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Welcome to the Bringing the Human Back to Human Resources
podcast. I'm Tracy Chernoff, and I've
spent my entire professional career in hour.
Each week, we'll explore the delicate balance between people
and business with the aim to reconnect the two and create
meaningful outcomes. Listen in as I share my own
experiences, challenge the status quo, and chat with guests
from various industries about our mission to bring the human
back to human resources. Hi everyone and welcome back to
the Bringing the Human. Back to human resources podcast.
Thank you so much for being here for another week.
It is 2026. Happy new year.
Woo. I'm recording this one.
It's 2025 still, so it feels a little hard to say it's 2026.
Happy New Year. Yeah.
But hey, we made it. We made it to 2026.
Hopefully. I mean, look, I'm, I'm a time
traveler at this point because I'm recording this in 2025, but
you're hearing this in 2026. So.
Cool. Listen, I wanted to give you a
quick update. This is going to be a pretty
short episode, I must say, probably one of the shortest to
date, if I do say so myself. As many of you know, I am a mom
to twins and said twins. My, my daughters are two years
old by the time I'm recording this, so they'll be a little bit
older than two, not by much, only a few months by the time
this episode comes out. And I just wanted to let you
know that I'm actually going out on maternity leave by the time
you hear this episode because I am pregnant with #3 And so you
know the drill, if you've been here for the last two plus
years, that I did not share anything about my pregnancy with
my twins until basically after I delivered them.
Now I'm, you know, first of all, I'm Jewish.
So that means that we're very superstitious.
I, I could say this because it is true.
We don't, you know, really talk about the pregnancy unless like
we have to with people very close to us.
And so I tried to withhold as long as possible, although some
of you might have been able to tell just because I am out of
breath constantly on all these episodes for the last several
months. But yes, I am.
I am due in January, so we'll see when the baby decides to
make her arrival. Yes, she is a girl.
So that means 3 under 3, all girls and lucky us.
So very exciting and, you know, God willing, everything goes to
plan and everything is all good and she's healthy and that's,
you know, all we can ask for. So I'm kind of almost using this
episode as a manifestation of what I hope to be true, which is
that I bring a healthy baby into the world and that my twin
daughters become Big Sisters, which is so sweet.
Yeah. So I wanted to share that big
news with you and let you know that that means since I'm on
maternity leave, that I have a bunch of episodes that I've
recorded to get us through the winter and the spring so that I
can focus on my family and my own health.
And so there are many fresh episodes.
As a matter of fact, if I look at my, my production schedule,
most of the, the episodes that you will hear for the first few
several months of 2026 are fresh.
When I went on maternity leave last time, I did a lot of kind
of rerun episodes, kind of like the best of the best, so to
speak, and I am going to do a little bit of that this time.
I'll have a few rerun episodes for you, probably about like 6
or so sprinkled throughout, but there's also going to be a ton
of fresh content. So I want you to hopefully feel
really excited about all of the episodes that I have planned for
you. It's been a lot of work to get
those episodes recorded before going out on my leave,
especially as I have approached, you know, the later parts of my
pregnancy. And I can't breathe, obviously,
as you can hear constantly out of breath and you know, just
being exhausted. You might have even noticed that
I'm pregnant just because of the sheer bags under my eyes.
No amount of concealer can save this face at this point.
I'm exhausted. So this is my commitment to you
is getting you fresh content all the while.
All while I should say, see, I can't even my brain, it's just
not firing on all cylinders, you guys.
But all while I, you know, hopefully in a healthy capacity,
bring a new life into the world. So very exciting stuff.
My husband and I are also closing on our very first home
purchase in the next few days. So it's been a very, very busy
several months. We've been living with family
for the last four or five months and so it'll be nice to kind of
get into our own place. I think hopefully before the
baby arrives and all of this. I'm kind of going between 2025
and 2026 here at this point, but I'm, I'm manifesting a very
fabulous 2026 for all of us and certainly for the arrival of
hopefully a healthy baby in my family.
So that's that. I also, you know, I want to
invite you to reach out if there are certain topics and episodes
that you want to hear once I return from maternity leave
because I do have a tremendous number of guests who are really
excited about joining the podcast.
And I also have a tremendous number of solo episodes that I
have planned for 2026. And I just want to make sure
that you are getting from my podcast what you are really
hoping to get. So please reach out.
Don't be a stranger. I want to know who you are and,
and why you listen and what you're looking forward to and
how I can help with anything, frankly.
So, yeah, that's that's it. And this episode is now going to
be probably under 10 minutes. But, you know, hey, maybe that's
my New Year's gift to you is a short but sweet episode.
And I hope that you enjoyed last week's Policy Pulse episode.
Very interesting stuff, if I just say so myself.
And you can certainly look forward to more Policy Pulse
episodes. By the way, those will relaunch
probably around the summer, since we want to make sure that
we record fresh episodes for you.
And we generally record the Policy Pulse episodes like a
week or two before they air. And since I'll be on maternity
leave, we're going to kind of pause that production until the
summer. So something to just look
forward to since I know many of you have reached out about
really enjoying those episodes. So thank you for that feedback
as well. And with that, I hope you have a
fabulous year ahead. And I hope you had a wonderful
holiday season. And thank you again for being
here and for listening to my podcast Don't go anywhere,
because the next episode is is an episode with a really
interesting guest, if I do say so myself.
And I think you're really going to enjoy it.
So I don't want to tease it too much, but I do think that you
should be excited because we're talking about something very, to
me, very interesting, which is benefits and insurance
specifically, not even just benefits, it's really insurance.
And we kind of dive deep into the issue that is insurance and
insurance companies. And I think it's a hot topic for
many of us, especially coming out of open enrollment for a lot
of the majority of people. Or for some, maybe you're going
into open enrollment and you're like, what the heck is going on?
So I think that'll be a really interesting episode for you.
So stay tuned. I think you're going to love
2026. And again, I hope you have a
fabulous year ahead and I will see you fresh and kind of quote
UN quote, live in the summer. But again, the episodes that you
can look forward to between now and then are freshly recorded,
mixed in, sprinkled in with a few rerun episodes that are some
of my favorites. So I appreciate you being here
and I will see you very soon. Thank you.
Bye. Hey, just before you go, don't
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Thank you so much for tuning in and I'll see you next week.