The HR Life Podcast
By Tony Benjamin
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Episodes: 70
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The HR Life Podcast is a show about the work-life experience of those of us in Human Resources and business leadership. This long-form podcast is a conversation, casual, and not always the corporate line. Hosts and guests touch on everything from serious or even controversial topics to the absurdity of modern American business practices. Your hosts are Tony Benjamin, owner and founder of The Grange Strategic HR Consulting, and Steven J. Smith, Author of The Hiring Tree: Laws of Applicant Attraction and all-around important guy. Guests include the best minds in the HR world. Join the show weekly.
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EP 67 Rod Lacey, The Future of HR Consulting, and Professionally Evil Organizations
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Sep 22, 2026 |
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EP 66 Level-Funded and Self-Funded Benefit Plans, and Tony's Craw With Scott Fielding
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Sep 15, 2026 |
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EP 65 The Case for Treating Employees Well, WorkLife, and Heads on a Stick With Sarah and Elena
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Sep 08, 2026 |
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EP 64.5 Special Episode: September Announcements
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Sep 02, 2026 |
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EP 64 Keep Your Edge: Olympic Speed Skating, Blood Clots, and The Principle's Office With Rebekah Bradford
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Sep 01, 2026 |
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EP 63 Nobody Asks About Your ENPS When They're Buying Your Company with Thien Nguyen
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Aug 25, 2026 |
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EP 62 Hot Flashes, Horse Urine, and the $26.6 Billion Menopause Problem HR Ignores with Mare and Raquel
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Aug 18, 2026 |
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EP 61 Theresa Hummel-Krallinger or Just Great HR?
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Aug 11, 2026 |
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EP 60 Reacting to Johnny C Taylor's State of HR Answer at SHRM '26 in The Empty Red Seat
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Aug 04, 2026 |
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EP 59 An HR Department of One, the Wild Wild West, and Almost Quit with Claire Lizear
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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EP 58 An "Accident" at Work and Gandalf is HR's Best Recruiter with Melissa Yergensen
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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EP 57 Careless Hiring, Skinwalker Ranch, and Britt Davies' Long Awaited Debut
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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EP 56 Where's My Ashtray, Hire Right Fire Fast, and the OceanGate Culture Collapse with Bryan McCurdy
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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EP 55 Disrupting Benefit Management with Rhonda Nerenberg and Jacob Davis
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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EP 54 HR's Opportunity to Drive the AI Bus with Ryan Kohler and Fragments of Tony's Skull
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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EP 53 Joe Tate Music, Japan, and the Power of Presentations
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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EP 52 Turns Out Smiling Is Free: Aric Bostick on Attachment Theory and Why Your Face Is an HR Problem
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Jun 09, 2026 |
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EP 51 Fueling HR with the NY Times at Central Utah SHRM
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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EP 50 The Empty Bolt Seat: The CEO Who Thinks He Doesn't Need HR, Grogu, and Reddit
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May 26, 2026 |
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EP 49 - HEED This: Reading Body Language, Running Investigations, and What Counterintelligence Teaches HR with Derik Clark
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May 19, 2026 |
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EP 48 May the Fourth, Socks, and Why Performance Reviews Are Stuck in 1955 with Albert Foster
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May 12, 2026 |
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EP 47 Pure Inspiration at JAG (Jobs for America's Graduates)
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May 05, 2026 |
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EP 46 Retention, Troy Blanchard's Connections, and Ken Miles Got Jacked
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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EP 45 The State of the Hot Tub Workplace in the Empty Red Seat
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Apr 22, 2026 |
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EP 44 The Dichotomous State of HR, AI, and a Huge Announcement At The Very End of The Empty Red Seat
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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EP 43 The Toxic Environment of the Empty Red Seat - and How to Cure It
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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EP 42 Why Can't I ask Follow Up Questions in Interviews on the Empty Red Seat?
