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Rails Optional

Rails Optional

著者： Deb Haas & Nicole Eisdorfer
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Rails Optional is what happens when two neurodivergent former HR pros stop pretending corporate made sense and start building something better, out loud. We’re Nicole and Deb—both in corporate recovery, both allergic to bullshit, and both deeply curious about how work, brains, and systems could function if they weren’t quietly draining the life out of everyone. We talk corporate recovery, ADHD entrepreneurship, AI that doesn’t suck, and how to build a life and business that don’t drain you—one tangent at a time. Expect sharp systems thinking and “oh god, same” stories from people who’ve seen behind the corporate curtain and are done pretending the emperor has clothes. We go deep, we go sideways, and we’re absolutely fine with both. This isn’t another “everything is broken, lol” late-stage capitalism podcast. It’s a slightly feral corner of the internet where we’re allowed to be brilliant and ridiculous in the same breath, where we say the quiet parts out loud, and where “stop pretending corporate made sense” is the starting point, not the punchline. Whether we make you nod along, rage-text a friend, or finally exhale because someone is naming what you’ve been living, you’ll have a reaction—and that’s exactly where the magic happens.

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  • Rails Optional Live Ep. 8: Unlearning

    Rails Optional Live Ep. 8: Unlearning
    2026/05/18


    This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit railsoptional.substack.com
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  • HR Is Not Your Friend

    HR Is Not Your Friend
    2026/01/12
    We recorded this live today, January 12, 2026…..and as predicted, the tech is going to take a minute to get used to. I (Nicole) managed to record this on my primary substack (Truer Words) but I want it archived here where it belongs. Long story short, I loaded the live into Descript, cut out the very beginning “is there an echo on our mic” portion and the ending chit chat (guess it’s a bonus for those who were live and boy did the rest of you miss out!) and then added in a quick intro/summary and the awesome theme song Deb made last month and here you go. Thank you for those who joined us live, and for those who couldn’t, we hope you enjoy the recording. We look forward to next time! Let us know if there’s something you would like us to use as our initial topic, just remember, the rails are optional ;)Transcript:Rails Optional Episode 1 with Intro[00:00:00] Hi friends. Welcome to Rails Optional. I’m Nicole, and today I recorded with my friend Deb Huss, and we absolutely did not stay on the rails As promised, we started with HR is not your friend, and then we dropped live chickens out of airplanes to explain why change management is broken and discovered that Swedish food names sound unfortunate in English and debated whether y’all is actually the most inclusive word in the English language, and somehow ended up on tater tot casserole.Somewhere in there. We also covered the last 20 years of how HR became a strategic business partner, right when unions collapsed. What it actually means when your job is to overcome resistance instead of listen to it, and why being strategic often translates to cost playing as the CEO when you absolutely did not sign up for that.We talked about moral injury, self betrayal, burnout, which I [00:01:00] think is a phrase I made up, but who knows? And the exact moment when you realize the seat at the table cost you so much more than you thought. There’s also a thing about HR getting their revenge through 3D printed chicken, which made more sense in context.This is what happens when two A DHD entrepreneurs in corporate recovery decide that the rails, in fact, are optional. Let’s go. We still believe in the reason we startedLet We LoveBehind. Hello everyone. Welcome to Rails optional. I’m Nicole and my friend. Purple. Over here is Deb. Hi. I are incredibly glad you’re here, especially those of you who are going to join us live. This whole thing is an experiment, so you get to watch it happen [00:02:00] in real time. So you know if the tech breaks or we go on a tangent about an Arby’s slogan from 2003, you were here for it.You didn’t miss a thing because you don’t miss a thing, didn’t miss a thing. All right, so quick intros. I am the founder of Truer Words. I help leaders whose transformations keep. Failing and whose dashboards tell them sweet little lies. How to find their policies, metrics and workflows that are blocking execution.Deb has a much cooler reminder. Oh my God. Tell me, tell me sweet little lies. That’s your fault. You put that in my head. Um, hey everyone, my name is Deb Haas. I’m a 56-year-old former corporate executive, uh, luring in public, building a business in public where I train women 40 plus to make AI their,can you tell I haven’t taken my drugs today, or at least I waited too long to take my drugs. This, [00:03:00] by the way, is why we’re doing this together. So between the two of us, we’ve got over 30 years in HR and HR adjacent worlds. We might actually have closer to 40 years, but we’ll just wanna talk about that.We’re being very kind to me there, Nicole. This is, we realize this being very kind to Deb. You’re elder as well. That’s all I have to say. You’re not that much elder over me, but Okay. We’ll, uh, we’ll count it. I mean, I, so I’m the oldest grandchild in my family, and I’m older than my next oldest cousin by three whole months, not even, because his birthday is the 4th of August and mine is the 9th of May.And I spent our entire childhood, um, holding those three months over his head and telling him he wasn’t allowed to talk back to his elders. So, I guess, I guess your couple of years passed me counts. You don’t. And somy, so I’m adopted, right? Hey, [00:04:00] everyone. Um, I, I, I’m adopted and it just turns out that one of my cousins was born three days literally before me. I was adopted when I was three months old. What ended up happening was that he was a great grandchild of my grandparents. I was a grandchild and there was one Christmas where the grandchildren got, I think it was like 20 bucks or 25 bucks, and the great grandchildren only got five bucks.So he was three days older than me holding his $5 bill going, why’d you get all that money? And of course they tried to explain it to him and it was, it was a cluster. So anyways, there we go. All right, so for those of you who don’t know, which I don’t think is anyone in the chat so far, but you know, maybe we...
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  • Rails Optional Ep. 7: Curiosity Didn't Kill The Cat

    Rails Optional Ep. 7: Curiosity Didn't Kill The Cat
    2026/04/24


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