Life in Your 30s Without a Plus One
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 18 December 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
I’m joined by my friend Emily Griminger to talk about dating in your 30s when your life doesn’t look the way you thought it would. Emily shares how leaving the corporate world to start her own company changed the way she dates, what it’s been like navigating weddings and big milestones without a partner, and why being on a different timeline than her friends has forced her to get more honest about what she actually wants. We get into dating while building a business, why she stopped talking herself into second and third dates, the pressure to “be less picky,” and how loneliness can coexist with being proud of your life.
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| 0:00.0 | Emily Griminger, welcome back to seeing other people. |
| 0:05.7 | Oh, God. Thanks. We last recorded about a year and a half ago, I want to say. Yeah. |
| 0:12.7 | Yeah. Okay. And to give everyone a refresher on who you are and what we're going to talk about today, |
| 0:19.9 | let's start kind of backing up just |
| 0:22.3 | like with how we know each other because I love our meet cute story. And I think it's a great |
| 0:27.6 | testament to the fact that like it's okay if your friends make new friends and you can also |
| 0:34.1 | make new friends with your friends in your 20s and 30s. Yeah. We met when I moved out to L.A., you also had a friend that was living there that I was introduced to through somebody else. Wait, Julia moved there first? Yeah. Oh, my God. The story is wrong in my head. Oh, well. I was like Julia moved to L.A. |
| 0:54.3 | We're here to set it straight. So Julia moved to L.A. in like July, I think, or maybe June. And then I moved in September. |
| 1:00.4 | Okay. Like a couple months. Yeah. But we had a, we are, our friends who are mutual friends, something like that. I'm not saying it right. But we were introduced, we really |
| 1:10.8 | hit it off, and then she introduced us, and then we really hit it off. And then when you came to visit LA multiple times, now every time you come, Julia's like, by the way, Alana's coming, like Alana's coming. And so I have to see you now at the time. And you're like, well, I know she's coming as we talk. because we're friends now too. And so it's really fun. I actually think that's a really special thing. |
| 1:27.7 | Like as you get older and like the clickiness of like girlhood kind of because we're friends now too. And so it's really fun. I actually think that's a really special thing. |
| 1:32.9 | Like as you get older and like the clickiness of like girlhood kind of disperses. Yeah. |
| 1:38.7 | Like being able to make new friends, but also with your friends friends. Like it's so special and exciting when like your friends get along. Like that's amazing. |
| 1:47.0 | You guys know I have tried so many supplements over the years. |
| 1:50.7 | And honestly, it is confusing. |
| 1:53.7 | My gut still felt off. |
| 1:55.3 | My energy was low. |
| 1:56.7 | And I never really knew what my body actually needed. |
| 2:00.4 | That's when I found Cowboy Cholostrum, and it has been a total game changer for me. |
| 2:04.9 | I had been hearing about the benefits of Colostrum everywhere, but once I looked into it, |
| 2:08.4 | I realized that it's not just another wellness trend. |
| 2:11.1 | It's the real deal, and Cowboy Colostrum is the best one out there. |
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