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 62 Hot Flashes, Horse Urine, and the $26.6 Billion Menopause Problem HR Ignores with Mare and Raquel
Mare, Raquel, Steve, and Tony laugh their heads off discussing perimenopause, menopause, and post menopause. Menopause costs U.S. employers an estimated 26.6 billion ...
EP 61 Theresa Hummel-Krallinger or Just Great HR?
Theresa Hummel-Krallinger joins the guys for a more than an hour of laughs and great insight. Theresa talks about what makes great HR, and reacts to Johnny C Taylor's...
EP 60 Reacting to Johnny C Taylor's State of HR Answer at SHRM '26 in The Empty Red Seat
Steve and Tony react to Johnny C Taylor's SHRM 2026 speech about the state of HR. Johnny answered the question the guys ask all of their guests, What is the State of H...
EP 59 An HR Department of One, the Wild Wild West, and Almost Quit with Claire Lizear
Claire Lazaire is back for round two, and this time she's traded corporate HR for something she calls the wild, wild west: running HR solo across fifteen entities and ...
EP 58 An "Accident" at Work and Gandalf is HR's Best Recruiter with Melissa Yergensen
Melissa Yergensen has done HR at a two-hundred-person county government, an underground mine, a giant hospitality company, and back again, and she has an opinion about...