Dating A Broad

This week, in our last ever episode, we discuss how the pandemic has impacted the future of relationships and our predictions for what dating as a nomad will look like once borders start opening. We’ve shared so many embarrassing stories and spoken with so many wonderful, open and insightful people over these two seasons. It’s been a pleasure sharing their stories here, but we feel like we’ve done what we set out to do - create a little time capsule of nomad pandemic dating - and we’re going to quit while we’re ahead! Thank you so much for coming along with us on this journey. Big hugs!

Our reading recommendations this week are:

Elly's: Promising Young Women by Caroline O’Donoghue. You can find her here: https://www.instagram.com/czaronline

Kayla's: A woman’s right to say ‘meh’: being sex positive won’t guarantee you an orgasm: https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2015/oct/10/sex-positivity-sexuality-ambivalence-feminism

Music by Ly Trang. Find her work at lytrang.bandcamp.com

Your hosts for Dating A Broad are Elly Earls (https://www.instagram.com/nomadvoices/)

and Kayla Kurin (https://www.arogayoga.com)

This week we speak with Elizabeth Miner, a nomad and self-defence teacher, about how to stay safe while on dates and while on the road. We also discuss how structural biases against women, trans people, non-binary folk, and people on the LGBTQ system create more dangers for those groups and how we can work together to combat those issues.

Elizabeth’s Instagram is https://instagram.com/elizabethminerofficial

The self-defence technique she teaches is https://www.esdglobalselfdefense.org/

Our reading recommendation this week is Insatiable by Daisy Buchanan https://www.instagram.com/thedaisybee/

Music by Ly Trang. Find her work at lytrang.bandcamp.com.

Have a wild dating story? Send us an email to [email protected].

You can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/datingabroad. We’re also on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dating_a_broad/

Your hosts for Dating A Broad are Elly Earls (https://www.instagram.com/nomadvoices/)

and Kayla Kurin (https://www.arogayoga.com)

In this special live episode, we talk to the lovely ladies of the Digital Nomad Girls Inner Circle about what it’s really been like to be a digital nomad girl navigating dating, relationships, love and sex during a global pandemic. We’ve got stories about the worst date ever, the best date ever, starting therapy, dealing with long-distance and coping with living together 24-7.

DNG is a virtual coworking community for female nomads, which you should definitely check out! https://digitalnomadgirls.com/

Their Facebook Group is also brilliant: https://www.facebook.com/groups/DigitalNomadGirls/

Music by Ly Trang. Find her work at lytrang.bandcamp.com.

Have a wild dating story? Send us an email to [email protected].

You can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/datingabroad. We’re also on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dating_a_broad/

Your hosts for Dating A Broad are Elly Earls (https://www.instagram.com/nomadvoices/)

and Kayla Kurin (https://www.arogayoga.com)

In this episode, we talk to long term nomads, writers and performers Jon and Viv who got engaged at the Edinburgh Fringe and had planned to have a super showboaty wedding during 2020, but ended up cancelling because, well, Covid. We also chat to nomad Miranda, who took the opposite approach and decided to seize the day and tie the knot during lockdown.

Here’s the video of Jon’s proposal to Viv: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuYjR6092YI

The nomad book club Viv mentions is linked to her podcast, Nomad and Spice, which is here: https://www.nomadandspice.com/ 

Jon’s Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/50_shades_of_gracey/

You can find Viv here https://www.instagram.com/vivalogue/

To find out more about Miranda, head here: https://www.instagram.com/mirandalmwrites/

Our reading recommendation this week is Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam. https://www.amazon.com/Leave-World-Behind-Rumaan-Alam/dp/0062667637

We also mention The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/251269/the-heart-goes-last-by-margaret-atwood/

Music by Ly Trang. Find her work at lytrang.bandcamp.com.

Have a wild dating story? Send us an email to [email protected].

You can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/datingabroad. We’re also on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dating_a_broad/

Your hosts for Dating A Broad are Elly Earls (https://www.instagram.com/nomadvoices/) and Kayla Kurin (https://www.arogayoga.com)

This week, we talk all things porn with our friend, nomad and patron of the podcast Abigail. We cover everything from coronavirus porn to 1920s porn to the unrealistic expectations porn can give young people, plus where we can take our vibrators as nomads and our thoughts on Bridgerton.

