TLC: The Life Chat

From Toenails to To-Do Lists

Tina, Lauren & Cassie Season 1 Episode 4

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In this off-beat chat we kick off by exploring the weird and wonderful world of side hustles, from cashing in on foot pics and trimmed toenails to dreaming up gigs like voiceovers and hand modelling. Our stories get stranger and funnier as we swap personal tales of rogue toenails in public places.

Halfway through the mood pivots to something deeper. We ask why everyday life feels so heavy, and why it is still hard to reach out for help. The solution we land on is brilliantly simple: share your to-do list with the people who love you so they can pitch in before you drown in deadlines. It is a candid reminder that everyone, women and men alike, can lean on community without guilt.

Tune in for laughs, real talk about making ends meet, and practical ideas on turning support into a team sport.

Catch Tina in the OmMade Wellness Hub for all things natural skincare, herbal teas and natural health.

https://www.instagram.com/ommadewellnesshub/

See what Lauren is up to at Eco Play Therapy

https://www.instagram.com/ecoplaytherapy/

Let Cassie Concierge your life at Soluna Concierge.

https://www.instagram.com/soluna_concierge/


MIC2

Put your headphones on and get your mic.

MIC3

and let's just press record. It's

MIC2

already recording.

MIC3

okay. You look comfy as,

MIC2

Sit back, relax

MIC3

You know what? Just need to stop

MIC2

I've actually said that to myself. Yeah. What day was that? Tuesday when I was getting all overwhelmed with what was happening. And I said, Tina, stop being a pussy. it

MIC3

Works

MIC2

get your shit together. There's that sexy voice. Give us some lessons, will you? I think

MIC3

I think that's a side hustle for you. A side hustle for Cassie could be. Voiceover for adult

MIC2

Combined with feet pics

MIC1

on, hang

MIC3

She

MIC2

could make a fortune Do you not know what Money is in feet pics

MIC1

Yeah. Or

MIC3

feet? elbows. What? Elbows. Elbows?

MIC1

Yeah. Yeah. Elbows.

MIC2

Are you kidding

MIC1

No. Seriously. Shoulders

MIC3

You are

MIC1

joking. Yeah people pay to look.

MIC3

At elbows. Yeah.

MIC1

And I, someone was saying, I'm not sure if this I don't know, it's just rolled whip out elbows, hang on. Yeah, so I heard the other day, I don't know if this is true, but there's,

MIC2

People

MIC1

people pay other people to send toenail clippings.

MIC2

Oh, that's disgusting.

MIC3

What? Send them in the post like a little envelope full of clippings. That's

MIC2

freaking

MIC3

disgusting. Should we try

MIC2

That

MIC3

so gross. How much money we talking?

MIC1

I dunno. But there's so many people with

MIC3

Paul

MIC2

has like talons.

MIC1

fetishes.

MIC3

he get a fortune. What's a talon? know, like a,

MIC2

an eagle talon, like, you know, with the big curve

MIC1

No, we're not going there. Nah, pull it back. Let's go back to the feet pics.

MIC3

Ah,

MIC2

That actually makes me feel

MIC3

physically sick. Seriously.

MIC1

So many people are making money out of this

MIC3

are you getting this? Where are you getting this information from?

MIC1

I can't tell. I can't tell. Yeah. Dark

MIC3

web. What's going on? Okay, need to, let's be serious

MIC1

what's going on? Is that

MIC3

I'm losing it because you're really tired

MIC1

What's going on is I need a side hustle. We just started throwing around a few ideas,

MIC3

Toenails

MIC1

okay.

MIC2

Oh my God, I'm losing it

MIC1

so what is tonight's episode

MIC3

go, Cassie, you've got a topic for us. Go.

MIC2

lets continue with that one

MIC3

one Yeah,

MIC1

Yeah

MIC3

side hustles.

