The Neil Haley Show
Neil opened with Total Celebrity favorite Kate Flannery, Meredith Palmer of The Office, to discuss the new Hulu comedy series All Night, in which she plays high-school principal Saperstein on grad-night lockdown (phones surrendered, leave and you can't come back). Kate revealed that the show's young cast is stacked with former Disney and Nickelodeon talent, including Ally Grant (Anna Gasteyer's daughter on Suburgatory). On The Office, she answered two questions Neil pulled from the show's superfans: Meredith five years later would still be partying and working at Dunder Mifflin (when last seen at Toby and Angela's wedding she was dancing with a guy who might just stick around, plus she was finishing a PhD), and yes she really did lick the hand sanitizer, though crew doctored it with clear gelatin and club soda. She also confirmed her recurring run as Crossing Guard Sandy on American Housewife (with a possible return after the writers' strike), her one-shot as sanitation chief Mean Marge on Brooklyn Nine-Nine, her ongoing voice work on Cartoon Network's OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes as K.O.'s mom, and her annual Christmas tour with Jane Lynch built around their album A Swinging Little Christmas, with a likely Pittsburgh stop in early December and a run at the Carlyle Hotel in New York. Neil then welcomed early childhood development expert and RIE Associate Wendy Kronick, who has taught Parent-Infant Guidance classes for nearly 30 years, to discuss her interactive children's book This or That: A Busy Morning (co-authored with Susan Beauchene, illustrated by Emilia Manrique Medrano). Built on Magda Gerber's RIE methodology, the rhyming book walks babies and toddlers through a morning routine by offering two real choices at each step ("the ducks or the bows") so even infants as young as five months can become active participants rather than passive recipients. Wendy and Neil dug into respect, predictability, rupture and repair, age-appropriate boundaries, quiet narration over sportscasting (acknowledging feelings rather than distracting with a "pink elephant"), and being a friendly parent rather than your child's friend until they're grown. Available on Amazon and through the RIE website. Neil then welcomed Jody Corbet for the Jesus and Ugly Jody / Storehouse Media Group simulcast, continuing last week's small-business scaling series. Jody walked through the first true full-time hire after a founder has already outsourced bookkeeping, accounting, and social: the question is not who is cheapest but what the founder is actually good at, then hiring the opposite. He flagged the common trap of hiring four people at once on the promise of future sales, the importance of culture fit over resume polish (a $300,000 hire is fine if they live the founder's vision; a butt-in-seat hire never is), the need to know the cash is already in the account before you bring anyone on, and using AI tools across five different models as advisors rather than as decision-makers. Reach Jody at SLS.Consulting or via LinkedIn and X. Neil closed with Dr. Gilda Carle for the Gilda Gram podcast simulcast, walking through the upheaval at CBS News under new boss Bari Weiss as a leadership case study. Gilda traced 60 Minutes veteran Scott Pelley's reported screaming-match exit ("you have no television experience") after 37 years at the network, and the departures of several long-tenured female reporters, alongside the long shadow of Lesley Stahl, as a textbook example of what happens when long-tenured insiders refuse to follow new ownership. She praised Bari Weiss's track record (The Free Press sold to Paramount), reminded listeners that every organization has a pecking order, and asked the audience to think honestly about how they have handled a new leader: kiss up, wait it out, walk out, or give them a real chance.
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