The Relationships You Never Get Over with Josie Balka

Girls Gotta Eat

Ashley Hesseltine

Relationships, Society & Culture, Dating, Comedy, Sex, 977170

4.6 • 29.2K Ratings

🗓️ 12 May 2025

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Warning: This episode may make you feel things. We absolutely loved talking with author/poet Josie Balka ahead of her debut book about everything from body image to exes to friendship. We discuss how no one cares what you look like in a swimsuit, why the people who didn’t want you stick with you more than partners who did, reflective questions to ask yourself after a first date, that one person in your life you wish you never met, and why friendship breakups can be harder than romantic breakups. She also opens up about her fiancé, and we discuss our own past and present relationships. Before Josie joins us, Rayna shares friend behavior that should be straight to jail, and Ashley tells the tale of the woman who walked out of her standup show. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	There's just something about the people that didn't want you that like really lingers with you
0:05.6	versus the people who really did love you.
0:25.5	This podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:26.9	Hi guys.
0:29.5	Welcome back to another episode of Girls Got to eat.
0:30.5	Welcome back.
0:32.7	I can't wait to get out of here and get my hair on.
0:34.3	It's today?
0:35.1	It's tomorrow. Tomorrow.
0:35.7	Somebody commented on one of my videos.
0:37.4	It was so eloquently said.
0:39.3	She has money now and can't even pay to look less ratchet.
0:42.2	What?
0:42.9	Now.
0:43.7	I've been having money, girl.
0:45.1	Get out of here.
0:46.0	She's like, you have a semblance of a living.
0:47.9	It was giving that.
0:49.2	She said to me like she finally has money and can't make her hair look good and I was like, you just need to get it redone. This is a whole process.
0:55.2	It takes like five hours.
0:57.3	We're busy. Are you overdue?
1:00.0	No, I'm underdo.
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