Reimagine It All
A dinner party-meets-salon for the mind, where lingering conversations, unfinished thoughts, and expansive ideas are served up as ways to reimagine life’s biggest themes. Exploring everything from love, endings, and success to art, money, and all that lies in between.
Hosted by author, speaker, artist, and storyteller Giselle La Pompe-Moore, who sometimes goes at it alone, with thought-experiment-style musings and real-talk observations. In other episodes, she sits with friends, artists, creatives, provocateurs, and unexpected voices for free-flowing, exploratory conversations (no rigid interviews here).
Expect more playfulness and fewer conclusions, curiosity instead of preaching, questions without needing answers. This is a space to think differently, to wonder, and to be open to perspective shifts; as we untangle what we think we know and reimagine all that could be.
Reimagine It All
Reimagining Dating with Nicole Ocran
In this week's episode, we’re talking about dating! I’m joined by my incredible guest Nicole Ocran, a Ghanaian-Filipino co-author of The Half of It: Exploring the Mixed Race Experience, journalist, podcast co-host of Mixed Up, and fashion influencer.
As always we come to these episodes armed with one word and the willingness to see what comes. Nicole writes the weekly Substack newsletter, A Crumb of Romance, for lovers, sensitive souls, yearners, and anyone looking to inject a little romance into their everyday lives; so I knew I had to have her on for this episode.
I’ve always been an advocate for reimagining what being single looks like, and how we can all make modern dating work for us. In this episode, Nicole and I talk about being a lovergirl, relationship milestones, the Wild West of dating apps, not waiting “for the one” while you're single, keeping the hope, what therapy has to do with it, our thoughts on the whole "when you know, you know" and the balance of living a full life when single even if you desire being a relationship.
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