TL;DR: Deb Muller turns Rebecca Trosky’s “Get Ready With Me” TikTok challenge back on the employee relations (ER) community. Deb invites ER pros to co-host future Two Minute Matters clips, share quick tips or questions and keep the 52-episode series rolling. Along the way, she (1) asks Coca-Cola to resurrect Tab and (2) plugs her favorite Black-woman-owned curl cream.
Three Key Takeaways from the Video: Get Ready with Deb
- “Get Ready With Me” is another lens into workplace life. TikTok’s casual GRWM videos give ER teams fresh, unfiltered insight into how employees feel and what they talk about on the job.
- Deb wants YOU in upcoming Two Minute Matters episodes. Share a quick tip or pose a burning ER question, record a relaxed two-minute clip and help keep the 52-episode series rolling.
- Lighthearted shout-outs reinforce authenticity. Deb slips in two personal favorites — bringing back Tab soda and plugging a Black-woman-owned curl cream, Uncle Funky’s Daughter Curly Magic Cream — showing that real personality and community support belong in professional conversations too.
Video Transcript: Get Ready with Deb
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Deb Muller:
Hi everyone, it’s Deb. Uh, you’re probably wondering what I’m doing here but, um, if you watched our last 2 Minute Matters, Rebecca Trosky threw down a challenge for me. She basically said we were talking about this “get ready with me” culture, and if you don’t know what that is you can go back and watch. But basically, it’s where influencers on TikTok are just actually everyday people, not even influencers — so I consider myself everyday — and they go on TikTok and film themselves getting ready for whatever for the day and they talk about anything including work. And a lot of times when they talk about work it’s not really positive.
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Rebecca challenged me to do a “get ready with me” video doing my hair.
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I’m probably not going to because the blow dry is really noisy, but I do want to throw a challenge down to our ER community. I thought this was a good way to do it. Before I do that, I want to do a little product placement first.
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First of all, Coca-Cola — please bring back Tab.
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Secondly, people ask me what I put in my hair. I’ve been wearing it curly lately and I do wear this amazing leave-in conditioner. I use — it’s called, I’m going to get this wrong, I don’t have the jar with me — it’s called Uncle Funky’s Daughter’s Magic Curl Cream. I’m pretty sure some combination of those words — put them in Google. The great thing about it is, first of all, it’s a great leave-in conditioner, but secondly it is a Black women-owned business. So support them, try it out, use it — you’re going to love it.
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Okay, on to the challenge. ER community, we’ve been doing these 2 Minute Matters and we’re getting great feedback. People are saying, “Talk about this,” “Talk about that,” which we will. We want to do 52 of them. But come join me on it. It’s really easy — we don’t do a lot of prep. We literally spend 2 minutes, maybe four or six if we have to do it one or two times. Very informal — you actually don’t have to look like this doing it.
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We’re going to talk about things. If you have a tip to share on ER issues that are hot and topical right now or if you want to pose a question to the audience and get some discussion going, let me know. Put it in the links or put it in the comments below, send me a LinkedIn message, or email me and we’ll get you on. Hopefully we’ll have a lot of fun and learn a lot of new things and share with our community.
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Thanks everybody, have a great day.
