HR For Small Business I Human Resources, CFO, Corporate, Compliance, Recruiting

Brad Voorhees - HR Consultant, Business Coach
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Are you the one losing sleep over HR… even though it’s not supposed to be your job? Maybe your HR Generalist is doing their best—but they don’t have the experience to lead. Maybe your CFO is stuck playing Human Resources. Or maybe you’re just tired of guessing your way through compliance, hiring, and performance issues or any of the other HR problems your small business faces. That’s exactly why this podcast exists. I’m Brad Voorhees, the founder of ScaleTx HR Advisory and the host of the HR For Small Business Podcast. Since 2020, I’ve helped small business leaders solve their biggest HR challenges, elevate their HR department and mentor and develop their junior HR staff, all without the cost or commitment of a full-time HR Director. In this podcast, I’ll give you practical, real-world HR guidance to help you build a stronger team, reduce risk, create a talent experience and scale an HR department that actually works for your small business. If you’re tired of playing the role of Human Resources Director and you want to stop reacting to HR problems and start leading through them—this is for you. Let’s elevate your HR.

  1. 2d ago

    Episode 21 : Is Your Corporate Structure Setting Your HR Person Up to Fail? A Question Every CFO Should Ask.

    In the last twelve months, has your HR person come to you with a strategic decision you genuinely didn't have the expertise to guide them through? Who is actually mentoring your HR person's judgment calls — not approving their budget, but reviewing their reasoning before a decision becomes permanent? If your HR generalist made a procedural mistake on a serious investigation tomorrow, would anyone in your company catch it before an attorney did? Today I want to talk about something most CFOs have never actually questioned: the org chart itself. Not the person in the HR seat — the structure around them. Because I've sat in that HR seat, reporting up to a CFO, completely underwater, and nobody in the building knew it but me. By the end of this episode, you're going to understand exactly why the structure that feels "normal" — HR reporting to Finance — is quietly setting your HR person up to fail, and what a better structure actually looks like, even if you're nowhere near ready to hire a full-time HR Director. Contact - > brad@scaletx.io Podcast -＞ https://hrforsmallbusiness.podbean.com Website - > scaletx.io LinkedIn -＞https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/     Next Steps: Step 1: Follow me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/,  to get more Senior HR Advice without the full-time hire. Step 2: Visit scaletx.io to book a call with me to learn more about how we can support your HR team.  Step 3: Sign up for my weekly newsletter by visiting my website, scaletx.io, and sign up!

  2. 6d ago

    Episode 20 : What Happens to Recruiting When Your HR Mentor Has a Real System

    Are your open roles staying open because the talent isn't there — or because your process is losing good candidates before you notice? If you filled your next role in five weeks instead of four months, what would that actually be worth to your business? Does your HR person dread every open req — or trust the process enough to run it with confidence? Last episode, I walked you through the recruiting mistakes I see constantly in companies without a senior HR mentor. Today I want to show you the other side of that coin: what recruiting actually looks like once a real system is in place. This isn't theoretical. This is the before-and-after I've watched happen inside real companies — same team, same budget, same market, completely different outcomes, because someone finally built the architecture around hiring instead of leaving it to instinct. If you listened to last week's episode and thought, "okay, that's us" — this one's the roadmap out.  Contact - > brad@scaletx.io Podcast -＞ https://hrforsmallbusiness.podbean.com Website - > scaletx.io LinkedIn -＞https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/     Next Steps: Step 1: Follow me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/,  to get more Senior HR Advice without the full-time hire. Step 2: Visit scaletx.io to book a call with me to learn more about how we can support your HR team.  Step 3: Sign up for my weekly newsletter by visiting my website, scaletx.io, and sign up!

  3. Aug 3

    Episode 19 : Why Compliance Doesn't Fix Itself When Your HR Department Has No Leader

