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Living Understaffed
by Living Understaffed
"Living Understaffed," hosted by two empowered and witty women, offers candid discussions on the challenges faced by millennial women. From dissecting office politics to navigating modern relationships, the show shares unfiltered stories and diverse book recommendations, all served with sarcasm. Tune in for genuine conversations embracing the complexities of being a millennial woman. Laugh, learn, and liberate your thoughts with humor and sass.
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062 - We're Back, Barely Supervised & Emotionally Questionable
We’re Back, Barely Supervised & Emotionally Questionable What do a divorce tiara, 20,000 unorganized photos, therapist-sanctioned emotional accountability, sleep deprivation, and a man writing an extremely questionable rap song have in common? Apparently, this episode. After an unofficial break…
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061 - Hyper-Independence, Hurt Feelings & Healing the Pattern
🚨 #HurtFeelingsAlert 🚨. . . . .Like … legitimately. We warned you. This week on Living Understaffed, Sarah, Erika & special guest Lilli Bewley (links below!) sit down to unpack attachment styles, hyper-independence, emotional safety, healing patterns, and why being “self-aware” does not...
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60 - Hormones, Hot Takes & Horrible Decision-Making Skills
Welcome back to Living Understaffed—where the men are questionable, the boundaries are in progress, and somehow… we still circle back for more. This week kicks off with the usual chaos: 💼 New supervisor energy (tense) 📱 Tinder being a lawless wasteland (as expected) 🚩 Men self-eliminating…
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59 - Dopamine, Damage & Dating While Delusional
Is there a therapist in the crowd… or are we all just going to unpack this together in real time? 😅 This episode? Yeah… this one hurt. Sarah finally tells Erika the full story of Married Guy #5 (also known as Dopamine Doolittle), and let’s just say… the math is not mathing, the timeline is...
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58 - Survival, Spice & Saying the Quiet Parts Out Loud
🎧 Survival, Spice & Saying the Quiet Parts Out Loud ⚠️ TRIGGER WARNING This episode contains discussions of domestic abuse, coercive control, trauma, infertility, and mental health. Listener discretion advised. Please take care of yourself while listening. 💛 This week on Living Understaffed,...
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57 - Duels, Drama & Doing the Absolute Most
🎙️ Episode 57: Duels, Drama & Doing the Absolute Most After 3 weeks off the grid, Sarah & Erika are BACK and somehow still alive, employed, and only mildly unhinged. 👉 Erika is in her self-care comeback era (lashes done, life pending 💅) 👉 Sarah is casually working 120-hour pay periods like...
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56 - Burnout, Book Besties & Broken Self-Care Plans
Yes. We know. We’re 3 weeks late. Yes, Sarah has already broken her New Year’s resolutions twice. Yes, we are still here. And yes… we are still aggressively understaffed. We’re just doing our best. 🫡☕ This week’s episode is a chaotic, hilarious, unexpectedly heartfelt roundtable featuring a…
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55 - Side Quests, Spartan Women & "Say My Name Again"
Welcome back to Living Understaffed, where time isn’t real, everyone is dehydrated, and productivity is mostly a rumor. This week, Sarah & Erika are joined by indie author Eisley Rose for round two of beautiful chaos, and somehow we cover all of this in one episode: 🧠 ADHD side quests (cleaning...
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54 - Goals, Grief & Getting Our Shit (Mostly) Together
Here we go—Season 3 energy, fully unhinged, lightly reflective, and extremely on-brand. 🥂🎉 🎆 Happy New Year, you beautiful under- and over-achievers. 🎆 Living Understaffed is ready, baby—Season 3 starts NOW with Sarah & Erika doing what they do best: existing loudly, being wildly unprepared,...
