How To! With Charles Duhigg (Plus Bim and Nichole!)

Thirst Aid Kit

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4.9 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 December 2019

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Hey, Thirst Buckets! In case you missed it, we were featured on another Slate podcast called How To! With Charles Duhigg, and we want to share it with you here. Traci is a single, professional woman looking for love. She builds furniture in her spare time, enjoys dancing and can’t believe she has to devote an hour each day to swiping through photos and sending flirty texts. Traci’s quest for romance is made harder by the fact that, as a black woman, she has to put up with more nonsense than usual. In this episode of How To! your very own Thirst Aid Kit hosts share their insights on modern desire. They revamp Traci’s profile, swap stories and share tips about how to thrive at online dating. Subscribe to How To! here, or wherever you get your podcasts: https://slate.com/podcasts/how-to Slate Plus members get bonus segments and ad-free podcast feeds. Sign up now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Thursbuckets! In case you missed it, we were featured on another Slate podcast called How To With Charles DuHig,
0:06.4	and we want to share it with you here. Charles DuHig is a journalist and author of books like The
0:12.0	Power of Habit, and in each episode of his show, he helps someone tackle a big problem in their life
0:17.7	by enlisting the help of experts. In this episode, he hears from a listener who has trouble with
0:22.7	online dating, and that's where we come in. We give our best tips and tricks on how to make
0:27.8	her profile stand out, and we talk to her about some of the challenges we experience in the
0:32.2	dating pool as black women. Give it a listen, and if you like this show, you can subscribe to How To
0:38.1	With Charles DuHig, whatever you get your podcast. When you find someone online, and you reach out
0:46.5	to them, or they reach out to you, what happens next that sometimes throw things off path?
0:51.1	Um, people are like, oh you live in Queens, I'm in Brooklyn, see you next lifetime. You know that
0:56.5	kind of thing, um, for all guilty. Yeah, I've literally unmatched someone when I saw like Long
1:02.4	Island City, and I was like, wow, what a great guy. Oh well. Yeah.
1:11.3	From Slate Studios in Brooklyn, New York, it's How To Win the Online Dating Game.
1:17.7	I'm your host Charles DuHig.
1:20.5	And now it's time to meet today's contestant, Tracy.
1:27.3	Hey Charles. Hey Tracy, how are you?
1:30.2	I'm good, how are you? I'm good. Thank you so much for taking some time to visit with us.
1:34.5	Sure. This is exciting. And Tracy, where do you live?
1:38.1	I live in a city called Dumfries, Virginia. It's 30 miles south of Washington, DC.
1:43.9	And have you been single for a while?
1:45.6	My last series relationship was 2014. Okay. Okay. So it's been a little while. Yeah,
1:51.7	it's been a long while. And let me ask you, if I was looking at your profile on match or on,
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