Have you seen that reality show on netflix called Jewish Matchmaking? Today, I have one of the matchmakees on the show to give us the inside scoop on what reality dating shows are really like.

Stuart Chaseman authentically shares how he stayed calm going on blind dates in front of the entire world. He also talks about the wide range of public feedback he’s received, including burns from ben shapiro, some tiktok love, and a growing list of romantic admirers in his inbox.

I appreciate how he was quick to make me laugh, and spoke humbly yet directly about his experience. I hope you enjoyed this conversation as much as I did!

About Our Guest 

“Stuart Chaseman is an acclaimed singer-songwriter whose distinctive sound takes reference from such American roots rock artists such as Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen. His newest album Secrets, Lies, and Alibis released in the spring has been receiving stellar reviews. And yes, Stuart is also the unchallenged unproblematic king on the hit Netflix reality show "Jewish Matchmaking.”

See Stuart LIVE on Jan. 26 at Hey Nonny in Arlington Heights, IL. Or, follow him below for sooner dates:

https://www.stuartchaseman.com/

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💃 About Your Host

Lauren Smith is a speaker and author of "The Mindful Dating Journal: Find a Healthy Love that Lasts," and creator of the free MettaDate Journal mobile app. She combines her personal success dating story with her professional mindfulness training to help singles ditch the dating struggle and claim the loving relationship they deeply deserve.

This episode is for anyone who's feeling a little bit out of control or confused about how to move forward in their dating approach. Maybe you're like me and you feel like every time you try to get back into a new relationship, it's like you keep hitting the same wall. 

Believe me, I was at that point! Luckily, I found mindfulness and started to apply it to the dating process, and I found so much more peace. I built back my self-worth and I started to feel like I could trust myself to make better dating choices.

If you've been following me for a while, you've probably heard me talk about mindful dating, but maybe you're still unclear on what it is specifically.

Today I am gonna be reposting an interview that I did with guest host Ronnie Ryan on her Breathe Love & Magic podcast. I talk all about my journey to mindful dating, what it is and how you can get started. 

By the end of the episode, you'll have some concrete tips and techniques where you can get back onto those apps with a renewed sense of confidence and self-trust.

🏳️‍🌈 Connect with Ronnie 🏳️‍🌈

Listen to Ronnie’s Podcast Breathe Love & Magic: https://open.spotify.com/show/2kSu4N05jGI3pHIke5WTEe?si=61cfce58f0a54d34

Connect with Ronnie on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/nevertoolate4love/

Ronnie is Certified Coach, a Reiki Master, and Intuitive Healer who is known for getting to the heart of the matter quickly to help clients move past blocks, love yourself, and attract love with a quality man.

She is the author of six books, her Amazon Bestseller Is He the One? Find Mr. Right by Spotting Mr. Wrong, sold more than 17,000 copies. You can find all her books and audios on her Amazon Author Page.

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💃 About Your Host

Lauren Smith is a speaker and author of "The Mindful Dating Journal: Find a Healthy Love that Lasts," and creator of the free MettaDate Journal mobile app. She combines her personal success dating story with her professional mindfulness training to help singles ditch the dating struggle and claim the loving relationship they deeply deserve.

Today's episode is for anyone who cares way too much about other people’s opinions and perceptions.

I am really excited to introduce to you marketing expert Jazelle Foster. I invited her on the show to get her hot take on how identity plays into how we may subconsciously market ourselves to a prospective partner, whether that's on a dating app or just simply in our overall identity.

And I even more deeply wanted to explore how the identity that we show to the world shifts when we start to step into a more authentic sexuality.

Jazelle explains that attracting the person that we want truly hinges on our ability to allow our most authentic identity, our most authentic version of ourselves to shine through as brightly as possible. By the end of the episode, you'll learn not only why we stay in identities that aren't in alignment with our deepest desires, but how to say eff it to ALL of it! So that we can say, “Actually, I'm allowed and safe to step into who I am!” It’s recognizing that you don’t need to act out a role in order to be loved!

