From Anxious to Secure: Hobbies, Healing & Hot Takes on Dating
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 10 April 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
In this solo catch-up, I’m giving you a life and mindset update from changing my Instagram handles to finally breaking through a running plateau that had me feeling stuck for months For the heart of the episode I share how pouring into activities outside of work, social media, and my relationship transformed my anxiety into confidence. I break down how hobbies helped me learn to like myself again—and why that made my relationship with myself and Jake even stronger. Plus, I answer some of your juicy listener questions: If your boyfriend’s parents help pay for the engagement ring…is that in or out? How to stay independent while living at home in your 20s? Meeting the fam for the first time—what to bring? Long-distance communication: how much is too much?
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:06.1 | Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back for another solo episode. I am sitting here in the |
| 0:12.5 | comfiest sweatpants and sweatshirt. And right now I'm at my kitchen table, but I'm probably |
| 0:16.6 | going to move to the floor in a few minutes because by a few minutes, I mean a few seconds. |
| 0:43.5 | I just really want to have a chill, cozy catch up and then answer some questions that you guys have been sending in. And yeah, I miss you. I hope you guys are having a great, I guess it's not technically the beginning of spring yet, but like spring vibes are happening. There have been some warmer days if you're in the New York tri-state area. But yeah, it's time for a catch-up. I love you all. And I want to thank you guys for being here because you being here, you listening means that I get to keep doing this. |
| 0:48.8 | And that is so, so special. And I will never be able to put into words how much that means to me. |
| 0:54.4 | So before we dive in, just want to give some admin reminders. If you are listening on a platform |
| 0:59.6 | and you have not subscribed or followed, please do. So you can be updated when new episodes |
| 1:03.5 | come out. If you are listening on a platform and you have not yet given a beautiful, |
| 1:07.7 | lovely five-star rating and review, please do because those go such a long way. |
| 1:12.4 | And honestly, nobody's reviewed the podcast in months, which is kind of weird. |
| 1:16.1 | And so I want people who are coming and looking at seeing other people for the first time |
| 1:20.1 | to be like, oh, wow, there are people actively listening and actively sharing how much |
| 1:23.5 | they love this podcast. |
| 1:24.4 | I should listen to it too. |
| 1:25.4 | So please, it takes less than a minute to leave a nice little review and it goes a really long way. |
| 1:38.3 | And of course, if you're not already following on Instagram, you can follow at seeing other |
| 1:42.0 | people and you can follow at Alana Dunn, |
| 1:51.0 | which brings me to our first order of business. If you have seen me on Instagram the last week or two, you know that there's been a big change that happened. And this change probably |
| 1:57.8 | happened in a way that made it more confusing than it needed to be. |
| 2:01.7 | But basically, what happened is I swapped the usernames of my two Instagram accounts. |
| 2:07.8 | I have always had at seeing other people and I've always had at Alana Dunn. |
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