148. The Smart Dating One ft. Bela Gandhi

Finding Mr. Height: The Podcast

Ali Jackson

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.2 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 18 December 2023

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Summary

Bela Gandhi, dating coach and founder of Smart Dating Academy, joins us this week to answer your questions! Tune in to find out why she insists her clients do video dates before IRL dates, one of the steps in her tried and true method to help her clients find partnership, particularly later in life or after divorce.

In Updates, Ali may have discovered a Bumble hack and a listener may have discovered a Hinge hack! Plus, tickets for our upcoming live shows on 1/20 in NYC and 3/21 in DC are on sale at findingmrheight.com/live.

Where to find Bela:

Website https://www.smartdatingacademy.com/

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

YT https://www.youtube.com/user/smartdatingacademy

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

Timestamps: Bela joins us at around minute 20.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	I have guys that will say to my clients, and we do photo shoots and they look great.
0:04.8	They're like, can you send me a photo right now?
0:07.2	I was like, red flag.
0:08.3	I know.
0:09.3	You have six freaking photos on there.
0:11.5	He didn't need another one.
0:12.8	He doesn't need.
0:13.4	He's not Bumble looking to identity verify you right now.
0:17.4	Nobody gets a selfie right now.
0:19.4	Okay. now. Nobody gets a selfie right now.
0:35.8	Hello and welcome back to Find a Mr. Haight, the podcast. I'm your co-host, Erica Spira.
0:38.6	And I'm Allie. Jackson. Am I supposed to say my full name?
0:42.8	Are we changing? Are we doing that? I'm fine. Mr. Hype. Whatever you want to say. Hello. I'm Erica.
0:50.5	And Allie. And we're back. We're back with another episode. We just got off from recording with Bella Gandhi,
0:55.0	founder of Smart Dating Academy. I had a very fun time talking to our guest.
0:56.8	Bella was awesome.
1:02.6	We, like, it's, I love conversations like this because we started off with the intent of talking about like dating after divorce, dating in your 50s, and we took a lot of questions
1:06.4	from listeners.
1:07.3	And it morphed into an even larger conversation that I think was just so awesome. I'm excited for the listeners to hear it. Yeah, she's great. She's great on the mic. She's also, you know, the official dating coach of the Steve Harvey show. And she's been around. She's been around 15 years. So she's seen it all. And I enjoyed it. Even the parts we didn't agree with her on some of the stuff. I really enjoyed talking to her.
1:27.1	Yeah, totally. Me too. So you and I are lacking a little bit in the dating updates space for personal updates currently. This is that time of year. Yeah. Oh, we are recording this in the middle of Hanukkah, by the way. So happy Hanukkah to everybody listening. Happy Hanukkah, y'all. And happy holidays for everything that's coming, whatever you're celebrating.
1:44.1	Hope everybody is enjoying time with friends and family.
1:50.1	But you have some dating hacks for some online apps that you've recently discovered.
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