Enchanted and Exhausted

Kayla & Sam
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Enchanted & Exhausted is the podcast where romantasy obsession meets real-life motherhood. Join Kayla and Sam each week as they dive into the latest BookTok favorites, fantasy worlds, unforgettable characters, and all the books keeping them up way too late. From spoiler-free recommendations and monthly book club picks to author interviews and conversations with indie bookstore owners, there's always another chapter to explore. Between the dragons, morally gray book boyfriends, and overflowing TBRs, you'll also find honest conversations about motherhood, creativity, small businesses, and navigating the beautiful chaos of everyday life. Whether you're here for the books, the laughs, or the reminder that you're not the only one reading "just one more chapter" at 2 a.m., grab your favorite drink, get cozy, and join us. New episodes every week wherever you get your podcasts, with full video episodes available on YouTube. ✨ Because life is enchanting... and exhausting.

  1. 18h ago

    Episode 13: Morally Grey Men, Crown Me Dead & ACOTAR 6 Theories

    The morally grey men are back, the mom chaos is REAL, and we're officially preparing for an emotional breakdown in Prythian! 📚✨ Welcome back to Episode 13 of Enchanted and Exhausted! This week, Kayla and Sam have a LOT to unpack, and as usual, we're running on caffeine, questionable sleep schedules, and fictional men who probably need therapy. 🖤 October Book Club Deep Dive: We're discussing Crown Me Dead by Liv Zander! From cursed kings and mysterious men to disturbing scenes and shocking twists, we're sharing our ratings, favorite moments, and whether this dark romance deserves a spot on your TBR. Spoiler warning! 🍂 November Book Club Reveal: We're switching things up with Trust Fall by Lynn Painter! Get ready for enemies-to-lovers tension, secrets, and a much-needed break from our usual dark and twisted reads. 📚 Reading Updates: We're checking in on our October reads, beta-reading adventures, reading slumps, and the books keeping us busy. 🌙 ACOTAR 6 Excitement & Theories: We're diving into the anticipation surrounding the next A Court of Thorns and Roses book, discussing character theories, potential heartbreak, and all the reasons we're terrified to return to Prythian. ☕ Mom Life & Feral Children: Because what would this podcast be without a little motherhood chaos? We're talking clingy toddlers, wild kids, and the everyday struggle of trying to get anything done. Join our book club on Fable! Search Enchanted and Exhausted and read along with us. 💚 Don't forget to follow, subscribe, leave us a rating, and tell us where you're listening from! We're building our little bookish community one exhausted mom at a time. 🎧 New episodes every Tuesday on all major podcast platforms! 📺 Watch our video episodes on YouTube! Grab your coffee, pick up your current read, and come get enchanted and exhausted with us! https://linktr.ee/enchantedandexhausted #EnchantedAndExhausted #BookishPodcast #BookTok #ACOTAR #DarkRomance

  2. Oct 20

    Episode 12: Raising Readers & Creating Magic with Children's Author Laura Doyal | Enchanted & Exhausted

    ✨ What happens when a mom turns her love for creativity, family, and storytelling into a mission to inspire young readers? This week on Enchanted & Exhausted, Kayla and Sam welcome special guest Laura Doyal, children's author and founder of DoodlePie Magic Press! Laura shares how her son's struggles with reading inspired her to write The Suitcase Summers, a children's book series inspired by her own family and designed to bridge the gap between picture books and chapter books. 📚 In this episode, we're talking about: How motherhood inspired Laura's journey into writing and publishingCreating books that help children build confidence and fall in love with readingHer screen-light activity book, The Compass Club, and encouraging kids to explore beyond their screensThe challenges of independent publishing, illustrations, and the conversation surrounding AI in the book communityFinding beta readers, ARC readers, and support through BookTokOur shared obsession with Fourth Wing, Onyx Storm, fan theories, and fantasy book tattoos!Audiobooks, favorite tropes, anticipated releases, and rapid-fire bookish questions!Of course, it wouldn't be Enchanted & Exhausted without a little chaos, plenty of laughs, and some completely unplanned bookish tangents! 😂 Whether you're a parent hoping to raise a lifelong reader, an aspiring author, or just a BookTok girlie who loves a good conversation, this episode has something for you! 💖 Listen to Enchanted & Exhausted on all major podcast platforms, and catch our video episodes on YouTube! Be sure to follow, subscribe, and leave us a rating or review! Your support helps our little bookish community grow. ✨ Check out Laura's books and creative adventures through the links in our episode description! #EnchantedAndExhausted #BookTok #ChildrensBooks #AuthorInterview #IndieAuthors #RaisingReaders #FourthWing #BookishPodcast #MomLife #DoodlePieMagicPress https://linktr.ee/enchantedandexhausted  The Suitcase Summers: The Lost Crown of the Isle An illustrated chapter-book adventure for readers ages 7–10 about two cousins, one mysterious suitcase, and an island that needs them both. Buy the book: https://a.co/d/03bhKcX1 Free Read + Roam Adventure Pass A free printable adventure for curious kids and their grown-ups, with a screen-light activity plus a sneak peek into The Suitcase Summers. Get the free Adventure Pass: https://www.lauradoyal.com/read-and-roam I’ve also attached a copy of the Adventure Pass so you can see exactly what listeners will receive. For the show notes, I’d love to use the link above so listeners can download their own copy. The Suitcase Summers Spotify Playlist A playlist inspired by the story, Hawaii, and the sense of adventure behind The Lost Crown of the Isle. Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0tPDMKGB6W5n2SRH6IX2xB More from Laura Doyal + DoodlePie Magic Press Books, activities, and screen-light adventures for curious kids and the grown-ups raising them. Website: https://www.lauradoyal.com Instagram + TikTok: @lauradoyalofficial

