Stop Dating Down: Raising Your Standards Starts Here

The Lo Life

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Mental Health, Society & Culture, Health & Fitness, Comedy

5 • 3.4K Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2025

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This episode is a candid conversation about dating, self-worth, and the relationships that actually sustain us. Lo and his guest, author Rory Uphold, unpack the patterns that lead us to date down, ignore our intuition, and settle for less than we deserve. They talk about what it looks like to finally choose yourself — to raise your standards, set boundaries when needed, and step fully into your worth.

A big part of that growth centers around friendship. Lo challenges the cultural obsession with romantic partnership and the idea that “low-maintenance” friendships are something to strive for. Instead, he highlights how meaningful, emotionally present friendships can provide a deeper sense of fulfillment and support than many romantic relationships ever will — and how our loneliness epidemic ties back to neglecting those bonds.

This episode is a reminder that there isn’t one timeline or one definition of a full life. Whether you want marriage, kids, independence, or something entirely different, you are allowed to choose the life that fits you. It’s honest, warm, empowering — and a call to stop settling for crumbs in love and in community.

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0:00.0	We keep it moving, yeah, we keep it moving, yeah, we're going. We keep it moving. Yeah, we're too.
0:10.4	Hola, my gente. Welcome one and all to a brand spanking new episode, fresh out the kitchen.
0:17.4	We've been cooking in La Cucina, a delicious flavorful, bold and spicy episode,
0:22.3	a sizzling fajita platter, ready for you to sink your teeth into of the low-life podcast.
0:28.4	I'm your flaming hot and spicy. Seasonally depressed, white wine drinking, tuck your finger,
0:33.7	licking, iced coffee sipping, pumpkin spice latte, cra craven hot mess of a host load in so
0:40.7	bon and i am so happy to be here with you today there is no place i'd rather be than right
0:48.8	here in this moment with you right now this is always a highlight of my week the one thing i could
0:53.3	look forward to every single
0:54.7	week consistently. To me, it feels like a warm hug or getting your favorite drink at a coffee
1:00.6	house and you know they're not going to screw it up. They always get it right. Or when you get a hot
1:04.9	towel out of the dryer, oh, I love that feeling. After getting out of the shower and you can get a
1:09.5	fresh, warm towel. Oh, it's the best. After getting out of the shower and you can get a fresh, warm towel.
1:11.8	Oh, it's the best.
1:13.3	That's what this podcast is for me.
1:15.3	And so I hope it brings you some joy too, especially right now.
1:19.0	I know a lot of people are going through it.
1:21.1	Feeling like shit.
1:22.5	People are not feeling like the best versions of themselves right now, especially as we go
1:26.4	into the holidays.
1:27.6	People are strapped for cash. They're feeling a bit uneasy with themselves, anxious, depressed,
1:32.9	overwhelmed, and rightfully so. There's a lot being thrown at us right now in our world.
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