A Very Vulnerable and Touching Episode with Nou Founder and former Real Housewives of New Jersey star, Alexia Ioannou

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Dear Media, Pia Baroncini

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4.6 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 March 2025

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

Alexia Ioannou is the founder of Nou - a meticulously curated vintage studio of ultra-rare designer treasures that has become fashions best-kept secret. While I've been screaming over her shoe collection for years, she's now also launched Nou home, a collection of chic home pieces picked using her same impeccable process and taste; thoughtfully handpicking each and every piece as if she were buying for her own home.

Many of you also might know her from the Real Housewives of New Jersey - which happens to be my absolute favorite reality television show of all time. While she has stayed very far away from talking about the experience of reality TV and the extremely traumatic life events that have occurred alongside it, she recently opened up on her substack, finally allowing herself to share her side of a very publicly documented experience. Finally feeling free to share, we go very deep in this episode. I am honored Alexia opened up to me the way she did. This is a truly beautiful, heartfelt and vulnerable discussion. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	The following podcast is a Dear Media production.
0:15.3	Is there anything we can't talk about?
0:17.3	No.
0:18.2	Can I ask you offline?
0:19.6	Is there a mob situation happening with someone in your family?
0:23.4	Actively or in the past? It was the past, right? It was in the past. So cool. It's cool until it's not.
0:30.3	We know, Jardy grew up with, like, his best friend's dad was shot in front of him, like a block away from his house in Sicily.
0:37.0	Oh, wow. That's like real deal. A guy just went from his house in Sicily. Oh, wow.
0:38.5	That's like real deal. A guy just went by a motorcycle and was just like, wow.
0:41.1	You know.
0:41.9	Talk about trauma.
0:43.4	That's crazy.
0:43.8	But they just live like that.
0:45.3	Yeah.
0:45.9	They just live with trauma.
0:47.1	Yeah.
0:47.5	I think in America where we think it's like so cool.
0:51.7	You know. But then it's like, then it gets real and you're like, whoa, okay.
0:55.9	I love the Sopranos.
0:57.7	Yeah, of five, of course.
0:59.3	Yeah.
0:59.9	Like the best.
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