What If You Don’t Want the Life Everyone Else Has?
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 12 August 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, I’m joined by my run coach Victoria Sekely, DPT, for a candid conversation about living life on your own terms. We talk about the shocking way she met her husband, why she never wanted a traditional wedding, and her decision not to have kids. She shares how she navigates changing friendships as her friends become moms, finds fulfillment in other ways, and deals with people questioning her choices. We also get into letting go of grudges, protecting your peace, and the mental load of social media.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:07.8 | Okay, there are a lot of reasons I'm excited for today's episode and today's guest. |
| 0:13.1 | One of the top ones is because I usually change out of my workout clothes for recordings. |
| 0:18.3 | And today, I'm staying right in them because I have my run coach, my favorite |
| 0:25.2 | podcast hosts, one of my favorite follows on Instagram and so much more, Victoria Seckley, |
| 0:32.4 | welcome to seeing other people. I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much for having me. I'm like so excited to chat. I feel like we know each other people. I'm so excited to be here. Thank you so much for having me. I'm so excited to chat. |
| 0:38.8 | I feel like we know each other outside of the like Instagram world too, but it's still really |
| 0:45.2 | cool to do stuff like this together. A hundred percent. And I feel like we've also known each |
| 0:49.2 | other in different capacities like over the years. Like at first, you're, you were just like, |
| 0:55.9 | Kerwin's husband's best friend's wife, who they hang out with sometimes. And then Kerwin was like, yeah, |
| 1:00.1 | like, me and V have become good friends. Like, come hang out with us. And then, like, we've gotten |
| 1:04.6 | lunch. And, like, we've, you know, had similar stressors about social media. And now, you know, had similar stressors about social media. And now I, you are like my lifeline when it comes |
| 1:16.6 | to running. So, um, there's, I mean, there's so much for us to talk about as much as I want to |
| 1:23.4 | talk about running this entire time. That's not what we do here. That's why I listen. |
| 1:27.9 | That's not talking about running the entire time. That's why I listen to Train Smart Run Strong. |
| 1:32.3 | But I am really excited. I feel like there's so much about you, about your life that I think |
| 1:37.2 | the listeners will find really interesting, really insightful, really valuable. So excited to get into all of it to start. |
| 1:47.6 | Can you, in your own words, like what's your elevator pitch that you would give somebody? |
| 1:56.6 | Like about myself or my profession? |
| 2:03.8 | Both. |
| 2:04.2 | About yourself. |
| 2:05.4 | Like, because, you know, it's funny. |
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