From Finance Bro to Full-Time Musician: Owning Your Story in Dating
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2025
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
I’m joined by musician Brett Altman, who recently left his finance career of 9 years to finally pursue music full-time and discovered that owning your story can completely change the way you date. We get into why you should never shrink yourself for someone who sees parts of you as a red flag, how to actually meet people IRL (yes, even at a bar), and what it takes to make a friends-with-benefits situation successful. Brett shares his journey from Hoboken “finance bro” to musician, and how his viral track Pretty Long Island Girls is sparking real conversations about love, dating, and connection outside the apps. @brettaltmanmusic
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:07.9 | Brett Altman, welcome to seeing other people. |
| 0:10.7 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:11.8 | I feel like I honestly wish like the last 15 minutes of us talking was reported. |
| 0:18.1 | Yeah. |
| 0:18.7 | But this is going to be fun. |
| 0:20.1 | It would have just been me admiring like all the podcast episodes you've done. |
| 0:23.8 | So I'm guessing your audience knows about that history. |
| 0:26.0 | The research you did is very impressive. |
| 0:28.4 | And I just have to ask as somebody who just listened to the first episode of seeing other people. |
| 0:32.8 | What am I like? |
| 0:34.7 | You seem, I'm getting the same vibe. |
| 0:37.0 | Okay. |
| 0:37.1 | But the biggest thing for me was like in the first 15 minutes of the first ever episode, you were talking to your co-host and like you were very honest. |
| 0:47.6 | It was something about like a text that you had sent and you were like you were just very honest and direct in this text. |
| 0:54.1 | And for me like |
| 0:54.9 | that is so important in any relationship communication friendship boyfriend girlfriend i was like |
| 0:59.7 | we would get along all right and we do i'm trying to do more of that in my life yeah what is the |
| 1:04.9 | last honest text that you sent. |
| 1:16.0 | Oh, that's a good question. |
| 1:23.9 | I feel like I had an honest conversation recently, which I think that's more where my head's at these days, like in dating and anything. |
| 1:26.3 | I'm like, all right, I would rather |
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