Ep. 340 - How to Get Over Your Ex When You Can't Fully Avoid Them

How to Get Over Your Ex

Dorothy AB Johnson

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.7 • 577 Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2026

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

If you're stuck thinking "what if I never get over him… especially when I still have to see him at work?" this episode will hit a very real nerve. It's one thing to go no contact, it's another to keep running into your ex, hearing about their life, or overlapping professionally while trying to move on. In this conversation, you'll hear a real story of someone who faced exactly that. Still connected to her ex through work, still checking in on his life, still carrying anger and what actually shifted things for her. We get into the mindset and decisions that helped her stop engaging, release the emotional pull, and rebuild a life that didn't revolve around him anymore. And here's the part you won't expect: as she focused on creating something bigger for herself, everything about her dating life changed in ways she couldn't have predicted. This episode will show you a different path forward one where you stop chasing and start becoming the version of you that gets chosen.

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Get in touch with Nicole:
Instagram: @thenicoleblanchard
Email: nicole.blanchard@compass.com
Website: https://www.nicolemblanchard.com/

Transcript

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0:00.0	You are listening to How to Get Over Your Ex, episode number 340.
0:05.0	How to Get Over Your Ex when you can't fully avoid them.
0:19.5	Welcome to How to Get Over Your Ex, a podcast on getting over your ex without it just taking time.
0:25.6	I'm your host, breakup coach Dorothy.
0:27.8	Let's turn your pain into power and your heartbreak into happy.
0:36.5	Hello, hello, beautiful Brave Hearts.
0:38.7	How are you doing?
0:40.0	I am so excited to be here today.
0:42.4	I have the most epic guest ever.
0:45.4	You guys, I just, I think, okay, we've got Nicole here.
0:49.6	And Nicole, I love you.
0:50.8	I have to do a little, like a little intro here to talk about Nicole because I feel like I know you from multiple walks of life.
0:58.7	So Nicole and I met when I lived in Boston at like some sort of, I think it was like a photography event. I think I was there with my ex.
1:07.3	And which wasn't my ex at the time. It was, he was my boyfriend at the time.
1:11.4	But I met Nicole at this event. And I thought she was the coolest person. I thought you were the coolest person. I was like, who is she? You know, when you walk into a room and you're like, I want to be friends with that person, you were that for me. And so it was just so fun getting, like, to connect with you. and like then having each other on Instagram.
1:27.9	I would just watch your life from afar.
1:29.6	I felt like very updated and into. just so fun getting like to connect with you and like then having each other on Instagram I would
1:28.1	just watch your life from afar I felt like very updated and into your your life and what was going
1:33.0	on with you you know because of the gram and then when you came to get over your ox I was like
1:39.3	oh my god I'm so excited to work with you now it's like a new dynamic and we get to work together
1:43.3	and then afterwards,
1:45.1	I've loved watching your journey on Instagram and you guys, she's this most epic realtor,
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