Living Understaffed

🚨 #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 automatically mean you’re healed. Unfortunately. 😌 Sarah discovers that interrogating men on first dates...

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 faster than we can say “absolutely not” From hospital-bed selfies to 5AM audacity, Sarah & Erika reca...

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 suspicious, and the audacity is fully clocked in. What started as a few days of easy conversation, attractio...

🎧 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 , Sarah & Erika sit down with indie romance author Elle Sparrow —professional heart-wrencher, em...

🎙️ 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 burnout is a personality trait 👉 The photo booth business is picking up… so if anyone can clone...

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 whole table full of indie authors we adore. What started as a creative retreat turned into one of the most...

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 one thing turns into reorganizing your entire life) ✈️ Planes, trains, automobiles, and storage un...

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, and accidentally having deep conversations while absolutely not sticking to the plan. Episode 54 k...

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 your brain says otherwise. 😵‍💫 Alan shares how improv comedy intersects with leadership , adaptabi...

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 is beefing with ID cards, printers, and her caffeine addiction. And Trisha? She pulled up ready to unlea...

🚨 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 Erika catch up with him on life, loss, laughter, and his incredible seven-month journey of sobriety. Sarah...

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 Chase, but as usual, we’re a day late and a dollar short. ⏰💸 Because chaos? It’s our love language....

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 fanfiction to published novels 🧛‍♀️ Building dark worlds full of angels, demons, and very questionable life cho...

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 question of if our milkshake brings all the boys to the yard, is it even worth it? 🥯✨ This week, y...

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 healthy cocktail of ✨avoidance, anxiety, and projectile vomiting✨. Together, they spiral into work woes,...

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 the elusive “soft life” 💅—you know, the one Instagram influencers pretend is just candles and cashme...

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 pause 🙃. The duo also dive into the Halo 3–based study that proves misogyny is, in fact, a skill issue...

⚠️ 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 you thought we couldn’t get any more emotionally unstable — surprise! We invited indie author and all-a...

🎙️ 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... everywhere. 🙃 This week: Erika admits her type is “emotionally unavailable,” and Sarah reminds her it’...

🎙️ 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 buffering circle away from retirement. Sarah's video came in blurry as hell so, apologies in adva...

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 brushing your teeth feel like an Olympic event 🥇🪥 Professional impostor syndrome… and still being the...

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 fantasy that is a smooth-brained, worry-free existence. (Teach us your ways.) From stress fogs to depre...

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 the male gaze. We discuss oversexualization, creepy casting choices, dress code double standards, and...

🌪️🪦🧠 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. 💻 Erika's understaffed moment includes playing “Interim Supervisor Who Knows Nothing” while her...

🎙️ 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 to leading 70,000+ pirates, defeating multiple navies, and retiring with a full pension plan— witho...