I Hate It Here

Hebba Youssef

digitalteam@workweek.com

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Booking Overview

An HR industry interview show focused on candid, practical People Operations, workplace challenges, and resources for HR professionals, typically featuring working HR leaders and functional specialists. Agencies could credibly pitch HR executives, People Operations practitioners, talent and recruiting leaders, employee-experience experts, and specialists in HR systems or compliance; booking difficulty is likely low because recent guests are accessible industry professionals rather than highly prominent public figures.

Metrics

Episodes: 140

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.5/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Unknown

Location: USA

Instagram: 86.0k followers

Contact Information

digitalteam@workweek.com

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Host

Hebba Youssef - Chief People Officer at Workweek and creator of the I Hate It Here podcast and newsletter, focused on candid, practical perspectives for HR and People Operations professionals.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Hands-on experience in HR, People Operations, talent acquisition, learning and development, HR technology, or HR compliance, with practical expertise that can help other people professionals solve workplace challenges.
Required Achievements:  
Leading HR or People Operations functions, Implementing people systems or workplace programs, Developing practical expertise in talent, learning, compliance, or employee experience

Recent Guest Discussions

Madison Montgomery - Applicant Tracking System Implementation, Recruiting Operations, Employee Support During Grief, And Workplace Experiences

Kelly Pacatte - AI Readiness, AI Proficiency, Technical And Human Skills, And The Future Of HR

DeAnn Alcantar - AI Readiness, AI Proficiency, Technical And Human Skills, And The Future Of HR

Recent Topics

Human Resources, People Operations, Employee Experience, Recruiting, Workplace Culture

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
I Hate It Here
:

S13 E1: The Return of the Cackle Queens (with Jess Winder)

July 13, 2026

Guess what? The Cackle Queens are back!  My unofficial co-host and forever hype woman Jess Winder joined me to kick off this season, and we did something new.  We hit record and just let the convo happen with no notes, because who needs prep when you’ve been doing this job for way too long? We're diving into where HR has been, where it's headed, and why "defund HR" isn't as controversial a take as you'd think if you've worked in old-school HR.  We also get into three totall...

S12 E10: A Few of My Own First-time F*ckups + Some Jaw-Dropping HR Horror Stories

June 22, 2026

Okay, so as we wrap up this podcast season, we’re gonna make this final episode a little different…featuring Hebba and her thoughts, and apparently zero filter! This season of I Hate It Here was all about firsts and for the season finale, Hebba makes personal!  Listen as she walks you through three of her own HR firsts, performance reviews, terminations, and picking the right system, followed by what she wishes she'd done, and what she would tell herself if she had a time machine.  And the...

S12 E9: We Watched People Blow Up Their Lives on Summer House, and Our ATS Implementation Lowkey Feels Similar (with Madison Montgomery)

June 15, 2026

Madison Montgomery is back, and in this episode, we did what Paul Downs and Meg Stalter inspired us to do…turned our 1:1 into a podcast episode. The result is a session of unfiltered chaos covering our first ATS implementation together (which is going exactly as well as you'd imagine when two non-detail-oriented people configure a system while actively recruiting on it), Summer House drama through an HR lens, my newly discovered cowboy era, and why neither of us will ever truly get to enjoy ...

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