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Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People.

Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing their stories.

Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even cry along with us as we navigate

the dating scene together. All right. Can you please introduce yourself and share what you're

here to talk about? Of course. So my name is Talia. I live between New York City and Montreal,

Canada. And I basically have a YouTube channel where I showcase my dating life as a single 30-year-old girl and all the

craziness that comes from it, the good, the bad, the ugly, basically just super transparent

about things that maybe I shouldn't be.

What I love about your YouTube channel is like you're not sugarcoding it.

You're not trying to come off like cool or like you know it all. Like you're very honest as if you were just like talking to your best friend about holy shit, these are all the things that are happening to me. Like this is great. But basically I kind of wanted it to be like a lot of people are very scared to talk about things that happen to them because they feel like they might get backlash or they might

get, you know, a whole bunch of hate. And it's like, you know what? I put it out there. Do I get the

hate? A thousand percent. But this is what dating as a single person is like now. You know,

you will get ghosted. You will run into craziness. But just that's the way it is. Like,

totally. What made you want to start it because that is like you

said like it's afraid it's a scary thing where you could be afraid to get judged or to get hate but

you didn't care you felt like you had a message to put out there of course so i mean i guess we

go back to like last year i was in a a long distance relationship, which I talk about on the

channel too. And I thought it was like it. So I lived in Montreal. He lived in New York. So I was traveling back and forth and spending a lot of time in New York City. And I was like, this is it. I'm going to uproot my life, going to go live there. And then it ended. And it crushed me. me and I had no clue I kind of like lost my

sense of self and I took a long time to get over it which is good like you should definitely take the

time that you need um but I just felt like okay like I'm at a crossroads in my life I felt like

everything that I knew came crashing down and I'm like I started to question the people in my life, my career

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