After The Brew: Left Out, Micromanaged & Why Miles Davis Explains Everything

Darren closes out a rough week with one more gut punch — driving to church for a rehearsal he wasn't needed for, being the only one who didn't know, and coming home furious and unable to sleep. But this episode goes deeper than tonight. He connects it back to Easter Sunday, the micromanagement pattern he's been absorbing for months, and the cost of masking it all so well that nobody sees how unsustainable it is. Then he brings in Miles Davis — not just as a therapist's analogy, but as a fully drawn portrait of what it looks like to be precise, misread, and constantly managed by people who can't hear what you're actually doing. This is the episode where Darren names it out loud. He's not angry. He's exact.After The Brew, Darren Watts, Afternoon Coffee Break, Miles Davis, micromanagement, ProPresenter, church, Easter Sunday, masking, neurodivergent, ADHD, presence fatigue, exclusion, left out, precision, misunderstood, Kind of Blue, 1959, Black excellence, telling my story, not looking for sympathy, real talk, Black podcast, May 2026,