MIC1

Yeah, side hustles, because there's actually a lot of people doing side hustles now. When we scroll and there's just so many things that come up on your, like feed. One of the biggest ones at the moment. Have you seen how they show you to go on Amazon and you pick something and then you copy and paste it and then they pay you a certain amount to just put it on your Insta?

MIC2

No. Oh,

MIC1

Oh really? Why? I'm getting like. So many of these Promoting a product and they reckon, oh, you just copy and paste

MIC2

sounds like a

MIC1

sounds like a scam. Yeah. Oh yeah. Like it has to be,'cause everyone's, there's a million of them in my feed just. Yeah. And I dunno why, because I don't click on any of it. And

MIC2

never heard of it

MIC3

I've never heard of it. But maybe you just clicked just one time and that's enough. have to, for it to keep. Or you stopped.

MIC2

You stopped for a certain amount of time. Mm-hmm. Because they have like heat maps on websites to see where people's eyes are going. Literally, it's creepy as hell.

MIC1

so the side hustles though, I mean, you gotta be careful too because. You've gotta pay tax on everything.

MIC3

really? On toenail clippings.

MIC1

You do.

MIC3

I've got gross toenail story, that I just remembered.

MIC2

Right, then

MIC3

and then we'll go back to a proper topic. So years ago, I don't, I can't exactly remember what

MIC2

happened. I snorted,

MIC1

here, but

MIC3

years ago, you know, Christie and Beej,

MIC2

Should you be saying names? It's Okay.

MIC3

Okay. Um, who was it? Maybe Christie helped Beej, this could be way off, but something along the lines of Christie helped Beej, or Beej helped Christie or something. They moved a couch. They were moving a sofa, right? One of them maybe dropped it or pushed it or whatever, and crushed the other one's. Toenail. Something along these lines. I've actually got all the details wrong here, but, oh, where it's going is good. And then so there's a family joke about a toenail. Like a gross toenail. Maybe it came off, let's say it came off, let's say it came off and Beej kept it and it grossed Christie out so much this toenail, right? Then fast forward, let's say six months to Christmas and Secret Santa.

MIC1

No, Beej

MIC3

has still got it. He's still got it. Right. So maybe the details of this story is not correct, but from now on, this is correct. He drilled a hole through it, painted it, put it on a necklace, put it in a little jewelry box,

MIC1

Gave it to her

MIC3

for her secret Santa present, and then we were all there. Opening up our presents No, she, oh, what's this? Oh, this is nice. And starts unwrapping up. Oh, like a necklace. Oh. And then she looks closely at it like, oh, that's interesting. What is that? And then just like, spew. We knew it was coming.

MIC2

That is so bad.

MIC3

that's my story about toenail Yeah.

MIC1

I actually had saying a little while ago, don't know, actually can't remember who from, Actually, it may have been up in the mines. So obviously in the mines, you know, people come and go. So you change rooms and you might, you know, someone exits and you. Move into a room. Now most of them are week on, week off, so you know you share a room, but you swap over. I'm pretty sure that someone was telling me I. And I could be wrong'cause I have a pretty shit memory. Um, they moved a, the bed or moved a bed and obviously old mate that used to be in there or still was used to clip his toenails and was too lazy to obviously go throw them out the door

MIC3

door,

MIC2

That's fucking gross.

MIC1

and put it under. The bed. or in one spot. Can't even remember if there was like a little gap in the floor, but there was just a tonn of them

MIC3

that is gross. Nah. What are

MIC1

are people doing? Like what are you thinking? Like how gross?

MIC2

vile. If I clip my toenails in the bathroom, Pauley kicks me out the house, man. He's

MIC3

like,

MIC2

get the fuck out. don't clip

MIC3

your toenails in here

MIC2

I love

MIC3

that. Because I think disgusting Yeah, but he

MIC2

clip his toenails at all. And they're,

MIC3

even more disgusting. Freaking gross. Yeah, that's

MIC1

why I actually go and pay someone when else to it and sometimes can't really afford it, but I can't, like

MIC2

it's

MIC3

not a want. It's

MIC2

a need

MIC3

as in your own toenails. You can't even cut your own

MIC1

Oh, they're so gross.

