FRIED. The Burnout Podcast

E352 - Your Workplace Is a Soap Opera. Here's How to Rewrite the Script with Robyn Hatcher

Published: June 21, 2026

Duration: 52:43

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 expectationsHow workplace drama is written by silence...