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Hey guys, it's Alana and welcome back to another episode of Seeing Other People.

Together, we're navigating modern dating alongside experts and real-life daters who are sharing their stories.

Don't have a date for tonight? No problem. Come learn, laugh, and maybe even cry along with us as we navigate the

dating scene together. El Wilson, welcome to seeing other people. Hello, thank you so much

for having me. Thank you for being here. I am so excited because not only have you built such an

amazing thing for singles everywhere and for everybody listening, I cannot wait for them to hear,

but you also have your own love story

and you also have a thriving dating coaching business.

And so you are so impressive.

I love hearing how people got into the dating space

and the helping people find love space,

which you do with met through friends.

And there's so much I want to talk to you about. So let's get into it. I'm so excited. Before we like dive headfirst in, can you give us a little elevator pitch of what Met Through Friends is? Yeah. So I say Met Through Friends, they're dating events where everyone has to bring a friend is sort of the gist of it. So many people were telling me, I just want to meet someone through friends.

I want to get off the opposite.

I just want to meet people through friends. But I noticed it wasn't happening as much as before. So I kind of took the thing that everyone said they wanted to do and turn that into a business. So the rule is you can bring someone of the orientation you want to date. If you're a woman who wants to date men, you have to bring a man who wants to date women, vice versa.

We do queer events as well.

But really, you have to bring someone that you

can vouch for, even if you don't want to date them yourself. Which is amazing because it's its own

vetting process. Yeah, because it used to, it used to be like when I still ran out of my apartment,

my own friends, just people I would invite them. Like, I know you, you are great. I need you to bring someone great. But it was a really interesting test to go, huh, kind of all the people I know have now met each other. And they either hit it off or they didn't. But like, now what? And it was sort of this question of going, huh, what happens if I just open this up to everyone else where I say, you can come, but you just can't come alone. And it was a really interesting vetting mechanism.

Like I don't care about like, where did you go to school?

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