MIC3

Oh,

MIC1

it's

MIC2

really,

MIC3

You gross out about your

MIC2

own toenails

MIC1

Yeah, yeah. Oh, that's just so feral. I can't even handle No, seriously I seriously feel sorry for the lady that's doing it. Do I feel like saying, hun, I'm gonna give you an extra 20. I feel so sad.

MIC3

the kind of feet they see yours would be a dream.

MIC1

Oh, look, I, I do usually keep on top of that, so,

MIC2

Oh

MIC3

they would see all kinds when they, when

MIC2

they use the cheese grater on my heels,

MIC3

there's like a pile dead skin.. Stop.

MIC2

Because I'm a barefoot

MIC3

person, I don't wear shoes,

MIC2

man. So my heels are like leather. It's

MIC3

That's a nice image. So bad. Thank you for that image. So I wouldn't get

MIC2

much money

MIC3

from people foot put that way. Yeah. Okay. Um, how did we get onto this? a side hustle. Side hustles. They make

MIC1

a fair bit of money too.

MIC3

Yeah, I, I can see that.

MIC1

a long time ago there

MIC2

oh yeah.

MIC1

there was a chick that used to come into the bank, um, when I was working in the bank and she. Was paid for hand modeling and she made quite a bit of money. Obviously she had beautiful hands. It's not one of my strong suits. I mean,

MIC3

This is ridiculous. You are just delirious because you are so tired. Tina's had a week. just

MIC1

had a

MIC3

have a little nap we'll take over

MIC1

no, this is, this is actually good.'cause this is the best medicine. This is what we talk about. You know how much shit has poor Tina been through this week.

MIC3

Let's talk about Tina's week.

MIC2

Oh, can we? Yeah, not, I don't wanna

MIC3

Oh really?

MIC1

so this is, you know, lighthearted. This is the thing people, this is what. This is the shit we do because sometimes you just don't wanna talk about all the crap. So you get into these things and just make each other laugh. And talking about toenails is pretty messed up. But look at Tina. Like I,

MIC3

She's crying.

MIC2

Oh man, this is Is

MIC3

the best laugh.

MIC1

From when we arrived and she looked like she was on the edge of the cliff to now she's having a laugh. You know? This is shit We do. This is so good.

MIC3

When I rocked up, that was not normal, Tina. No, no. Um, could you just go through some of the stuff on your to-do list that you had to do this week and let us know how you're going with it?

MIC2

My to-do list?

MIC3

You've got it written down.

MIC2

Yeah, I'm

MIC3

Okay.

MIC2

Here's the thing. From now on, I'm not doing a to-do list because it stressed me

MIC3

out. Oh, so it was supposed to help you? It

MIC2

was supposed to help me'cause I kept going, oh yeah, I gotta do that. I gotta do that. Oh yeah, I gotta do that. Oh yeah, put that on the list. No, no. It's actually stressing me out way more.

MIC3

It really'cause a to-do list is getting it out of your head and onto your device or paper, so it's not filling your head.

MIC2

No,

MIC3

that not help?

MIC2

How much I've got to do.

MIC3

Were you getting things ticked off?

MIC2

Yes. And then everything I ticked off, I was

MIC3

adding more,

MIC2

adding two or

MIC1

three more.

MIC3

So do you feel. You've got on top of that, this week's to-do list?

MIC2

Not no, nowhere near

MIC3

Okay. And was

MIC2

hence why I'm in the van laughing

MIC3

my ass off

MIC1

doing a podcast and distracting

MIC3

talking about toenails. okay. So. What are you going to do about this?

MIC2

burn the

MIC3

Candle at both ends until it

MIC2

fricking disintegrates.

MIC3

Oh, what she should

MIC1

have done though, she should have rung her friend who has a couple days off and said, come and concierge for me. You should. And I would've done it for free.

