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Hey guys, welcome back to We Metadakmi.

We have a bonus episode today with Rachel Blank from Alara Health.

We talk about everything that you're curious about when it comes to health, PCOS, endometriosis, GLP ones, all the things.

And she also happens to have a really cute dating story with her husband

and how listening to her therapist's advice, who she, by the way, found through our website,

helped her find her husband. So I think you will love it. And I can't wait to hear your thoughts.

Enjoy. Hey, guys, welcome back to Weema at Acme. I can't wait to hear your thoughts. Enjoy.

Hey guys. Welcome back to We met at Acme. I'm so excited to be here with Rachel Blink, the founder and CEO of Valara Health. Hi, Rachel. Hi. So excited to be here too. So happy to have you. So before we start every episode, we ask, what is your favorite romantic gesture? And this is for someone to do for you. Huh, I should have put this one. Mine is when my husband just like picks me up something little on the way home, like flowers or he picks me of like a diet Dr. Pepper a lot because it means he's thinking about me and just like gets me a little something. I love that. Cute. Kind of like gifts. Or it's like a mix of gifts and acts of service.

It's like a little thing like a diet soda, but it's just like that he was thinking about me.

Yeah. I love that. Yeah. And just to let everyone know who's listening, I have met Rachel before.

She's the best. She actually did one of our women's panels. Yes, it was's panels, which was so fun, such a great group. And I remember loving your story about meeting your husband because it was, you know, you very much had the dating experience before. So tell us a little bit about that. Yes. And I will say in some ways it actually intersects with We Met at Acme because I found my therapist who changed my life through Weemannidate. I love that. Guys, if you're listening and needing a therapist, go to our website and find one. So I, okay, I had a bit of a circuitous past meeting my husband. I ended up meeting him at 32 and we got married when I was 35. I actually was in my 20s, thought I had met the person. It was a terrible relationship in my 20s. We got engaged and I called it off. So I also I always like to tell people like, you are totally free to make any decision about dating. Like you can call off a wedding. It's all good. And then I was single in my late 20s, early 30s in New York, which I like to say somehow harder than like raising money. Like I'm like I raised a lot of money for my business. And the harder thing was dating in New York City. Honestly, that's good to hear. It is very difficult. And I found this amazing therapist. And what I kind of realized, she used to say like, Rachel, when you're talking about dates, it sounds like you're talking about like an m&A transaction and like you're just you have this checklist and you're trying to check these things off which for me were like they were Jewish they went to a certain school

they had a certain job I just kept doing the same thing over and over and over and like having

this very specific outcome I was trying to get to. And it actually was in a therapy session.

My therapist, shout out Jordan, was like, you know, she said, I want you to do some homework for me.

I want you to go on a couple dates with guys who do not meet your checklist. Just, just go. You don't have to marry them.

You just have to go on a date or two. And so I'm swiping. and I see this cute British architect who's like clearly not

Jewish on Bumble. And I'm like, okay, well, at least like I'll go for a date and I'll have a nice

accent and I'll probably enjoy myself for that one date. And pretty much two dates and I knew that

he was the one and he was my husband. But how did you know? I just felt so comfortable with him.

And I just, I think actually because I wasn't looking at these superficial things, I was really looking a lot more at like what are our values.

What, how do we feel about our families?

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