277. What If the Best Dating Profile Was Written by Your Best Friend? ft. Brooke Janousek

Finding Mr. Height: The Podcast

Ali Jackson

Society & Culture, Relationships

3.9 • 712 Ratings

🗓️ 8 June 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

TW: This episode contains a brief discussion of cancer and loss. If you want to skip it, the guest segment begins at approximately minute 13.

Brooke Janousek, founder of Someone You Should Meet, joins Ali to make the case for letting the people who know you best do the talking. Brooke and Ali dig into why apps fail to capture who people actually are, the courage gap between professional and personal life, and what inspired Brooke to start hosting in-person dating events (hint: it was attending a lackluster one herself). The two also chat about what it’s like to finally walk away from a situationship that isn’t working, and how that comes back to the frustrations of dating overall.

But first, Ali shares how a personal health scare had her reflecting on how losing her dad to cancer impacts her relationship with her health today (particularly as it was happening on his birthday). This week's Media Mention is: "The Terror of Survivorship" from Laura Behnke's Substack, which dives into that very theme.

Where to find Brooke: On Instagram @someoneyoushouldmeet, on TikTok @sysmofficial, at www.someoneyoushouldmeet.com.

Timestamps: Brooke joins us at around minute 13.

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0:00.0	That is what I had to do in order to really break the cycle. I just, I didn't have a choice. And to put
0:06.6	myself first meant I can't talk to you anymore.
0:20.4	Hello and welcome to another episode of Finding Mr. Hyde the podcast.
0:23.3	I'm your host, Allie Jackson, and I am bringing you my positive and practical approach to dating relationships and a whole lot else about life brought to you from my lived experience.
0:31.7	I'm so excited to be with you here this week back in New York City, back from my whirlwind month of May, and back with a guest that I've been
0:39.3	excited to record with for quite some time. My guest this week is Brooke Janicek. She is the founder
0:44.2	of someone you should meet, which is exactly what it sounds like. It is an in-person event where
0:48.3	friends pitch their single friends to a room full of other singles. And there's a lot of concepts
0:53.2	like this throughout the country.
0:54.5	Hers is based in Dallas.
0:56.2	They do it complete with a PowerPoint, which really speaks to my love for PowerPoints
1:01.6	and for organization.
1:03.1	And it really is as charming as it sounds.
1:05.7	Brooke built this out of her own dating frustration, which I think lends itself really well
1:10.4	to this pod, which was literally
1:12.7	built out of my dating experiences and frankly, frustrations. We get into that. We talk about
1:18.7	the on again, off again situation ship that she finally walked away from and transferring the
1:24.2	confidence that she had in every other area of her life into her dating life,
1:28.6	what she thinks the future of meeting people really looks like. I just love this conversation.
1:32.8	She also happens to be in a fractional journey herself. She's a fractional CMO in addition to
1:38.9	running these events. So she's just a professional powerhouse, and I loved talking to her.
1:45.3	Before we get into that, though, like I said, I am back from my whirlwind travel, and
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