Love on the Go

Matlin Pessarra is a solo mom to a toddler and a business owner in Charlotte, NC. During her first career as an elementary school teacher, she developed a passion for decluttering and organizing. In 2017, that passion was turned into Minimized, a full-time organizing business. Juggling becoming a full-time single parent while keeping a service business afloat during the pandemic, her dating life was pushed to the side until more recently. She's now learning the dating scene again and discovering the new challenges that being a single parent brings to the dating process.

Learn more about Matlin’s work at https://getminimized.com/

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Happy Valentine’s Day! This week, Laurie answers your questions about dating and relationships from her Singles in the Carolinas facebook group! If you have a question you’d like to ask her for an upcoming episode, join the group at https://www.facebook.com/groups/singlesinthecarolinas OR message her on social media!

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Sandra Weber is a mind + body mentor empowering her clients to rebuild a mind/body connection. She has had over a decade of experience in hands on clinical bodywork and is now using that experience to assist her clients in reducing or preventing chronic pain through mind/body awareness. Sandra owns and operates Integrative Bodywork By Sandra Weber in Charlotte, North Carolina. When she is not working with clients in the treatment room, she host trainings for corporate and private groups providing ACTIONABLE steps to rebuild the mind body connection. Elevating clients physical, mental and emotional well-being is the foundation of the #RELENTLESS mindset.

Learn more about Sandra and her work at http://integrativebodyworknc.com   and http://ri3consulting.com 

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Charlotte Warren began making dating-related TikToks in May 2022, following a silly conversation with friends debating the definition of the term "dating". After enjoying her first "viral moment", she continued on with making content in the dating niche, using humorous powerpoints and visual aids. Themes of her content often focus on defining modern day dating buzzwords, current trends and others' viral dating stories. In addition to TikTok, Charlotte's content expanded to her own podcast, the Peasant Party Podcast, featuring a diverse mix of guests and answering listeners' top dating questions via the Mailbag.

Check out the Business Insider article on LinkedIn being used for dating here: https://www.businessinsider.com/linkedin-is-a-dating-app-remote-work-online-romance-2024-1

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This week, Laurie sits down with Nichole Eaton to talk about learning to trust your intuition in every aspect of your life. 

Nichole Eaton is an intuitive therapist, two-time author with her latest book, “Rock Your Comeback: The Down-to-Earth Guide to Reclaiming Your Power,” host of the Rock Your Comeback podcast, and creator of the online space The Comeback Club. She has brought dynamic transformation to thousands of clients with her unique style that interweaves her experience as both a mental health counselor and an intuitive. Nichole has a passion for helping others break through blocks and reconnect with their personal power to completely transform their life.

Learn more about Nichole at http://www.nicholeeaton.com 

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This week, Laurie speaks with renowned relationship coach and dating expert, Dr. Frankie Bashan! 

Dr. Frankie Bashan is a licensed clinical psychologist with over two decades of experience working with couples and individuals and specialized training in the field of trauma. She also received her board certification in sex therapy in 2022. She possesses a unique combination of formal training, innate emotional intelligence, and communication skills that allow her to help couples struggling with relationship issues of all kinds. 

Dr. Frankie is the CEO & Founder of LittleGayBook.com, which focuses on personalized matchmaking and singles events for lesbians, bisexual women, and trans women and has successfully connected couples across the United States for the last decade and a half. 

In 2022 Dr. Frankie presented a TedX talk focusing on the topic of sexual fluidity. You can view it here: https://youtu.be/mIjAqACtCLg 

Her latest venture is as CEO & Founder of LittleBlackBookMatchmaking.com, specializing in personalized matchmaking and singles events for heterosexual singles. 

Dr. Frankie’s coaching is based in Northern California, but clients can access her services via Zoom from around the globe. 

You can follow Dr. Frankie:

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/littlegaybook 

WEB: https://www.littlegaybook.com 

WEB: https://www.littleblackbookmatchmaking.com 

IG: https://www.instagram.com/drfrankiebashan/ 

FB: https://www.facebook.com/littlegaybook/ 

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Laurie chats with award-winning international dating and relationship expert Hunt Ethridge! They discuss how he works with clients out in the wild and shows them how to approach people. Plus, they talk about dating in New York City and what he hears and sees from single women there.

Hunt Ethridge is an award-winning international dating and relationship expert with over 15 years experience helping people become the best, most dateable versions of themselves.  While the focus of his coaching is on making someone empirically more dateable, the lessons learned translate very easily into personal and professional lives. The emphasis is on confidence building, leadership, image and style, conversation skills, creating chemistry, reconnecting with fun and more.

He has been featured in over 100 different media outlets, including AlleyWatch, CNN, The New York Times, Playboy and GQ.

Follow Hunt on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/questforadvice/

Check out Hunt’s YouTube channel at https://www.youtube.com/user/huntster44 

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Today, Laurie chats with legendary matchmaker, Julie Ferman! 

A professional matchmaker & dating coach since 1990 with over 1,300 success story couples, Julie Ferman is truly legendary in the dating industry. She is an edu-taining guest expert, easy to schedule with, lively and engaging, and she brings to your audience decades of media and public speaking experience. Using real live examples and stories galore, Julie’s spot on, courageous, compassionate advice for men and women who are out there in the dating trenches is always well received.

Julie is the host of the Cupid’s Coach Podcast and has produced over 500 singles events since launching her matchmaking agency in 2002 in L.A and she is a frequent speaker at global matchmaking industry conferences.

Learn more about Julie at http://www.JulieFerman.com 

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This week, Laurie talks with fellow matchmakers Sarah Kathryn Walmsley and Jennifer Miotke! The matchmakers talk about the discrepancy between who clients say they are looking for versus who might be excellent partners, amongst other topics!

Sarah Kathryn Walmsley, with over 20-years in the dating industry, is one of the most respected names in matchmaking. She has been profiled as an authority on relationships and singles issues by The Wall Street Journal, The Oprah Winfrey Show, CNN, Cosmopolitan, Men’s Health, and many others. And, her expertise has led to more than 400 marriages.

Jennifer Miotke is truly passionate about bringing people together and has been a matchmaker for more than 15 years. What makes her unique as a matchmaker is that she used dating services, dated online, and ultimately met her husband through a matchmaker. She is heavily connected in the matchmaking industry and regularly attends conferences with matchmakers and date coaches all over the country.

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Learn more about Sarah and Jennifer at https://www.1on1matchmaking.com/ 

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This week, Laurie welcomes fellow matchmaker Gabriella Aratow to the podcast! They share matchmaking stories, insight into what they see and hear from clients and Gabriella shares what it’s like to be single and a matchmaker. 

After tremendous success with a national firm, in 2020 she founded KIS, Keeper Introduction Services, a boutique matchmaking firm with clients across the nation.  She was a featured presenter at the Matchmaking Institute's London 2018 summit, speaking on ‘Matchmaking as a Collaborative Process.’ You can also see Gabriella matchmaking in-action on The Learning Channel’s hit 2022 show, “I Am Shauna Rae.” 

Gabriella believes the desire to love and be loved is the universal tie to humanity and the very invitation to leading an exemplary life. 

Gabriella holds a BA in film studies from Cornell University and an MFA in writing from Columbia University. She has served on the Los Angeles chapter of PEN America, whose mission it is to celebrate creative expression and defend the liberties that make it possible. 

Follow Gabriella on Instagram at https://www.instagram.com/keeperintros 

Check out Gabriella’s database at https://keeperintros.com/ 

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