Please Mute Your Trauma: Workplace Trauma & the Human Side of Work
Welcome to Please Mute Your Trauma, a podcast about workplace trauma, dignity at work, toxic workplace culture, and what happens when organizations forget that employees are human.
Hosted by Tiffany Collins—a Navy veteran, HR professional, doctoral researcher, and recovering overthinker—this show explores the messy intersection of trauma, leadership, organizational culture, burnout, meaningful work, employee well-being, and the experiences people carry into the workplace.
Through humor, research, personal storytelling, and real-life workplace experiences, Tiffany examines the issues many organizations would rather rebrand than confront: organizational betrayal, emotional suppression, unhealthy leadership, workplace identity, belonging, retaliation, trust, and the pressure to remain productive while quietly falling apart.
Each episode asks difficult questions about the way people experience work:
What happens when professionalism requires employees to become smaller?
Why do people spend more energy surviving work than finding meaning in it?
What does dignity look like when someone is struggling, questioning authority, setting a boundary, or making a mistake?
And what would change if organizations stopped treating humanity as an inconvenience?
This podcast is for employees who have survived unhealthy workplaces, leaders who want to create more human-centered organizations, HR professionals questioning traditional workplace practices, and anyone who has ever replayed a meeting, questioned their worth after a performance review, or received a pizza party instead of meaningful support.
Because organizations do not have a people problem.
They have a humanity problem.
And work becomes meaningful when dignity is protected.
Please Mute Your Trauma: Workplace Trauma & the Human Side of Work
Welcome to Please Mute Your Trauma
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Organizations don't have a people problem.
They have a humanity problem.
Welcome to Please Mute Your Trauma—the podcast exploring the workplace experiences we carry long after we've left the building.
If you've ever driven home replaying the same conversation...
Questioned your worth after one performance review...
Wondered why one manager's words still live in your head years later...
Or found yourself asking, "Why am I still carrying this?"
You're in the right place.
Hosted by Tiffany Collins, this podcast explores workplace trauma, dignity, meaningful work, leadership, and the human experiences that shape who we become. Together, we'll translate research into real conversations, challenge conventional ideas about professionalism, and give language to experiences many people have felt but never fully understood.
Because work isn't just something we do.
It changes how we see ourselves.
And maybe it's time we started asking those questions out loud.
Subscribe now and join the conversation.
Because work becomes meaningful when dignity is protected.
If you have ever sat through a meeting wondering whether anyone was listening, received a pizza party instead of meaningful support, or been told to “bring your whole self to work” only to discover there were terms and conditions attached, you belong in this conversation.
Please Mute Your Trauma explores workplace trauma, psychological safety, dignity at work, meaningful work, and employee well-being through humor, research, and honest workplace stories.
Explore more episodes and resources at:
PleaseMuteYourTrauma.com
Have a workplace story, question, or random Wednesday thought? Leave Tiffany a message at:
888-629-5081
Because work becomes meaningful when dignity is protected.