Connected S1:E5 Learn From Your Mistakes

Bella Breakdown We’re feeling extra connected to this cast of New Yorkers this episode as they show us some of the mistakes they’ve made in the past and how being human isn’t always easy. From marriages to monogamy, see the compromises that make their everyday happen. First, there’s a whirlwind of gossip circling Lori about her relationship and parenting in her fiancé’s hometown. Which, to quote Lori is “a wicked little town, full of wicked little girls who are all grown up now and have nothing better to do than run their mouth.” A tumultuous family dinner leads to...

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Connected S1:E3 | An Apple a Day

Bella Breakdown We’re tuning back into the real lives of a colorful group of New Yorkers, finding their way through relationship problems, health scares, and the daily ups and downs of co-habitation. In this episode we meet Eli & Ido, 34 & 37, they’re married with two adorable children, a chemist and high tech manager respectively. They live in Forest Hills, Queens and as we meet them, Eli is dropping off his mom at the airport with a teary goodbye, and putting their kids to sleep, never an easy task is only made harder with some noisy neighbored gettin’...

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Connected S1:E2 | Big Breaks

Bella Breakdown Okay Bellas, back into the lives of this colorful cast, we’ve been dying to see what happened for Derek the stand-up comedian and can’t wait to meet the rest of the Connected crew. New on the block is Lori, she’s 45, engaged and basically the bad-ass business woman that comes to mind when we tell you she’s running two companies and planning her own wedding. Crazy, we love her! She can plan a full-scale red carpet and plan for A-list celebrities, but what she didn’t plan for was falling in love with a man with four kids....

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Connected S1:E1 | Pursuing Passions

Bella Breakdown Oh lovely Bellas, here comes a show about life, actual real life, about people and problems and their ups and downs. Forget reality TV, here is the everyday realities of three very different New Yorkers living lifestyles from beau of the rich and famous to the couch surfing stand-up comic. Come be a fly on the wall as people like us and our Bellas find solutions in this new series, Connected. Here’s the cast of characters: First there’s Jonathan, he’s 37, an aspiring writer and a frustrated creative who transformed his 6-story walk-up apartment in SoHo into...

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The Future of Our Species

Bella Breakdown Where is the future of our species headed? Did Leonardo Da Vinci have the answer? Well, five years after Tiffany’s father, best-selling author Leonard Shlain, passed away, his final book was finally published. Sharing the story of the book’s publication and building off the ideas in her father’s book, this episode also explores Tiffany’s ideas about where the future of our species is...

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