  3. Oct 14

    Episode 11: Mom Life, Small Business & Bookish Chaos | The Hustle Never Ends

    Episode 11: Mom Life, Small Business & Bookish Chaos | The Hustle Never Ends 📚✨ Being a mom is a full-time job. Owning a small business is a full-time job. So what happens when you're trying to do BOTH while keeping up with your never-ending TBR? Welcome to the chaos! 😂☕📚 This week on Enchanted & Exhausted, Kayla and Sam are getting REAL about what it takes to be full-time moms, small business owners, content creators, and book lovers who are just trying to survive the week! ✨ Here's what we're diving into: 📖 Crown Me Dead – We're sharing our spoiler-free thoughts on our October book club pick! Is this spooky, mysterious read worth adding to your TBR? ✍️ The Stress of Beta Reading – We signed up to help an indie author, but nobody warned us about the pressure of giving constructive feedback! We're talking about the differences between ARC and beta reading, supporting indie authors, and learning to critique without crushing someone's dreams. 🛍️ Behind the Small Business Curtain – Meet Kayla's Meldrum Makes & Reads and Sam's Threaded Chaos! From blind date with a book boxes to handmade quilts and accessories, we're sharing how our businesses started and what really goes into running them. 👩‍👧‍👦 Motherhood Meets Entrepreneurship – Working during naps, packing orders at 3 AM, juggling household responsibilities, managing vendor markets, and trying to convince our families that working from home is STILL WORKING! 💬 The Realities of Doing It All – We're talking about the exhaustion, the sacrifices, the support systems, and the passion that keeps us going even when we're running on caffeine and questionable amounts of sleep. Because behind every cute handmade product is probably an exhausted mom who made it after bedtime. 😂 Whether you're a small business owner, a book lover, a stay-at-home mom, or just someone trying to keep all the plates spinning, this episode is for YOU! 💖 We want to hear from you! Are you a mom running a small business? What's your biggest struggle when it comes to balancing family, work, and finding time for yourself? Tell us in the comments! 🎧 Listen to Enchanted & Exhausted every Tuesday on all major podcast platforms, and catch our video podcast on YouTube! 🔗 Find our podcast, socials, book club, and shops here: https://linktr.ee/enchantedandexhausted ⭐ Don't forget to follow, subscribe, leave us a rating and review, and share this episode with your favorite exhausted mom or small business bestie! #EnchantedAndExhausted #Episode11 #MomLife #SmallBusinessMoms #Mompreneurs #BookTok #BookishPodcast #SmallBusinessOwner #WorkingMoms #StayAtHomeMom #BetaReading #IndieAuthors #CrownMeDead #BookClub #BlindDateWithABook #SupportSmallBusiness #MotherhoodUnfiltered #MomPodcast #Romantasy #BookLovers

