TLC: The Life Chat
Welcome to TLC: The Life Chat — where real talk meets raw life. Tina, Lauren, and Cassie dive into everything from natural health, homeschooling, and mental wellness to big debates on vaccines, masculinity, miscarriages, manifesting, and a good dose of conspiracies.
Nothing’s off-limits. Expect deep chats, belly laughs, and a few “wait, what?!” moments. It's unfiltered, unapologetic, and all heart.
Pull up a chair — this is life, unscripted.
TLC: The Life Chat
From Toenails to To-Do Lists
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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.
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Put your headphones on and get your mic.
MIC3and let's just press record. It's
MIC2already recording.
MIC3okay. You look comfy as,
MIC2Sit back, relax
MIC3You know what? Just need to stop
MIC2I'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
MIC3Works
MIC2get your shit together. There's that sexy voice. Give us some lessons, will you? I think
MIC3I think that's a side hustle for you. A side hustle for Cassie could be. Voiceover for adult
MIC2Combined with feet pics
MIC1on, hang
MIC3She
MIC2could make a fortune Do you not know what Money is in feet pics
MIC1Yeah. Or
MIC3feet? elbows. What? Elbows. Elbows?
MIC1Yeah. Yeah. Elbows.
MIC2Are you kidding
MIC1No. Seriously. Shoulders
MIC3You are
MIC1joking. Yeah people pay to look.
MIC3At elbows. Yeah.
MIC1And 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,
MIC2People
MIC1people pay other people to send toenail clippings.
MIC2Oh, that's disgusting.
MIC3What? Send them in the post like a little envelope full of clippings. That's
MIC2freaking
MIC3disgusting. Should we try
MIC2That
MIC3so gross. How much money we talking?
MIC1I dunno. But there's so many people with
MIC3Paul
MIC2has like talons.
MIC1fetishes.
MIC3he get a fortune. What's a talon? know, like a,
MIC2an eagle talon, like, you know, with the big curve
MIC1No, we're not going there. Nah, pull it back. Let's go back to the feet pics.
MIC3Ah,
MIC2That actually makes me feel
MIC3physically sick. Seriously.
MIC1So many people are making money out of this
MIC3are you getting this? Where are you getting this information from?
MIC1I can't tell. I can't tell. Yeah. Dark
MIC3web. What's going on? Okay, need to, let's be serious
MIC1what's going on? Is that
MIC3I'm losing it because you're really tired
MIC1What's going on is I need a side hustle. We just started throwing around a few ideas,
MIC3Toenails
MIC1okay.
MIC2Oh my God, I'm losing it
MIC1so what is tonight's episode
MIC3go, Cassie, you've got a topic for us. Go.
MIC2lets continue with that one
MIC3one Yeah,
MIC1Yeah
MIC3side hustles.
MIC1Yeah, 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?
MIC2No. Oh,
MIC1Oh really? Why? I'm getting like. So many of these Promoting a product and they reckon, oh, you just copy and paste
MIC2sounds like a
MIC1sounds 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
MIC2never heard of it
MIC3I'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.
MIC2You 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.
MIC1so the side hustles though, I mean, you gotta be careful too because. You've gotta pay tax on everything.
MIC3really? On toenail clippings.
MIC1You do.
MIC3I've got gross toenail story, that I just remembered.
MIC2Right, then
MIC3and then we'll go back to a proper topic. So years ago, I don't, I can't exactly remember what
MIC2happened. I snorted,
MIC1here, but
MIC3years ago, you know, Christie and Beej,
MIC2Should you be saying names? It's Okay.
MIC3Okay. 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.
MIC1No, Beej
MIC3has 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,
MIC1Gave it to her
MIC3for 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.
MIC2That is so bad.
MIC3that's my story about toenail Yeah.
MIC1I 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
MIC3door,
MIC2That's fucking gross.
MIC1and 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
MIC3that is gross. Nah. What are
MIC1are people doing? Like what are you thinking? Like how gross?
MIC2vile. If I clip my toenails in the bathroom, Pauley kicks me out the house, man. He's
MIC3like,
MIC2get the fuck out. don't clip
MIC3your toenails in here
MIC2I love
MIC3that. Because I think disgusting Yeah, but he
MIC2clip his toenails at all. And they're,
MIC3even more disgusting. Freaking gross. Yeah, that's
MIC1why I actually go and pay someone when else to it and sometimes can't really afford it, but I can't, like
MIC2it's
MIC3not a want. It's
MIC2a need
MIC3as in your own toenails. You can't even cut your own
MIC1Oh, they're so gross.
