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Damona Hoffman: ...dating is a set of learned skills

Nobody Told Me!

Nobody Told Me!

Business, Entrepreneurship

4.2671 Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we talk dating with our returning guest, Damona Hoffman. Damona is the Official Relationship Expert for OKCupid, and has been featured as a relationship coach on television and in newspapers such as the Washington Post and LA Times.


Damona has also starred in two A&E Network TV series and is the host of the Dates and Mates podcast.


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0:00.0

Welcome to Nobody Told Me.

0:11.0

I'm Laura Owens.

0:12.3

And I'm Jan Black.

0:13.5

And we are really looking forward to talking once again about dating with our guest on this episode, Demona Hoffman.

0:20.3

Domo is the official relationship expert for OKCupid, and she's been featured as a relationship

0:25.3

coach on TV and in newspapers like The Washington Post and the LA Times.

0:30.3

DeMona has also starred in two A&E network TV series and is the host of the Dates and Mates

0:36.2

podcast.

0:37.4

DeMona, thank you so much for joining us once again.

0:39.9

I'm so glad to be back. You made me sound super official. You are. You are. Yeah. I have been doing

0:47.0

this for a while. So yes, I've earned the stripes. And it's a lot of much needed information.

0:52.8

I was thinking back to the time you were first with us on Nobody Told Me, which was about two or three years ago.

0:59.0

It was before the pandemic.

1:00.7

And I'm wondering what changes you've seen in dating since then.

1:05.6

Oh, how about everything?

1:08.4

Yeah, really?

1:09.2

Totally.

1:10.3

But it seemed like before the pandemic, there was a, there's a big cultural shift that's

1:15.3

happened in dating.

1:16.5

Everyone used to come to me with this dating burnout syndrome.

1:20.5

And it was like the speed of dating was, I actually, as a dating coach, fell out of control. I was like, I don't know how to stop this

1:30.0

from, from my clients, but it's not healthy. People were just going right from the swipe to the

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