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.