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53 - Leadership, Loneliness & Learning to Rest
This week on Living Understaffed, Sarah & Erika sit down with Alan Mueller for a conversation that somehow manages to be inspiring, grounding, and still wildly unhinged (our brand). We’re talking burnout, leadership, community, hustle culture lies, and why rest is actually productive—even when…
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52 - Sunstones, Swamp Witches & Stories That Slap
Featuring: Indie author Trisha Otis of Daughter of Broken Light Today’s episode arrives sizzling like a sunstone dropped straight out of the sky and into your group chat. 🔥💬 Sarah is still in her Moving Era™ (a saga sponsored by stubbed toes and college boys who load trucks like Jenga). Erika…
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51 - Self-Awareness, Sobriety & Soft Lips
🚨 Trigger Warning: This episode contains candid discussions of drug use, addiction, alcoholism, and sobriety. Please listen with care and step away if you need to. ❤️ It’s a Living Understaffed reunion episode — and yes, Daddy Kol (forever known as such) is back in the chaos seat. Sarah and…
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50 - Costumes, Chaos & Champagne-Fueled Milestones
FIFTY. FREAKING. EPISODES. 🥂✨ Somehow, Sarah and Erika (yes, with a K, thank you very much) have survived nearly two years of caffeine dependency, questionable decisions, and Wi-Fi issues to make it here — Episode 50! 🎉 Sure, it was supposed to drop Wednesday alongside Episode 49 with Madison...
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49 - Vampires, Validation & Very Questionable Life Choices
It’s giving collab chaos this week as Sarah and Erika welcome the powerhouse duo behind Madison Chase Books — authors of Dance with the Devil and Pack or Prey. Expect equal parts sarcasm, storytelling, and “how did we get here again?” energy as the crew dives into: 💫 The wild ride from…
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48 - Milkshakes, Misogyny & Men Who Miss the Point
Did Erika miss her ADHD evaluation by an hour and a half? Absolutely. Did she also forget what day it was? Also yes. Welcome to another week of Living Understaffed, the podcast where chaos has a punch card, the reward is emotional damage (with a side of bagels and apricot jam) and the everlasting...
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47 - Craic, Chaos & The Morrígan
Kicking off our brand-new Women in Mythology Series, Erika and Sarah dive headfirst into chaos, crows, and the eternal struggle of Irish pronunciations. Erika is busy being understaffed but still a princess (don’t even THINK about taking away her second monitor), while Sarah is thriving on a...
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46 - Whimsy, Woes & the Soft Life We Can’t Find
Soft life? More like chaos with whimsy—unpack your Target bags, join our Discord book club 📚, and thank our sponsors for funding this mess ✨☕👑. Welcome back to Living Understaffed, where Sarah and Erika are once again oversharing the chaos you cannot clock out of. This week, we’re diving into…
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45 - Mood Swings, Mayhem & Misogyny 🐕🕹️🔥
Erika survives five days of work crammed into two 😵💫, an office barbecue she refuses to let anyone sulk through 🍔, and Daisy’s post-spay Houdini routine 🦴🪄. Sarah, meanwhile, juggles Army chaos 🎖️, overbooked weekends 📅, and the dawning realization that her “best employee ever” era is… on...
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44 - WTF, Wrecked Emotionally & Writing through the Chaos
⚠️ Trigger Warning: This episode contains talk of grief, mental health, family trauma, and the chaotic joy of self-publishing. Basically, if you’re feeling fragile, pour a drink first. Or don’t. We’re not your therapist. 🎙️ Episode 44: Writing Through the Wreckage (ft. Vanessa Kramer) Just when...
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43 - Crying, Coping & the Control Freak Chronicles
🎙️ Episode 043: Crying, Coping & the Control Freak Chronicles (because this episode is a full-blown feelings spiral with bonus life decisions and zero chill) Welcome back to Living Understaffed, where the breakdowns are weekly, the coping mechanisms are questionable, and the feelings are......
