Stay ConnectedDating advice, real stories, and honest conversations about modern relationships. Seeing Other People with Ilana Dunn covers everything from first dates and situationships to long-term love, with expert guests, anonymous confessions, and unfiltered takes three times a week.
Whether you’re swiping, healing, or somewhere in between…this is your show.
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Artist and songwriter Gayle joins the show today to talk about what it’s like transforming her dating experiences into music and lyrics. We talk about the breakup that led to her new single "abcdefu," what it’s like putting her raw emotions out there for the world to hear, turning heartbreak into music, dating within the industry, writing revenge songs, the fear of never being good enough, and more.
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TW: the following content may be sensitive for those who have experienced any form of sexual assault.
On today’s episode, I’m joined by a woman who had a nonconsensual sexual experience when she was a college student. We hear about the events leading up to this, what actually happened in the moment, and how it’s impacted her longterm. We discuss guilt, trust, consent, communication, safe dating and more.
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Tinah (with an H) Ogalo, host of the In Your Twentys podcast, joins us today for a deep dive into the most controversial and shocking poll results from the @seeingotherpeople Instagram Story that you’ve all been voting on. Get ready to hear about politics, cheating, family involvement, social media stalking, commitment issues, exclusivity and more.
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TW: the following content may be sensitive for those with an eating disorder.
On today’s episode, we hear from a 25 year old male who has struggled with body image issues and an eating disorder. He shares what it’s been like to date and use dating apps when you aren’t comfortable in your own skin.
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Today we’re joined by Dr. Abby Medcalf, psychologist, best-selling author of "Be Happily Married: Even If Your Partner Won't Do a Thing Kindle" and host of the "Relationships Made Easy" podcast. We’re sitting down to discuss everything that you need to know about moving on, leaving the past in the past and not letting previous dating and relationship experiences impact present and future ones. Abby walks us through getting closure with yourself, learning how to live in the moment and not in the past, having high standards and low expectations, learning to trust yourself, setting boundaries, and more.
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On today’s Unfiltered episode, Ilana sits down with Daniela, a 27 year old female living in Toronto, Canada. Daniela shares the story of the breakup she went through due to her partner's parents not supporting their relationship because of factors including her ethnicity, immigration status, age, career, and appearance. We discuss how this impacted her relationship, her self worth, and her values when it comes to dating and searching for a life partner.
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LDR (Long Distance Relationship) survivors Jamie and Max walk us through the highs and lows of the four-year long distance span of their relationship. We discuss their decision to pursue a long-distance relationship during college, how they involved each other in their lives from afar, what visiting each other was like, how important it was to trust one another and practice straightforward communication, the shift that occurred when Max graduated and was starting his career in NYC during Jamie’s senior year of college, what aspects of their LDR made their now in-person relationship stronger, how their LDR helped shape them into the independent and self-sufficient people that they are today, and more.
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Ilana sits down with a 28 heterosexual woman who currently lives in New York. She opens up about her first dating app experiences in 2019, which included somebody who ghosted her out of nowhere followed by a situation that had a tremendous negative impact on her mental and physical health. We discuss how she overcame these traumatizing experiences in order to get back out there and end up in a healthy relationship.
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Damona Hoffman is the Host of the podcast Dates & Mates, the official Dating Coach for OkCupid, a Love Expert on The Drew Barrymore Show, an Advice Columnist and more. Damona joins us to discuss the way dating has changed overtime, how we give dating apps too much power, why having a phone call before a date can be a game changer, what exclusivity really means and how to know if you’re exclusive with someone, and what happens if you actually express what you want.
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Ilana sits down with a 32-year-old who called off her marriage just two months before the wedding. We hear what led to this decision, how she went about ending the engagement, what she’s learned from this experience, and what advice she has for anyone who is going through something similar or questioning whether or not their relationship is built to last.
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