103: Cheeky New App Is a “Digital Dating Disruptor”

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Entrepreneur, Turningpoints, Self-improvement, Careers, Business, Career, Education, Inspirational, Inspiring, Entrepreneurs

5 • 618 Ratings

🗓️ 23 September 2015

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Lori Cheek is an architect turned entrepreneur. Her mobile dating app, Cheekd, reimagines online dating using Bluetooth, making missed connections obsolete. Now her blueprints create relationships instead of buildings. A veteran of TV’s “Shark Tank,” she was recently listed as "One of the Top 10 CEOs to Watch" and “The Digital Dating Disruptor.” Even before architecture school, Lori knew she had an entrepreneurial itch and a lifelong creative streak. “Through my corporate experience as an architect, I always felt something was missing. My heart and soul were not into it.”

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0:00.0	Hello, world. Welcome to discover your talent, do what you love, number 103.
0:16.6	I'm creator and host, Don Hutchison. Every day, I interview someone from around the world who has discovered her talents to do work
0:24.5	she loves to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom.
0:30.0	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Lori Cheek.
0:33.7	Welcome, Lori.
0:34.7	Thank you for having me.
0:36.5	It's our pleasure. Are you using your talents now to do work that you for having me. It's our pleasure.
0:39.9	Are you using your talents now to do work that you love?
0:41.4	Absolutely.
0:43.4	We want to hear the whole store.
0:54.4	Lori Cheek, architect turned entrepreneur, founder and CEO of Cheeked, a mobile dating app that makes misconnections obsolete.
1:01.2	Lori, a shark tank veteran, was recently listed as the digital dating disruptor and one of the top 10 CEOs to watch.
1:03.5	A University of Kentucky architectural graduate, Lori is no longer building structures.
1:09.2	She's now building relationships.
1:12.9	Well, Lori, that's a pithy summary of your life. Take it on from here and tell us what you're up to now that has you engaged
1:18.1	and fascinated. Yeah, so it's kind of a long story how I got here, but as you mentioned, I was an
1:24.3	architect. I had moved from Kentucky 20 years ago to become a famous architect.
1:30.3	And after practicing architecture and design for some pretty awesome companies, I was out
1:36.2	to dinner with another architect one night and he had scribbled on the back of his business
1:41.5	card, want to have dinner, and he handed it to a woman as we were leaving the restaurant.
1:46.0	So he's just a friend of mine. I wasn't on a date, but I was so intrigued by that gesture of him handing this stranger kind of,
1:53.0	and I like you note on the back of his business card, and I couldn't stop thinking about how to take the business out of the business card and create these ice-breaking introductions
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