Dating Should Be about Pursuing Joy with Tracee Ellis Ross

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Higher Ground

Self-improvement, Education, Society & Culture, Relationships

4.4 • 9.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 April 2025

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Actress, director, producer and businesswoman Tracee Ellis Ross joins IMO to answer a listener question from a man who has been unlucky in love but wants a partner and family. Tracee discusses how she learned to embrace being single for much of her adult life, why she feels ready to date again, and shares her dating checklist. Plus, Craig offers his thoughts on what men are looking for in their dating lives.

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0:00.0	You know, it's sort of innocently sweet and it's not so hard over the head.
0:04.5	Like, can you stand alone in a room?
0:06.5	That's why I like the question, because I would ask that all wrong.
0:09.0	Right.
0:09.6	That's just the thing.
0:11.4	Are you an insecure trifling ass?
0:13.5	That is exactly right.
0:14.6	Are you so insecure that you can't handle a strong?
0:18.9	I would ask asking all wrong.
0:22.7	He would be...
0:23.3	Because I am a boss.
0:25.1	I am a boss.
0:26.1	I'm a boss.
0:26.6	Are you okay?
0:27.7	Be in the belly.
0:28.5	Can you level up?
0:29.7	Can you level up?
0:31.3	And then he's running away going on.
0:33.3	I don't...
0:33.6	She's aggressive.
0:34.4	I think.
0:36.6	I don't... She's aggressive.
	...

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