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

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. Currently on a break but relaunching soon.

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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