I'm joined by Ilana Dunn. She hosts the Seeing Other People podcast, where, each Tuesday, Ilana invites expert guests onto the podcast to discuss the tropes of modern dating and relationships with an unmatched level of honesty and empathy. On Thursday’s "Unfiltered" episodes, anonymous listeners join the show to have vulnerable and open conversations about what they’ve struggled with in their dating lives, what they wish they knew when going through their experience, and how they came out stronger. Seeing Other People is your weekly reminder that dating doesn’t have to suck and we’re all in this together.

Ilana's career started in the music industry, where she worked for amazing companies and made an amazing path and connections. Then she went on to work at one of the most known dating apps, Hinge, where she was known the Face of Hinge and the host of Hinge’s Dating Sucks. 2+ years after she got that job, the company chose a different approach to content creation and she was let go. From that day on she has decided to have confidence in herself and become a freelancer and independent podcaster!

In this episode we talk about: 

- her journey from college to working in the music industry

- why she got burnt out, started to hate music and realized she needed to get so far away from it because she lost her passion for it

- transition to working on the dating world, and one of the most known apps, hinge, being the face of Hinge

- getting let go from her job at Hinge where she thought she had the most job security in the world

- transitioning from that to being a freelancer and an independent podcaster

- how she cultivated a community online by being real and vulnerable on social media

- her new series on her podcast, called UNFILTERED, where listeners come on the podcast to share their struggles with dating and relationships

Hope you enjoy!

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Music: Lukrembo https://soundcloud.com/lukrembo/