About this episode

Maddy Carty and guest Molly Lee Clancy discuss modern relationships, personal growth, and the challenges of navigating life in your 30s.

What happens when you’ve been with the same person for 12 years, get engaged in Japan during cherry blossom season, survive your 20s, and somehow avoid every dating app horror story?This week on Mads World, I’m joined by content creator, actor and newly-engaged queen Molly Lee Clancy for a chaotic conversation about modern relationships, growing up, internet culture and why your 30s might actually be better than your 20s.We chat about Molly’s surprise engagement in Japan, meeting her fiancé as a teenage swim teacher, the biggest lessons from a 12-year relationship, confidence in your 30s, social media brain rot, dating app red flags, influencer culture, online hate, and the absolute disaster that unfolded when Molly flooded a Hilton bathroom on her second day of work in Canada.We also discuss heartbreak, timelines, people-pleasing, finding yourself as you get older, why nobody knows what they’re doing, and the strange comfort of realising everyone is just making it up as they go.Expect relationship advice, travel chaos, toilet humour, internet discourse, millennial nostalgia and plenty of oversharing.In this episode:* Getting engaged in Japan* The reality of a 12-year…

People in this episode

Host: Maddy Carty

Guest: Molly Lee Clancy

Topics covered

• modern relationships
• growing up
• internet culture
• confidence in your 30s
• dating app red flags
• influencer culture
• heartbreak

Keywords

• engagement
• dating apps
• social media
• confidence
• millennial nostalgia
• travel stories
• toilet humour

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Japan, Canada

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