The podcast for people who've felt unseen and the organizations brave enough to ask why.

  • Please Mute Your Trauma is a podcast about what workplaces do to people and what they could become. Real conversations, evidence-based research, and honest dialogue about trauma, dignity, and meaningful work.

  • For employees who've felt dismissed, leaders who want to do better, and organizations ready to move from awareness to action.

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    Look for new episodes dropping weekly.

  • If you're an organization ready to build a more trauma-informed workplace, Tiffany offers consulting, workshops, assessments, and speaking engagements. Start the conversation on the Work with Me page.

  • Why is our first instinct so often to explain why our own experience doesn't really count? Using everything from Navy sea stories to a six-word question about my service dog, I unpack what trauma actually is: not the event itself, but what our nervous system learns from it, and how unpredictability at work quietly wears people down. The invitation here is to stop deciding whether an experience was bad enough to matter and start asking a better question: what did it teach me, and is that lesson still true?

    Listen Here:

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/trauma-at-work-it-counts/id6785582790?i=1000775022144

  • Have you ever let one person live rent-free in your head while the people who actually support you stand outside? After spending an entire drive to a doctoral residential rehearsing a conflict that never happened, I started to see a pattern trauma had taught me: giving my attention and energy to threats that had not earned it. This episode is about dignity as the belief that your worth is not up for negotiation, and about why meaningful work becomes possible only when you stop spending your energy proving you deserve to be there.

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    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/dont-be-air-be-fire/id6785582790?i=1000774930624

  • Description text goes hereNobody ever says "please mute your trauma" out loud, but most of us learn early to bring our humanity to work, just not too visibly. Drawing on nearly twenty years in HR and a Navy story about being denied leave I had already earned, I explore how we get so good at performing "fine" that we stop checking whether we actually are. The through line is a single belief: organizations don't have a people problem, they have a humanity problem, and work becomes meaningful when dignity is protected.

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    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-performance-of-being-fine/id6785582790?i=1000774889556

  • Description text goes hereSome jobs stay with us long after we've left them, not because we miss them, but because of what we quietly carried out the door. In this introduction, I share the question that followed me through the Navy, human resources, government, and eventually doctoral research: why do some workplaces leave us feeling more alive while others leave us doubting our own worth? This is a podcast about dignity at work, about giving language to experiences we've carried for years, and about the possibility that we were never the problem we thought we were.

    Listen here:

    https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/please-mute-your-trauma/id6785582790?i=1000774748181