The power of falling in love with yourself this summer
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🗓️ 3 June 2026
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Making plans to capitalize on summer can get overwhelming - from finding the right spot to hang or feeling comfortable in your clothes in the sweltering summer heat. So what does it mean to approach summer with a romantic joie de vivre? Brittany is joined by Carly Olson, freelance journalist covering architecture and business, and Garrett Schlichte, writer and chef, to walk us through how to have a rom-com summer where you're the star.
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| 0:00.0 | When do you feel in your bones, unmistakably, that it's summertime? |
| 0:09.1 | Carly, we'll start with you. |
| 0:11.2 | I think one of those very first hot days when you wake up and it just smells like it's going to be a hot day. |
| 0:19.1 | And when the sun is setting around 8 p.m., you know, |
| 0:24.5 | summer for me is all about being outside. I'm with that. I'm with that. What about you, |
| 0:28.6 | Garrett? Mine is like the first hot night. Like my summer to me is like hot nights. Like you can be |
| 0:34.2 | outside in the evening. I like, I am in San Francisco. |
| 0:38.4 | We get very few of those. |
| 0:39.5 | Our summertime can be weird. |
| 0:41.3 | The first time, it's, like, still bright outside at, like, 8.30 p.m. |
| 0:47.1 | And you can be in Dolores Park drinking, like, a warm tequila out of a plastic cup and, like, still have your jacket off. |
| 0:54.0 | I'm, like, it is summer and we are |
| 0:55.7 | going for it, girls. Those puddles from the springtime rainstorms are drying up. The humidity |
| 1:03.9 | is returning to the air. You can't deny it anymore. Summer is here. And for centuries, writers and artists of all stripes have made the |
| 1:14.9 | connection between romance and summer, from Greece to dirty dancing to Romeo and Juliet. For me, |
| 1:22.1 | romance is the lifeblood of the summer. And I'm talking about romance in non-dating context, the romance of being |
| 1:30.1 | outside of seeing and being seen, of bodies of water and fresh fruit and hot nights. |
| 1:37.3 | These three little months tend to be when I get a lot of my travel for the year in. I'm seeing |
| 1:42.2 | friends and family, visiting places I haven't been in a while |
| 1:45.0 | and really investing in some well-earned me time. So what does it look like to romance oneself this summer? |
| 1:55.3 | There are so many things you could do and so little time to do them. day road trip camping weekend the options can be so |
| 2:03.3 | varied expensive and overwhelming to the point where it's tempting to just end up on the couch |
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