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Hey, Vino's real quick, if you are listening right now, which obviously you are, you

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it truly means the world to me. Thank you. Now let's get into it. Hey, everybody, welcome to Off the Vine.

I'm your host, Caitlin Rousseau, and today we are doing a virtual with Blaine Anderson, who is a dating

coach and matchmaker, who's literally worked

with thousands of clients and spends her life inside the part of dating. Most people don't get to

see, like she said, you get to see kind of under the hood. So it's kind of about what people say

they want versus what they actually choose. It was a really fascinating conversation to know,

you know, she works with a lot of male clients. So hearing that perspective. So because this drops on Valentine's week, love is probably on everybody's minds. So we're going to go beyond the service level tips. We're going to talk about what's broken right now, what men and women misunderstand about each other, and how you should give the nice guy a chance. So if you're single, you're dating, you're burnt out, you're in a relationship, you're wondering why it still

feels hard. This episode is for you. Just like right off the bat, I'm like, how do you define what

you do? Yeah, so I am a dating coach and matchmaker. I work exclusively with men. So as a dating

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