I'm chatting with my best friend Rachel Saslaw, founder of Storytell NYC. She talks about how she spent six years actively dating before landing a committed relationship with an amazing match in an unexpected way. We're discussing everything from why she refused to subscribe to the "men suck" mentality to using dating as a training ground for self-discovery to the "flirting with life" energy that shifted everything. At the end, we tackle a dating dilemma about a guy who went quiet right before a planned first date, then resurfaced at the last minute with a long explanation.

YOU'LL LEARN...

• Why hating men won't help you date men (same goes for men dating women!)
• How to set a "minimum viable goal" for dating when your calendar is packed
• Why the most aligned version of you is the one who attracts the right person
• How to give a new person a blank slate after you've been burned
• The case for grieving your single years and not racing past them
• Why low-barrier first dates (the coffee walk) beat the high-stakes dinner

MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

• The book we'll never shut up about, The Artist's Way
• StoryTell - a live storytelling event in NYC

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