After recording 44 episodes and growing an incredible community, our girl Becca will be taking a much-needed season break to broaden her horizons and see what the next steps for the show will be! If you are interested in sponsoring the show and/or are interested in joining the show as a co-host, hit her up! In the meantime, follow her on Instagram and Twitter to get show updates! Make sure you’re subscribed to Dating in the Bae wherever you listen to your podcasts to automatically receive future announcements!
Fear not! This season finale episode is a fun one! Jenna Langbaum, the author of “Me in Search of You,” joins the show to chat about her new book and the New York City dating scene. Jenna shares how the book came to be, her favorite anecdotes, plus she reads an excerpt from her book! Jenna is such a lively, positive, and smart woman; you are going to love her! Tune into this last episode before the show’s season break.
Jump straight into:
(00:26) - Season break announcement and key learnings: Reflecting and remembering Dating In the Bae’s beginnings.
(04:20) - Jenna’s career as a creative going through the swirl of dating.
(07:53) - Me in Search of You: The book’s witty style and how it reminds us to go back and laugh at ourselves.
(09:47) - Jenna’s favorite stories from her book: The cab driver psychic and a post-breakup photoshoot for Facebook.
(11:23) - Reading an excerpt from Me in Search of You, I Replicate It: “It’s such a ritual of costume and performance…”
(13:07) - How writing the book has changed Jenna’s view on modern dating: Reflections, ghosting stories, takeaways, and the golden texting rule.
(19:08) - Badass. Resilient. Single: Is there an added dimension to single women?
(22:27) - The hardest part about writing a book: Growing up in the middle of heartbreak and a rollercoaster of emotions.
(26:15) - How Jenna came up with the book title, what is next for her as a writer and why binge-watching Working Moms is an entire mood.
Episode resources
Me in Search of You by Jenna Langbaum
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