215. The Bored of Dating Apps One ft. Jessica Hope

Finding Mr. Height: The Podcast

Ali Jackson

Relationships, Society & Culture

4.2 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 31 March 2025

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

Feeling burned out by dating apps? Jessica Hope, founder of Bored of Dating Apps, has BEEN THERE - and she created an entire company to deal with it! Coming to you from Ali’s living room couch, Jess chronicles the dating frustrations that led her to focus more on dating in person and start her own IRL dating events…a journey that ultimately led to her now partner. Ali and Jess chat flirting strategies, how to approach dating events, and much more in this super fun conversation.

But first, Ali is still glowing from her birthday week (plus a surprise date!), feeling so celebrated and loved by everyone in her life. She introduces a relationship check-in lens to her updates, opening up about an emotional moment from last week.

This week’s Media Mention comes from one of Ali’s faves: The Gottman Institute. The article is called Accepting Influence: Find Ways to Say “Yes” and you can find it here: https://www.gottman.com/blog/accepting-influence-find-ways-to-say-yes/

Where to find Bored of Dating Apps: On Instagram @boredofdatingapps on TikTok @boredofdatingapps, at www.boredofdatingapps.com.

Where to find Jessica: On Instagram @jessica.hope.boda.

Timestamps: Jessica joins at around minute 25.

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Transcript

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0:00.0	really sees the moment. So I went outside and I just blurted out. Hello. My name is Jeff. Hello. Hello there.
0:09.3	Hi. I don't know how to flirt anymore. I've lost all sense of self-awareness.
0:15.8	Sounds like me. I'm just, I'm just picturing me like running out of a bar and being like, hello.
0:25.3	You're welcome.
0:36.7	Hello.
0:40.9	Welcome. Welcome to another episode of Finding Mr. Hide the podcast. I'm your host, Allie Jackson,
0:45.9	and I am here with my practical and positive approach to dating built from my personal experience.
0:51.4	I am so happy to have you here. Thank you so much for sticking with me in this solo podcasting journey.
0:54.7	And thank you to all of our patrons who really help me keep the pod rolling. If you are enjoying the podcast, I would love if you could leave us a five-star review
0:59.9	on either Spotify or Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to your pods. Those reviews really,
1:04.5	really help me with finding advertisers and finding new listeners and growing the podcast
1:08.8	and continuing to do it and to bring this content
1:11.6	to all of you, which I really, really love doing.
1:15.0	Last week, we had an amazing introduction to our first dating diaries segment.
1:19.9	Our first diary dater, if you will, Kaylee.
1:22.7	It was an incredible episode.
1:23.9	I'm so happy y'all got to get a reintroduction to her since she was on an episode
1:28.0	previously. Had so much fun talking to her next week. You're going to hear from our second
1:33.4	dater whose name is Elise. Very excited for you to meet her as well. But this week we have a guest
1:38.6	in between. We have the founder of Board of Dating Apps, Jessica Hope.
1:49.2	Board of Dating Apps was born out of Jess's desire to meet more people in person and the burnout that I know a lot of us feel from dating apps.
1:51.8	And she now runs in-person dating events in the UK where she's from originally and also
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