  4. Oct 6

    Episode 10: Threshing Day, Dragon Theories & Our Unhinged October TBR

    🐉 THRESHING DAY HAS ARRIVED—and we have THOUGHTS. Welcome back to Enchanted & Exhausted, where we run away from the real world into books! 📚✨ samantha-kayla (2) Episode 10 was recorded LIVE on TikTok, and this one is packed with everything we love: Fourth Wing theories, dragons, reading updates, mom-life chaos, and completely unrealistic TBR expectations. We dive into Threshing Day, talk about our favorite POVs, and unpack some of the theories that have us questioning EVERYTHING we thought we knew about the Empyrean series. Who has secretly had a dragon? Can we actually trust the scribes? Why do riders have to bleed during Threshing? And what exactly is Rebecca Yarros setting us up for?! 👀🐉 Then, naturally, we attempt our own Dragonkind Threshing live...and things go about as well as you'd expect. 🔥😂 We also recap our September reads and ratings, talk about what we're reading in October, share our next Enchanted & Exhausted Book Club pick, Crown Me Dead, and give each other our newest reading challenges. Kayla is challenged to read Dark Places by Gillian Flynn, while Sam gets Dark Secret by Christine Feehan. samantha-kayla (2) ⚠️ SPOILER WARNING: This episode contains spoilers and theories for Threshing Day and the Empyrean series. 🎧 Listen to Enchanted & Exhausted on all major podcast platforms, and follow us on TikTok to catch one of our future podcast recordings LIVE! Because apparently being exhausted mothers wasn't enough—we needed dragons, theories, and an impossible TBR too. 🐉📚☕️ Help with Adoption Fees: https://gofund.me/9af7216a0 Where you can find us! https://linktr.ee/enchantedandexhausted #EnchantedAndExhausted #BookPodcast #BookTok #FourthWing #ThreshingDay #EmpyreanSeries #RebeccaYarros #Romantasy #BookishPodcast #FantasyBooks #BookClub #CurrentlyReading To pick up a draggable item, press the space bar. While dragging, use the arrow keys to move the item. Press space again to drop the item in its new position, or press escape to cancel.

  5. Sep 29

    Episode 9: Kiss of the Basilisk, Feral Mom Moments & Our October Book Club Pick

    We’re back with Episode 9 of Enchanted & Exhausted, and this week we’re mixing spicy books, questionable opinions, and the beautiful chaos of motherhood. We’re recapping our September book club read, Kiss of the Basilisk, and WOW… this book gave us a LOT to talk about. We’re diving into the spice, the fantasy, the love triangle, power dynamics, questionable choices, social commentary, the ending that left us questioning EVERYTHING, and whether we’ll be picking up the next book. But before we get into the bookish chaos, it’s time for some serious mom-life stories. From flooded bathrooms and feral children to school drama, random noises, questionable parenting decisions, and the things our kids do that have us wondering how we’re still functioning… motherhood is exhausting and apparently our children are feral. We also share our October TBRs, books we’re excited about, upcoming releases, and what we’re challenging each other to read. AND finally… we announce our October Enchanted & Exhausted Book Club Pick: Crown Me Dead by Liv Xander! 🖤 If you’ve read Kiss of the Basilisk, we NEED to know your thoughts. What did you rate it? Who was your favorite character? And how many chili peppers are you giving it? Come hang out with us for books, motherhood, questionable opinions, and whatever feral childness happens between now and next week. As always… stay enchanted and maybe a little less exhausted. ✨ Check out our Link Tree: https://linktr.ee/enchantedandexhausted #EnchantedAndExhausted #BookPodcast #BookClubPodcast #KissOfTheBasilisk #Romantasy #RomantasyBooks #SpicyBooks #FantasyBooks #BookReview #BookDiscussion #BookRecommendations #BookishPodcast #ReadingCommunity #DarkRomance #RomanceBooks #BookTok #BookTube #Bookstagram #MomPodcast #MomLife #Motherhood #MomsWhoRead #FeralMoms #OctoberReads #BookOfTheMonth #MonthlyBookClub #CrownMeDead #LivXander #TBR #ReadersOfInstagram

  6. Sep 22

    Episode 8: We Recorded Our Podcast LIVE?! | Book Favorites, TBRs & Book Boyfriends

    We took Enchanted & Exhausted LIVE... and invited BookTok into the chaos. 😂📚 For the first time, Sam and Kayla are recording an episode while simultaneously going LIVE on TikTok—on three accounts, because apparently one wasn't chaotic enough. 😂  This week is ALL about books. We're breaking down our favorite standalones, duologies, completed series, unfinished series, current reads, favorite tropes, and the fictional men we're absolutely not prepared to give up. From Nocticadia, The Knight and the Moth, The Knave and the Moon, Plated Prisoner, From Blood and Ash, Throne of Glass, Fourth Wing, Quicksilver, Shield of Sparrows and plenty more—we're talking about the books we can't stop thinking about and adding even MORE books to our already out-of-control TBRs. Then things get a little unhinged with Would You Rather, choosing our ultimate book boyfriend, and a round of Marry, Hook Up & Block with our favorite fictional characters. And because we're still Enchanted & Exhausted, we couldn't end without some feral mom talk. From kids saying things they definitely shouldn't, toddler tantrums and Velcro children to the never-ending question of “Why does the house still look like this?!”—motherhood makes its way into the conversation whether we plan for it or not. This episode is raw, interactive, slightly chaotic, and very us. Grab your coffee, open your TBR, and play along with us! 💬 We want YOUR answers: What's your favorite standalone, duology and series? Who is your ultimate book boyfriend? And whose book recommendation are you trusting—Sam or Kayla? 🎧 New episodes every Tuesday! 📚 Join the Enchanted & Exhausted Fable Book Club 📱 Follow us on social media for clips, book reviews, lives & more. And get ready for our next episode—our Kiss of the Basilisk book club review! Stay enchanted... and maybe a little less exhausted. ✨☕ #EnchantedAndExhausted #BookPodcast #BookTok #Romantasy #DarkRomance

