Career Pt. 2: How I Actually Make Money as a Podcaster & Influencer
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 19 February 2026
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
In Part 2 of my career story, I’m picking up right where we left off — from losing my job at Hinge to launching Seeing Other People just weeks later. I break down how the podcast actually grew, why co-hosting didn’t last, and what it really looks like to make money as a podcaster, content creator, and dating coach. I get radically honest about freelancing, brand deals, influencer income, pay transparency, and the instability no one warns you about.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of seeing other people. We have part two of |
| 0:09.4 | the Alana's career path episode today. If you missed part one, it is the most recent episode that came out. |
| 0:17.0 | I could not possibly give you a TLDR recap, but part one is the first however many years of my career |
| 0:25.1 | from the day I started at Syracuse to the day I lost my job at Hinge. |
| 0:30.6 | That goes from what, like 2012 to 2020. |
| 0:34.5 | Yeah, that's eight years in my life. |
| 0:37.2 | So definitely go check that episode out first if you missed it |
| 0:41.4 | because I'm picking right up where I left off on there. And if you're new here, hi, I'm Alana. |
| 0:48.3 | I'm so happy to have you. This is primarily a dating and relationships podcast, but sometimes we |
| 0:52.8 | talk about other things. And this is one of those |
| 0:54.7 | times I really wanted to do a thorough in-depth career episode and share all the details of my |
| 1:03.6 | career journey with you. I get so many questions about it. And so I wanted to give it the time and the |
| 1:10.5 | space that it is due because my career and how I ended up |
| 1:15.2 | where I am is definitely not a smooth, flowing, seamless path. I never expected to end up here. |
| 1:22.8 | And I wouldn't want to be anywhere else. So definitely check out part one if you haven't yet. |
| 1:29.2 | And on this episode, we are going to talk through the last five years of seeing other people, everything about the |
| 1:33.5 | podcast, about freelancing, about how I make money, about how I became a dating coach, about |
| 1:39.3 | the odd jobs I've had along the way about other podcasts and other co-hosts and all that. This is really |
| 1:46.3 | the seeing other people career part that I'm going to share with you. And I posted on my story, |
| 1:53.4 | I got some questions from you guys. I'm hopefully going to answer every single one of them |
| 1:57.6 | and give you all the good stuff, all the pay transparency, |
| 2:04.4 | how I make money, the highs, the lows, everything that I wish I knew when I was starting |
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