121. The Second Herpes One ft. Ella Dawson

Finding Mr. Height: The Podcast

Ali Jackson

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.2 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 12 June 2023

⏱️ 85 minutes

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Summary

Why are STIs so stigmatized despite being so common? Ella Dawson, whose TEDx talk on the subject has been viewed over 800,000 times, is here to talk about about it. We discuss disclosing herpes (or any STI) to your partner, supporting a partner who’s been diagnosed, advocating for yourself at doctor’s appointments, and so much more.

But first, Ali & Erica are together in Greece! Ali works through vacation communication with The Publicist while Erica dips her toe into Greek Bumble.

Where to find Ella: On Instagram @brosandprose, on Patreon at broseandprose, and at elladawson.com.

Timestamps: Ella joins us at around minute 32.

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0:00.0	And I was like, bud, that ship has sailed.
0:02.0	You're like, I do.
0:03.5	And I was like, you can Google me.
0:05.2	Even if I don't have herpes, I do have herpes.
0:08.0	Like this is-
0:08.3	The internet is a better test than the one that you have administered.
0:11.3	I'm a fraud.
0:16.0	Hello and welcome to the episode of Finding Mr. Height the podcast.
0:25.0	I'm Allie, back with my co-host, Erica, and we are sitting in our hotel room in Greece.
0:30.5	I'm having the best time.
0:32.8	This has been the best vacation so far.
0:34.4	And can I say this is a weird thing we both said.
0:39.0	The vacation has been going slow in the best way. The best way. Actually, somebody last night at dinner, I said that after you and I had that conversation. And she was like, oh my God, I said the same thing. It's amazing. It's like, oh my gosh, it's only Wednesday. Although now I woke up this morning. I was like, Wait, it's Thursday. We're going home in two days. I know. I mean, I'm not bummed.
0:37.8	I'm just, I, it's Thursday. We're going home in two days.
0:55.0	I know.
0:55.4	I mean, I'm not bummed.
0:57.1	I'm just, I'm trying to enjoy it as much as I can. It's just, it's been very interesting of we've had a ton of activities, a ton of stuff, so much fun. And it hasn't felt like, oh, no, the week's over. like I feel truly, truly relaxed.
0:52.6	A fantastic vacation.
0:53.9	Honestly.
0:54.7	And I, this is, I think, the first vacation I've been on that I turned off my notifications for work. I turned off Outlook and I turned off teams. And I have not looked. I have not looked. Yeah, that's very, very clutch. What I love is, you know, obviously it's easy to go to Europe now. And with phone plans, you can do $10 a day. So you, you know, your phone works. But what I do is I go to the settings. I turn off all the cellular for every app except like my texting, my calling, you know, the little app we use. What is it called? Telegram. Yeah, everyone's joining that app, by the way. Now, I keep getting notifications. I'm like, why are you on telegram? Where are you going? Are you going on a Trova trip too? But it's made me not be on my phone and break that habit. And it has been so blissful. It's so wonderful.
2:01.5	I also, that that reminded me when we just, when I just pulled the bike away from your mouth to say telegram, that due to our tech setup in Greece, we are using one microphone.
2:09.2	So, so some side comments may be a little muffled.
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