In this episode, I talk about the quiet erosion that happens when you’re repeatedly unseen at work.

The meeting where your idea is ignored—until someone else says the exact same thing.
The slow shift from engaged and outspoken to silent and exhausted.
The way work dissatisfaction and depression feed each other until you can’t tell where one ends and the other begins.

This isn’t a story about “leaning in,” finding your passion, or fixing your mindset. It’s about what it’s like to keep showing up to a job that drains you because you don’t have the luxury of leaving. About mortgages, health insurance, therapy bills, and kids who ask hard questions you don’t have clean answers for.

It’s about loving your children deeply while feeling hollow yourself. About trying to keep work from spilling into every corner of your life. About surviving—not because you’re resilient or strong, but because you don’t have a choice.

If you’ve ever felt invisible at work, if you’ve ever wondered where the excited version of yourself went, or if you’re quietly enduring a job you can’t afford to quit—this episode is for you.

You’re not broken.
You’re not imagining it.
And you’re not alone.