Matchmaking Secrets: Navigating the Modern Dating Scene with Blaine Anderson
The Southern Tea
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🗓️ 11 February 2026
⏱️ 65 minutes
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In this episode, Lindsie sits down with Blaine Anderson, a dating coach and matchmaker, to discuss the complexities of modern dating. Blaine shares her journey from helping college friends to appearing on Shark Tank, offering her "no-BS" advice for men and women alike.
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| 0:00.0 | Maybe I'm just like weird, maybe I'm crunchy. |
| 0:03.6 | This is the Southern Tea with Lindsay Crisley. |
| 0:06.2 | I think it's so funny when you get Christmas cards and all of these people write their children's accomplishments on the back. |
| 0:12.6 | I don't love them. |
| 0:13.7 | A Southern girl and a boy mom who's trying to navigate life while staying true to her roots. |
| 0:18.9 | I am a functioning, non-functioning human being right now. |
| 0:22.7 | Join Lindsay each week as she swears to spill the tea, the whole tea, and nothing but the tea. |
| 0:28.6 | That is the tea. |
| 0:30.1 | Here's Lindsay. |
| 0:34.0 | Good morning and welcome back to another episode of the Southern Tea. Today we are joined by Blaine |
| 0:40.8 | Anderson, who is a dating coach and matchmaker and the founder of dating by Blaine. Blaine works |
| 0:47.5 | primarily with men helping them build confidence, improve communication, and actually succeed |
| 0:52.6 | in modern dating. What started is helping her male friends |
| 0:56.0 | in college turned into a full-time coaching and matchmaking business with thousands of clients worldwide. |
| 1:02.0 | She has built a massive following on social media, appeared on ABC's Shark Tank, and has been |
| 1:06.9 | featured in the New York Times, Forbes, and psychology today. Blaine is known for her |
| 1:12.2 | honest, no BS approach to dating, and we are so excited to get into it today. Good morning. |
| 1:18.5 | Blaine, how are you doing? I am doing wonderful. Thank you so much for having me. So I need to know |
| 1:25.2 | all of the things. I was very excited to take on this interview and to be able to meet you. But can you just kind of take us back to the beginning and what kind of originally pulled you into dating coaching? And that's wild. Yeah. Yeah. So my name is Blaine Anderson. I'm a matchmaker and a dating coach. I've always been really interested in love and |
| 1:46.8 | relationships, you know, even going back, like way back, like on the playground, it's like, |
| 1:51.3 | who likes who, who's going out with who. Then in college, my guy friends would ask me to set them up |
| 1:58.1 | with my sorority sisters and ask me for advice dating. And then after |
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