Hi everybody. Thanks again for tuning into the women's dating and confidence podcast. I'm really excited for

this episode today because I'm going to be talking about what dating coaching is exactly. And maybe you saw

the movie Hitch, and so you think you have a pretty good idea. It's a movie where Will Smith

plays a dating coach, basically. But yeah, I just want to share how I help people and what I do

and why people might hire a dating coach in the first place.

So the way that I like to look at it is that I'm kind of like a tour guide.

So you come to me and you tell me, I want to climb to the top of this huge mountain.

And I have climbed the mountain many times myself.

And so I know where all the poisonous plants are.

And I know how to distinguish the plants that you can eat from the ones that you can't eat.

And I know where all the booby traps are and where the ditches that you should avoid.

And I basically know the lay of the land.

A lot of people try to climb the mountain themselves first, and what happens is that they get lost,

and they start running in circles and encountering the same problem over and over again.

So in our metaphor, that would be like walking in circles and always seeing the same tree again and you're like, ugh, like why am I not getting anywhere? I'm working so hard. And yet I still

encounter the same problem every single time and I'm not getting any higher or closer to my goal.

So hiring a tour guide isn't necessarily a shortcut because at the end of the day,

you're going to be climbing the mountain no matter what, and nobody can do that for you. But it is a

shortcut in the sense that it helps you avoid common pitfalls and it helps you find the way quicker

instead of trying to figure things out yourself the

entire time and just running in circles and encountering the same issue again and again and

again. And so dating coaching can come in many forms. It doesn't just mean that we have to talk on the

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