We sit down with Amanda, the COO of our day job, a mother of five (including one-year-old twins), and the woman who can move 10,000 boxes while managing a “stroller blowout.”

The Highlights:

• The Tuxedo Trauma: The specific item found in a rental pant leg that made Amanda vow to own the company one day.
• The Imposter Syndrome Sprint: How she led Product Development without a design degree by “optimizing the process” instead of the art.
• Warehouse vs. Toddlers: Why getting five kids into a car is officially harder than managing a 300,000 sq. ft. peak-season shipping floor.
• The $700 iPad Accident: What happens when your kid thinks “Delete” means “Refund.”

The Challenge: Stop second-guessing. Say your goal out loud this week and push for it. As Amanda says: “You can have it all.”

• The Lars LLM: How a “Salmon Fisher and Efficiency Enthusiast” from Norway used our own “Type A” language to bypass our triage—only to turn out to be a ghost in the machine.
• The Bingo Audit: Nate officially concedes the Bingo game to Ty, who managed to check off the “Wardrobe Malfunction” square.
• Tech Reality Check: Why the “Agentic AI” on the expo floor felt lackluster, from beta-only tools to the “Monday Report” pitch that fell on deaf ears.
• The Bathroom Pitch: We share an impromptu interview about a vendor who followed an attendee into a bathroom stall to finish a sales pitch.
• The Gold Mine of Networking: From full-circle recruitment stories to meeting 23-year-old founders, why this year was about connections over tools.
• The Challenge: What is the most unhinged AI pitch you’ve received this year? If you can beat the “Bathroom Stall Subscription,” we’ll feature you on the show.

In this episode, we cover:

• The Out-of-Office Triage: How Nate protects his ad spend and Di preps her team to “divide and conquer” so the “polite panic” doesn’t turn into a real crisis.

• Bingo Board Live Build: We’re building our high-stakes eTail bingo board live. Tallying everything from “Agentic AI” re-brands to inside-out wardrobe malfunctions and “Liquid IV” oases.

• The “Pack-Unpack” Ritual: Nate reveals his 4-stage optimization process for a week in a carry-on, while Di defends her status as a chronic over-packer.

• Field Study Missions: Our 2026 goals: hunting for “AI wrappers” and finding another “Hyper-Seasonal” retailer who understands the Halloween struggle.

The Stakes: Winner of Bingo gets lunch on the loser. Join the chaos at typeaunhinged.com.

We dive into how to stop beating yourself up for failing a binary goal and start building “sanity-saving” workflows for your real life.

In this episode, we discuss:

• The Hangout Spot: Why Nate spent his PTO building a privacy-forward social app just to remove the “Red Receipt Anxiety” from his friendships.
• The “Life-Size Pack” Problem: Di’s strategy for organizing bulk-buy chaos and upgrading her home office without falling into the DIY “three-month delay” trap.
• The Scheduled Text Hack: How Nate’s brother has been “ghost-writing” birthday wishes for a decade, and why you should be scheduling your life via long-press.
• Habit Tracking vs. Progress Tracking: Moving from “I failed Dry January” to “I’m optimizing my habits.”
• The Garage Box Method: A simple, low-tech system for decluttering that actually works for scatterbrained high-achievers.

Tech & Tools Mentioned:

• Replit & Firebase: For “Vibe Coding” your way into a better life.
• Nextcloud & Collectives: Building a personal knowledge base that lives in your closet.
• Microsoft Loop: The “modern OneNote” that is changing how Di recaps the season.
• The Challenge: We challenge you to pick five systems in your life—not goals, not resolutions—and find one way to reduce the friction this week.

“It’s not about the yes or no; it’s about making progress so you have less anxiety.”

Visit us at typeaunhinged.com and join the organized chaos.

In this episode, Nate (Performance) and Di (Creative) pull back the curtain on the “Task List Apocalypse” at their day job. They cover the whiplash of a “polite panic” season, the 90-degree demand spike that buried operations, and the unhinged moment they were flown out to pack boxes (and research poly-bag sealers).

Tune in for a real-talk post-mortem on:

• The Systems Break: The exact moment Nate resorted to voice-to-text and Di’s blended system crumbled.
• The “Chaos Hangover”: How to dig out from the EOY pile-up (recaps, budgets, & roadmaps).
• The “Type A” Rebuild: Actionable fixes, including Nate’s ‘Project Red Phone’ and ‘Operation: Clone the Process.’
• A deep dive into the task management tools we actually use to GSD, including MS To-Do, Power Automate, Monday.com, and a full breakdown of Microsoft Loop.

In this episode, Nate and Di tackle the hardest part of growth: the shift from being an Operator (in the trenches, pulling the levers) to an Orchestrator (on the podium, conducting the symphony).

Tune in to learn:

Nate’s data-driven framework for letting go with dashboards, KPIs, and mroe.

Di’s system for “cloning your creative brain” by building a Brand Bible that scales your company’s voice and vision.

How to avoid the “Automation Trap” where creating efficiency for the company creates a bottleneck around you.

Why growing your people (even if they leave) is the only real way to grow your business.

Stop drowning in the day-to-day. Start building the systems that set you free.

Teams don’t resist change; they resist ambiguity. In this episode, Nate and Di break down why even the best tech fails and give you the Type A: Unhinged playbook for rolling out AI without inciting a full-scale mutiny.

Stop demoing features and start demoing outcomes. This is your guide to connecting powerful tools to the people who actually need to use them.

In this episode, we deliver the 3-Rule Playbook:

Rule 1: Frame the Mission, Not the Mandate: Learn how to create immediate buy-in by giving the tool a shared purpose.

Rule 2: Demo Outcomes, Not Clicks: Discover the power of showing the magic trick (the finished product) instead of the boring process.

Rule 3: Foster Curiosity, Don’t Force Compliance: Why a playful “sandbox” approach beats rigid compliance metrics every time.

Plus: We share our biggest AI “icks” and the most unhinged (but brilliant) ways we’ve seen AI used at work.

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After a career in the Air Force, Ted spent decades inside the FAA, moving from the high-pressure seat of an air traffic controller to investigating crash sites and ultimately helping lead the team that redesigned the entire U.S. national airspace. He has made a living turning potential chaos into meticulous order.

In this conversation, we pull back the curtain on the moments that defined his career. We get into the high-stakes, goosebump-inducing stories from inside the control tower and explore how a Type A mindset can be both a superpower and a challenge in a world where there is zero room for error.

In this episode, we cover:

• The monumental task of redesigning the national airspace (and the resistance you face).
• How to manage the immense pressure and responsibility of air traffic control.
• Transitioning a lifetime of government expertise into the private consulting world.
• The Type A’s struggle with retirement and the challenge of finding purpose after a life of structure.
• One critical lesson from a career spent keeping the skies safe.

Whether you’re a fellow Type A, fascinated by high-stakes professions, or just want to hear stories you won’t get anywhere else, this episode is for you.

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But does this creative accounting hold up to professional scrutiny? We brought in a real-life financial controller, Antoni [Last Name], to find out. As a fellow Type A who manages budgets for a living, he’s the perfect person to weigh in on our most colorful financial theories.

In this episode, we get brutally honest advice on how to manage your money, and then we put our favorite financial sins on trial.

In this episode, we cover:

• Actionable tips for personal, family, and business budgeting.
• The best apps and tools for saving and getting started with investing.
• Key financial advice specifically for freelancers and side hustlers.
• A no-holds-barred takedown of “Girl Math,” where we ask a finance pro if our flawed logic has any merit.

Get ready to organize your finances and have a good laugh while you’re at it.

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