You Don’t Need Someone to Complete You
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 27 May 2025
⏱️ 47 minutes
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Summary
This week, I’m joined by Syd Miller , founder of the fitness brand Housework. Syd shares how a breakup at 30, right when all her friends were getting engaged, became the catalyst for the best years of her life. We talk about how she built her brand from scratch, makes friends IRL, and navigates friendship shifts in different life stages. Most importantly, Syd shares how she’s created a full life that doesn’t need someone to complete it—just someone to add to it.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:07.9 | Sid Miller. |
| 0:09.0 | Hi. |
| 0:09.5 | Welcome to seeing other people. |
| 0:10.7 | Thanks for having me. |
| 0:11.8 | I feel so official. |
| 0:12.9 | You are so official. |
| 0:14.1 | You are the most official. |
| 0:15.4 | You have your own fitness studio in New York City. |
| 0:18.0 | You're the most official person on the planet right now. |
| 0:20.0 | It's crazy. |
| 0:22.3 | How does it feel like just to be you right now? It feels exhausting, but I feel like so |
| 0:30.1 | lucky and grateful. Like I truly just like every day that I walk to the studio, I'm just like, |
| 0:35.6 | I can't believe this is my life. Like it's, it feels like a movie. It's, it really does. Like, I'm like, I feel very aligned. Yeah. Yeah. And you worked hard for it. Like, that's the coolest thing. Like, nothing was handed to you. It's something that you've worked so hard for that you have, like, sacrificed for that you have wanted for so long. |
| 0:56.9 | And it just like, I feel like you radiate like so much positivity and so much like joy that like |
| 1:04.5 | it makes so much sense that you got to this point. Yeah. And like it was a long journey. |
| 1:12.1 | Yeah. Like I've been doing this for a really long time. So I don't know. I also think like maybe you relate to this too, but just like when, you know, obviously there's a lot of like good things happening. And yes, it's very, very hard. But there's a lot of good happening. And sometimes you're just like you do feel like quote unquote lucky like how did this happen but like you're right |
| 1:28.9 | no it happened because I worked really hard for like many many many years yeah so and it's just |
| 1:35.4 | like timing do you believe in manifesting oh like I'm a major manifester okay so I historically do not |
| 1:42.8 | okay um I've found it to be like a little too like woo-woo for me and a little too like in my mind, I'm like, I don't think I ever understood it. |
| 1:51.5 | Okay. Like for me it was like, oh, so I like just say something and then it happens. Like that doesn't make sense. And when people would say they like manifested their dream job or they manifested their dream partner, I kind of misunderstood |
| 2:02.6 | it as like, they just put it out there and then it just happened. I'm like, that doesn't make sense. |
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