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42 - Attachment Styles, Audacity Levels & Acts of Self-Destruction
🎙️ Episode 42: Attachment Styles, Audacity Levels & Acts of Self-Destruction (Healing is real, but so is the backslide.) 📢 Audio Note: Apologies in advance—this episode is audio-only because sometimes technology is a petty little bitch. Bertha Mae (Erika’s laptop) did her best, but she’s one...
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41 - Feelings, F-Bombs & the Fine Art of Falling Apart
What was supposed to be a simple chat about “journal prompts to get unstuck” somehow turned into a full-blown emotional rollercoaster featuring sarcasm, grief, praise-kinks, and biceps. 💅🏽🧠💪 In this episode of Living Understaffed, Sarah and Erika unpack: The depression brain fog that makes...
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40 - Depression Naps, Dinosaur Facts & Delusions of Hydration
This week, Sarah’s fighting off Hot Girl Tummy Problems™️ while Erika moves her entire bedroom upstairs out of pure stubbornness and a desperate need for closet space. (Spoiler: the mattress did make it up the stairs…eventually.) We spiral into anxiety brain, dehydration habits, and the absolute...
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39 - Lunch Dates, Lipstick, and the Lolita Effect
Welcome back to the podcast that’s basically just two spiraling women refusing to work on their enormous flaws while loudly calling out societal rot. 🧃💅 This week, Sarah and Erika dive deep into The Lolita Effect, the movie Thirteen, and the literal hellscape that is being a teenage girl under...
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38 - Saturn Returns, Storage Units & Sarcastic Ways to Shatter a Man
🌪️🪦🧠 Saturn Returns, Dead Cats, & 109 Ways to Trigger a Man This week on Living Understaffed, the understaffed-ness hits a whole new level of unhinged as Sarah, Erika (with a K, obviously), and special guest Emma spiral together in what can only be described as a support group with sarcasm. 💻...
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37 - Pirates, Pettiness & the Patriarchy We’re Over
🎙️ Episode 37 – “Zheng Yi Sao Said ‘Sink or Be Sunk’” Badass Women of History: Part 2 This week, Sarah & Erika are back to honor the original girlboss who made corporate chaos look like amateur hour: Zheng Yi Sao, pirate queen of the South China Sea. 🏴☠️💅 She went from flower boat sex worker…
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36 - Red Flags, Rants & Rizz That Should Be Revoked
🎙️ Episode 36 – Red Flags, Rants & Rizz That Should Be Revoked 🚩💅 Fresh off our Lit & Libations high (where our egos were shamelessly inflated — thank you, Vanessa), we’re back to reality... and reality is full of migraines, mediocre men, and unhinged Tinder bios we didn’t ask for. 🙃💀 ✨ In...
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35 - Rabbit Holes, Refried Beans & Romance We Deserve (Live in Kansas City!)
🎙️ Episode 35 – Sleep-Deprived Smut, Refried Bean Trauma, & the Grand Canyon of Daddy Issues 🐇🧠 Welcome to Living Understaffed, where the sarcasm flows like boxed wine at a book fair and the emotional trauma is only slightly overshadowed by our love of spicy indie romance. In this...
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34 - Downloads, Distrust & the Dating Pool From Hell
Dating while healing? Yeah, it’s a minefield. 🧨 In this episode, Erika and Sarah open up about the exhausting balance between protecting your peace and staying open to intimacy. From non-negotiables like buying the damn flowers 💐 to the emotional weight of spaghetti 🍝 (yes, really), they dive...
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33 - Saints, Spite & Side Quests We Didn’t Ask For
🎙 Episode 33 – Saints, Spite & Side Quests We Didn’t Ask For We’re back with more chaos, caffeine, and unsolicited life detours. This week, we kick off our new series Badass Women in History with none other than Saint Olga of Kyiv—a woman who turned grief into full-scale vengeance and basically...
