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

HR BESTIES

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Management, Business

4.8 • 586 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 44 minutes

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Summary

Today's agenda:

Introducing Maureen Wiley Clough, host of the It Gets Late Early podcast
Drunk interview
Cringe corporate speak: culture fit
Hot topic: ageism in the workplace
Most people are ageist... it's the only "ism" that can affect everyone
What sparked Maureen's podcast and focus on ageism?
HR professionals should feel empowered to discuss ageism in an organization, such as being included in DEIB discussions
More years can mean more experience and enhanced job performance (...duh!)
Colorado's Job Application Fairness Act
Age discrimination from job recruiters and hiring managers. What can members of HR do to point out these biases?
Intergenerational mentorship can be very beneficial to an organization (and can go both ways)
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Maureen Wiley Clough is a speaker, content creator, brand partner, and podcaster on topics of ageism, the value of the intergenerational workforce, midlife careers and midlife empowerment. She has worked with AARP as a brand partner and now seeks other organizations that want to partner with her to spread the important message about the value of people across all ages at the workplace and beyond. Follow her on LinkedIn, Instagram, and TikTok, and learn more about her podcast It Gets Late Early at itgetslateearly.com.

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0:00.0	Hello, besties.
0:06.8	Guess what? We have a meeting crasher with us today.
0:12.4	Not again.
0:13.4	I know. Another colleague from down the hall wants to crash our recurring meeting here.
0:19.2	Welcome Maureen Wiley Clough, who is the
0:22.7	podcaster extraordinaire, an advocate on ageism, all across the socials, host of It Gets Late
0:30.8	Early. Welcome, Maureen. Thank you for having me, and I think I might be the only person
0:37.3	who's had the distinction of having had all three of the HR besties on my podcast. So I am like so pumped to be here.
0:45.0	Wow. Look at you. You're earning those corporate badges there. Yeah. Thanks for having us on your show. We have just been itching, right, to return the favor and have you in our meeting.
0:58.2	Because you've decided to join us, though, you are on the hook today for the cringe speak, the hot goss.
1:05.5	And then, of course, the hot topic today will be all things ageism at work. But Maureen, don't let Lee
1:12.9	scare you. She's always itching for other reasons, state school, state school reasons, but
1:17.8	we're itching to have you on as well. Skabies. I'm stoked to be here. This is going to be so fun.
1:24.8	It's going to be so fun. Yes. So, Maureen, why don't you kick us off with just a little light water cooler talk, a little hot goss. What's going on?
1:34.8	I'm going to tell on myself here, and I'm going to bring us back to an earlier period that I know probably wasn't any of our favorites.
1:43.5	Do you remember the year 2020? Do you remember what that was like?
1:48.7	Barely. Yeah. Yeah. That's going to come up later in this story. So we were trying to get by
1:54.9	during COVID, right? And we were doing anything it took, which included in some cases heavily drinking, I would say. Lots of ICES.
2:04.0	Yep, yep, at lots of places. And we were also in jobs. We were working throughout COVID, right?
2:09.1	And I was fortunate enough to be able to hold mine through the pandemic and had remote work and all
2:13.9	of that. And we had some forced fun around the holidays, right, where we were like,
2:18.4	hey, everybody, let's get the team together. Let's have a remote happy hour. Do you remember
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