Learning Your Non Negotiables & Finding Your Voice
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 16 July 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
My fabulous makeup artist, Essie Cohen joins us for a fun and engaging conversation on her experiences with dating and relationships. She shares insights from her 9+ year relationship, becoming single at 31, and dating someone 10 years older. Essie talks about what it felt like to "start over" and where she began her journey. She also discusses her work with brides and how she has seen and heard of marriages not working out. Essie reflects on whether she could ever sense what a bride was feeling on her big day, and we have a meaningful discussion about how you never know what someone is going through.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.8 | Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People. |
| 0:10.1 | Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing their stories. |
| 0:16.1 | Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even cry along with us as we navigate the |
| 0:22.1 | dating scene together. Essie Cohen, welcome to seeing other people. I'm so excited to be here. |
| 0:27.3 | This is such a long time coming. We've been talking about doing this for over a year. Yeah, |
| 0:31.1 | definitely. I don't even know what to say. I'm so excited. Okay, backing up, Essie and I know each |
| 0:37.1 | other because she was my |
| 0:39.4 | makeup artist for my wedding. Yes. And we met a year prior when she was the makeup artist at my friend |
| 0:45.6 | Kristen's wedding and instantly clicked. Yeah, totally. And we were like, we have to record a podcast |
| 0:50.7 | together. But I was like, let's wait until after my wedding. I knew, |
| 0:55.4 | I think at Kristen's wedding, I was like, I'm probably going to like book her. And then I just, |
| 1:00.2 | I don't know, I feel like we know each other so much better now. Yeah, for sure. And there's so |
| 1:05.8 | much to talk about. So much more. So much more. Okay. So before we begin, can you tell everyone a little bit about yourself, where you're at in life, and anything else you want to share? Absolutely. So I just turned 40. I didn't. Yeah, I did. So crazy. I don't believe you. No, it does. But I'm going to say it's all about the skin care. Yeah, yep, and staying out of sun. |
| 1:29.0 | So, yeah, so I got married. Let's see, it'll be in 2021. So I was a COVID bride. So I, and I'm a |
| 1:36.1 | makeup artist by trade and I do lots of weddings and events. And I literally was in the trenches with |
| 1:42.2 | all my brides that year of like their entire vision |
| 1:46.0 | like crashing and burning and I was in it with them. And so my husband and I had met online |
| 1:53.6 | and we got engaged after a year. It was like a very quick like we just knew and we were ready |
| 1:58.1 | to do it and we were at that point in our life where we knew who we were, what we wanted. And then COVID happened. So we postponed our wedding for a full |
| 2:06.3 | year. We got married 2021. We had our son a year later. So he is going to be two in August. |
| 2:14.4 | August what? August 31st. Okay. We're a few days apart on I'm the 16th. Yeah. Yeah. Some of my favorite people |
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