Synopsis
Are you Single? Wish you weren't? I'm your host, Julie Ferman, join me as I challenge today's evolutionary, modern day dating experts, through interviews that are frank, courageous, open-hearted and often hilarious.We'll shine light on your blind spots (yep, we've all got 'em) and we'll laugh through our A-HA moments together. You'll hear about couples who did dating well and found each other, and the flops -- those who are doing dating badly -- we'll learn from them too. How might you do dating differently? What subtle and not so subtle changes might you make that might just change everything? Join me on this journey as we listen, laugh, learn and love!
Episodes
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Ep. 208 - Conversations for Dates #1, #2, & #3
24/06/2025 Duration: 46minTransform the quality of your early dates, ALL of your conversations, and EACH of your relationships through the art of conversation. Engaging curiosity, acceptance, wonder and creating love through our words and open-hearted presence.
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Ep. 207 - Voice Check. How we speak matters.
17/06/2025 Duration: 57minAbout your VOICE. How we say things is as important as the words we choose. Voice Coach, Pamela Prather shares how to prepare for the first-impression-moments in our lives, including our first dates. How to cultivate authenticity intentionally, through our voices. Our costume, our psychic energy, but also our tone of voice, reveal so much about us. The power of laughter and ...how to stop saying "um" - Becoming consciously competent in how we speak. And that "potty mouth" Uh oh...
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Ep. 206 - How We Actually Met
10/06/2025 Duration: 43minReal, live stories about how beautiful, happy couples actually met. How a "chance" encounter turned into lifelong love. What did he do, what did she do to cause that first date to happen. There's a moral to every story. Join us.
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Ep. 205 - Our Epidemic of Loneliness
03/06/2025 Duration: 35minLoneliness has become a crisis, an epidemic in our culture. Are you part of the problem? Can you become the solution? Are you disengaged or engaged with your fellow humans? And what might happen if you choose to become a difference-maker in your own social life and the lives of those around you?
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Ep. 204 - Who's Clueless and Who's Stretching?
27/05/2025 Duration: 26minStuck in a One Date Wonder pattern? Are you courageous enough to challenge yourself? Vision Boards - uh oh, are they dangerous? Which criteria SHOULD you stretch on, and how Google Snooping can backfire.
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Ep. 203 - The goodness in bad things that happen.
20/05/2025 Duration: 20minHow a broken foot can be a blessing. When relationships morph over time, can we hang in there? Reassessing key criteria after 35 years of marriage. Wow, huh?
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Ep. 202 - Kristi Price, Matchmaker in Philadelphia and West Palm Beach is in the Hot Seat
13/05/2025 Duration: 52minKristi Price, Matchmaker in Philadelphia & West Palm Beach, on the importance of interactive conversation, bringing care and curiosity TO the dating process. Checking expectations and rethinking the stories we tell. The lengths a matchmaker will go to usher in rock-solid MEN for our female clients Spotting The Narcissism and emotional intelligence.
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Ep. 201 - Deekron Krikorian on The Imposter Syndrome: the unfulfilling striving for acceptance, pleasing, causing internal stress - reframing.
06/05/2025 Duration: 49minTo what degree are our decisions based on ego, avoiding criticism and judgment, seeking validation? The key to creating balance between work and play.
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Ep. 200 - Alison Armstrong, Julie’s favorite relationship guru, addresses the question, “Is love scarce?”
29/04/2025 Duration: 59minCan we cause loving feelings? How? The opportunity in conflict, and the source of chemistry and connection.
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Ep. 199 - Carla Swiryn, Founder of DateSpot, shares Julie's passion for delivering affordable matchmaking to the masses.
22/04/2025 Duration: 01h20minHer company's pay-per-match model and Julie Ferman's Mitzvah Matches are shaking up the dating industry; no longer is personal matchmaking reserved only for the uber wealthy. It's about time.
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Ep. 198 - Colorado Matchmaker, Gabrielle Aratow reveals what Mountain Men really need.
15/04/2025 Duration: 59minDoes a significant age difference make sense, short-term? Long-term? Looking for your soulmate? Does your soul really care how tall he is or how wealthy he is?
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Ep. 197 - Communication: Assessing our strengths and ... our weaknesses.
08/04/2025 Duration: 51minAre we being honest with ourselves? What's our part in the successes and failures we have had in communication, in all of our relationships? How much courage can we muster up, to find the answers to those questions? We're doing this personal growth work together. Thank you for joining me in this oh-so-challenging conversation.
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Ep. 196 - The Art of Social Magnetism
01/04/2025 Duration: 37minImagine - you, playing Social Director and Personal Matchmaker for yourSELF. Developing your Posse of single pals, engaging "strangers" and causing connections to happen. Julie shares social superpower strategies to build your Little Black Book.
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Ep. 195 - Marcy Cole, Ph.D. shares her Long Distance Dating success story.
25/03/2025 Duration: 46minWhy The Alpha Male in disguise is a wise choice. How she and Michael handled the "who pays for what?" issue and how they found their "We" without losing their "Me".
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Ep. 194 - The Age Issue.
18/03/2025 Duration: 47minAre your age requirements and preferences working for you? Is the person you're "targeting" looking for YOU? Or ... maybe not. Real, live stories and lessons here for you to wrestle with. Which of these tragic mistakes are YOU making? We'll find out together.
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Ep. 193 - Best Selling Author Katherine Woodward Thomas
11/03/2025 Duration: 44minCalling In The One author, Katherine Woodward Thomas shares about why we should "do the work" and what that looks like. Transcending our gnarly histories, recognizing and dissolving our blocks to love.
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Ep. 192 - Pesky Dating Questions Handled
04/03/2025 Duration: 40minWhen is it OK to date more than one person? Why am I attracting the wrong people? How can I know if we're compatible? Answers here
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Ep. 191 - Entitlement. Sexy? Not so much.
25/02/2025 Duration: 34minWhat is it to have a sense of entitlement? Who's exhibiting this behavior? People you've dated? You, maybe? Uh oh. Let's take a close look at what entitlement is and how to avoid these people.
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Ep. 190 - Can Love Be Bought? Can love be found?
18/02/2025 Duration: 47minWho's hiring matchmakers today? What to do BEFORE you hire help. Why does this matchmaker provide so many introductions for free? And uh oh, are you seeking an Unnatural Match?
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Ep. 189 - Larry Michel on Co-creative, Evolutionary Partnership
11/02/2025 Duration: 48minAre you partnership material...yet? Are you choosing properly? Preparing for relationship, to avoid repairing later. Upleveling humanity through discontinuing labeling. The power of curiosity, inquiry, and creating a relationship manifesto.