Meeting People IRL, App Burnout & Being Comfortable Being Alone
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 28 May 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
Allison Lane joins the podcast for a conversation about dating in your 30s, meeting people in real life, and the pressure women feel to have everything figured out by a certain age. From run clubs and dating apps to confidence, friendships, and navigating New York City single, we talk about what it actually looks like to put yourself out there without romanticizing every interaction. Allison also opens up about being an only child and feeling the pressure around marriage and kids, how running changed her life after a difficult period, and her experience losing weight naturally in the middle of the GLP-1 era.
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| 0:00.0 | Woo! |
| 0:03.4 | Hi! |
| 0:05.2 | Are we going to giggle this whole time? |
| 0:07.3 | I think so. |
| 0:07.9 | I apologize in advance, but also I'm not sorry. |
| 0:10.2 | I worry and I also love it. |
| 0:12.3 | I'm excited. |
| 0:13.4 | Alison Lane, welcome to seeing other people. |
| 0:15.1 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:16.1 | It's truly an honor. |
| 0:17.2 | I want to set the scene. |
| 0:20.3 | It's last July. Last July is right. Last July is right. Last July, a Wednesday night. |
| 0:26.5 | A storm is a brewing above Central Park. It truly was. It truly was. |
| 0:32.2 | Allison and I met on the rainiest run I've ever been on. We both were doing this Wednesday night, |
| 0:40.0 | 20 week or 16 week marathon training program that I attended approximately four times. |
| 0:46.7 | And I don't know if I ever told you this, but I like not in a creepy way, but I wanted to be your |
| 0:52.0 | friend. I don't know if I ever told you that. But when, maybe it was like week one or week two, like I did like a scan of the room and I happened to have seen your TikToks before. And I was like, this girl seems cool. Like I think I'd be friends with her. So funny. And then, and then, no, spoiler alert. When we did talk, because we started on that day, like there, this was like a big group of probably like 50 people. |
| 1:13.8 | And on the rainy day, like this was like a big group of probably |
| 1:12.6 | like 50 people. And on the rainy day, there were maybe like 15 people there. Yeah, there's nobody there. And so that was the day we ended up running together. And you were like, oh, like, I'm Allison. What's your name? I'm like, wow. Like she's so friendly. I played a cool. I knew exactly and I was like this is the first time like I went I signed up for this group like |
| 1:29.1 | to make running friends and And nobody had like talked to me before. And like I kept trying to make conversation with people and it like wasn't. No, same. I think I told you this. There was one girl I befriended and she was cool. And then she got injured. Yeah. I was like, oh, another one by S the dust. Replace her with Alana. I mean, add another one to chat. |
| 1:47.9 | But yes. friend did and she was cool and then she got injured. I was like, oh, another one bites the dust. |
| 1:44.6 | Replace her with Alana. I mean, add another one to chat. But yeah, so all that to be said, |
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