The Hire thru Retire Podcast
Welcome to “The Hire thru Retire Podcast,” brought to you by Voya Financial. We're talking to the best and brightest in the industry to bring you the latest in benefits, savings, and investment trends in the workplace...tackling all things from 401(k)’s to HSA’s and everything in between. Come along with us on our journey to help all individuals become well planned, well invested and well protected.
Episodes
60 episodes
Leveraging the Power of HSAs Year-Round with Matt Farrar
Today’s episode features host Kerry Sette, head of Consumer Insights and Research at Voya — a familiar voice to the podcast. With the health benefits open enrollment period ending for companies, this episode is shifting the focus to talk about ...
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Episode 60
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15:34
AI, Innovation and Employee Engagement with Ana Perez
Today’s episode features host Nate Black, vice president, Health Solutions Product Development. With open enrollment in full swing, the conversation continues with Ana Perez, Chief Marketing Officer at Benefitfocus. Recent discussions have focu...
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Episode 59
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17:17
Leveraging Claims to Avoid Hardship with Voya's Mona Zielke
Today’s episode features host Nate Black, vice president, Health Solutions Product Development. With benefits elections coming up, we know that a big part of helping the workforce engage and take the time to enroll in their benefits is to provi...
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Episode 58
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10:21
Disability Employment Awareness and Corporate Advocacy with Easterseals CEO Kendra Davenport
Today’s episode takes us back to where we first began with the podcast featuring guest host Heather Lavallee, CEO of Voya Financial, for a very special episode celebrating National Disability Employment Awareness Month (NDEAM). NDEAM celebrates...
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Episode 57
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22:14
As Student Loan Repayments Resume, The 401(k) Lady Explains Student Debt Impact on Retirement Savings
Today’s episode features guest host Allison Dirksen, head of Wealth Solutions Sales at Voya. Joining Allison is a repeat guest Jeanne Sutton, to talk about the important topic of student loan debt support. Jeanne is best known in the industry a...
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Episode 56
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19:02
Kerry Sette Returns for a Deep Dive into Employee Insights Heading into Open Enrollment
Today’s episode features host, Nate Black, VP, Health Solutions Product Development. As we’re entering the fall, now is an exciting time to talk about open enrollment and to do this, in this episode we are focused on some new trends and areas w...
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Episode 55
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23:33
The Evolving Role of Workplace Emergency Savings Solutions
Today’s episode features guest host Allison Dirksen, head of Wealth Solutions Sales at Voya. Allison is joined bynot one, but two repeat guests: Tom Armstrong, vice president, Customer Analytics and Insight, head of Voya’s Behavioral Finance In...
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Episode 54
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27:08
Leading in a Remote World featuring Alan Nelson
Today’s episode features guest host Brannigan Thompson, who leads Human Resources for Voya’s Workplace Solutions businesses. In this episode Brannigan discusses something that many leaders are experiencing and even more so as companies continue...
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Episode 53
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32:34
Market Update with Barbara Reinhard
Today’s episode features guest host Allison Dirksen, head of sales for Voya’s Wealth Solutions business. Allison is joined for a popular topic for the podcast and that is a market update featuring Voya’s own Barbara Reinhard, senior portfolio m...
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Episode 52
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17:04
Spilling the Tea on Gen Z with Eric Wagatha
Today’s episode features guest host, Kerry Sette, head of Consumer Insights and Research at Voya. To better understand the challenges facing Generation Z and their impact on employers and the workplace, Kerry is joined by Eric Wagatha, head of ...
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Episode 51
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28:13
Balancing Personalized Guidance and Data Privacy with Voya's Stacy Hughes
In today’s digital world, finding the balance between personalization and consumer privacy is top of mind and an important part of the discussion and experiences we create. So, in this episode, Bill is joined by Voya’s Chief Information Securit...
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Episode 50
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16:06
Supporting Mental Health in the Workplace with Christina Mainelli & Heather Lavallee
In this episode we have not one, but two CEOs who join the podcast to talk about a topic that’s very important to both of them: mental health in the workplace. Joining for the discussion is Voya’s own CEO, Heather Lavallee and Christina Mainell...
