EP 36: Fasting, Ghosting & Pardoning – Just Another Week in America

So What Now? with Carla and Dex

Idea to Launch Productions

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.8 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 30 June 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

On this juicy episode of So What Now, Carla kicks things off by sharing her prep for Bali — a water fast that helped her shed six pounds (and gain three right back 😅). Still, she's feeling herself and ready for the beach! Meanwhile, Dex crowns the Woman of the Week: a queen who ghosted her man right after he handed her a winning lotto ticket. City girls up by a million 💅🏾💸

Then it's a hard pivot to politics as we unpack Trump's headline-grabbing pardons, including Todd & Julie Chrisley (fraud squad!), NBA YoungBoy, Kodak Black, and Lil Wayne. Carla shares what her presidential platform would be — starting with a strict no deadbeat baby daddies policy.

We get real with Ileana Gracia, founder of Latinas for Trump, who's suddenly shocked by Trump's immigration policies. Carla gives her a reality check she won't forget.

Plus, we offer survival tips for navigating Trump's presidency (again):

Set media boundaries 🧠
Make space for joy 🪩
Rest is resistance 🛌

Finally, we dive into a heartfelt listener letter from an entrepreneur juggling business dreams and bestie FOMO. 💌 You're not alone, sis. Keep building. The trips (and the tribe that gets it) will come.

We wanna see y'all IRL. We're planning some in-person events, just for the ladies. Click the link and let's get out of the group chat.

Outside the Group Chat: Women's Meetups

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0:00.0	I don't know what's going to happen next, but yeah.
0:08.7	So what now?
0:09.9	Five, four, three, two, one.
0:15.2	Welcome back!
0:17.0	Thank you for coming back.
0:19.7	You could be anywhere else.
0:20.7	Summertime, but you're hanging out with us.
0:22.3	You're hanging out with us. I love that. If this is your first time, listening to the show,
0:27.0	here for a real treat. Especially today. Oh, yeah? Yeah, I feel like today I'm feeling it. You just came
0:33.2	off of like my mental clarity episode. Yeah.
0:37.7	I don't know what the fuck you took before you came in today.
0:40.8	I was clear.
0:41.5	You're in a really good mood.
0:42.8	Full of energy.
0:43.8	So much energy.
0:45.0	Yeah, I actually might need what you have because I've been very low energy lately.
0:48.7	I'm telling you, so aside from like the shit that straw did, when you do a water cleanse, it's really good for like rebuild cells. Like, there's a whole reset to your inside. Okay, maybe I'll look into it. No, for real, for it. Like, don't take my word for it. Oh, I wouldn't. All this mental clarity you're seeing? No, I would never take your word for. Clarity?
1:11.4	No.
1:27.2	Okay. That's not what I would call it. No, but you should definitely, everybody should look into it. And I lost six pounds. Okay, that's good. Gained two of them back is mostly water weight, but. That's good. It was good. But that wasn't that purpose of it. I'm going to get that bad. Yeah. I'm going to bother it. Your nails were good.
1:28.2	Thank you.
1:30.5	I had them take them all the way off and redo them.
1:27.6	That's good. Thank you.
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