Ep. 298 - How to go from abandoned to thriving: A 2-year update
How to Get Over Your Ex
Dorothy AB Johnson
4.7 • 577 Ratings
🗓️ 14 July 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
Two years ago, she moved to Hawaii for love and got dumped the moment she landed. No friends, no support system, completely alone. Today? She's calling in from a surf trip in Mexico, planning adventures to the Maldives, and dating from a place of complete confidence.
This is a 2-year check-in with a GOYE alumni who proves that your breakup breakdown can become your biggest breakthrough. She shares the exact tools she still uses daily, how she learned to stop taking rejection personally, and why dating feels effortless now.
Her biggest revelation? Realizing his emotional unavailability had nothing to do with her worth. Now when someone isn't a fit, whether dating or career, she doesn't spiral, she just moves on.
If you're in the thick of heartbreak thinking this is the worst thing that could happen to you, listen to this. You're going to look back and be proud of yourself. The life you're building without him is better than anything you imagined with him.
The Get Over Your Ex Program is OPEN: https://dorothyabjohnson.com/getoveryourex/
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| 0:00.0 | You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 298. |
| 0:05.2 | How to go from abandoned to thriving, a two-year update. |
| 0:20.4 | Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time. |
| 0:26.6 | I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy. |
| 0:28.8 | Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy. |
| 0:37.0 | Hello, hello, beautiful brave hearts. |
| 0:39.3 | I am so excited. |
| 0:40.4 | We have an amazing, beautiful, wonderful guest, Alea here with us today. |
| 0:45.3 | I am really excited because I feel like I'm just going to learn so much about your life today. |
| 0:52.2 | Alea did the program, the Get Over Your X program like years ago. |
| 0:55.9 | What? Was it two years ago? I believe two. Yeah. That blows my mind. Two years ago. And then she |
| 1:01.9 | reached out to me via email recently and was like, I know you asked me to be on the podcast like when I left and |
| 1:07.9 | I wasn't in a space where I wanted to yet. But I think now is the time. |
| 1:12.7 | And so I'm just really excited to catch up with you, hear about life, hear about what's been |
| 1:17.3 | going on and to share your journey with other brave hearts who are listening in. So thank you so |
| 1:21.9 | much for being here. Thank you for having me. I'm excited to see what unfolds in this conversation. |
| 1:28.3 | Yes. All right. So why don't you start with just telling people a little bit about yourself? |
| 1:32.9 | I'd love to know. I'd love for you to share where you are, anything you feel comfortable with, what you do, what are your hobbies, anything that you feel comfortable sharing. |
| 1:44.6 | So currently, Coll in from Mexico. |
| 1:47.3 | I'm here for 10 days. |
| 1:48.7 | I'm solo traveling. |
| 1:50.8 | I'm originally from California. |
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