Siggy Flicker is a relationship expert, matchmaker, television personality and author of Write Your Own Fairy Tale: The New Rules for Dating, Relationships, and Finding Love on Your Terms. Siggy was on the Real Housewives of New Jersey and she gives us the inside scoop on the show, including her friendship with Dolores Catania, the hardest part of filming the show, and the real reason there is so much drama on any Housewives show. She also touches on parenting and relationships, sharing tips on parenting teenagers as well as what to do in your marriage when things get stale.
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WRITE YOUR OWN FAIRY TALE WITH SIGGY FLICKER OF REAL HOUSEWIVES OF NJ + GIVEAWAY with Siggy Flicker
We are back again for an amazing show ahead with the one and only, Siggy Flicker. Siggy Flicker is a relationship expert, matchmaker, television personality and author of Write Your Own Fairy Tale: The New Rules for Dating Relationships and Finding Love on your Terms. Siggy is also the mom of four children. She's married to Michael, lives in New Jersey and is on the Real Housewives of New Jersey. Siggy just happens to be my favorite housewife of all time. Welcome, Siggy. I want you to know that's a pretty big honor because I've been watching all the housewives for a year.
Thank you so much. I didn't know that. I want to ask you the question, but it's your podcast. Why me?
You start out watching the show and you're like, “This woman rocks. She's so herself.” Something during the season takes her authenticity away and all of a sudden you can see the holes. I always ask myself, “What would I do?” I feel as a woman, you get sucked into the drama and then it's like, “Come on, girl. Rise above it.” I feel you did such a fabulous job doing that.
I don't think that anybody understands that this is one of the hardest things to film. Just to be on a show like this is so mind-boggling that sometimes when you're in it, you're saying, “I couldn't write this out if I try to.” No one would believe how real this is and how crazy these times are. At the end of the day, we all do things for certain reasons. Everybody has their own ulterior motives. I don't care what anybody says. For me to have this platform to be able to get that book out there in the hands of everybody, it's my pride and joy. For me to be able to go and lead by example, if anybody else is going through something similar in their lives and I was able to help them, it makes it all worthwhile for me.
You do such a good job at that. The fact that you have so much experience as a relationship expert really as shown on the show in a wonderful way because you're seeing how you as the expert relates to your girlfriend, you relating to your kids and you relating to your husband. You are even relating to your business. I think you've done a fantastic job and I hope we can continue to watch you.
When you're on these shows being experts for the last few years, going from Dr. Phil to Wendy Williams to Fox News to CNN, wherever, when you go for a job interview and you're sitting there, you have to be all professional. You have to sit there and you have to be an expert. What I love about Housewives of New Jersey is I don't have to be the expert. I could show them through my actions because no one on the show came to me and said, “Siggy, I want your relationship advice.” Just stick us in the water and say start swimming and we need to feel out the waters from the left to the right. Sometimes it's going to get wavy, sometimes we're going to be drowning. Everybody's out on their own. You form certain bonds with certain people. I'm sure you know that my strongest bond is with Dolores and how we came together and that friendship is so easy.
