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 happen