MIC3

I should I actually should

MIC2

have.

MIC1

You should have reach out. Like that's the thing we sometimes we don't know what each, we we're all busy. Yeah. But. You know, I could have done it, like just reach out and we need to do that more. Go look, I'm drowning a bit here, and if anyone has got a spare minute, could you come and help me?

MIC3

That's a good idea. yeah. That's a really good

MIC1

We need to implement that You

MIC3

never know. Like know I like, I live up in the hills and you are down here, but I might be down in town one night after work or whatever, and I could be really close to somewhere that. You need something picked up or dropped off, or you just don't know. You could just send your list to us and say, can anyone help?

MIC1

With

MIC3

this? And we might say no. Well,

MIC1

Well, you know, it's really, and

MIC2

the thing. You've gotta be able to

MIC3

say no too, right?

MIC2

If you are asking friends to reach out when they need help. You've gotta promise that if you are not able or you've got other stuff on you say no without

MIC1

any guilt. Yeah, absolutely.

MIC3

Yeah, that's true.

MIC2

Otherwise, people won't ask because Cassie, I know you too well, that if I said, could you come and help this? You might have 20 other things on, and you'll rearrange and do everything so that you'll make it.

MIC3

happen. Mm. Yeah. So therefore I'd rather not

MIC2

ask because I don't want you to do something that you don't have time for

MIC1

Yeah. But Tina, those 20 other things, are they gonna be more important than where my mates? Yeah. No, but

MIC2

she's not ever gonna say no, is she?

MIC3

She's never gonna say no. Actually no,

MIC1

actually I'm learning to say no a lot more.

MIC3

I doubt it

MIC2

Not to us your not though Do

MIC1

you say no to me? No. You drop everything for me. It's actually, this is really good,

MIC3

what stops

MIC2

from asking

MIC1

you. Yeah. Well,

MIC2

we know for a fact that we will drop everything. So it's gotta be important enough to ask, because we know that people

MIC3

drop it

MIC2

other like we'll drop our own stuff

MIC1

Well that, but this is the thing, and I think this is a really, actually a good, really important topic that we've stumbled on. Everyone's drowning, everyone's men are drown, men are swamped. I feel sorry for men. Actually a lot of men are really struggling and you know, they've gotta be the provider. They're also picking up kids from daycare. There's single dads working. And you know, it's not manly to ask for help, is it? And men aren't really the ones that are supposed to say, Hey, yeah, I'm having a shit day or a shit week and I'm struggling. It's more acceptable for women to say it and I really feel like they're getting a really shit deal and it worries me because that leads down a very dark path for a lot of them. And that, you know, is something that I really is personified to me, especially working out in the mines with a lot of men out there that are single dads and they're mining, so they're doing week on, week off so they can have their kids. on they're week off and, you know, they've still gotta go away. They actually never get a break. You know, they don't get to, and then they don't go get to date or go out or meet people or, because it's so important for them to have those kids too for that week. So. Yeah, it, yeah, it's, there's a lot going on in the world and people are struggling, people are scared to ask other people for help, you know? Um, as we was talking about just before, because we all think, oh, we've all got so much on, but if we all sort of. Start to say to friends, parents, sisters, even cousins, whatever. Hey, if you've got a minute or Could you pick this up for me in town? Or if we all do it and do little bits for each other and all, put our hand up a lot more. You know, like it's coming back to that Aussie ness of helping people.

MIC2

Yeah, but we, because we are all overwhelmed And it like, you know, there's just so much to do. Who do you ask?'cause everyone else is also overwhelmed.

MIC1

But it's like

MIC2

give off, you get someone to help you with something, but then you help someone else with something. You've still got the same amount

MIC3

you've taken on a, you've lost one job and taken on another job and taken

MIC2

taken on another doesn't it feel more like we are more of a community helping each other out?

MIC1

Yeah.

MIC2

No, you're right there.

