All Episodes

HR Besties: Leigh's Dream, Corporate Investigations and Pocket Pastries

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