The Year I Slowed Down: Career Pressure, Marriage & Burnout (2025 EOY Ep)
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
In our annual end-of-year episode, Camila Vola turns the mic on me for an honest reflection on a year defined by slowing down. We talk about career pressure, burnout, marathon setbacks, marriage, and the tension between real impact and chasing numbers. I share what I learned about boundaries, growth, and choosing meaning over metrics, plus the dating advice I’d give my single self going into 2026.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, welcome back for the last episode of 2025. |
| 0:08.6 | I'm Alana and I am joined by my incredible editor, associate producer, right hand, |
| 0:15.2 | everything behind the scenes of seeing other people, Camilla Vola. |
| 0:18.9 | Kim, you welcome. |
| 0:20.7 | Oh my God. |
| 0:23.4 | This is my favorite tradition. |
| 0:25.4 | I know. |
| 0:26.2 | It became our little tradition by the years that go by. |
| 0:30.9 | I was listening. |
| 0:31.6 | I was looking for, I think Jen's episode is already going to be out by the time we were doing this, but I was looking for her folder and I found the way we did the old clips. Do you remember the song you used to use? |
| 0:43.0 | Oh my God. And I was like, oh my God, that was like a flashback. So intense that I was like, oh my God. |
| 0:51.7 | It's funny because I had to, I was making this video. It was about Berkeley and I was going |
| 0:58.0 | back to like a clip of Zoe. And so I was looking back in like 2019 in my phone. And then I found all |
| 1:05.4 | of these clips from the different series I did at Hinge, like Dumperdial and why though? |
| 1:11.4 | And I was listening to that music. |
| 1:13.4 | And this was a few days ago and I was like, oh my God. |
| 1:16.2 | Like it literally took me out of 2025 and put me into that day and time. |
| 1:21.5 | And it's so crazy how like a sound can do that. |
| 1:24.6 | I know. |
| 1:25.3 | I was like, wow. |
| 1:26.8 | I don't know. |
| 1:27.4 | It was so crazy. Also, Jen was living. |
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