EP 5: It's Giving Thanks: Gratitude, Ambition & the "Miracle Baby"

So What Now? with Carla and Dex

Idea to Launch Productions

Society & Culture, Personal Journals

4.8 • 592 Ratings

🗓️ 25 November 2024

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

This Thanksgiving episode is all about reflecting on what we're thankful for, finding balance with gratitude and ambition and also Miracle babies. Carla and Dex kick things off by honoring Jenna as Woman of the Week.

In the Motherhood segment,we're diving into the controversial tale of a miracle baby conceived by two Miami Dade inmates who passed semen through a vent. Should they face additional charges? Listen in for the full discussion!

In the Womanhood segment, we talk about being thankful for the small moments, the lessons, and the people in our lives—even if we don't always follow traditional holiday norms. We explore how gratitude plays into both parenting and personal growth— Do our kids owe us gratitude? Dex also opens up about her struggle to balance gratitude with ambition. Can you be grateful for what you have and desire to strive for more? And how do we navigate the negative self-talk that holds us back from our own potential.

Plus, Carla shares a feel-good moment of the week: her skydiving adventure!

Tune in for laughs, reflections, and some much-needed reminders that we're all on a journey, and it's okay to hold space for both gratitude and ambition.

SO WHAT NOW? TAKEAWAYS

Remember: You don't have to partake in holiday activities you don't want to—and that's okay!

Our children learn gratitude by seeing us model this behavior.

Be thankful for the journey and enjoy it along the way.

From an early age, we're often taught to be grateful. While these lessons were well-meaning,the lessons can sometimes make us feel like it's wrong to experience negative emotions when we have so much to be thankful for. If this resonates with you, you're not alone. Over time, we can internalize beliefs that limit our emotional range. Reframing our understanding of gratitude to focus on our skills or attributes rather than the external objects can allow space for complex feelings.

You've earned and/or deserve all the good things in your life. Don't let people with limiting beliefs or negative self talk stop you from going after what you truly desire.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I don't know what's going to happen next, but yeah, so what now.
0:06.3	Welcome back to another episode of the So What Now podcast with Dexty.
0:12.6	That was so professional.
0:14.5	What up, y'all? We back.
0:16.3	Hi.
0:17.3	She's like, welcome.
0:18.4	It's like an audiobook.
0:19.6	Okay.
0:20.0	Turn up. It's Monday. They back to work now? I can't be professional, Carla. We are not in corporate. We're trying to leave corporate, okay? We're trying to leave corporate, not stay corporate. What do you mean? Yeah. What have you been up to? Well, today, let's just let them know kind of like what our mood is. Okay. We've been together all day because we were supposed to be recording. Because Carlos. Carlos bagged out. Ooh, Jesus made us spend money and time that we actually had. Thank you, Jesus. Which is a big part of today's message, just thankfulness. We were supposed to record at 11 a.m., but they were having some technical issues with the building. It's technical? Yeah, an elevator. Yeah. I think that's technology. That's very much technology. So we were hanging around like downtown. So we decided to make it a content day. Yeah. So for like four hours, we did TikToks and found coffee shops and we dance. We danced outside. We tried some new places here in downtown Orlando. We did. It was cool. We had a good time. I had a great day with you. I bought a new phone and an iPad because we were originally, we got pushed to one and then he pushed us to four. And we just, like, ran out of ideas.
1:28.2	So we just went and spent money. When I realized her phone, we were taking videos, I'm like, you don't have cinematic on your phone. I don't even know it. And immediately, she showed her big plus. She said, do I need to upgrade? Okay. Take me to the Cimo mobile right now. I was like, oh. Content creator. I need to have the content things. I need cinema on my phone and I need the iPad.
1:47.7	You need. Take me to this email right now. I was like, oh. I have a content creator. I need to have the content things.
1:44.7	I need cinema on my phone and I need the iPad. You need. Now I have all the things. It can stop me. Nothing. So y'all, she better be posting every other day now. I am going to be posting. Some content. She already has. So go ahead and follow her on social media. and I am trying to do Outfit of the Days.
2:03.5	I love them so far. So, which means I have to shop more. You're also, like, a very stylish person, low-key. Like, and you don't, like, highlight that, but you are so stylish. Like, look at you. You look so cool. I found this online. Somebody was wearing it online. Not like that, though. You put that shit on.
2:18.4	Right.
2:18.9	Okay.
2:19.3	That's right.
2:19.7	It's it.
2:20.2	You're not on you.
2:32.6	You put it off. I got a little pin on the back of my thing. That is style. Yes. I was like, this needs some more shape, and I put a safety pin and found a hack on TikTok. Yeah. So that's kind of like what we did today.
2:34.4	So we were like really hyped this morning.
2:35.5	And now we're kind of chilled.
2:37.3	I smoked a few times.
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