  7. Sep 15

    Episode 7: Our August Reads, Feral Mom Moments & an Indie Author Tell-All with Celicia Biscamp

    The TBR is never-ending, the kids are feral, and apparently reading is our job now. 📚☕ This week on Enchanted & Exhausted, Sam and Kayla are wrapping up August with the books they loved, hated, cried over, and absolutely cannot stop talking about. We're breaking down our August reads and ratings—including The Housemaid, Ask for Andrea, Kissed by the Gods, Heir of Fire, Little Stranger, In Five Years, and more—before diving into what we're currently reading and the absolutely unreasonable number of books we've put on our September TBRs. And yes... somehow we still keep adding more. 😂  Of course, it wouldn't be Enchanted & Exhausted without a little mom-life chaos. We're talking hurricane survival mode, potty-training toddlers, toddler tantrums, rage cleaning bathrooms, feral children, ADHD tangents, and the everyday insanity that comes with trying to be moms, creators, business owners AND readers.  And then we have something extra special. 🖤 We're welcoming indie author and poet Celicia Biscamp, author of Dancing With Your Ghost! We sit down with Celicia to talk about her poetry, what inspired her book, how she decided which poems to include, and what it was really like navigating the indie publishing process on her own.  So grab your coffee, put in your headphones, ignore your TBR judging you from across the room, and settle in with us. ☕📖 In this episode: August reading wrap-up • Five-star reads • September TBRs • New book releases • Feral Mom Moments • Rage cleaning • BookTok chaos • Indie publishing • Poetry • Author interview 🎧 New episodes of Enchanted & Exhausted every Tuesday! Come hang out with us, tell us your best August read, and let us know which book we need to add to our never-ending TBR next. https://sillycia.com/ https://linktr.ee/enchantedandexhausted #EnchantedAndExhausted #BookPodcast #BookTok #IndieAuthor #MomLife

  8. Sep 8

    Episode 6: Unpopular Opinions: Mom Edition, BookTok Edition & Zero Filters

    🔥 Somebody might get canceled by the end of this episode… Sam and Kayla are officially done agreeing with everyone. 😂 This week on Enchanted & Exhausted, we’re diving headfirst into our UNPOPULAR OPINIONS — and absolutely nothing is safe. We’re talking mom life, parenting, screen time, bribing your kids, cereal for dinner, hiding snacks from your children, mom guilt, letting kids figure things out for themselves, and why moms are allowed to have an identity that has absolutely NOTHING to do with their kids. Then… we come for the readers. 📚👀 Do audiobooks count as reading? Is DNFing a book self-care? Can spice save a terrible plot? 🌶️ And which BookTok opinions are we willing to defend? Plus, we catch up on the chaos happening in our houses, share our current reads, talk September Hopefuls, reveal our monthly reading challenges, and somehow manage to get wildly distracted along the way. The biggest takeaway? We don't have to agree. Moms, readers, friends — we're all allowed to have different opinions without shaming each other for them. 💬 NOW WE WANT YOUR HOT TAKES! Drop your most controversial mom opinion or bookish opinion in the comments. Agree with us? Disagree with us? Think one of our “unpopular” opinions is actually popular? TELL US. We might even read yours on a future episode. 👀 📚 Join the Enchanted & Exhausted Book Club on Fable and read our September pick, Kiss of the Basilisk. 🎧 New episodes of Enchanted & Exhausted drop every Tuesday. Follow us on TikTok, Instagram & Facebook for clips, updates, book talk, mom chaos, and everything that happens between episodes. And stay tuned… because a special guest is coming next episode. 👀✨ #EnchantedAndExhausted #MomPodcast #BookPodcast #BookTok #UnpopularOpinions #MomLife #ParentingUnfiltered #BookishOpinions #RomantasyBooks #BookClub

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Enchanted & Exhausted is the podcast where romantasy obsession meets real-life motherhood. Join Kayla and Sam each week as they dive into the latest BookTok favorites, fantasy worlds, unforgettable characters, and all the books keeping them up way too late. From spoiler-free recommendations and monthly book club picks to author interviews and conversations with indie bookstore owners, there's always another chapter to explore. Between the dragons, morally gray book boyfriends, and overflowing TBRs, you'll also find honest conversations about motherhood, creativity, small businesses, and navigating the beautiful chaos of everyday life. Whether you're here for the books, the laughs, or the reminder that you're not the only one reading "just one more chapter" at 2 a.m., grab your favorite drink, get cozy, and join us. New episodes every week wherever you get your podcasts, with full video episodes available on YouTube. ✨ Because life is enchanting... and exhausting.

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  • Creator
    Kayla & Sam
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    14
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © 2026 Enchanted and Exhausted
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