In this Odds & Sods mini-episode, Cass and Sonya explore the soft etiquette of availability: who gets your time, how burnout sneaks up on high performers, why leaders teach by modeling (not memos), and how personal lives bleed into work culture whether we admit it or not. From PTO guilt to calendar transparency to bathroom-break micromanagers, this one dives into the invisible rules of modern leadership and the secret coping skills workers invent to survive it.

Also featuring: pandemic chaos, the top-hat child incident, holiday limbo, Christmas politics, and the STD song that will haunt your teen forever.

Overqualified & Unmuted is produced by Just Loud Enough Media.
New episodes dropping Fridays.
Send us your stories, weird artifacts, and corporate curiosities at overqualifiedandunmuted@gmail.com

Hosted by Sonya Keeney & Cass White.

No corporate polish. Minimal narrative scaffolding. Maximum signal.

Content note: This episode was recorded in real time during political and civil unrest in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis / St. Paul). We don’t go into graphic detail, but if current events are a trigger for you, please tread gently, pause when you need to, and take care of yourself.

We start with our usual Bites & Delights, then dive into The Authenticity Trap—why “bring your whole self to work” can feel performative (or unsafe), how work personas protect you, and practical scripts for setting boundaries without making it weird.

We also wrap the episode by reading listener comments and questions and responding to them together.

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Overqualified & Unmuted is produced by Just Loud Enough Media.
New episodes dropping Fridays.
Send us your stories, weird artifacts, and corporate curiosities at overqualifiedandunmuted@gmail.com

Hosted by Sonya Keeney & Cass White.

No corporate polish. Minimal narrative scaffolding. Maximum signal.

A podcast within a podcast — where the leftover bits tell the bigger story.

Odds & Sods is the unofficial, canon-adjacent side-channel of Overqualified & Unmuted — the part of the multiverse where the planning sessions, voice warm-ups, mid-record skincare hauls, cat diplomacy, and existential tech rants live.

Hosted by Cass White and Sonya Keeney, this mini-series captures the spaces between the main episodes — the useful leftovers, open tabs, and behind-the-scenes moments that never make it to the boardroom but make everything else make sense.

Expect semi-structured chaos: planning beats, cultural diagnostics, shared history, sharp humor, neurospicy detours, and the kind of candid conversation that would normally get lost in the edit.

No corporate polish. Minimal narrative scaffolding. Maximum signal.

Odds & Sods exists for listeners who want the texture — not just the headline.

Overqualified & Unmuted is produced by Just Loud Enough Media.
New episodes dropping Fridays.
Send us your stories, weird artifacts, and corporate curiosities at overqualifiedandunmuted@gmail.com

Hosted by Sonya Keeney & Cass White.

No corporate polish. Minimal narrative scaffolding. Maximum signal.