"Ilana Dunn didn't set out to become a dating coach. Like many of us, she endured years of trials and tribulations in relationships and relied on dating apps to help find her person. Dunn, now the host of the Seeing Other People podcast with nearly 50,000 subscribed listeners, had worked for several years in the music industry creating behind-the-scenes content for artists and bands. But her dating life was a "complete dumpster fire," she told Fortune."
""I had this pattern that I couldn't break of only dating emotionally unavailable men who worked in the music business," Dunn said. "And so after my who-knows-what-number bad breakup, I felt like I hit rock bottom and I couldn't listen to music. I need[ed] to get out of this industry, because it [was] causing me so much pain." With that, Dunn left the music industry to take a content lead position at Hinge in 2018."
Ilana Dunn left the music industry after repeated painful breakups and a pattern of dating emotionally unavailable men in that world. She joined Hinge in 2018 as a content lead and later hosted the Seeing Other People podcast with tens of thousands of listeners. Dunn matched with her husband on a dating app, but their connection formed in person over a glass of wine. Dating-app popularity rose around Hinge's 2019 acquisition and the pandemic, then declined amid changing expectations. Increasing numbers of Gen Z and millennials feel app burnout and are likely to seek in-person meetups for romance.
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