🏳️‍🌈 Connect with Jazelle 🏳️‍🌈

Follow on TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jazellesartistry

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Get Jazelle’s Relationship Questions list here: https://optimistic-innovator-8297.ck.page/dde8a648bd

Jazelle Foster is the powerhouse behind Creatives Meet Marketing and a shining light in the LGBTQ+ community. Known for their authentic TikTok dialogues on navigating 'baby gay' experiences, they're here to share their insights on love and relationships. Learn more at https://www.creativesmeetmarketing.com/

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💃 About Your Host

Lauren Smith is a speaker and author of "The Mindful Dating Journal: Find a Healthy Love that Lasts," and creator of the free MettaDate Journal mobile app. She combines her personal success dating story with her professional mindfulness training to help singles ditch the dating struggle and claim the loving relationship they deeply deserve.

Have you been thinking about ethical non-monogamy. Maybe you’re single and ready to update your online dating profile to say ‘polyamorous’. Or perhaps you’ve been dating someone for a while but have a deep craving to love on other partners as well.

Today Somatics Coach JereAnn Wagner explains how she communicated her desires for ethical non-monogamy with her husband. She shares strategies she uses to navigate a long-distance relationship with a female partner, being a kickass mom to her two boys, and learning to let go of what other people think about her choices.

She helps us embrace the fluidity of desire and to give ourselves permission to put our needs first. By the end of this talk, you will not only learn more about how an ethical non-monogomous relationship works, but you’ll feel inspired to let go of the fear of judgement and instead accept the love you have been craving

 🎤🎬 Queer Love & Dating Summit

Check out JereAnn's talk in the Queer Love & Dating Summit! Go from single and stressing to happily partnered with this on-demand summit! Attract your person faster with a little help from some expert coaches and speakers from the Queer Community! Sign up for access to over 8 hours of trainings and bonus downloadable valued over $700! Get access here: https://www.mettadatestudio.com/queer-love-summit

🏳️‍🌈 Connect with JereAnn 🏳️‍🌈

Jere-Ann Elizabeth Wagner is a queer, poly, somatic therapist who has studied NLP, Sex And Kink, attachment styles, and Energy. She holds space for clients to embrace the perfection that they are and live an intentional, fulfilling life.

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💃 About Your Host

Lauren Smith (she/her) is a professional speaker, author of "The Mindful Dating Journal: Find a Healthy Love that Lasts," and creator of the free MettaDate Journal mobile app. She combines her personal success dating story with her professional mindfulness training to help singles ditch the dating struggle and claim the loving relationship they deeply deserve.

Did you believe your bullies growing up? Maybe you internalized some of the mean things they said to you, so much so that you became your own inner bully? 

With all that pain and constant judgement, it’s no wonder if you learned to cope by numbing yourself with drugs, alcohol, netflix, whatever! After a while, it’s easy to lose touch with who you even are anymore. You start to think that your “authentic self’ is bad or wrong and that it’s not safe to show that part of yourself to anyone.

But what if the exact opposite were true? Turns out, being your authentic self is the only way to get the deep fulfilling love you seek. So how do you step into authenticity when it feels scary af?

Today LGBTQ+ coach and guest speaker in the Queer Love & Dating Summit Michael C. Wearing shares his story of recovery from alcohol addiction and the many paths he took to rediscover authentic love in his life.

He talks about the strategies we can all use to heal from the past and start loving yourself now, no matter what your inner bully says. 

By the end of this episode, you will learn many different ways to own your authentic self and feel worthy of a healthy love.