MIC3

So

MIC1

not, uh. You know, you could even just throw it out and say, Hey, look, I know you are really busy, but,

MIC2

I could help you this, if you could help with that

MIC1

Yeah.

MIC3

If you know, yeah, that's, your friend works

MIC1

in town and you need to pick something up. Example, could you pick that up? I, I don't care when I get it from you, but I can't get there. I work in the Adelaide Hills or whatever. Could you pick it up and then, you know, down the track and when you pick it up and say, thanks, hey, yell out if I can do something for you. And it just sort of flows on.

MIC3

Random people?

MIC1

No. You're in a

MIC3

Community. And then I'm like, who are you talking about? talking about? Oh, like as in us?

MIC1

The people in there

MIC3

Because you as

MIC2

in our families and extended

MIC1

so I don't, yeah, I am not talking about you roll up to the, the lights and pull down your

MIC3

window. Help me

MIC1

and say, Hey mate,

MIC2

I'm at that point

MIC1

and say, Hey mate, I know you don't know me, but could you give me a hand? Would you go to IKEA and pick

MIC3

up? Yeah. And just drop it off at my house and put it together, if you don't mind. But our little group chat. This just might be a crazy idea. If we all posted our to-do list once a week or once a month or once a fortnight,

MIC1

Hey, that's a good idea. I like it.

MIC3

oh, I could actually help you with that, or I could help you with that. And we could just have a, collaborative list

MIC1

so then you're not actually feeling like you're putting it on one. Yeah.

MIC3

I like

MIC1

We've actually got

MIC3

Or yours? Or yours. This is our

MIC1

We've got a family group chat

MIC3

to-do list and

MIC1

yeah, just throw it out there. Even actually was interesting'cause my daughter tonight needed a lift, but I couldn't take her, but I said and pick her up. Now the other daughter ended up like she. It, it rang my other daughter. But yes, putting stuff like that on the group chat in a, in a week's time. I've got a 21st. So Is anyone able to, rather than just ringing people one by one not that we're, oh, you know, we're very close family. We do stuff for each other, but no one likes to ask. You know, and that's such a good one, Loz, saying, you're

MIC2

even putting it

MIC1

out there. No.

MIC2

can someone help me with this? You're literally just putting a list.

MIC3

my week's list. And then

MIC2

We can look through and go, I can help with that.

MIC3

Or I can't

MIC2

help with any of it.

MIC3

Yeah. Sorry. Maybe next time even like, oh, I don't even know what to buy. I'm going to a party. I don't know what to get. What would you get someone of this age have you got any gift suggestions? And we could chuck'em on

MIC2

and not even, sorry, I can't

MIC3

yeah, we are not sorry.'cause we're all busy.

MIC2

That's the whole point. Like we don't wanna ask'cause we know how busy we are, but we also know that we will go above and beyond to do it. And that's what we don't want

MIC1

each other. No. So it's, it's more of a putting out stuff and if someone can help out, great. If they can't, they can't. But it's more of a collective thing

MIC3

We should trial it and then we could let people know how it goes. It might not work well, it might. Well, if anyone

MIC2

listening wants to try that,

MIC3

Oh yeah. The comment, yeah. Let

MIC1

know how it

MIC2

Let us know how. Let us know how it goes. Yeah.

MIC3

Yeah.

MIC2

Because that is something we are seriously lacking in this society. And I had a conversation with a friend today who has had some major overwhelm as well. This week. It's like, it's just the week, I don't know

MIC3

Is there a moon thing or something happening?

MIC2

everyone seems pushed to the limits. She was really pushed to the limits as well, and. She was just talking about like how everyone lacks humanity. And no one seems to actually give a shit about each other. And this is the one thing that can actually show, Hey, I do give a shit, but you don't have to ask. Tell me what's on your plate. Mm-hmm. Let's see what we can share. I love it. I reckon that's a

MIC3

go.

