Please Mute Your Trauma
Welcome to Please Mute Your Trauma, the podcast for anyone who has ever been told that people are their organization's greatest asset while simultaneously feeling completely invisible.
Hosted by Tiffany Collins, Navy veteran, HR professional, doctoral researcher, and recovering overthinker, this show explores the messy intersection of trauma, dignity, meaningful work, workplace culture, and what it actually means to be human at work.
Each episode blends humor, storytelling, research, and real-life workplace experiences to unpack the things many organizations don't talk about: psychological safety, organizational betrayal, burnout, identity, leadership, belonging, and why so many employees spend more energy surviving work than finding meaning in it.
If you've ever replayed a meeting in your head, questioned your worth because of a performance review, survived a toxic workplace, or wondered why a pizza party somehow became a management strategy, you're in the right place.
Because organizations don't have a people problem.
They have a humanity problem.
And work becomes meaningful when dignity is protected.
Please Mute Your Trauma
Latest Episodes
Trauma at Work: It Counts
Episode 3: That Doesn't CountHow many times have you explained away your own experience?"It wasn't that bad.""Other people have it worse.""It doesn't really count."In this episode of Please Mute You...
Don't Be Air. Be Fire.
Episode 2: Don't Be Air. Be Fire.How much energy have you spent preparing for conversations that never happened?Replaying interactions.Anticipating conflict.Trying to understand why someone doesn't like you.In...
The Performance of Being Fine
In this first full episode of Please Mute Your Trauma, Tiffany Collins explores “the performance of being fine” at work: the way employees learn to smile, comply, stay quiet, and keep functioning even when they are exhausted, overwhelm...
Why I Couldn't Stop Asking Questions
Why I Couldn't Stop Asking QuestionsWhy do some workplace experiences stay with us long after we've left the building?Why can one manager's words echo in our minds years later?Why do some jobs leave us feeling more alive… w...
Organizations Don't Have a People Problem - A Preview of Please Mute Your Trauma
Organizations don't have a people problem. They have a humanity problem.Welcome to Please Mute Your Trauma.This podcast explores the workplace experiences we carry long after we've left the building.If you'v...