Buy me love: Inside the world of love coaching
The Documentary Podcast
BBC
4.3 • 2.7K Ratings
🗓️ 28 September 2021
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Love coaching is a multi-billion dollar global industry, and one of the fastest growing in the world. More single people than ever are looking for advice to find a lasting romantic partnership. The result has been an explosion of coaches who claim to guide you to love through viral videos and costly in-person seminars. The BBC attends one such seminar in Kenya, with one of East Africa’s most famous love and lifestyle coaches, Robert Burale. He says he can show women all the secrets and tricks to find love in days. But does it work? Is this really a route to buy love, or simply a way to sell a dream?
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| 0:00.0 | Hello everybody how you doing this is your coach and your friend Robert Brawley one minute with the coach |
| 0:10.7 | this man says he can get you a husband by Christmas. |
| 0:15.0 | He calls himself the coach. |
| 0:19.0 | We're living in the world full of fake people, |
| 0:21.0 | fact things, fake ideals, and everything. |
| 0:25.0 | Robert Burrale is one of Africa's most famous lifestyle and love coaches, |
| 0:30.0 | and we've been invited to an event he's holding for single women called Dear Woman. |
| 0:35.6 | But the power is in the people who want to be authentic. |
| 0:38.4 | Robert says he has the secret to finding everlasting love and plenty of women are willing to pay for it. |
| 0:46.0 | But can his blend of advice, counseling and sheer inspiration really work? |
| 0:52.0 | For today's documentary here on the BBC World Service, |
| 0:56.0 | this is Buy Me Love, the Business of Love Coaching, with me Megga Mohan. |
| 1:01.0 | Be authentic today and so like an eagle where eagles only dare. |
| 1:06.0 | Until next time, I'm your friend and your coach, Robert Burale. |
| 1:10.0 | Robert. How are you doing? Robert Burrelli. |
| 1:13.0 | Robert. |
| 1:14.0 | How are you? |
| 1:16.0 | On a pebbled side street near the business district of Nairobi, |
| 1:20.0 | Robert Burrelli greets me outside his gated office with an elbow bump. |
| 1:24.6 | Inside, plaudits and printed wisdom adorn the room. |
| 1:27.8 | Oh, you have people who have endorsed you from Sierra Leone to Jamaica to |
| 1:33.6 | Nigeria Dallas yes and you've dedicated the book to your dad |
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