MIC1

You know, just about everyone's got a family group chat or a friend group chat and if you don't, well, you know, maybe there's another idea that you can implement. yeah, what a great idea

MIC3

Have stumbled across

MIC1

Yeah,

MIC2

I like it.

MIC3

So

MIC2

do you run on to do list, Lauren?

MIC3

Yes, but paper and pen, that's like the old fashioned way. And cross it out. I

MIC2

do mine on voice. So as I'm. Go about the

MIC3

day, I just

MIC2

quickly go into notes and then add,

MIC1

Yeah, I go in my notes on my phone and I have like the little tick boxes. Same. And there's just so much satisfaction in ticking that box.

MIC2

Yes.

MIC1

And then do you I used to, when, not so much now, but when the kids were home and, um, my husband went away a lot, you know, and I was working, I had a list. That was about the list. That was about,

MIC3

Oh yeah. As in make, write a list and put it on your list. Tomorrow I need to write a list. And then there was,

MIC1

know, if I had a project and then there was, that was on the list, but then I had a specific list for that

MIC3

project. Oh yeah, I see what you mean. So it like a had Multiple lists. Yeah.

MIC1

And they just never ended.

MIC3

the never ending list.

MIC2

Well Okay, here's the question. Do you ever want your to do list to end.

MIC3

Would it ever end though? How would it end?

MIC2

Death.

MIC3

Well, that's inevitable. Well, that's

MIC2

the way your to-do list ever ends

MIC3

that's a good point. We don't want it to end yet, so we get stressed out about our to to-do list. Oh, so much today. But how lucky are we to have a to-do list?

MIC2

How do we frame it? How are we framing that to-do list?

MIC3

Yeah.

MIC2

Oh, I'm so busy. I've gotta organize my daughter's 13th birthday.

MIC3

How lucky that you have a daughter. Oh my goodness,

MIC2

That has friends that wanna spend time with her and have the means to book a campsite for them to have a little party in.

MIC3

How lucky are you?

MIC2

How do we,

MIC3

So many people would dream of having that on their to-do list. and we are complaining about it. We want it crossed off.

MIC1

Okay. What's the weirdest thing you've had on your today list?

MIC3

Cut my to toenails

MIC1

I have written some stuff and then I realized like, what if someone finds this to do list

MIC3

What

MIC2

like get rechargeable batteries.

MIC1

Yeah, I, I've some pretty cooked stuff

MIC3

What about you, Tina? What's the weirdest thing you've had on your to-do list?

MIC2

nothing weird. Really? No, nothing weird. Just boring. Yeah. It's just you.

MIC3

Oh, we should. Post our to-do lists.

MIC2

On and in the comments of the podcast.

MIC1

do you ever think like, this lives rent free in my head. Do you think like,

sometimes you write something in your phone or

MIC1

have, not that like, but you think, if I had a car accident and ended up in hospital, like in a coma or whatever, and they had to go back to my house and I've, I've just left my undies on the floor.

MIC3

No one will care. You're dead.

MIC2

We're back, we're dead again.

MIC1

No, I've actually gone back. Pulled the car back up. Unlocked the door, gone, ran in, put them in the dirty clothes box, and then yeah,

MIC2

that might be a little OCD there, Cassie.

MIC1

Yeah, but no one wants to go back and find my undies.

MIC2

I don't think they would give a shit

MIC1

I do, even if I'm in a coma, I'd be so embarrassed.

MIC2

It's the first thing you do when you

MIC3

wake up. My undies alright,

MIC1

I think we need to actually wrap this one up. We've gone from toenails to todo list that is us guys. That's weird. We go from one thing to a completely different, another topic,

MIC3

alright.

MIC2

Make sure

MIC1

your toenails are clipped. and don't leave undies on the ground

MIC2

go write a to-do list and share it with us and

MIC3

get

MIC2

tribe together to share their to-do list. I'm, I'm super keen about this. I like it

MIC3

Okay. Alright

MIC2

night,

MIC3

Night.

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