Research and articles we mention in this episode include:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xg8z77/coronavirus-is-speeding-up-the-evolution-of-porn

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-54148734

https://www.abc.net.au/everyday/women-watch-porn-and-its-complicated/11722690

Our reading recommendation this week is Love in Times of Corona, a time capsule of isolation porn, published by Berlinable https://berlinable.com/love-in-times-of-corona

Music by Ly Trang. Find her work at lytrang.bandcamp.com.

Have a wild dating story? Send us an email to [email protected].

You can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/datingabroad. We’re also on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dating_a_broad/

Your hosts for Dating A Broad are Elly Earls (https://www.instagram.com/nomadvoices/) and Kayla Kurin (https://www.arogayoga.com)

In this special holiday episode, we both read out articles about our past and present nomadic dating lives.

Kayla's 'Written in the Stars' piece was published here: https://intrepidtimes.com/2020/06/written-in-the-stars/

Elly's 'Nomading during a Pandemic' article was published on her brand new website, here: https://www.nomadvoices.com/nomadingduringapandemic

Her 'Finding Mr Right' piece was originally in a magazine called Insider published in Dubai, which long ago went bust! 

Music by Ly Trang. Find her work at lytrang.bandcamp.com.

Have a wild dating story? Send us an email to [email protected].

You can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/datingabroad. We’re also on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dating_a_broad/

Your hosts for Dating A Broad are Elly Earls (https://www.instagram.com/runaway_writer/) and Kayla Kurin (https://arogayoga.com)

This week, we cover turbo relationships, relationships that move at lightning speed because of lockdown or being on the road. We chat to Nancy in New York, who reconnected with an old friend shortly before the pandemic and started dating. When lockdown happened, they decided to turbo charge their relationship by shacking up and they haven’t looked back. We also chat to nomad Nina who’d been single for six years before she met her now-boyfriend during lockdown in Portugal.

Music by Ly Trang. Find her work at lytrang.bandcamp.com.

You can find Nina at https://www.instagram.com/nienkenina_

Nancy is at https://www.instagram.com/nanafanapanalan/

Our reading recommendation this week is All Roads Lead to Austen by Amy Elizabeth Smith

https://garamondagency.com/work/all-roads-lead-to-austen/

Have a wild dating story? Send us an email to [email protected].

You can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/datingabroad. We’re also on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dating_a_broad/

Your hosts for Dating A Broad are Elly Earls (https://www.instagram.com/runaway_writer/) and Kayla Kurin (https://arogayoga.com)

Season two episode two is the break-up episode! But not just your standard break-up. We talk to expat writer and author Jessica Ramos about what it was like to spend $1,000 on a flight to reunite with her boyfriend during the pandemic, only to be dumped two hours after her arrival. We also speak to digital nomad Robin Finney about her experience of a whirlwind travel romance, which didn't ultimately last. 

Jessica's website is http://artistandthecity.com/ and her Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/artistandthecity/

Robin's website is https://www.wanderingaunt.com/ and her Instagram is https://www.instagram.com/wanderingaunt/

Our reading recommendation this week is Ghosts by Dolly Alderton. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/50042494-ghosts

Music by Ly Trang. Find her work at lytrang.bandcamp.com.

Have a wild dating story? Send us an email to [email protected].

You can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/datingabroad. We’re also on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dating_a_broad/

Your hosts for Dating A Broad are Elly Earls (https://www.instagram.com/runaway_writer/) and Kayla Kurin (https://arogayoga.com/)

In the first episode of season two, we celebrate our one year friend-iversary by talking about friend romances (specifically ours!) We also look at how dating has changed - for better and for worse - during the crazy year that has been 2020. 

Our reading recommendation this week is How To Date Men When You Hate Men by Blythe Roberson https://blytheroberson.com/book

Music by Ly Trang. Find her work at lytrang.bandcamp.com.

Have a wild dating story? Send us an email to [email protected].

You can become a patron at https://www.patreon.com/datingabroad. We’re also on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/dating_a_broad/

Your hosts for Dating A Broad are Elly Earls (https://www.instagram.com/runaway_writer/) and Kayla Kurin (https://www.instagram.com/kaylakurin/)

Dating A Broad is a remote dating podcast, where we share outlandish dating stories from people struggling with the new dating landscape. In season two, Be My Carry-on Baggage, we'll look at how the coronavirus pandemic is going to impact the future of dating. We’ll get insights from digital nomads, who have been navigating dating under extreme circumstances for years, as well as stories from people who have been locked down in love.