HR Besties: Leigh's Dream, Corporate Investigations and Pocket Pastries
HR BESTIES
HR Besties LLC
4.8 • 586 Ratings
🗓️ 13 May 2026
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to our monthly meeting, Besties!
Today's agenda:
- Congratulations, Ashley!
- Surprise appearances from TJ and GC
- Spilling the tea on a J.P. Morgan investigation
- A quick update from SHRM and the latest from the Rocket Docket
- Pause, Consider, Act, plus a few words for HR professionals
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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 month, 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 | Hello, besties. |
| 0:05.0 | It's been a hot minute, huh? |
| 0:07.0 | Yeah, for those of you playing catch up, we are on monthlies because it is crazy over here. |
| 0:14.0 | Ashley's book and all of the things happening and schedules and life, all that fun stuff. So if you've missed us, |
| 0:22.6 | we've missed you too, trust. Ashley does have a little news, though, about that book, |
| 0:28.4 | don't you? Well, I did. My publisher emailed me this week, and my book hit on Kindle number one |
| 0:34.3 | bestseller in the HR and personnel management category. And so I was very excited. |
| 0:41.0 | That's a big deal. Yeah, it is. Congratulations. Thank you. Yeah. So thank you also. Thank |
| 0:46.2 | everyone for reading and sharing. And if you've read it, leave a review. So thank you. It helps. |
| 0:53.4 | Yes. Go check out manager method, the manager |
| 0:57.3 | method, all of that. It is on shows now. How crazy is that, right? It is. It still is surreal, |
| 1:04.5 | although I was on a trip on spring break, and we went and there's a big bookstore down at |
| 1:10.3 | the beach. And my friend's like, do you want to go in and see if your book's there? And I was like, I don't think it'll be there. And we went around. No, it was not there. And I was like, this isn't so much a beach read. It's an office read. But, you know, then I picked up, you know, picked up some random book. I just picked it up and went to the dispute it obviously to be there, not just turn around awkwardly. |
| 1:28.5 | But when you do find it, it's exciting. |
| 1:30.0 | You're right. random book. I just picked it up and went to the and bought it, obviously, to be there, not just turn around awkwardly. When you do find it, it's exciting. Right. Do you happen to have this book? My book's not here. I'm not buying anything. It looks like you. It's not me. It was just sold out, Ashley. There you go. Come on. You know it was all over the beach. Of course. All the books laying out, you know? |
| 1:46.6 | Who needs yesteryear when you can have some management tips, you know? |
| 1:52.7 | Right, when I lay it out in the sun, that's nice. |
| 1:55.7 | I got a little treat for you, Ashley, because I had a dream a couple of nights ago. Oh, I've missed your dreams, Lee. |
| 2:05.1 | Every night, they're popping. I do not have to do illegal drugs. You can choose to, but, you know. |
| 2:11.4 | Oh, my God. Yeah, I could choose to. I know. Yeah, I mean, you know, I do legal ones, All of the drugs. But highly recommend love science. My dreams are vivid. Okay. So you'll love this. Someone, a very lovable character of ours now, Thomas J. Henry, made a reappearance. |
| 2:31.6 | Oh, besty. Not T.J. He made a reappearance. He made a reappearance. Oh, besty. Not TJ. |
| 2:35.0 | He made a reappearance. |
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