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32 - Half-Dead, Dumb Homework & Delusions of Stability
🎙️ Guess who’s back from the dead? Sarah—barely. After getting bodied by walking pneumonia, an ear infection, and just a casual full-system life meltdown, she’s somehow upright and podcasting again. (Please clap 👏.) Meanwhile, Erika’s been busy doing her therapist-assigned homework (aka…
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31 - We’re Hot, We’re Healing, and We’ve Had It
Truest Era Unlocked 🔓 (We’re Hot, We’re Healing, and We’ve Had It) In this week’s chaos therapy session—ahem, we mean episode—Sarah and Erika arrive in their Truest Eras: black chokers, emo prom hangovers, and allergic reactions to both nickel and nonsense. 🖤✨ We’re talking flatback earrings,...
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30 - Budgeting, Burnout, and the Big 3-0
🎙️ Episode 30: Budgeting, Burnout, and the Big 3-0 In this episode of Living Understaffed, Erika & Sarah try (and fail?) to have a serious chat about budgets without spiraling into financial chaos, emotional check-ins, and a mini roast of overpriced oat milk. 💸🥲 They dive into: Mental health…
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[BYE WEEK] 05 - What Do You Bring to the Table?
We're So Sorry, Again – A Bye Week Update Hey everyone, we hate to do this to you again, but unfortunately, this is another bye week for Living Understaffed. Life has a way of throwing unexpected challenges, and right now, Sarah is at home grieving with her family after the passing of her mother....
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029 - Patriarchy, Petty Men & Problems We Shouldn’t Still Have
Episode 29 – Dating Apps Are Trash, Feminism is RAGE, and Living Understaffed coming to KCMO in May! 🎭 Another week, another round of Why Are Men Like This? Erika dives into the disaster that is Hinge, where one man’s idea of a “weird fact” is just another reason to delete the app. Meanwhile,...
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028 - Editing, Emotional Energy & Expired Dating Standards
🎙️ Episode 28 – Emotional Energy, Editing Nightmares & Expired Dating Standards 🎙️ ______________________________________________ 📸✨ Shoutout time! ✨📸 Huge thanks to @freckle_face_photography for capturing the absolute chaos of our latest Living Understaffed episode! 🎙️ From tech disasters…
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[BYE WEEK] 13 - Overthinking, Overachieving & Our Favorite Toxic Traits
Hey, understaffed crew! We hate to leave you hanging, but this week, Sarah is taking a much-needed break to spend time at home with her family. We fully intended to drop an episode about our amazing trip to North Carolina to visit Erika, but life (and a little bit of chaos) had other plans. We...
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27 - Dating, Downloads & Delulu Decisions
🚨 Dating, Downloads & Delulu Decisions: A Sarah & Erika Special 🚨 Your favorite chronically understaffed duo is back, and this week’s episode is a rollercoaster. From analyzing the fine art of being a bigger person (literally and metaphorically) in the dating world to Sarah manifesting her next...
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26 - Referrals, Road Trips & Rom-Com Rejects
🚨 Apologies in Advance 🚨 Being understaffed right now is the understatement of the year. Between job applications, existential crises, and preparing for the ultimate road trip to North Carolina to see Erika, editing this episode was... let’s just say not the priority. So, enjoy the unfiltered...
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25 - Breath Mints, Bougie Beds & Big Promposals
💀✨ We Said Yes to Emo Prom (And Other Unhinged Decisions) ✨💀 Sarah & Erika are back with another episode filled with sarcasm, tangents, and chaos—per usual. This week, we discuss: 🎨 Sarah’s deep (and slightly bankrupting) love for Thomas Kinkade’s Disney collection. 💅 Erika getting got by...
