The Stories We Never Told About Getting Fired
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 61 minutes
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Summary
We’re on week 3 of lockdown after Jake’s surgery and shockingly, we’re thriving. This week marks five years since we both got let go, so we’re diving into what those last few months looked like, what we felt in the moment, and how getting fired ended up being the turning point we didn’t know we needed. For the first time, I open up about why I was crying everyday during my last few months at Hinge… and the unexpected plot twist that that changed everything.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to co-host for life. I'm Alana. I'm Jake. We rarely do an intro like that where we |
| 0:05.8 | introduce ourselves. But since we're here, in case you're new, thank you so much for being here. |
| 0:10.5 | This is the Monday episode every week of seeing other people where Jake and I sit down, talk about |
| 0:16.6 | what's going on in our lives. Maybe we answer some listener questions. Maybe we talk about a super |
| 0:21.5 | crazy topic. Maybe I prank him. You never know what you're going to get. But this is really about |
| 0:26.7 | like us, our marriage and what's going on in the stage of our lives that we're at. On Tuesdays, |
| 0:31.9 | we have expert guests. And on Thursdays, we usually have normal people just like you. So you don't |
| 0:36.7 | have to listen to every single episode. Three episodes a week is a lot. But listen to what you want. And if you want to listen to all three, we would absolutely love that. So thank you for being here. If you're back, thank you so much. We're so happy you're here again. And we have a good episode today. We do have listener questions. We are going to talk about what it's |
| 0:55.3 | been like on week three of lockdown for Alana and Jake. And we're also going to talk about how it's the |
| 1:01.4 | five-year anniversary for both of us of losing our jobs. We both got laid off in the same week |
| 1:08.9 | before we met each other. It was about two, three months before we would meet. |
| 1:13.7 | And they were pretty, like, pivotal moments in our lives. |
| 1:17.4 | So we wanted to talk about layoffs. |
| 1:19.8 | And it's going to be a good episode. |
| 1:21.9 | Before we get into it, Jake. |
| 1:24.5 | Hi. |
| 1:25.3 | Hi. |
| 1:25.8 | What are you grateful for today? |
| 1:27.5 | Oh, man, what am I grateful for today? Oh, man. |
| 1:28.1 | What am I grateful for? |
| 1:29.6 | I mean, I guess a lot of the same things, right? |
| 1:33.1 | A, good intro there. |
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