How to Have Your Best Dating Experience Ever with Damona Hoffman

Balanced Black Girl

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Health & Fitness, #Shessolucky, Balancedblackgirl, Lesalfred, Balancedles

4.8 • 2.5K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2024

⏱️ 79 minutes

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Summary

Over the past few years, dating has gotten a bad reputation. But whether we love it, or hate it, relationships are a big part of life, and dating is how we get there, so let’s reclaim it and make our experiences positive.

Today, we’re welcoming back celebrity dating coach and host of the award-winning podcast, Dates & Mates, Damona Hoffman, for an in-depth conversation on how to rewrite your narrative around finding love.

We also talk about…

How to overcome dating burnout
Discovering your pillars for long term compatibility
Strategies for having a more positive experience using dating apps
What it means to date with clarity
How to never get stuck in another situationship again
Key ways to embrace being single

Resources

Follow Damona on Instagram @damonahoffman
Listen to Damona’s podcast, ‘Dates and Mates’
Get a copy of Damona’s new book: F the Fairy Tale: Rewrite the Dating Myths and Live Your Own Love Story
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0:00.0	The following podcast is a dear media production.
0:04.0	Welcome back to Balance Girl.
0:10.0	My name is Les.
0:12.0	I'm your host.
0:12.9	This show is all about conversations
0:14.7	that help us feel healthy, happy, thriving.
0:18.3	A big part of life, whether we love it, whether we hate it,
0:21.4	is dating and relationships. So every once in a while on this show, we we hate it, is dating and relationships.
0:23.0	So every once in a while on this show, we got to bring it back because relationships
0:26.1	are a big part of our health, so it's important to talk about.
0:29.1	And I'm excited to welcome back a very special guest who has been on the podcast before, but I'm really excited
0:34.6	to have her back, Mrs. DeMona Hoffman.
0:37.3	Now I gotta say with DeMona, the credentials are there.
0:40.1	The resume is long.
0:41.9	Like, been a celebrity dating coach for a minute in the game,
0:45.3	has written columns for publications like The L.A. Times, like The Washington Post.
0:50.5	She's been a spokesperson for apps like Match, Bumble, okay Cupid.
0:55.0	She is the love expert on the Drew Barrymore show and she just released her new book,
0:59.4	F The Fairy Tale.
1:00.8	So like I said, the resume is is long I'm really excited to welcome back
1:04.0	to mona thank you it's great to be back and you gave me the missus credentials so I did
1:09.5	I appreciate that because I earned that one too. Absolutely, absolutely.
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