MIC3Oh,
MIC1it's
MIC2really,
MIC3You gross out about your
MIC2own toenails
MIC1Yeah, 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.
MIC3the kind of feet they see yours would be a dream.
MIC1Oh, look, I, I do usually keep on top of that, so,
MIC2Oh
MIC3they would see all kinds when they, when
MIC2they use the cheese grater on my heels,
MIC3there's like a pile dead skin.. Stop.
MIC2Because I'm a barefoot
MIC3person, I don't wear shoes,
MIC2man. So my heels are like leather. It's
MIC3That's a nice image. So bad. Thank you for that image. So I wouldn't get
MIC2much money
MIC3from people foot put that way. Yeah. Okay. Um, how did we get onto this? a side hustle. Side hustles. They make
MIC1a fair bit of money too.
MIC3Yeah, I, I can see that.
MIC1a long time ago there
MIC2oh yeah.
MIC1there 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,
MIC3This is ridiculous. You are just delirious because you are so tired. Tina's had a week. just
MIC1had a
MIC3have a little nap we'll take over
MIC1no, 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.
MIC3Let's talk about Tina's week.
MIC2Oh, can we? Yeah, not, I don't wanna
MIC3Oh really?
MIC1so 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,
MIC3She's crying.
MIC2Oh man, this is Is
MIC3the best laugh.
MIC1From 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.
MIC3When 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?
MIC2My to-do list?
MIC3You've got it written down.
MIC2Yeah, I'm
MIC3Okay.
MIC2Here's the thing. From now on, I'm not doing a to-do list because it stressed me
MIC3out. Oh, so it was supposed to help you? It
MIC2was 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.
MIC3It 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.
MIC2No,
MIC3that not help?
MIC2How much I've got to do.
MIC3Were you getting things ticked off?
MIC2Yes. And then everything I ticked off, I was
MIC3adding more,
MIC2adding two or
MIC1three more.
MIC3So do you feel. You've got on top of that, this week's to-do list?
MIC2Not no, nowhere near
MIC3Okay. And was
MIC2hence why I'm in the van laughing
MIC3my ass off
MIC1doing a podcast and distracting
MIC3talking about toenails. okay. So. What are you going to do about this?
MIC2burn the
MIC3Candle at both ends until it
MIC2fricking disintegrates.
MIC3Oh, what she should
MIC1have 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.
MIC3I should I actually should
MIC2have.
MIC1You 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?
MIC3That's a good idea. yeah. That's a really good
MIC1We need to implement that You
MIC3never 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?
MIC1With
MIC3this? And we might say no. Well,
MIC1Well, you know, it's really, and
MIC2the thing. You've gotta be able to
MIC3say no too, right?
MIC2If 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
MIC1any guilt. Yeah, absolutely.
MIC3Yeah, that's true.
MIC2Otherwise, 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.
MIC3happen. Mm. Yeah. So therefore I'd rather not
MIC2ask because I don't want you to do something that you don't have time for
MIC1Yeah. But Tina, those 20 other things, are they gonna be more important than where my mates? Yeah. No, but
MIC2she's not ever gonna say no, is she?
MIC3She's never gonna say no. Actually no,
MIC1actually I'm learning to say no a lot more.
MIC3I doubt it
MIC2Not to us your not though Do
MIC1you say no to me? No. You drop everything for me. It's actually, this is really good,
MIC3what stops
MIC2from asking
MIC1you. Yeah. Well,
MIC2we know for a fact that we will drop everything. So it's gotta be important enough to ask, because we know that people
MIC3drop it
MIC2other like we'll drop our own stuff
MIC1Well 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.
MIC2Yeah, 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.
MIC1But it's like
MIC2give off, you get someone to help you with something, but then you help someone else with something. You've still got the same amount
MIC3you've taken on a, you've lost one job and taken on another job and taken
MIC2taken on another doesn't it feel more like we are more of a community helping each other out?
MIC1Yeah.
MIC2No, you're right there.
MIC3So
MIC1not, uh. You know, you could even just throw it out and say, Hey, look, I know you are really busy, but,
MIC2I could help you this, if you could help with that
MIC1Yeah.
MIC3If you know, yeah, that's, your friend works
MIC1in 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.
MIC3Random people?
MIC1No. You're in a
MIC3Community. And then I'm like, who are you talking about? talking about? Oh, like as in us?
