Living Understaffed

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 most competent bitch in the meeting...

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 depression naps, it’s a mental health rol...

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 why 14-year-olds contour better than ...

🌪️🪦🧠 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 inbox commits cyber war crimes.

🎂 S...

🎙️ 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—without a man in sight. Meanwhile, we’re ou...

🎙️ 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 this episode:

• 🛑 Red flags so blinding you’ll need shades (including one man’s bio that casually included “Feminists are dumb.” 😵...

🎙️ 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 live-from-Kansas-City episode, Sarah and Erika roll into Lit & Libations with 2 hours of sleep, a questionable bunny painting, and absolutely n...

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 into the deep end of post-divorce reflection, attachment trauma, and learning how to not settle for breadcrumbs.

Expect hot takes on:

✨ Why...

🎙 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 redefined “petty but make it legendary.” Fire? Birds? Entire villages wiped out? Yeah, she understood the assignment. 🔥👑

Also ...

🎙️ 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 emotional waterboarding) and is now being forced to say nice things about herself. Disgusting. 🚫

Together, we unpack grief, guilt, hyper-productiv...

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, unsolicited pegging requests (yes, again), and the ✨delusion✨ of men who say they “want a strong woman” but can’t handle her being busier, fu...

🎙️ 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 and money triggers 💰🧠
• How “self-care” somehow ends up costing $300
• Why turning 30 isn’t a crisis—it’s a rebrand
• And the real reason we...

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. We appreciate your patience, your kindness, and the space you've given us during this time.

We know you tune in for laughs...

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, Sarah’s week has been a masterclass in government anxiety and car trouble because, of course, nothing can just work the way it’s...

🎙️ Episode 28 – Emotional Energy, Editing Nightmares & Expired Dating Standards 🎙️

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📸✨ Shoutout time! ✨📸

Huge thanks to @freckle_face_photography for capturing the absolute chaos of our latest Living Understaffed episode! 🎙️ From tech disasters to life meltdowns (and a surprise dog fart attack 🐶💨), this episode is peak unhinged energy—and somehow, she made us look like we actual...

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 promise it’s worth the wait!

In the meantime, we’ve picked out a little treat for you—our second most downloaded episode—so you can relive th...

🚨 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 big career move, we’ve got a lot to unpack. 🎙️

What’s on today’s agenda?

• 🍕 Erika’s well-balanced diet of… ice cream for dinner...

🚨 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 chaos in all its glory. 🎙️😅

BIG NEWS ALERT! In this episode, Sarah and Erika dive into the chaotic whirlwind that is career advancement (a...

💀✨ 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 TikTok Shop (again).

💃 A wild night out, featuring a muscular man with offensive breath.

🐶 Daisy the stinky, crusty, but beloved dog.

🎤 The ...