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So What Now? with Carla and Dex

EP 40: Multitasking, Mess, and a Little Mayhem

So What Now? with Carla and Dex

Idea to Launch Productions

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.8592 Ratings

🗓️ 29 July 2025

⏱️ 49 minutes

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Summary

This week on So What Now, we unpack a viral TikTok that challenges the usual checklist for choosing a partner. Sure, faith, finances, and fitness are great—but what about the ability to suffer well? Life will get messy, and having someone who doesn't fall apart in the chaos might just be the most underrated trait of all. Dex keeps it real and admits she's not built for bedside caregiving—she'll cut the check, but don't look for soup and soft words. And if she ever becomes the one in need? Her motto is simple: just take her out!

Things take a turn when we discuss the woman who found out her husband's ex hacked their home security system and watched over 44,000 minutes of footage. Dex is baffled at how anyone has that kind of time, while Carla confesses she might've been one click away from doing the same.

We also tap into the rising trend of "poly-working"—people holding down two full-time jobs, often powered by AI. Carla's here for it (shoutout to her ADHD superpowers), but Dex is barely making it through one job. Speaking of jobs, Carla shares a little about her short-lived corporate career and the moment it ended with a good ol' fashioned workplace fight. Yes, hands were thrown. You definitely want to hear this one.

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0:00.0

this back to school season spend less on your kids with amazon i remember when my niece's

0:10.0

mindfulness journal cost more than my own therapy session on amazon the same journal and the markers

0:16.3

to color in it are a fraction of the price spend less breathe less, breathe easier. So remember, with Amazon's low

0:23.0

back-to-school prices, just spend less on your kids because every dollar you don't spend on them

0:27.8

is a dollar you haven't spent on them. I don't know what's going to happen next, but yeah,

0:34.1

so what now? She was a fairy. Yes, yes, she fairy. Yep. Yep. She was a fairy with a fatty or my daddy. That part I don't sing because I don't got one. So I don't want to lie to people. Ain't no fatty over here. Welcome back to another episode of So What Now Podcast with me, your girl, Carla. And I'm Dex. Yes, we're back. It's still Dex's birthday. Br-W-W-W-W-W-W-H. I usually celebrate for like 90 days. You are ridiculous. She'll make anything about her birthday from, like, the day before, through, like, at least mid-August. Oh, we're doing that? It's for my birthday. Literally, the whole thing. But that's fine. I've been lying telling people it's my birthday for like the past month. Remember when I went to Miami and I was telling people that's our birthday. Did you already go get your gifts and stuff? I didn't do freebies yet, no. I've been too busy. That's a fun one. I like doing freebies. Now, I look forward to the freebies now. And now that everybody knows about the freebies, they get in less and less, like, good. Really? Yes. Krispy Kreme used to give you a pack of donuts. It's not to give you one donut. Oh. You wouldn't know that. Bath and Body Works used to give you a whole, like, lotion. Now you one donut. Bed, bath, and bodyware.

1:45.0

She used to give you a whole, like, lotion. Now you get, like, the travel size lotion. I'm like, come on now. Wow, I don't know that. It's the tariffs. It's probably the terrorists for sure. Them tariffs are messing everybody up. Bad. But we're going to start off with a little intro, catch up. I do want to shout out my brader.

2:04.2

She's doing it. But we're going to start off with a little intro, catch up. I do want to shout out my braider.

2:04.1

She's doing an amazing work.

2:06.1

She's doing so good.

2:07.2

She did my hair for Bali.

2:08.2

But there's two people.

2:09.6

Her name is Leisha, but she goes by jelly beans on social media, right?

2:13.6

Is that her at name?

2:15.3

See?

2:15.6

I think it is.

2:16.4

One thing about it is I be stressed when people. Jelly underscore Bean styles. So jelly underage. She does my braid. She's based here out of Orlando. She's really good. Yeah. She is very well-priced. She's fat. She's good. And they last. And I know my biggest thing with boho braids

2:35.1

is make sure that the hair stays. I'll be brushing it and it stays. I put product done everything.

2:40.5

So shout out to her and then also the hair that I have. So Kat Rabani, she is a CEO of Hair R.S.

2:48.7

Oh, that's a really popular one. I know.

2:51.1

I don't even wear hair like that. And I know hair. Yes, ma'am. I don't know about hair R Us. I've been using hair R Us since the days when I was blonde and straight when I used to get them sewing. So shout out to her. Now we're acquaintances. Like, I love her. She's part of LTTA app, LTT Talk., yeah, I've been getting the hair again for, because they added braiding hair. And it's so good, especially for blonde. Because you can find good, I think, black hair or brown. But blonde that stays and doesn't look like, I don't know, paper. Yeah, that's nasty. But yeah, I did this.

3:24.5

One I had in Bali was from her R Us 2 and Leisha also did that hair. So if you're in Florida, I'm just, it feels good to have my hair done to wake up and I have to work today this morning. So easy to get ready to come here. I'm like, put a little concealer on, do this, and walk out. Beautiful. Thank you. Look like you put in so much effort.

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