MIC1The people in there
MIC3Because you as
MIC2in our families and extended
MIC1so I don't, yeah, I am not talking about you roll up to the, the lights and pull down your
MIC3window. Help me
MIC1and say, Hey mate,
MIC2I'm at that point
MIC1and say, Hey mate, I know you don't know me, but could you give me a hand? Would you go to IKEA and pick
MIC3up? 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,
MIC1Hey, that's a good idea. I like it.
MIC3oh, I could actually help you with that, or I could help you with that. And we could just have a, collaborative list
MIC1so then you're not actually feeling like you're putting it on one. Yeah.
MIC3I like
MIC1We've actually got
MIC3Or yours? Or yours. This is our
MIC1We've got a family group chat
MIC3to-do list and
MIC1yeah, 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
MIC2even putting it
MIC1out there. No.
MIC2can someone help me with this? You're literally just putting a list.
MIC3my week's list. And then
MIC2We can look through and go, I can help with that.
MIC3Or I can't
MIC2help with any of it.
MIC3Yeah. 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
MIC2and not even, sorry, I can't
MIC3yeah, we are not sorry.'cause we're all busy.
MIC2That'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
MIC1each 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
MIC3We should trial it and then we could let people know how it goes. It might not work well, it might. Well, if anyone
MIC2listening wants to try that,
MIC3Oh yeah. The comment, yeah. Let
MIC1know how it
MIC2Let us know how. Let us know how it goes. Yeah.
MIC3Yeah.
MIC2Because 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
MIC3Is there a moon thing or something happening?
MIC2everyone 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
MIC3go.
MIC1You 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
MIC3Have stumbled across
MIC1Yeah,
MIC2I like it.
MIC3So
MIC2do you run on to do list, Lauren?
MIC3Yes, but paper and pen, that's like the old fashioned way. And cross it out. I
MIC2do mine on voice. So as I'm. Go about the
MIC3day, I just
MIC2quickly go into notes and then add,
MIC1Yeah, 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.
MIC2Yes.
MIC1And 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,
MIC3Oh yeah. As in make, write a list and put it on your list. Tomorrow I need to write a list. And then there was,
MIC1know, if I had a project and then there was, that was on the list, but then I had a specific list for that
MIC3project. Oh yeah, I see what you mean. So it like a had Multiple lists. Yeah.
MIC1And they just never ended.
MIC3the never ending list.
MIC2Well Okay, here's the question. Do you ever want your to do list to end.
MIC3Would it ever end though? How would it end?
MIC2Death.
MIC3Well, that's inevitable. Well, that's
MIC2the way your to-do list ever ends
MIC3that'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?
MIC2How do we frame it? How are we framing that to-do list?
MIC3Yeah.
MIC2Oh, I'm so busy. I've gotta organize my daughter's 13th birthday.
MIC3How lucky that you have a daughter. Oh my goodness,
MIC2That has friends that wanna spend time with her and have the means to book a campsite for them to have a little party in.
MIC3How lucky are you?
MIC2How do we,
MIC3So many people would dream of having that on their to-do list. and we are complaining about it. We want it crossed off.
MIC1Okay. What's the weirdest thing you've had on your today list?
MIC3Cut my to toenails
MIC1I have written some stuff and then I realized like, what if someone finds this to do list
MIC3What
MIC2like get rechargeable batteries.
MIC1Yeah, I, I've some pretty cooked stuff
MIC3What about you, Tina? What's the weirdest thing you've had on your to-do list?
MIC2nothing weird. Really? No, nothing weird. Just boring. Yeah. It's just you.
MIC3Oh, we should. Post our to-do lists.
MIC2On and in the comments of the podcast.
MIC1do you ever think like, this lives rent free in my head. Do you think like,
sometimes you write something in your phone or
MIC1have, 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.
MIC3No one will care. You're dead.
MIC2We're back, we're dead again.
MIC1No, 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,
MIC2that might be a little OCD there, Cassie.
MIC1Yeah, but no one wants to go back and find my undies.
MIC2I don't think they would give a shit
MIC1I do, even if I'm in a coma, I'd be so embarrassed.
MIC2It's the first thing you do when you
MIC3wake up. My undies alright,
MIC1I 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,
MIC3alright.
MIC2Make sure
MIC1your toenails are clipped. and don't leave undies on the ground
MIC2go write a to-do list and share it with us and
MIC3get
MIC2tribe together to share their to-do list. I'm, I'm super keen about this. I like it
MIC3Okay. Alright
MIC2night,
MIC3Night.
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