S11E7: Hacks to Looking your Best

Dateable: Your insider's look into modern dating and relationships

Yue Xu and Julie Krafchick

Sexuality, Social Sciences, Relationships, Science, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness

4.7 • 910 Ratings

🗓️ 30 September 2020

⏱️ 94 minutes

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Summary

Let's be honest: looks matter when it comes to dating. Whether it's on a dating app or the first time you meet IRL, we're chatting with makeover expert Kimmy Seltzer about the small tweaks you can make today to show up as your best self. We discuss how both women AND men can dress for your body shape/height, the photos that need to be added (and eliminated) from your dating profile, and why these small changes can help build confidence from the outside, in. Follow Kimmy at @kimmyseltzer and listen to the Charisma Quotient on Apple Podcasts or your other favorite podcast players Follow us @dateablepodcast. Check out our website for more content, live show dates, and merch. Thank you to our partner for this episode: BetterHelp: Get 10% off your first month of online therapy at betterhelp.com/dateable with the code DATEABLE. This episode is brought to you by Kensington’s newest title from Kerrelyn Sparks, THE SIREN AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA. You can find THE SIREN AND THE DEEP BLUE SEA wherever books are sold. Find out more at kensingtonbooks.com Cover art Photography Credit: Larry Wong #lwongphoto Dateable is part of the Frolic Podcast Network. You can find more outstanding podcasts to subscribe to at frolic.media/podcasts WE WROTE A BOOK! HOW TO BE DATEABLE (Simon & Schuster) is available now: https://howtobedateable.com/ Want to remove distractions from your dates? Download Brick and get 10% off at https://www.getbrick.app/DATEABLE Our Sponsors: * Avocado Green Mattress: Check out their mattress and furniture sale: https://avocadogreenmattress.com/DATEABLE * Get Rain of Shadows and Endings wherever books are sold or at Kensington Publishing https://www.kensingtonbooks.com * Quince: Get free shipping and 365 day returns at https://quince.com/dateable * Ruggable: Get 10% off your first order, sitewide, with promo code DATEABLE at https://ruggable.com Advertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

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0:00.0	The dateable podcast is an insider's look into modern dating that the Huffington Post calls
0:04.8	one of the top 10 podcasts about love and sex. On each episode we'll talk to real daters about everything
0:11.2	from sex parties to sex dreptts, date fails to diaper fetishes,
0:14.8	and first moves to first loves. I'm your host U.S.U. former dating coach turned
0:19.3	dating sociologist. You also hear from my co-host and producer Julie Craftchick as we explore this crazy
0:26.0	dateable world.
0:27.0	Hey everyone, welcome to another episode of
0:33.2	Datable a show all about modern dating where we dig into the
0:37.2	wise of people's behavior especially when it comes to their love lives.
0:41.5	Why do people do the things that they do? Julie, do you have all
0:46.5	the answers? No, I don't. I wish I did. I mean I have all of the answers is what I meant to say.
0:54.0	But you know, it's, I think it's funny when I hang out with my single friends just because I'm not single,
1:00.0	they feel like I should have all the answers also because we have a dating
1:03.4	podcast so a lot of the times they're like come on you know what's happening like
1:07.8	tell me the truth and I'm like no I'm not a psychic I cannot tell you what's going on in people's minds that reminds me of
1:15.7	Liza Schlesinger's comedy she's like there's the secret road on the side and she's like if knew the secret, I wouldn't have waited to 35 to get married.
1:27.0	The fact is nobody has answers. Even the people who are dating experts, even the people who are really good at dating, they don't have the answers because everyone's so different.
1:38.0	You cannot read people's minds, but at least on this show, we try to get down to the bottom of why people do the things they do.
1:46.5	All you can do is control your own mindset and be aware of the different ways that people think about things and have conversations.
1:55.2	I think that's really ultimately it, like when people always write in.
1:59.4	It's not just our podcast, I've heard this on other podcasts, when you write in like the long-winded question
2:04.0	it's like have you talked to your partner first or have you talk to that person in
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