Tad Hargrave - How To Date (And Market) Beautifully
ManTalks Podcast
Connor Beaton
4.8 • 591 Ratings
🗓️ 10 March 2025
⏱️ 56 minutes
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Summary
Talking points: culture, marketing, relationships
I consider it an achievement to have Tad on the show. He's a soulful and wise person who can cut through the BS quickly—and do it kindly, no less. We sat down to discuss the parallels in ethically presenting your case in both the business and dating realms. You'll be surprised at how similar some aspects are!
(00:00:00) - How is dating an extension of marketing?
(00:13:24) - The meaning of “gauging” a potential partner, and what to look for
(00:19:57) - On sunk cost, grief, people pleasing, and our fear of risk
(00:27:17) - Is there a connection between fear of approach and polarization?
(00:34:43) - How is AI going to change how we market
(00:47:33) - What are the key implementations of ethical marketing?
Tad Hargrave is a hippy who developed a knack for marketing (and then learned to be a hippy again). Since 2001, he has been weaving together strands of ethical marketing, Waldorf School education, a history in the performing arts, local culture making, anti-globalization activism, an interest in his ancestral, traditional cultures, community building and supporting local economies into his work helping people create profitable businesses that are ethically grown while restoring the beauty of the marketplace.
Connect with Tad:
-Website: https://marketingforhippies.com/
-Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/marketingforhippies/
-Substack: https://tadhargrave.substack.com/
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| 0:00.0 | All right, sir, how are you doing today? |
| 0:07.9 | Doing great. |
| 0:08.6 | Good to be here. |
| 0:09.6 | Yes, sir. |
| 0:10.2 | Welcome to the Man Talk show, Mr. Tad. |
| 0:12.9 | Thank you. |
| 0:13.7 | My Alberta friend, I saw the area code for you. |
| 0:19.2 | I remember I was just like, no way. |
| 0:22.5 | I thought that was pretty funny. |
| 0:24.1 | That brought me back to calling home, you know. |
| 0:26.9 | But we're going to talk about some interesting subjects today all around a topic that I don't |
| 0:31.9 | normally talk about on the show, but that I've learned a lot about over the last number of years. |
| 0:37.3 | And so I thought a good entry point, you know, that we were lot about over the last number of years. And so I thought a good |
| 0:38.6 | entry point that we were talking about before we got on the show was just how is dating and maybe |
| 0:44.0 | even relationship itself an extension of marketing. Like good dating is an extension of good |
| 0:51.4 | marketing. And if you're not having any luck, it's an extension of bad marketing. To draw some not having any luck it's an extension of bad marketing |
| 0:54.4 | to draw some parallels there and let's talk about how we position ourselves in the dating field |
| 1:00.3 | okay well i mean first i think we have to talk about what marketing is even so i think about marketing |
| 1:10.3 | obviously it's a verb but there's the noun of the market. |
| 1:14.1 | And you could think of the verb marketing being that's what the market does. That's the sound |
| 1:21.9 | that the market makes as it does its thing. So when people think about the market, it's easy to think about |
| 1:29.5 | Wall Street, but I'm thinking about Main Street. You know, they say there have been studies on |
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