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Your Workplace Is a Soap Opera. Here's How to Rewrite the Script with Robyn Hatcher
What's in this episode
Burnout does not start with overwork. It starts with miscommunication. Robyn Hatcher, keynote speaker and former soap opera writer for All My Children and One Life to Live, joins Cait to break down why every company has a show bible and what happens when the cast stops reading from the same one. This is an episode about the drama no one is writing on purpose and the silence that is writing it for them. Key Topics Covered The show bible as an organizational framework for understanding culture, values, and expectations How workplace drama is written by silence, assumptions, and miscommunication rather than malice The difference between breakdown writers (leadership) and script writers (employees) and why they need to work in tandem Why psychological safety alone cannot fix communication breakdowns rooted in personal history Robyn's LUVE framework for navigating hard conversations without sounding aggressive The evil twin phenomenon: how burnout and overwhelm change how we show up and communicate What it means to be your own editor at work and when to ask for direction Why hinting is not the same as speaking up, and how gossip becomes the substitute for direct communication Former soa