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24 - Trash Pandas, Toes Optional & Titillating Truths
🎙️Living Understaffed x Trash Panda Podcast Collab (Round 2!) Happy Chinese New Year! 🎉 It’s the Year of the Wood Snake—aka, our year! 🐍 Time to shed the old, embrace transformation, and slither into our most unhinged era yet. Welcome to the crossover event nobody asked for but everyone…
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23 - Thought Spirals, Therapy Wins & Traditions We Love
🎙️ Welcome to Thought Spirals, Therapy Wins & Traditions We Love! This week, Sarah and Erika dive into: 🧠 Therapy revelations: why it’s not just for “trauma” but a toolbox for navigating life’s chaos. 🐾 Daisy’s smooth-brained antics and why Erika’s dog is the queen of comforters. 🎆 New Year’s...
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22 - Tired Stereotypes, Tiny Acts of Defiance & Trailblazing Women
👩🔧👩🎓👩🚀 What’s it like being a woman in a workplace where you’re outnumbered, overlooked, and often underestimated? This week, Sarah and Erika dive into the challenges and triumphs of navigating male-dominated industries. From real-world stats 📊 (did you know only 6.5% of U.S. women work...
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21 - One Year, Two Hosts & Thirty-Seven Countries Later
🎙️ Episode 21: One Year, Two Hosts & Thirty-Seven Countries Later Welcome to 2025, friends! Erika and Sarah are kicking off the year with peak understaffed energy. From moving across town like a full-blown circus 🎪 to adopting a "smooth-brain" dog named Daisy 🐶, Erika's life has been... well…
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20 - Holiday Hiccups, Heated Debates & Heartfelt Thanks
🎄🎙️ Christmas Chaos Alert: We’re Understaffed, Festive, and Fabulous! 🎙️🎄 Ho, ho, hold on to your jingle bells, folks! Sarah and Erika are back with a Christmas Day special that’s more "Bye Week" than "Silent Night." 🎅 Exhausted? Absolutely. Prepared? Absolutely not. This episode is…
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19 - Bookstores, Boundaries & Brain Tumors with Trisha Otis
This week, Sarah and Erika 😘 welcome a fabulous special guest: Trisha Otis! She’s the owner of Sun Fox Books 📚 and the new VP of KC Book Beat (we’re so excited for her!), where she’s shaking up the indie author scene. Oh, and did we mention she’s managing all this while juggling her husband’s...
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18 - Self-Worth, Sibling Sass & Sticky Treats
🚨 Guess Who’s Late Again? Us. It’s Us. 🚨 This episode is coming at you fashionably late—by 4 days. 🫠 That’s what happens when you’re Living Understaffed. But hey, chaos is kind of our brand, right? Thanks for hanging in there, you legends. We’d promise to do better, but we all know how this...
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17 - Pretty Privilege, Procrastination & Productivity Guilt
Welcome back to chaos central, aka Living Understaffed! This week, Sarah and Erika (yes, with a "k"—keep up) dive headfirst into the rollercoaster that is Pretty Privilege. 😒 From unsolicited "advice" to perks that feel more backhanded than helpful, they're spilling tea hotter than Erika’s 7 PM...
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16 - Triggers, Takeaways & Tricks for Tackling the Chaos
🧺 Laundry pile existentialism? Check. 💔 Man-hating era? Oh, you bet. 🧹 Messy life, clean mind vibes? We’re working on it. This week, Sarah and Erika tackle How to Keep House While Drowning by KC Davis, LPC—a guidebook for the overwhelmed, the overworked, and the unapologetically imperfect....
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15 - Compliments, Confidence, and Canine Conundrums 🐾
In this week’s episode of Living Understaffed, Sarah and Erika wade through the murky waters of receiving compliments 🥴. Do they say “thank you”? Blurt out sarcastic deflections? Go into a full existential crisis? Maybe a bit of all three. Expect plenty of laughs as Erika recounts Rocky the…
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"Living Understaffed," hosted by two empowered and witty women, offers candid discussions on the challenges faced by millennial women. From dissecting office politics to navigating modern relationships, the show shares unfiltered stories and diverse book recommendations, all served with sarcasm. Tune in for genuine conversations embracing the complexities of being a millennial woman. Laugh, learn, and liberate your thoughts with humor and sass.
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