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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EP 41 Definning Strategic, The Four Myths of HR, and He-Man in the The Empty Red Seat
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Mar 25, 2026 |
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EP 40 The SAFE Framework and Gamified Confetti with Andrea Hollingsworth
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Mar 17, 2026 |
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EP 39 Rachel Child and HR Education in Iambic Pentameter
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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EP 38 Return of Shaina Burgoyne And Yoda is Still Missing
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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EP 37 AI, the EEOC, the Eightfold Case, and an Empty Red Dog Couch
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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EP 36 Is The ATS Out To Get You? An Empty Red Seat Conversation on a Deserted Island
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Feb 17, 2026 |
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EP 35 Rat Birds, PEO's, and Your Business Knowledge With Stacee Pedersen
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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EP 34 Your HR Value, Pooper Scoopers, and Vinagaroons with Ben Eden
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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EP 33 Look Here Resume Writing with Amy Adler
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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EP - 32 Dentist Elves, SHRM's Mistakes, Lawsuit Politics, and Clydesdales In the Empty Red Seat
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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EP 31 The Very Cool Sexy Subject of I9's with Karisa Stahle
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Jan 13, 2026 |
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EP 30 Fantastic Stickers With Tracie Kalmar
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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EP 29 The Lawyer is in With Mark Tolman
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Dec 30, 2025 |
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EP 28 Merry Christmas! At Twice the Speed While Watching Predator!
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Dec 23, 2025 |
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EP 27 Compassion and Exciting, Fancy Psychobabble With Andrea Hollingsworth
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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EP 26 $600k Worth of Stats, Confused Culture, and Dissent with Weslie Porter
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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EP 25 Yea... International HR with Desma and Elrona D'Souza
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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EP 24 Breaking News! 2026 Work Elevated Theme... Again, with JoyLynn Jeppson
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Nov 26, 2025 |
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EP 23 Superpowers for Grown-ups With Tami Bajema
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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EP 22 Eating the Otter Pops, Setting Up The New HR Department, Big Deal Recruiting, and Why People Leave
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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EP 21 Who Defends HR on 6 Mile with Claire Lizear?
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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EP 20 Perfectionist Rock Stars a Plenty with Alison Avila
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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EP 19 Vision, Mission, and Shoulder Grogu
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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EP 18 The Layoff Stayed in Vegas, From the Couch to the Superbowl with Steve Jaffe
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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EP 17 Free Bird, The Work Elevated Conference, and Mullets
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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EP 16 Illegal Lizards, Divine Recruiting and Melissa Musgrave
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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EP 15 Insurance Fun with Diane Fullerton
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Sep 22, 2025 |
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EP 14 JD Robinson, The New Guy in Steve's Database
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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EP 13 It Takes an Olympic Village To Raise a Culture with Dan Merkley
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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EP 12 The Undeniable Halo of Matt Hilbig
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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EP 11 Your Religious Uncle Robot and Josh Brecheisen
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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EP 10 - Swipe Right if You Think I'm Cute and The Empty Red Seat (w/Rizzo)
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Aug 19, 2025 |
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EP 9 Xavier Cugnon Isn't Jaded, But Tony Is... and A Giant Cat
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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EP 8 Of Course Steve Knows Kate Thompson's Boss
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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EP 7 - Delivery on Duty With Rachel Child
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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Bonus Ep Viva La Kiss Cam (With Bonus Track)
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Jul 25, 2025 |
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EP 6 - Handbooks, Cops, and Taking Minutes With Priscilla Wadman
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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EP 5 - The Empty Red Seat and Origin Stories
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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EP 4 From Dolphins and Dogs to DEI With Katey Connell - The HR Life Podcast
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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EP 3 - None of These Guys are Playing in the NBA Finals with Jeremie Brecheisen - The HR Life Podcast
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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EP 2 - The Mega Big Deal Star Wars People and Tony With Beca Mark - The HR Life Podcast
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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Ep 1 - Strategic is a Dirty Word? - With Karisa Stahle - The HR Life Podcast
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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Ep 0.5 An Introduction - Are we recording?
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Jun 10, 2025 |