Ever leave a workplace meeting and immediately call your best friend just to confirm that you did, in fact, hear what you think you heard?

Welcome to the Corporate Gaslighting Starter Pack.

In this episode of Please Mute Your Trauma, Tiffany Collins takes on workplace gaslighting, broken promises, corporate buzzwords, psychological contracts, organizational justice, workplace trauma, and the strange systems that somehow keep underperformers protected while the person actually improving everything gets labeled “difficult.”

With plenty of humor, Tiffany explores what happens when an organization says it values transparency, innovation, and employee voice—but employees learn that honesty can come with consequences.

We also look at the leadership side of the equation, including a real example from Alan Mulally’s leadership at Ford and what happens when leaders make it safer to tell the truth instead of perform success.

Because sometimes disengagement is not laziness.

Sometimes resistance is memory.

And sometimes cynicism is grief wearing business casual.

If you have ever documented a conversation “just to confirm your understanding,” panicked over a calendar invite titled “Quick Sync,” or wondered why the person holding the entire department together was somehow the one who got cut, this episode is for you.

Work becomes meaningful when dignity is protected.

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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.

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Because work becomes meaningful when dignity is protected.