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What If the Love of Your Life Had Been Sitting Right in Front of You for a Decade?

Committed

Jo Piazza

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.61.7K Ratings

🗓️ 3 July 2025

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

Ciji and Travis spent ten years as each other’s ride-or-die—co-chairs, creative collaborators, best friends—without realizing they were also soulmates. They met through the Urban League of Greater Atlanta as ambitious young professionals and shared countless late-night meetings, speaking gigs, and even a few dates. But it wasn’t until Ciji threw out a curveball and moved to New Orleans that their second-chance romance truly began. In this episode of Committed, guest host Christine Pride (author of the brand-new second-chance romance All the Men I’ve Loved Again) sits down with CGCijiand Travis to unpack a love story that grew slowly, steadily, and then all at once. It’s about timing, trust, belly laughs and what happens when you finally and boldly choose each other.

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What if the love of your life had been sitting across a conference table from you for 10

0:05.5

years? But neither of you realized it. Or maybe you did, maybe, but the timing just wasn't right.

0:16.0

Today we're hearing the story of C.G. and Travis. The two of them met as ambitious young professionals

0:22.6

building a better Atlanta through their work with the Urban League. Over the years, they became

0:27.7

each other's ride or die, as co-chairs, creative collaborators, and best friends. There were a few

0:34.7

dates sprinkled in, their words, not mine, but the real romance didn't start

0:40.8

until C.G threw a curveball and moved to New Orleans. This is a story about finding your

0:47.4

person when you least expect it, about building a relationship in trust, service, and

0:52.8

shared purpose, and then, then choosing each other

0:57.7

boldly and clearly when it really counts. My recommitted co-host Christine Pride, the author of the

1:06.5

brand new Second Chance Romance, All the Men I've I've loved again is doing this interview with

1:11.8

CG and Travis and I think you're really going to enjoy it. The early days of their love story

1:16.9

starts when the two of them met in the Urban League of Greater Atlanta Young Professionals.

1:21.5

Music Well, thank you so much for being here with me today, C.J. and Travis. I'm really excited

1:46.5

to talk to you about your own sort of second chance romance is the terminology we've been

1:53.4

throwing around. Yeah. So I would love to just start with your story and I guess part

2:00.6

one of your story story which is when you

2:03.5

connected sort of way back when and when that was so I'm going to start it um we met in the urban

2:12.2

league of greater Atlanta young professionals um in 2000 and at the time it was I think called the Atlanta Urban League

2:23.4

young professionals they eventually changed the name I mean maybe 2007-ish or eight something like that

2:31.1

I can't recall us but somewhere around there there. Yeah. And I, I had recently

2:35.9

graduated from Clark Atlanta and I was looking to find like a non-collegiate network in Atlanta

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