212. The First Re-Introducing Ali One

Finding Mr. Height: The Podcast

Ali Jackson

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.2 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 10 March 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

TW: Grief and SA (see below for more). It’s my (Ali’s) first official solo episode and we’re starting things off with a re-introduction to my background - both for newer listeners and even our OG crowd as I share deeper insights into my childhood/early adulthood & the things that led me to who I am today. We chat friendship wounds, anxious attachment origins, grief, and much more in part one of this two-part series to kick off my solo podcasting journey. Plus, we get into some early days nicknames from before FMH as you know it existed and chat about a strategy I recently learned for managing overthinking!

Trigger warning: I discuss grief/loss throughout the episode, beginning around minute 15, and briefly discuss SA around minute 27 lasting for 35 minutes (both are called out verbally before they are mentioned).

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I didn't have a boyfriend for all of college.
0:01.5	I forgot to mention that.
0:02.5	Like I said, many, many situationships, one in particular that comes to mind that, like, I still get annoyed about when I think about. We didn't have that word at the time, but that's what it was. And, of course, he is now married to the girl that he started dating, or that he was dating, like, when we were freshmen and then broke up with. and then he and I were like a thing in quotes or whatever and then they got back together.
0:04.0	And now they're married and they have kids. dating like when we were freshman and then broke up with and then he and I were like a thing in
0:21.8	quotes or whatever and then they got back together and now they're married and they have kids.
0:24.9	So nobody serious in college whatsoever.
0:27.6	But I deeply and yes, desperately'all.
0:43.7	It is Allie from the producer's room.
0:45.8	I gave a little bit of a trigger warning for a couple of things in this episode, one of which being my journey with grief and loss in losing my dad.
0:53.6	And I ended up talking about it a lot more
0:55.9	than I expected to when I did that trigger warning. So basically when I say that, I'm going to
1:02.0	bring it up quite a bit throughout the rest of the episode in a way that I didn't expect to when I said it.
1:06.5	So just know that. And I also have a second trigger warning in here that I do say out loud about
1:12.2	essay. And that is a much briefer section. And I will put in the show notes how long it lasts for
1:18.3	so that if you want to fully skip ahead from that, you absolutely can. And I do mention it a little bit
1:23.9	in the further parts of the episode, but not really in depth. And with that, I hope
1:29.0	you enjoy my first solo up. Hello, hello, and welcome to another episode of Finding Mr. Hi,
1:32.7	the podcast. I am your host, Allie Jackson. That is the first time I have said that out loud on
1:38.4	the public pod. I recorded my first solo Patreon last week. So thank you so much to the patrons for not only
1:47.4	amazing feedback and just really encouraging me on this new solo podcasting journey of mine,
1:51.7	but also for bearing with me as in my nervous haze. I did not plug in my microphone and
1:57.9	therefore was using the computer audio, which is not as good. There's a reason we use
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