Hey, everybody, Martha McCallum here, and this is the untold story.

So one of the untold stories out there is how young people in their 20s, 30s, whatever, can successfully

meet each other these days. You know, back when I was going through this process, you

met people in bars, you struck up conversations, maybe somebody would buy you a drink.

There was a lot of interaction. And these days, I think post-COVID and the explosion of social media and the huge impact it has

had on the way people relate with each other, I think has done a lot of damage in this arena.

So how do we put that back together?

How do we get it positive again? How do we get it positive again?

How do we sort of help people find ways to make this easier and more natural to interact with each other?

I have a good guest on that today.

So joining me now is the host of the podcast, Help Me.

I'm single.

And her name is Blaine Anderson, dating by Blaine,

and she is a internationally recognized matchmaker, coach, executive, podcast hosts, which I mention.

So, Blaine, welcome. Great to have you here. Thank you. Thank you for having me.

So how did you get into this?

What's your background and what I guess what qualifies you to be someone who can help people make matches?

Yeah, great question. So my background is not in dating or even psychology technically. I fell into this

naturally and realized it was just something I had a knack for.

I've always been interested in relationships and dating, like even thinking back to like

playground days, like, oh, who's a crush on who? Who's talking to who? Then in college,

I went to the University of Arizona. My guy friends would oftentimes ask me to set them up with my

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