On this week’s Let’s Talk About… episode, Elise sits down with Danielle Ruhl-Thompson.

You may know Danielle from Season 2 of the hit Netflix series Love is Blind, a social experiment where contestants look for love and get engaged, all before meeting in-person. Danielle is from Chicago, Illinois and works in advertising. 

Elise and Danielle talk about life before the show, her experiences on Love is Blind, being married to Nick and gives advice for newlyweds. She also openly speaks about her mental health journey and the advocacy work she does.

“And I remember walking out of a date crying, and I think it was like the third day where I was like, I’m falling in love. And I think we both kind of like expressed that we were falling in love and, and it’s weird because like day four, we decided to be exclusive. So, I was like, I think you’re my boyfriend now, like explicitly in the sense where it’s like, we didn’t want to waste anyone else’s time.” Danielle tells Elise on Let’s Talk About.

In this Episode we talk about:

Life before + after the show

Why it's important to talk about Mental Health

Advice for newlyweds

Resources:

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On today’s Let’s Talk About… episode, Elise sits down with Maria Avgitidis.

Maria Avgitidis is a NYC-based matchmaker with a global reputation. For over a decade, she has successfully combined four generations of family matchmaking tradition with modern relationship psychology and search techniques to ensure her professional clientele are introduced to their ultimate match. As the Founder of Agape Match, Maria combines strong intuition with matchmaking methodology to leverage each client’s unique Attachment Style and preferred Love Language. She is also a Founder of the highly acclaimed Matchmakers Alliance, a collaborative network of hand-selected international dating professionals.

“What makes people feel secure in a relationship is being able to communicate their boundaries and what their expectations are. You know, you being able to set the expectations where you can still feel acknowledged and not confused and you don’t feel secure. So I think for success, you know, you want to look at someone who

has emotional resilience and you also try to grow your own emotional resilience.” Maria told Elise on this episode Let’s Talk About.

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In this Episode we talk about:

What it means to be a matchmaker

Questions we should be asking on first and second dates

Finding a true partnership

Resources:

Read the show transcript

Follow Maria on social media: @MatchmakerMaria 

Learn more about Agape Matchmaking: @agapematch + www.agapematch.com

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On today's Let’s Talk About… episode, Elise sits down with Blake Moynes.

You probably know Blake from the Bachelor franchise where he got the final rose in season 17, but there’s more to Blake than his time on the bachelorette. Like he is a fellow Canadian, has worked for the urban wildlife management for the past several years and is an advocate for the environment, he even has his own merchandise line that directly supports wildlife conservation.

Elise and Blake talk about everything from sharing the male perspective on dating in 2022 to supporting your partner and stepping out of the notion that love is only found in fairy tales.

“Find the ways to be happy on your own first, if your happiness and your non-negotiables mix with her happiness and her non-negotiables and that just meshes well, you’re off to a hell of a start, and you have to have that happiness first and it should naturally want to mesh with the right person if it doesn’t and you’re not happy or you’re giving up too much, it just, it doesn’t match.” Blake told Elise on this episode Let's Talk About.

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In this Episodie we talk about:

How to approach dating in 2022

Three lessons from being on 'The Bachelorette'

Sharing in vs. supporting your passion

Falling in love

Resources:

Read the show transcript

Follow Blake on social media: @BlakeMoynes

Learn more Blake's foundation: Mowgli Moynes Fund

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Welcome to the second episode of our DATING series, STYLE Canada is here to help you navigate your love life by bringing in dating experts. For this episode, we have invited a behavioural scientist turned dating coach, Logan Ury. 

Logan is the Director of Relationship Science at Hinge, author of the best-selling dating book How to Not Die Alone, and the host of the podcast This is Dating.

Elise sat down with Logan to talk about all things dating from chemistry on the first date to setting up your expectations. Drawing from years of research, Logan unravels the hidden forces that cause dating mistakes. 

Check out Logan’s Three Dating Tendencies quiz on loganury.com/quiz

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Welcome to the second season of Let’s Talk About. In our first series of the season we’re talking about DATING. First up is our conversation with Jon Birger.  

Jon is an award-winning magazine writer, dating expert, and the author of Date-onomics: How Dating Became a Lopsided Numbers Game and Make Your Move: The New Science of Dating.

With February being the month of love, STYLE Canada is here to help you navigate your love life by bringing in dating experts like Jon into the show. 

Elise sat down with Jon to talk about his first book, Date-onomics, which is a pop-science book that explains why dating is harder for women than men. They delve into the topics of today’s dating culture and discuss some possible solutions to this problem. Through research and observation, Jon explains several fact-supported pieces of advice for women to win at romance.  

Grab a copy of Jon’s brand new book, Make Your Move. 

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