It's remarkably easy to talk to someone like Maria of Gatidis.

I'm a really extroverted person. I consider that my superpower. I know how to connect with people quickly.

This is a huge advantage in her line of work.

I am the CEO of Agape Match and the author of the book Ask a Matchmaker,

Matchmaker Maria's No Nonsense Guide to Finding Love. It's like paying for a friend who only

thinks about your dating life all day. Before starting agape, which in Greek means the deepest

form of love, Avcatittitus had other plans.

I really thought I was going to go into the Foreign Service.

When I got into grad school, I created this thing called New York City International Relations,

and it would meet every Thursday at 7 p.m.

And people would show up to network with other people that were working in international relations or studying international relations.

But who was actually coming?

It was single people.

Pretty soon someone got married.

And then the rest is history.

I thought to myself, oh my God, I could do this for a living just like my grandmother.

Now I'm a fourth generation matchmaker.

For the Freakonomics Radio Network, this is the economics of everyday things.

I'm Zachary Crockett.

Today, matchmakers.

More than anything else, what Maria Abcatidis learned from her Greek family is that matchmakers

are embedded in their communities.

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