In her second book, Lisa Mansfield Barnica gives you all the help you'll need to make the 1st dates and beyond go better for men and women. The tips are helpful and amusing with some great artwork too. You'd think some of the tips seem basic and obvious but there's a reason that Lisa included them, many based on her own, often disastoruous, experiences in the dating trenches. 

On Amazon: 101 Tips for Dating

Barnes and Noble: 101 Tips for Dating

Dating is a skill where you can get coaching, practice, learn about it and get better at it. So that when you do meet someone that could be a great match you'll be more likely to make it work. Our guest Jolene Beaton, author, dating coach, and PhD candidate, talks about Flow Dating. Flow is a concept typically used in athletic performances to get better at your game. But there's ways to use the ideas in the dating game. 

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Harness the Love Formula to cultivate self-love and build lasting partnerships. A thoughtful, data-driven approach to navigating today’s complex dating world. What if you could uncover a method that not only clarifies your relationship standards but also helps you assess the potential of your partnerships? What if this process could reveal deeper truths about yourself than you’ve ever known?​ Author and researcher Zoey Charif talk about her work on calculating love. 

Love Can, In Fact, Be Calculated by Zoey Charif

Lola lives in a small midwestern city and quickly grew out of the options nearby. She joined The League dating app. She had some successes that sent her states away for some overnight fun and got her involved in some spicy situations and some open marriage situations. Find out how The League works and hear some great stories of dating. 

Listen as a couple goes on one date and then move into together, engaged in 6 months, and married a few months later, then divorce a few months after that. See what can be learned from this story about what to look out for in your own dating. 

Jeff shares an experience where a woman he was seeing suggested that they just do "casual dating". Jeff was fine with that. But when he texted her to verify that she had the same definition of "casual dating" as he did things went awry. 

Lana Ricco is a prominent dating coach and relationship strategist specializing in guiding both men and women toward attracting high-value partners and cultivating successful relationships. Her expertise extends to hosting the new dating show, *Dating Makeover*, where she provides practical, actionable advice to individuals facing dating challenges.Find her new show Dating Makeover on YouTube. 

 Lana Ricco

Jeff has ventured back to the online apps. Match.com (yes open to sponsorships). But things haven't changed much really... many of the same issues that inspired Jeff to make a podcast about dating are still happening online. But remember people be kind, empathetic, mostly everyone is doing their best to find love. 

Dating people a lot younger or older than you is called Age Gap dating. It's not new but maybe it is for many of us. Find out what the attraction might be. 

In Episode 62 you hear the story of Kelly getting together with the contractor she hired to do some renovations on her house. A contractor and client hooking up is likely not an uncommon dalliance. However, it was soon discovered that the contrator was not single and difficulties ensued. Jeff and Mindy strongly recommended that Kelly block, delete and go no contact immediately. Kelly took their advice...for three days. Then she was right back in it. Big time. This episode hears the tale of international travel, the permanent borrowing of a car, and a significant other knocking on Kelly's door.