HR Besties Happy Hour: Bestie Updates and the Latest on SHRM
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 4 February 2026
⏱️ 34 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to HRB! We hope your new year is off to a great start, Besties! We can't wait to catch up on all the hot gossip...
In this Happy Hour:
- Congratulations, Ashley!
- Being a cozy joggers manager, pause-consider-act framework, and more teasers from The Manager Method
- Updates on SHRM
- SHRM local chapters and seeking out other resources for HR professionals
- What we've been up to lately
The Manager Method is available for pre-order! Visit managermethod.com/book for more information and your free book club guide.
Your To-Do List: Grab merch, submit Questions & Comments, and make sure that you're the first to know about our In-Person Meetings (events!) at https://www.hrbesties.com.
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We look forward to seeing you in our next meeting - don't worry, we'll have a hard stop!
Yours in Business + Bullsh*t,
Leigh, Jamie & Ashley
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Tune in to "HR Besties," a business, work and management podcast hosted by Leigh Elena Henderson (HRManifesto), Ashley Herd (ManagerMethod) and Jamie Jackson (Humorous_Resources), where we navigate the labyrinth of corporate culture, from cringe corporate speak to toxic leadership. Whether you're in Human Resources or not, corporate or small business, we offer sneak peeks into surviving work, hiring strategies, and making the employee experience better for all. Tune in for real talk on employee engagement, green flags in the workplace, and how to turn red flags into real change. Don't miss our chats about leadership, career coaching, and takes from work travel and watercooler gossip. Get new episodes every Wednesday and Friday, follow us on socials for the latest updates, and join us at our virtual happy hours to share your HR stories.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, besties, it's Happy Hour. |
| 0:09.0 | Aww! |
| 0:14.0 | We love a good happy hour, don't we? |
| 0:18.0 | At 2026, first episode, Bestie's back together. I know this is |
| 0:23.2 | happy hour, so technically we would not do corporate cringe, but it's February. Would you mind if |
| 0:30.0 | someone said Happy New Year, or do you find that cringy once we get to February? I think you get two weeks. |
| 0:35.8 | I think you get two weeks in January to do it. But I won't say |
| 0:40.0 | Happy New Year, but the first quarter, I will say hope this New Year is going well for you so far, |
| 0:47.6 | or hope it's been a, you're having a great start or, you know what I mean? Like if I'm trying to |
| 0:52.0 | reconnect with somebody, but I'm not going to say, happy New Year. |
| 0:54.9 | Yeah. |
| 0:55.3 | You still got that corporate executive in you. You focusing on that Q1, Q1 magic. You got that. I mean, damn. Branded. Branded. I got that GE Meatball. That's what we used to say. We got the brand over here. I got the cat brand over here. All the brands, you know? |
| 1:10.5 | So we take classes in this. |
| 1:13.2 | For those that are listening, I brands, you know. So we take classes in this. |
| 1:12.9 | For those that are, I mean, you know, there are legit classes, some corporations, organizations, |
| 1:18.5 | businesses put you through, right? I can like feel people shaking their heads like, oh yeah, |
| 1:22.6 | oh yeah. Where they teach you fonts not to use the colors. I mean, what to say, when. I mean, crazy. It's just |
| 1:30.4 | a brainwashing thing. We had a carabiner at Young Brands of corporate speak, and it would be like, |
| 1:36.4 | one was a jeep bonnet, which was a meeting where you're standing, a short meeting where you're |
| 1:40.7 | standing up. And maybe that has to do with the military. I can't recall. |
| 1:50.4 | I can't recall. But wait, first off, what's a carabiner? Like the thing that holds a rope and you're like going down a mountain, right? If you watched the Taipei 101 climb. Oh, I did. And then we watched |
| 1:56.5 | Free Solo as a family, which I watched back then., I've barely climbed, like, aside from like the, |
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