Secrets From a Hollywood Matchmaker: Jaydi Samuels Kuba on Your Last First Date
After Reality with Courtney Robertson
Courtney Robertson
4.5 • 722 Ratings
🗓️ 30 January 2026
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
In this episode of After Reality, I’m joined by Jaydi Samuels Kuba — a Hollywood matchmaker, dating coach, and former Family Guy writer — to talk all things modern dating and what it really takes to find a lasting relationship. Jaydi shares insights from her newly released book, Your Last First Date: Secrets From a Hollywood Matchmaker (out January 27), and breaks down why dating can feel extra complicated in high-pressure worlds like entertainment (and honestly… just in general these days).
We get into her matchmaking philosophy — focusing on quality, true compatibility, and ethical boundaries, rather than promising a certain number of “matches” like some high-cost agencies. Jaydi also opens up about her own love story, including the wild (and very unconventional) way she met her husband… who was originally a client, and yes, she eventually broke her own rules.
Plus, she gives practical, actionable advice you can actually use right now: how to navigate physical attraction, communicate boundaries without killing the vibe, and update your online dating profile so it reflects the real you (and attracts the right people).
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, welcome back to After Reality. I am so excited for today's guest because we're diving |
| 0:06.5 | into one of my favorite topics, love, and not the messy reality TV kind, the real lasting, |
| 0:13.0 | this is it kind. She's a Hollywood matchmaker with a serious success rate, co-hosts of the |
| 0:18.7 | Match Made in Hollywood podcast and the author of upcoming book, |
| 0:22.1 | Your Last First State, Secrets from a Hollywood Matchmaker. |
| 0:26.1 | And it's coming soon. |
| 0:27.1 | It's available for pre-order. |
| 0:28.9 | It's out January 27th. |
| 0:31.3 | Please welcome the woman who's helping people find their person, J.D. Samuels, Cuba. |
| 0:37.4 | How's it going? |
| 0:39.0 | Hi, Courtney. Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:41.1 | Oh, this has been a long time coming. I'm so excited to have you today. We actually connected. |
| 0:47.0 | I was in casting for a reality TV show. And then we found out we had a mutual friend. |
| 0:52.0 | I heard you on my friend Alana Noelle's podcast. |
| 0:55.7 | And then we ended up connecting. It was like the universe being like, okay, you two need to connect. |
| 0:59.5 | So I'm just so happy to have you here. I'm so excited to hear about your book, what you're doing. |
| 1:06.4 | You know, I have low-key always wanted to be a matchmaker, but I can't imagine what kind of pressure comes |
| 1:11.9 | with that. I've low-key match-made friends and just hearing the follow-up and stuff. So I'm sure |
| 1:18.6 | you have so many stories to tell, let alone matchmaking in Hollywood. So today I thought we could |
| 1:24.5 | give the singles out there some fresh dating tips and |
| 1:28.9 | the apps at the end. |
| 1:30.3 | We'll get there. |
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