The DBAD Art Of Dating
Don't Be A Dick with Gretchen Clark
Gretchen Clark
5.0 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 26 January 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
In this episode, Gretchen wakes up in a spicy mood and turns into the blunt big sister you didn’t know you needed. We’re talking dating men, being in control of your emotions, and how to keep your standards high without slipping into pick-me energy, over-explaining, or handing some dusty guy the remote control to your emotions.
She breaks down what high-quality men actually respond to (self-respect, boundaries, emotional control), what dusty men look for (desperation and easy access), and gives real-life scripts for texts, cancellations, and early red flags, including love bombing and isolation tactics. As always it’s unfiltered, and wildly practical, it’s the playbook for dating with standards, not desperation.
📧 To get in touch with the podcast, email: teamgretchen@avoiragency.com
__
💕 Watch episodes on Youtube and follow Gretchen on Instagram and Tiktok
__
✅ Please make sure to subscribe, follow, rate and review!
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | I love him. So I told him, honey, that's great. Tell your fucking girlfriends. Write it in your diary. |
| 0:05.9 | Don't tell a man that. I'll give you my phone number and you can call me and tell me that instead of him. |
| 0:10.5 | Please. You're not walking into a date, hoping that he likes you. You are trying to decide and figure out if you like him. |
| 0:19.1 | If somebody sent this episode to you and said, |
| 0:21.6 | hey, I want you to fast forward to this part, |
| 0:23.5 | I want you to listen to this, |
| 0:24.8 | it's because they love you. |
| 0:29.4 | D-bad baby, that stands for don't be a dick if you're new here. |
| 0:32.5 | And we're not sugar-coating shit. |
| 0:34.1 | So let's get into it, shall we? |
| 0:41.6 | Good. coding shit. So let's get into it, shall we? Gals, hi. How are we doing? I guess there are some guys who listen to this podcast, which |
| 0:45.4 | is kind of interesting. If you guys want to listen to this one, then that's awesome. But this is |
| 0:51.3 | truly for the gals. I'm taking a little pivot from the top five |
| 0:55.1 | things that I learned from 2025 because I woke up in a very spicy mood and I feel like this is |
| 1:01.5 | a topic that I'm very, very passionate about. I have a lot of qualifications on why I can speak |
| 1:07.2 | to this topic. But we are going to talk about dating men and how to communicate with |
| 1:13.8 | them and how to show him that your standards are all the way up here, that you do not have |
| 1:19.0 | pick me energy, that you are not desperate, and that you are a self-respecting, amazing woman |
| 1:24.9 | that you are. Because I truly believe that 99% of women are so amazing. They make |
| 1:32.1 | the best partners, the best wives, the best mothers, but they come off desperate, insecure, |
| 1:39.4 | which makes men walk all over them. I just want to preface this, that this is not about being mean. This is about |
| 1:45.3 | being unavailable to men's bullshit. Throughout this episode, what you need to differentiate is the |
... |
Please login to see the full transcript.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Gretchen Clark, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Gretchen Clark and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2026.