    If an employee filed a complaint tomorrow, would your documentation actually hold up — or are you hoping it never gets tested? When's the last time anyone actually reread your employee handbook — not updated it, just reread it? Is 'no news is good news' actually true for your HR compliance — or is it just risk you haven't been billed for yet? Compliance is the part of HR nobody thinks about — until the day they think about nothing else. Here's what I mean: most small businesses I meet aren't out of compliance because they don't care. They're out of compliance because nobody in the building has the authority, the time, or the training to own it as a real function. It's everyone's job a little, which means it's nobody's job fully. And that gap doesn't announce itself. It compounds quietly, for months, sometimes years — until a complaint, an audit, or a lawsuit forces the issue. Today I want to talk about why compliance genuinely does not fix itself — no matter how capable your team is — when there's no senior HR leader steering it. And I'll walk you through exactly what that quiet compounding looks like in real companies. Contact - > brad@scaletx.io Podcast -＞ https://hrforsmallbusiness.podbean.com Website - > scaletx.io LinkedIn -＞https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/   Next Steps: Step 1: Follow me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/,  to get more Senior HR Advice without the full-time hire. Step 2: Visit scaletx.io to book a call with me to learn more about how we can support your HR team.  Step 3: Sign up for my weekly newsletter by visiting my website, scaletx.io, and sign up!

  4. Jul 30

    Episode 18 : The Recruiting Mistakes Small Businesses Make Without an HR Mentor

    Is your 'HR person' actually running your hiring process — or just administering it? How many of your last five hires would you make again — and do you actually know why the ones that failed, failed? If your best employee quit tomorrow, could your hiring process replace them — or would you be starting from zero? Here's a stat that should bother every CFO listening right now: the average bad hire costs a small business somewhere between half and a full year of that person's salary. Not in a slow, abstract way. In a real, line-item, "why did Q3 go sideways" way. And here's the thing — it's almost never because the hiring manager was careless. It's because nobody in the building had actually built a recruiting system. They had a job posting. They had a gut feeling. They didn't have a mentor who'd been through 200 hires and could say, "I've seen this exact mistake before, and here's what it costs you." Today I'm walking you through the recruiting mistakes I see over and over in growing companies — the ones your HR generalist is making right now, not because they're bad at their job, but because nobody's ever mentored them through hiring at scale. If you're a CFO wondering why your last three hires didn't work out, or an HR person who's tired of guessing, this one's for you. Contact - > brad@scaletx.io Podcast -＞ https://hrforsmallbusiness.podbean.com Website - > scaletx.io LinkedIn -＞https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/     Next Steps: Step 1: Follow me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/,  to get more Senior HR Advice without the full-time hire. Step 2: Visit scaletx.io to book a call with me to learn more about how we can support your HR team.  Step 3: Sign up for my weekly newsletter by visiting my website, scaletx.io, and sign up!

  5. Jul 27

    Episode 17 : 5 Compliance Risks Hiding in Your HR Department (And How to Fix Them Fast)

    Which of these five compliance risks is already hiding in your HR department — and nobody's flagged it yet? If someone audited your files today, would your job titles hold up against what your employees actually do? How many performance conversations happened this year that never made it into a file? I can almost guarantee you that at least one of the five things I'm about to walk through is happening in your company right now, and nobody's flagged it. Not because your HR person is careless. Not because your CFO isn't paying attention. Because these five risks don't announce themselves. They sit quietly in a file, a policy, a process that used to be fine — until the day someone tests it. Today I'm walking through five compliance risks I see hiding in small business HR departments constantly, and more importantly, how to fix each one fast — not with a six-month project, but with something you can start this week. Contact - > brad@scaletx.io Podcast -＞ https://hrforsmallbusiness.podbean.com Website - > scaletx.io LinkedIn -＞https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/   Next Steps: Step 1: Follow me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/,  to get more Senior HR Advice without the full-time hire. Step 2: Visit scaletx.io to book a call with me to learn more about how we can support your HR team.  Step 3: Sign up for my weekly newsletter by visiting my website, scaletx.io, and sign up!

  6. Jul 23

    Episode 16 : Is Your CFO Running HR? Here’s Why That’s a Compliance Risk

    When was the last time a genuinely risky HR decision got made at your company — and who actually signed off on it? Is your CFO answering HR questions they were never trained to answer? What happens when the person managing your financial risk is also deciding what's legally defensible on the HR side? Here's a question I ask on almost every discovery call, and it tends to get quiet real fast: "When was the last time a genuinely risky HR decision got made at your company — and who actually signed off on it?" Nine times out of ten, the answer isn't the HR person. It's the CFO. And today I want to talk about why that's not just an org chart quirk. It's a compliance risk sitting in plain sight. Because right now, somewhere in your building, there's a CFO answering a question they were never trained to answer. There's an HR person who quietly wonders if this was even their call to make. And there's a status quo that's worked fine — right up until the day it doesn't. Contact - > brad@scaletx.io Podcast -＞ https://hrforsmallbusiness.podbean.com Website - > scaletx.io LinkedIn -＞https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/ Next Steps: Step 1: Follow me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/,  to get more Senior HR Advice without the full-time hire. Step 2: Visit scaletx.io to book a call with me to learn more about how we can support your HR team.

