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Honest conversations about relationships, self awareness, and emotional growth.

This week on I Hear You, Babe, listeners share the quiet moments they realized a relationship wasn’t right — not the breakup, not the explosion, but the knowing that came before.

From feeling lonely while sitting next to someone, to realizing you’d stopped sharing parts of yourself, to recognizing your body felt relief when plans were canceled, these stories capture the subtle signs we try to ignore when we want something to work.

Dino reflects on why knowing and leaving are two different things, why we stay longer than we should, and how learning to tell yourself the truth is sometimes the first step toward something better.

If you’ve ever felt something shift before you were ready to admit it, this episode will probably hit close to home.

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Honest conversations about relationships, self awareness, and emotional growth.

In this mega episode of I Hear You, Babe, Dino reads listener stories about their best and worst dating experiences and reflects on what actually makes a date meaningful or damaging. From calm, honest one night connections to relationships that slowly eroded self trust, this episode explores dating patterns, emotional honesty, attachment, and the quiet moments when your body knows something your mind hasn’t caught up to yet.

Listeners share stories about clarity without cruelty, consistency without curiosity, staying too long, being chosen out loud, and realizing that nothing bad happening can sometimes be the best possible outcome. Along the way, Dino holds space for disappointment, hope, and the very human urge to want something to work.

This episode isn’t about good dates versus bad dates. It’s about noticing how you feel afterward and what that tells you about what you actually need.

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This is I Hear You, Babe. Today we are talking about the comment that was small but stayed with you forever.

It starts with a very New York moment. I asked a guy for a lighter while he was literally smoking a cigarette and he said he didn’t have one. And somehow that spirals into everything.

Because this episode is not about the big blowups. It’s about the tiny comments. The offhand one liners. The weird little moments that technically should not matter, but quietly rearrange how you take up space.

We read your emails about the sentences you still hear years later from managers, friends, dates, teachers, parents, strangers, and sometimes your own brain. And we talk about why those moments land so hard, why they stay, and how to stop letting them shrink you.

Want to be in a future episode? Email me at IHearYouBabePod@gmail.com
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This week on I Hear You, Babe, we’re easing into it.

I start by talking about losing Dude and how grateful I am that we were able to say goodbye at home. It was quiet. It was sad. It was peaceful. And yes, I cried like a child.

From there, we settle into a very real, very human mega episode about what actually helps when you’re not okay — not in an Instagram way, not in a fix-it way, but in the way people actually survive hard seasons.

You’ll hear long listener emails and shorter ones. Stories about grief, relationships, therapy, doing less, neutral days, sitting on the floor, going to the same bar, loving animals, and letting things be unfinished.

I also do a lot of chitchatting.
Interrupting.
Reacting.
Sitting with things instead of tying them up.

If you’re not okay right now, this episode isn’t here to make you better.
It’s here to keep you company.

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This week, it is the fake limbo between Christmas and New Year’s where nobody knows what day it is, time feels optional, and I refuse to spend a single second doing a countdown with anyone I don’t deeply trust. We’re talking gray New York days, castor oil everywhere, vision boards on the living room floor, and the specific chaos that only shows up when the year is about to end.

We’re reading your weirdest nights out. The carpet night. The lost phone spiral that ends with someone answering their own phone and crying to their mom. The accidental afters where you think you’re going to another bar and instead someone hands you soup in a mug at 7am. Running into your ex and immediately walking into a pole. The bathroom best friend who knows your entire life story and then disappears forever. And the quiet walk home that somehow becomes the night that stays.

Because the wild nights are never really about the night. They’re about the walk home, the bathroom conversation, the moment you realize you’re done while everyone else is still going, and the second soup enters the chat and you know it’s time to leave.

Send your emails to IHearYouBabePod@gmail.com
. Be specific. Do not over explain. Anonymous always.

Seacrest out.

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It is almost Christmas and I am in that weird in between time where the city feels half asleep and everything feels a little softer. Last night I went to Jan and Jackie’s Christmas show at Red Eye. Tonight Darius and I are doing a candlelight concert with traditional Christmas songs. Tomorrow I head to Pittsburgh for a few days and I am already thinking about my mom’s food and also missing my man.

Then we get into the emails. What I know now that I wish I’d known then. Love that feels like a performance. The difference between peace and settling. Why silence at work costs you. And why missing someone does not mean you should go back.

Send your long emails to ihearyoubabepod@gmail.com

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This week on I Hear You, Babe, Dino gets into Hot Takes — the quiet thoughts you have at the kitchen counter, the texts you never sent, the opinions you immediately judge yourself for having.

These aren’t podcast bro hot takes or engagement bait. They’re honest. Messy. Lived in.

Listener emails and DMs roll in on love, friendship, self respect, silence, closure, being “chill,” outgrowing people, and the moment you realize staying loyal to the past can mean abandoning yourself in the present. Dino riffs on what it actually means to grow, to set boundaries, and to tell yourself the truth without turning anyone into a villain.

The episode also touches on grief, compassion, and remembering that you never really know what someone might be carrying when they show up in the world.

If this episode stirred something for you, long emails are always welcome at ihearyoubabepod@gmail.com — the messy ones especially.

And if you’re also into the darker side of storytelling, Dino’s new true crime podcast I Fear You, Babe is now live, exploring unsettling cases through a human, emotionally grounded lens.

If you’ve ever wondered whether you’re disloyal or just honest — this episode is for you.

I hear you, babe.

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This week we’re talking about the moments when the version of ourselves we thought we’d outgrown comes bursting through the door like, “Hey girl, remember me?”

From jealousy to teenage spirals to emotional regression to accidentally telling your therapist you love him — today’s episode is a gentle drag, a group confession, and a reminder that the “real you” isn’t the problem. The shame is.

We read your long, emotional, chaotic, complicated listener emails and talk about why your honest self isn’t something to hide… even when she’s deeply inconvenient.

Come laugh, cry, cringe, and breathe through it, babe.
It’s I Hear You, Babe.

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