Top Ten Most Memorable Cringe Corporate Speak Moments
HR Besties: Our Top Ten Most Memorable (and Cringe) Watercooler Stories
HR Besties: How to Make the Most of Paid Time Off
HR Besties: Coaching Difficult Coworkers (Without Losing Your Mind)
HR Besties: Why HR is Needed with Matt Taylor, President of Guardian HR
HR Besties: Start Ups 101
HR Besties: What to Do if You Hate Your Job
HR Besties: Hot Topic Happy Hour - Sipping the Legal Drama Tea
HR Besties: Global Employment with Nicole Sahin, CEO of Globalization Partners (G-P)
HR Besties: Ageism with Special Guest and Meeting Crasher Maureen Wiley Clough
HR Besties: Managing Up
HR Besties: It's Quittin' Time!
HR Besties: Hot Topics Happy Hour - DEI and Government Employees
HR Besties: The Overlap Between Customer Experience and Employee Experience with Max Farber
HR Besties: Unequal Treatment at Work
HR Besties: "Other Duties As Assigned": Surprise Changes at Work
HR Besties: Out of Touch Leadership
HR Besties: Effective Goal Setting: From KPIs, OKRs to Personal
HR Besties: Workplace Trends in 2025
HR Besties: Bonus Happy Hour - Drones, SHRM and Jingle Jingle
HR Besties: Bonus Episode - HR as the Complaint Department
HR Besties Bonus Happy Hour - Friday Frustrations and Ohio State Updates
HR Besties: Questies For The Besties and Cheers to Season 4!
HR Besties Happy Hour - Hot Frosty, Bug Infested Christmas Trees and Thanksgiving
HR Besties: Romantic Relationships at Work
HR Besties Happy Hour: Glamping and Noncompete Updates
HR Besties: Content Creation 101
HR Besties Happy Hour: Fur Bear-ter or For Worse
HR Besties: Employee Benefits, Open Enrollment and Everything in Between
HR Besties Happy Hour - Sag Szn, Leigh's Dreams and Politics in the Workplace
HR Besties: Corporate Social Responsibility - Charities and Volunteering
HR Besties Happy Hour - SHRM Hearing and Scare Tactics
HR Besties: HR Department of One
HR Besties Happy Hour - National Work Besties Day
HR Besties: You Didn't Get Your Dream Job, Now What?
HR Besties Happy Hour - Stay Safe Besties
HR Besties: Using AI at Work
HR Besties Happy Hour - Unless They Are Crowning in the Conference Room…
HR Besties: Beyond Compliance: Accommodating Disabilities at Work
HR Besties Happy Hour - Vegas is Still Vegas
HR Besties: Investigations 101 - Best Practices
HR Besties Happy Hour - Lonely No More, Besties!
HR Besties: When HR Doesn't report under the CEO
HR Besties Happy Hour - People Be Peopling Everywhere
HR Besties: Establishing (and Keeping!) Healthy Boundaries
HR Besties Happy Hour - Do Celebrities Go To Iceland?
HR Besties: Pay Transparency
HR Besties Happy Hour - Employee Engagement Event No-No's
HR Besties: Favoritism and Nepotism
HR Besties Happy Hour - Stressed Spelled Backwards is Desserts
HR Besties: Congrats, You're a New Leader! Oh no, You're a New Leader!
HR Besties Happy Hour - Hot Gossip and Secondhand Embarrassment
HR Besties: HR Pet Peeves
HR Besties Happy Hour - Does HR Make You Miserable?
HR Besties: Someone Just Quit... What (Should) Happen Next?
HR Besties Happy Hour - Antics, Olympics and Politics
HR Besties: Friends at Work
HR Besties Happy Hour - Spilling the Cup of Tea
HR Besties: Resumes, Resumes, Resumes!
HR Besties Happy Hour - Performance Management with Mr. Roboto
HR Besties: Quiet Vacationing
HR Besties Season 3 Recap
HR Besties Happy Hour - $HRM Says No to Equity
HR Besties: Imposter Syndrome
HR Besties Happy Hour - Recapping SHRM and Missing Jamie
HR Besties: Bringing Your True Self to Work
HR Besties Happy Hour - Getting Ready for SHRM and Beach
HR Besties: Corporate Politics
HR Besties Happy Hour – Unhinged or Free Spirited?
HR Besties: Toxic Positivity
HR Besties Happy Hour – Atlanta Has Some Explaining To Do
Personality Hires
HR Besties Happy Hour – Hiss (and harnesses)
Work Travel
HR Besties Happy Hour - See? It's Not All Bad!
Green Flags in the Workplace
HR Besties Happy Hour – Besties vs Butker (aka Butthead)
The Right To Disconnect
HR Besties Happy Hour – Sh*tty Travel Stories
LinkedIn Cringe
HR Besties Happy Hour – Mental Health and Legal Updates
Feedback Culture or Nah?
HR Besties Happy Hour - Eat, Pray, Love for Besties
Questies for the Besties
HR Besties Happy Hour – Nepo, Baby!
Employee Engagement Surveys
HR Besties Happy Hour – San Antonio Shenanigans
Toxic Leadership (and how we survived it)
HR Besties Happy Hour – Watercooler Gossip and Besties Meet In San Antonio!
Finding Success in HR
HR Besties Happy Hour – Advice For Leaders, Courtesy of the All In Podcast
When the Watercooler's Lit AF
HR Besties Happy Hour – Gargoyles in the Workplace
Corporate Ghosting
HR Besties Happy Hour - Roman Empires, Love Languages and Answering the Burning Bestie Questions
Free Food (in Lieu of Pay)
HR Besties Happy Hour - Topless Technical Teammate
Who's the HR for HR?
HR Besties Happy Hour – Show Me the Money
Big News, Besties!
Giving & Receiving
"Sorry I can't share that, I have an NDA"
Why Job Postings Suck
Bonus All Hands Meeting with Miss Excel Kat Norton
All Aboard!
Remotely Remote Working
New Year, Same You?
Season 2 Trailer
Holiday Bonus Time!
The Tough Talks
Don't Kill The Messengers / Us
Conversations On Conflict (and the P word)
BONUS BESTIES: Open To Work (Gobble Gobble)
Even More Wisdom From HR Guru Dave Ramsey
Meet Dave, HR Guru
Bosses Behaving Badly
Today's Your Last Day
Who Charted?
We Are Not The Enemy
WELCOME TO HR BESTIES