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Episode 49
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23:34
How Employers Can Help Improve Financial Outcomes for a Diverse Workforce with Voya's Tom Armstrong & Carole Mendoza
In this episode, we’re focused on the discussion of helping to close benefits and savings gaps to improve financial outcomes for a diverse workforce. Sharing some pioneering research conducted at Voya, with the support of our clients, to get so...
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Episode 48
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17:39
Malika Terry on UPS’ Emergency Savings Program
In this episode Bill is joined by Malika Terry, who leads Total Rewards at UPS. During this live event that was hosted at our Chandler office in front of a room full of Voya employees – Malika and Bill discuss the unique emergency savings progr...
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Episode 47
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16:35
Advancing Gender Equality in Financial Services with Christine Hurtsellers
In this episode, Bill is joined by Voya’s very own Christine Hurtsellers, CEO of Voya Investment Management to discuss gender parity — both within the context of corporate America and traditionally male dominated industries like financial servi...
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Episode 46
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18:03
Trends in Managed Accounts with Cerulli’s Shawn O’Brien
In this episode, Bill is joined by Shawn O’Brien, associate director, Retirement at Cerulli, a research and consulting firm specializing in asset management and distribution trends worldwide. Leading the U.S. Retirement research practice, which...
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Episode 45
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24:26
The Future of Work with McKinsey's Phil Kirschner
While in the new year, we thought we’d revisit a topic we’ve touched on before on the pod, but one that continues to be important to employers today and that is “the future of work.” More specifically, today we’re focused on how we work within ...
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Episode 44
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33:40
Mike Hadley Returns (again) to Talk SECURE 2.0
We’re excited to be back after the holidays and starting off 2023 with a “three-peat” guest to talk about the SECURE 2.0 Act of 2022. Joining Bill today is Mike Hadley of Davis Harman, to discuss the details of the final bill that will be most ...
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Episode 43
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17:14
Year-End Market Update with Paul Zemsky
In this episode Bill is joined by a repeat guest back by popular demand, Paul Zemsky, chief investment officer, Multi-Asset Strategies and Solutions at Voya Investment Management. With talks of inflation, recessions and markets looming, Paul jo...
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Episode 42
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16:16
How Employees with Disabilities Can Help Solve the Labor Shortage with Kandi Pickard, President and CEO, National Down Syndrome Society
In this episode Bill is joined by Kandi Pickard, President, and CEO of the National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS), the leading human rights organization for all individuals with Down syndrome. While the topic of disability inclusion has been dis...
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Episode 41
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15:13
SUNY’s Michael Consorte
In this episode Bill is joined by the Director of University-wide Benefits at the State University of New York (SUNY), Michael Consorte. At SUNY Michael manages the plan sponsor team for SUNY's retirement plans along with supporting the adminis...
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Episode 40
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24:02
Voya’s Amy Heyel on 2022 NAGDCA Trends
In this episode Bill is joined by Voya’s very own Amy Heyel, senior vice president and national practice leader for Voya’s Government Markets. With many individuals at Voya and throughout the country recently attending the annual National Assoc...
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Episode 39
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15:54
Retirement Legislation Update with Voya’s Jeff Cimini and Mark Sides
In this episode Bill is joined by Voya’s own Jeff Cimini, SVP, Retirement Product Management and Mark Sides, SVP, Deputy General Counsel, to help unravel the latest in retirement legislation and provide an update on what may be coming later thi...
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Episode 38
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24:43
Elevating Women in the Workforce with Cynthia Barnes
In this episode we’re following up on a recent episode focused on supporting women re-entering the workforce. To build on this discussion, Bill is joined by Cynthia Barnes, Award-Winning Sales Influencer, Professional Keynote Speaker, and Best-...
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Episode 37
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14:52
Breaking down E, S, and G with Laura Kane
As environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues are playing an increasing role in the world around us, it can be difficult to cut through the noise when it comes to truly understanding the fast-changing landscape of ESG. In this episode, ...
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Episode 36
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25:50