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 live-from-Kansas-City episode, Sarah and Erika roll into Lit & Libations with 2 hours of sleep, a questionable bunny painting, and absolutely no plan—because why start now?

✨ Indie author shoutouts:

Meet Angel Edenburn, Owner of Lost Aardvarks Press and author of gritty paranormal romance set right in Kansas and Missouri. Her latest, Second Time Around, brings curvy, kickass heroines, fast cars, and dangerous magic to life.

• 📚 LostAardvarksPress.com
• 🔗 linktr.ee/angeledenburn
• 📱 Facebook
• 💋 Not your typical vampires. Not your typical romance.

KC-based author and high school English teacher Matthew Reed Williams makes his debut with Somewhere—a quiet, compelling supernatural thriller about memory, grief, and the spaces between.

• 📚 MatthewReedWilliams.com
• 📱 @MatthewReedWilliams
• 💀 What haunts us isn’t always from the outside.

✨ Biz shoutouts:

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Also in this episode:

• Sarah and Erika realize they may have accidentally started a small business empire (oops).
• The Old Guard makes everyone cry because love should be like a Hozier song and/or an immortal Italian boyfriend who would kill for you.
• We confess to eating cold hot dogs, canned beans, and other crimes against food. Sorry not sorry. 🫘
• Erika explains why you must now compete with Sarah to be the best boyfriend she’s ever had (good luck).
• And yes, we are still not on Discord when we say we’ll be. It's called ✨consistency✨.

Oh, and if you’re wondering: no, we still don’t have our shit together. But we do have boundary-setting, nap trauma, and thighs like harbor seals. 🐚💪

🚨 BONUS: Catch us live from the only podcast table at Lit & Libations, surrounded by hot authors and even hotter takes on love, loss, and lunchables.

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