River Gallo: Love, Breakups, Miracles and Resurrection

River is an artist, actor, and hopeful romantic. River is not afraid to welcome love in but also to let it go. If you are at a crossroads in love, this episode is for you.In this episode of Seriously Authentic, Larissa speaks with  River Gallo, River (they/them) is a GLAAD award-winning Salvadoran-American filmmaker, actor, writer, model, and intersex activist from New Jersey. River wrote, produced, and co-starred in Ponyboi, the feature film will premiere at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival in the US Dramatic Competition section. They were also the subject of the critically acclaimed feature documentary EVERY BODY directed by Academy-award nominated director Julie Cohen. In this conversation River & Larissa cover:Love and letting goRiver’s experience dating as an intersex, trans, non-binary humanRiver goes over their past of letting people in whose intentions are to use or objectify themRiver speaks to what they have come up against in dating, including internalized homophobia, and how they feel they’ve been a “stomping ground for men to figure their shit out” River breaks down what they are looking for  sustainability in love to be liberated and freeAccepting someone fully allows you to discover your own desires How what we think we want is not actually what we wantHow ending a relationship is ultimately about loving yourselfThe saddest part of a breakup is that you are breaking up with a part of yourselfBreakups trigger grief for River around who they were as well as an acceptance of the person that they are becomingRiver’s thoughts on scarcity in datingMaintaining hope and manifestation River explains how dating makes them crave a long-term partner and how they are expanded by dating multiple people and learning what kind of partner they really wantWhy sustainability in dating is so sexyRiver breaks down how the people they date are a mirror of their own complicated relationship with themselvesRiver used to be a hopeless romantic but is now a hopeful romanticRiver is curious about how to elapse time to skip the heartbreakGrowth can happen in quantum leapsRiver speaks to how society wants us to get over grief and how we all need to honor it more, because we are changed foreverBeing open to new beginnings in loveFollow River: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/rivergallo/Ponyboi Sundance World Premiere Screening: https://festival.sundance.org/program/film/656a0128fac9f44bfdc04033River:  https://www.rivergallo.com/aboutFollow Larissa:Subscribe to bi-weekly my newsletter, Seriously Authentic: https://view.flodesk.com/pages/6345b7fedc1a7e7fee60a1f1Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/larissavictoria/?hl=enBook a free discovery call: https://o555h5sa51b.typeform.com/to/Ml9LPYHaLinkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larissa-board-0b78b252/Seriously Authentic Music by: Haile Meirow “Ghosts”Talent manager / content editor: Serena Board