The HR Podcast - Built for Business

Back in July 2025 Sarah Ropek asked me if I would like to co-host a Podcast with her. I said YES straight away. Between us we have almost 45 years in experience in HR and have seen and been through a lot of different things. We have worked in large corporate companies, small start ups, the SME world and now have our own businesses.

Each week on the podcast we tackle a new question and we are trying to pick questions that will really help HR and Businesses in every day working lives. There are tonnes of books out there, AI has opened up a new way to access information and there are courses that you can all access. So we want to bring our real life experiences to you. Talk about the warts and all, talk about what we have actually been through and witnessed ourselves.

The episodes are around 20 minutes long, because we know that HR people are pushed for time. We get it.

Our very first episode - Why Can’t I Just Fire Them was a huge hit.

This is a question that comes up time and time again from managers. They have ignored poor performance time and time again and have come to the realisation that they can no longer have this person in their team….so they just want to dismiss them.

When we started the podcast we didn’t really know how it would evolve, how long it would run for, how many episodes we would produce. But as the time goes by we are really enjoying recording each episode.

Sarah recently brought our first guest onto the show and asked Nic Elliott - Employment Lawyer at Actons - What Should We Know About the Employment Rights Act. Right now this is a hot topic!

If you have a question you would like us to answer please do reach out. We’d love to hear from you.

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Thanks for listening to our podcast and for all your support

Claire

Founder - ELEVATE Hub