Welcome to the 2025 highlight reel of the Freedom of Work podcast, a year of conversations that pushed the boundaries of how we hire, build culture, design People strategies, and lead distributed teams.
Hosted by our Content & Media Manager, Leah Cottham, this special montage brings together the most powerful insights from 19 episodes featuring founders, HR innovators, neuroscientists, People Ops leaders, and remote work pioneers. From global benefits to AI, recognition to DEI, structured play to talent strategy, these are the moments that shaped the future of work this year.
Whether you’re scaling a global team, evolving your People function, or simply obsessed with building better workplaces, this recap distills the biggest ideas from 2025 into one big highlight.
Featured Episodes Include:
- Is HR Dead? Why People Ops Is the Future with Jag Gill
- Creating Global Benefits Beyond Borders with Ashley Ugorji
- Embedding DEI into the DNA of Remote Organizations with Anthony Vaughan
- What HR Leaders Are Really Thinking in 2025 with Fernando Alves
- Rewiring the Workplace with Brain Science with Natalie Lineton
- Rethinking Travel to Drive Culture with Stephen Dooley (Roamr)
- Leveraging Structured Games to Improve Team Dynamics with Alex Suchman
- Crafting People Experiences Like Product Features with Selina Purdie
- The Secret Currency of Top Talent with Hudson Brock (AlloHire) …and many more.
Why This Matters
The way we work is transforming faster than ever, distributed, AI-powered, global, and deeply human. This montage captures the most actionable, thought-provoking, and future-forward ideas we heard throughout the year.