  7. Jul 20

    Episode 15 : Human Resources Isn't Failing Your CFO — So Why Do You Keep Treating It Like It Is? Here's What to Want Instead.

    Do you actually know what you mean when you tell your HR person to 'be more strategic' — or is that just the word you reach for when you can't name the real problem? If your HR person can't make a big decision without checking in with you first, have you ever actually told them which decision you wish they could make alone? Is your HR person really failing you — or are you and your CFO speaking two completely different languages that nobody's ever translated? Today we're talking about one sentence — a sentence I'd bet half of you listening have said out loud, or heard your CFO say, in the last month: "She's fine, she's just not strategic." I want to slow down on that sentence today, because it gets thrown around so casually that nobody ever stops to ask what it actually means. And here's why you're going to want to stick around for this one. If you're the HR person hearing that sentence about yourself — maybe not in those exact words, but you've felt the shape of it — this episode is going to hand you language for something you've sensed but couldn't quite name. And I think it's going to make you feel a lot less alone, and a lot less like the problem. And if you're the CFO or the business owner who's said some version of that sentence — I'm going to gently challenge you today. Not because you're wrong to want more. But because I used to say that exact sentence myself, before I understood what I was actually asking for and who was actually responsible for building it. By the end of this episode, you're going to know three things: what "strategic" actually means when people use that word, whose job it really is to build that capability, and what to ask for instead — so your HR person stops feeling like they're failing a test that nobody ever handed them the questions to. Contact - > brad@scaletx.io Podcast -＞ https://hrforsmallbusiness.podbean.com Website - > scaletx.io LinkedIn -＞https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/   Next Steps: Step 1: Follow me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/,  to get more Senior HR Advice without the full-time hire. Step 2: Visit scaletx.io to book a call with me to learn more about how we can support your HR team.

  8. Jul 16

    Episode 14 : The CFO Isn't Your HR Mentor — Here's Who Should Be

    Is your HR Generalist asking the CFO questions that no CFO should be expected to answer? Who is actually developing your HR team—and is that person qualified to mentor the next HR leader? Could your biggest HR challenge be a lack of mentorship rather than a lack of talent? In today's episode of HR for Small Business, we're talking about why your CFO isn't your HR mentor—and who should be. Whether you're a business owner, a CFO, or an HR Generalist trying to figure everything out on your own, you'll learn why mentorship is one of the fastest ways to strengthen an HR department, reduce risk, and help your HR team become a true strategic partner instead of simply reacting to problems. If you've ever wondered why your HR person seems overwhelmed—even though they're talented and hardworking—this episode may explain exactly what's missing. Contact - > brad@scaletx.io Podcast -＞ https://hrforsmallbusiness.podbean.com Website - > scaletx.io LinkedIn -＞https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/   Next Steps: Step 1: Follow me on LinkedIn, https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradleyvoorhees/,  to get more Senior HR Advice without the full-time hire. Step 2: Visit scaletx.io to book a call with me to learn more about how we can support your HR team.

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Are you the one losing sleep over HR… even though it’s not supposed to be your job? Maybe your HR Generalist is doing their best—but they don’t have the experience to lead. Maybe your CFO is stuck playing Human Resources. Or maybe you’re just tired of guessing your way through compliance, hiring, and performance issues or any of the other HR problems your small business faces. That’s exactly why this podcast exists. I’m Brad Voorhees, the founder of ScaleTx HR Advisory and the host of the HR For Small Business Podcast. Since 2020, I’ve helped small business leaders solve their biggest HR challenges, elevate their HR department and mentor and develop their junior HR staff, all without the cost or commitment of a full-time HR Director. In this podcast, I’ll give you practical, real-world HR guidance to help you build a stronger team, reduce risk, create a talent experience and scale an HR department that actually works for your small business. If you’re tired of playing the role of Human Resources Director and you want to stop reacting to HR problems and start leading through them—this is for you. Let’s elevate your HR.

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