Welcome to We Can Do Hard Things. Today is going to be super exciting because we are talking

about dating. I know. I know. The whole world of dating there are so many pods, quite

or so, who are in the dating world and have felt a little left out from all of our domestic

lesbian conversations. So we are going to wrap them all in today. And thank God we have

somebody who knows something about dating because none of us do. But also I feel like it's

important to say that this, all of the expertise and research and stories we're going to talk

about today aren't just only about dating. It's about how you can bring into your life significant

others, whether those people are romantic partners or friends. It's about getting yourself out

there to find the people that will bring good things to your life. That's why I loved this

particular person because I feel like all of her work, it was helpful for me in terms of dating

friends, finding new people and bringing them into our lives, getting to know anybody better.

Her name is Logan Yuri and she is a behavioral scientist turned dating coach and the author of

the best-selling dating book How to Not Die Alone, the surprising science that will help you find love.

She works as Hinge's director of relationship science. Okay, so Hinge is one of these new fancy dating

apps. We called them bars in my day. Conducting research on modern dating, she runs an online

community through her weekly newsletter Logan's love letter. She studied psychology at Harvard

and ran Google's behavioral science team, the irrational lab. She lives in the Bay Area with her

husband, Scott. Welcome Logan. Yay, thanks for having me here. It's surreal to hear your voices

directed at me. Usually it's just like me and my car or me doing the dishes. So this is such a great

experience. Thanks for listening. I didn't know that you were a regular listener of the pod. That's

awesome. Absolutely, pod squad. I love it. And a really fun thing that we're going to do because

some people listening might be saying, what the hell do you people know about dating and those

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