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Quiet Ops
by Paul Mitchem
Almost nothing that breaks a person, a marriage, or an organisation is one big event. It's noise. Quiet, constant, building for years until it isn't quiet anymore. Quiet Ops is eight episodes, one story at a time, about finding that noise and going upstream to reduce it. My career. My marriage. My body. My family. All real. All verified. No theory dressed up as a story. I'm Paul Mitchem. Twenty five years in operational leadership. This is what I actually learned.
Episodes
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Chapter Eight - The Quiet
For most of my life I believed my value came from fixing things. If something wasn’t working, I worked harder. If I could just get far enough upstream, there would always be a lever to pull. Sometimes there was. Sometimes there wasn’t. This is the last chapter of Quiet Ops. It isn’t about a…
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Chapter Seven - The Noise I Couldn`t Reach
Every chapter so far followed the same shape. Find the noise. Go upstream. Reduce it. This one is the place it didn't work. My mother had a stroke, and something in her changed that never changed back. Three times she stopped acknowledging that we existed. Each time it lasted a year or more. I…
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Chapter Six - Necessary, Not Sufficient
One of our kids said it. Daddy please, do something. They weren't in the room when we argued. They didn't need to be. They felt it anyway. My wife and I talked about separation. Privately. Not thrown out mid-fight. A real conversation. I thought she wanted out of the marriage. She wanted out of…
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Chapter Five - The Home Had A Backlog Too
I was the loud one. Shouting had become the default in that house. Mine most of all. Kids learn fast. They started talking to each other the way we talked to them. One evening, deep in it, I thought about my dad. He used to shout too. Later in life he became the calm one. The one everyone...
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Chapter Four - The Body Is Not The Symptom
Two months into rebuilding my body, I came out of the bathroom one morning in my boxers. My wife's eyes moved over me. Stopped. Came back. Then a smile. I went and checked the scale anyway. Old habit, faster than anything I'd learned. Zero. Same number it had shown for two months. I got the tape...
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Chapter Three - The Same Noise, Wearing a Different Uniform
Chapter Three: The Same Noise, Wearing a Different Uniform What does a service desk with more than 2,000 open tickets and 600 stalled projects have to do with burnout? More than I understood at the time. I walked into that organisation expecting to fix a struggling service desk. What I found was…
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Chapter Two - The Night She Left
I don't remember what we were arguing about. I remember telling my wife to fuck off. And I remember her picking up her keys and leaving. That was the night something finally broke. I called her. "I need help, and I don't know who to ask." She came home. The next morning, she took me to a doctor....
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Chapter One - The Noise
My son was twelve when he looked at me the way you look at someone you're worried about. We were on a mountain. I was frightened, and it had nothing to do with the mountain. This is the story of how I got there. Not the dramatic version. The quiet one. Years of noise, building underneath a life...
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
Almost nothing that breaks a person, a marriage, or an organisation is one big event. It's noise. Quiet, constant, building for years until it isn't quiet anymore.
Quiet Ops is eight episodes, one story at a time, about finding that noise and going upstream to reduce it. My career. My marriage. My body. My family. All real. All verified. No theory dressed up as a story.
I'm Paul Mitchem. Twenty five years in operational leadership. This is what I actually learned.
HOSTED BY
Paul Mitchem
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Almost nothing that breaks a person, a marriage, or an organisation is one big event. It's noise. Quiet, constant, building for years until it isn't quiet anymore. Quiet Ops is eight episodes, one story at a time, about finding that noise and going upstream to reduce it. My career. My marriage. My...
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