Make The Most Of Your First Dates
Seeing Other People
Ilana Dunn
4.5 • 608 Ratings
🗓️ 19 September 2023
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
I'm joined by Joe Feminella, Founder & CEO of First Rounds On Me. Joe and I chat about the biggest challenges our generation is facing on dating apps and what we can do to fix it. We discuss all things first dates including: how to take the pressure off, conversations you should and shouldn't have, how to make the most of a date when you know in the first five minutes that you're not interested, and more. Plus, we answer lister questions about confidence, how to tell if he's into you or if he just wants to hook up, and what it means if he says he doesn't want a relationship early on.
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by Podcast Nation. |
| 0:04.7 | Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People. |
| 0:09.9 | Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing their stories. |
| 0:16.1 | Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even cry along with us as we navigate |
| 0:21.9 | the dating scene together. Joe Feminella, welcome to seeing other people. I am so excited to have |
| 0:28.0 | you. I'm so excited that we're like finally face to face. Thank you, Alana. Yeah, I'm so excited for this. |
| 0:32.5 | We've been speaking for months now. We've collaborated. You've introduced me to some people |
| 0:36.3 | who are going to be working |
| 0:37.7 | for the app. And it's a pleasure to be here with you. I love it. I'm so excited. Okay. Just to start, |
| 0:45.1 | there's so much I want to dive into. But obviously, you are the founder and CEO of first rounds on |
| 0:49.8 | me. Guys, I've talked about first rounds on me on seeing other people on the Instagram before. |
| 0:53.6 | If you don't know it, you need to know it. So I want to hear what guys, I've talked about first rounds on me on seeing other people on the Instagram before. If you don't know it, you need to know it. |
| 0:55.7 | So I want to hear what got you to like, why did you start a dating app? |
| 1:00.9 | Because that is a loaded question. |
| 1:03.1 | I'm sure there's a lot of like personal background experience there that made you say like |
| 1:07.8 | something is wrong here and like there's something that can be better |
| 1:11.0 | that I can create. So let's get into that whole backstory to kick it off. Yeah. So I think I don't |
| 1:16.7 | know how old you are and I don't want, you don't get any of asking. No, guess. Do it. I was |
| 1:22.8 | putting on the spot. I'm turning 29 very soon. But when this comes out, I'll be 29. Okay, perfect. So I feel like I'm 33. And I always say that if you're in your early 30s, you have a very unique perspective to dating and dating apps because we actually came into our 20s without them existing. And then we are like the first testers of them. |
| 1:46.2 | And I grew up just old school in the sense of I didn't have dating app. So if I saw somebody, |
| 1:51.7 | you take your shot and you have all that adrenaline and it's exciting. And I moved to New York |
| 1:56.7 | City and I would just go out to bars and as I would approach a woman, I saw a shift and a shift |
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