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Send us Fan Mail The internet can make you feel famous, furious, and insecure before you’ve even finished your coffee. We sit down with Sabrina Ramos, founder and creative director of Pop Spark Agency in New York City, to name what so many of us feel but rarely say out loud: the internet doesn’t love you back, and neither does a system built to monetize your attention. We get into the dopamine loo...

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Send us Fan Mail The hiring process is not just “broken” right now, it’s starting to feel openly hostile, and that’s the part we can’t ignore. I’m joined by Keirsten Greggs, better known as the Trap Recruiter, to talk about what’s happening inside talent acquisition and recruiting as the job market tilts toward employers. We get into why empathy disappears, why candidates get treated like placehol...

Send us Fan Mail Belonging sounds simple until you try to live it. If you’ve ever walked into a room, a workplace, or even your own body and thought, “I don’t think I belong here,” this conversation puts language to that feeling without sugarcoating it. John joins me to unpack why so many of us treat acceptance like something we have to earn through achievement, polish, and overperformance, and wh...

Send us Fan Mail Your body can change overnight and your calendar still expects you to be sharp, upbeat, and “professional.” Madison Butler is joined by HR consultant Talia Edmondson, founder of HRB Consulting, to talk about the perimenopause stack: irregular cycles, brain fog, insomnia, hot flashes, histamine reactions, and the mental health load of trying to act like nothing is happening. We get...

Send us Fan Mail The most dangerous voice at work isn’t the angriest one, it’s the confident one who’s wrong and impossible to correct. We sit down with Titara “Tara” Haynes, a People Operations leader and writer, to unpack how “loud and wrong” behavior spreads through workplaces, social media, and even the coaching and consulting world, then lands hardest on Black and brown professionals who can’...

Send us Fan Mail Your resume isn’t a scrapbook of everything you’ve ever done. It’s a sales page for your work, and most of us are wasting prime space describing tasks instead of proving value.  I’m joined by Tajal (aka “caffeinated Tejal”), a longtime recruiting leader who’s reviewed hundreds of thousands of resumes, and she brings the kind of clarity that cuts through job-search panic fast. We g...

Send us Fan Mail Someone asks you to “be humble,” and what they really mean is “be smaller.” That’s where this conversation starts. I’m joined by Atta Gracia Montilla, a community architect, facilitator, and leadership coach, to name the thing a lot of us feel but rarely say out loud: toxic humility, the explicit or unspoken expectation to shrink yourself, especially when you are exceptional and e...

Send us Fan Mail DEI doesn’t fail because people “don’t get it.” It fails because the people with power won’t share it. Maddie B sits down with award-winning learning development and global talent management pro Jasmine Mosley Beale, founder of Virtue Key Consulting Group, to name what a lot of workplaces avoid saying out loud: diversity, equity, and inclusion without authority, budget, and decisi...

Send us Fan Mail Your calendar is packed, your notifications never stop, and somehow you still feel behind. That isn’t a personal failure. It’s what happens when workplaces treat humans like machines and call it “productivity.”  We sit down with Veresh Sita, a transformation leader and founder of vasana.ai, to get honest about what thriving actually means. We talk about why money only buys happine...

Send us Fan Mail Layoffs are back in the headlines, but the hardest part isn’t the announcement. It’s what happens after: the endless applications, the four-round interviews that end in ghosting, and the quiet pressure to accept jobs that pay a fraction of what your experience is worth. We sit down with Taryn Talley, a marketing leader and LGBTQ2SIA advocate, to talk about the job market in 2024 w...

Send us Fan Mail The internet keeps handing us the same recycled “insights” with a new filter, and we’re supposed to call it community. Madison sits down with Vanessa Smithers, a narrative consultant, poet, writer, and legacy archivist, to talk about the rise of Substack, the flood of AI-generated writing, and the weird new normal where people copy paste a robot’s voice and charge real money for i...

Send us Fan Mail The political noise around trans people is loud, but the day-to-day consequences are even louder. Bryce joins us to get brutally honest about what it feels like to live at the intersections as a Black queer transgender man in 2026 while public fear-mongering ramps up and basic safety gets treated like something you have to earn. We talk about Bryce’s last 12 to 18 months, includin...

Send us Fan Mail Your body keeps score, even when your resume says you are thriving. We sit down with Liliane “Lily,” a Dublin-based coach for high-performing women, to talk about toxic resilience and the quiet ways burnout builds when “just push through” becomes your default setting. Lily shares her own experience with burnout after years in tech sales and what she noticed first: stress that was...

Send us Fan Mail Some people don’t want a relationship with you, they want access to you.  We sit down with Aubrey Blanche, founder of The Math Path, to talk about the relationships we outgrow and the ones that quietly turn harmful. We get honest about parasocial relationships, why people who barely know you feel entitled to opinions, and how the block button can be an act of clarity instead of dr...

Send us Fan Mail A crash out can look messy on the outside, but it usually starts as your nervous system waving a flag. We talk with Karima, founder of Crash Out Diary and Wella, about what happens when workplace stress and “being iced out” pushes you to your limit and why standing up for yourself can become the first step toward real self-trust. Karima breaks down how she used AI for emotional re...

Send us Fan Mail One day you’re traveling for work, celebrating the mission, and showing up as the person everyone depends on. The next day, it’s a Zoom invite, a cold script, no severance, and benefits ending at midnight. That’s where Monikka Mann and I start and we don’t look away from what a layoff like that does to your body, your confidence, and your sense of safety in a brutal job market. Mo...

Send us Fan Mail Your boss should never get to be the loudest voice inside your body, yet so many of us live with work stress that shows up as migraines, panic, brain fog, poor sleep, and a nervous system that never powers down. I sit down with Dr. Claire, a leadership and mental health expert, and Sophia, a reinvention strategist, to talk about what toxic leadership and toxic workplace culture ac...

Send us Fan Mail Applying for dozens of jobs, getting ghosted, and watching the same role get reposted can make even the most confident person start to spiral. We feel that tension hard, so we brought on Derek Lars, a talent acquisition leader with 15 years in recruiting, to talk about what’s actually happening in the hiring process and why the job market can hit mental health like a truck. We dig...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode of Crash Out With Me , we’re talking weddings, expat life, and the why quitting caffeine might save you. From navigating the chaos of the wedding industrial complex to dealing with European bureaucracy and figuring out what life actually looks like outside the U.S., this one is part life update, part cultural observation, and part unhinged luteal phase crash out. B...