Sounds Like an HR Problem

Season One is going out with everything we've got. Yang and Ashley are spending the month of July releasing a four-part series on the thing that shapes every team, every culture, and every company outcome — hiring and developing your people. Here's what's dropping, one episode a week: Part 1 — Master the Interview (Candidate Side) Ashley flips the mic and interviews Yang on how candida...

You had questions. Yang and Ashley have answers. In this special listener Q&A episode, they tackle four real questions submitted by listeners — and get surprisingly real about their own experiences along the way. First up, what do you do when your manager is too checked out or introverted to plan any team building while every other team in the company is out having a good time? Then they get i...

Burnout is depression. Yang checked almost every box on the questionnaire — and he didn't even know it until his wife told him. And he's not alone. In this episode, Yang and Ashley get personal about their own mental health journeys and what it took to step away from corporate before things got worse. Then they get into what employers actually need to know — and do — when an employee is st...

Growing your business is exciting. Picking the wrong HR system to support that growth? Not so much. In this special episode, Yang and Ashley bring in their HRIS and Ops expert Carla Garrison to break down everything small business owners and HR pros need to know before signing on the dotted line with a new vendor. And trust us — the demo they showed you is not the whole story. Carla has been on bo...

Hurricane season is coming and if you're in Houston, you already know what that means. But weather events are just the beginning. In this episode, Yang and Ashley get into the emergency situations that nobody thinks about until they're actually happening — and by then it's too late. From an active shooter situation at the Galleria with no plan and a building full of people, to a heart attack on th...

Nobody likes firing people. But if you're in HR or managing a team, it's inevitable. The question isn't whether you'll have to do it — it's whether you're ready when it happens. In this episode, Yang and Ashley get into the real, unfiltered side of difficult terminations. We're talking a pre-Christmas executive layoff, a guy who spit on the table and dropped every curse word in the book on his way...

When personal beliefs show up at work, political posters in cubicles, religious decorations at the front desk, vocal opinions around the office, things can get complicated fast. In this episode, Yang and Ashley share real stories from their HR careers about exactly these situations: a 2016 election-era standoff with an HR employee who didn't know where the line was, and a front desk hire whose rel...

What do you do when your employee shows up to work drunk? What if it's not so obvious? And who thought it was a good idea to invite the safety manager to do lines on an oil rig? In this episode, Yang and Ashley kick things off with some of the wildest substance-related workplace stories from their careers — starting with a temp who showed up to her 10 AM shift with a spiked Big Gulp and ended up p...

In our first episode, we're not diving into HR stories yet. We're just telling you who we are and how we both ended up in this world — because neither of us planned to. Yang's path started with a spectacularly bombed interview that sent him on a quest he didn't see coming. Ashley was supposed to be the next Hannah Storm on ESPN until reality (and student loans) had other plans. Somewhere along the...