 🎤🎬 Queer Love & Dating Summit

Check out the unedited version of Michael's talk in the Queer Love & Dating Summit! Go from single and stressing to happily partnered with this on-demand summit! Attract your person faster with a little help from some expert coaches and speakers from the Queer Community! Sign up for access to over 8 hours of trainings and bonus downloadable valued over $700!  Visit https://www.mettadatestudio.com/queer-love-summit

🏳️‍🌈 Connect with Michael C. Wearing 🏳️‍🌈

https://www.instagram.com/michaelcwearing/

https://www.michaelcwearing.com/

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💃 About Your Host

Lauren Smith (she/her) is a professional speaker, author of "The Mindful Dating Journal: Find a Healthy Love that Lasts," and creator of the free MettaDate Journal mobile app. She combines her personal success dating story with her professional mindfulness training to help singles ditch the dating struggle and claim the loving relationship they deeply deserve.

TRIGGER WARNING: Molestation, rape, and domestic abuse mentioned.

Today’s episode is for anyone who grew up in a strict religious home. Or maybe you just grew up as a woman in this effed-up society, because that’s traumatizing enough!

Basically, this episode is for you if any of the following beliefs have stopped you from claiming your highest love:

• Women make men do bad things. We are naturally shameful for being sexual creatures.

• The most honorable role for a woman to be a wife and mother. It’s selfish to make your other desires or needs a priorty.

• Sex is for having children. Anything outside of that for pleasure is shameful. 

• Or the big one: I did something wrong, and it’s totally my fault.

When we grow up learning a very black and white system of beliefs as children, it’s impossible not to carry them through into our adult relationships. And even if, on some level, even if we have chosen to create new beliefs, we are plagued by a shame that even weekly confession can’t treat.

But what if the mindset work isn’t about the specific religious beliefs themselves? What if instead, the real flex is in changing the way you relate to your own shame?

Today self-belief and anxiety coach Taryn Raine explains the subtle ways religious trauma can impact you as an adult and the connections you make, along with what to do with this awareness. It turns out that being raised in a strict traditional religion, like evangelical in Taryn’s case, causes developmental issues thanks to some hefty built-in trauma.

Learn the steps that Taryn took to let self-love be stronger than her shame. 💪

By the end of this episode, you might begin to see that the entire idea of shame is utter bullsh*t. You are the only one who gets to determine your worthiness. We all belong in this universal dance of light, dark, chaos, and harmony. There is no such thing as judgement when you appreciate your beauty in all its expressions.

 🎤🎬 Free Queer Love & Dating Summit

Check out Taryn's talk in the Queer Love & Dating Summit! Go from single and stressing to happily partnered with this free 5-day summit! Attract your person faster with a little help from some expert coaches and speakers from the Queer Community! Sign up for access to over 8 hours of trainings and bonus downloadable valued over $700!  Register now: https://www.mettadatestudio.com/queer-love-summit

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Taryn is a multi-passionate entrepreneur who runs a yoga wellness platform, coaching business, and business support agency. She specializes in helping women quiet the voice of self-doubt in order to embrace rebellious self-belief toward their dream business or lifestyle. More recently, she has started helping overwhelmed entrepreneurs to reduce perfectionism, build support in their businesses, and hire their first team members.

Taryn travels the world full-time, loves to have deep conversations (enneagram 4), and brings tarot cards to house parties.

💃 About Your Host 

Lauren Smith (she/her) is a professional speaker, author of "The Mindful Dating Journal: Find a Healthy Love that Lasts," and creator of the free MettaDate Journal mobile app. She combines her personal success dating story with her professional mindfulness training to help singles ditch the dating struggle and claim the loving relationship they deeply deserve.

Today's episode features guest host Taylor Aelina of the Spiritual Thots podcast. 

She and I are total woo-woo geeks, and we talk a lot about energy and how our energies come into play when we're dating. We talk about things that I normally don't talk about, so it'll be fresh and exciting for you.

I share with Taylor my insights on the vibration of love, how we can be in a healthy relationship, be in the vibes that feel good, what is acceptance in all of this, and more.

By the end of the episode, you'll have a new perspective on energies when it comes to dating. 

🏳️‍🌈 Connect with Taylor 🏳️‍🌈

Check out Taylor's Spiritual Thots podcast:

https://open.spotify.com/show/4IijfYcKnRb3aILpYMu0C1?si=86f0faccd4494930

Or on IG: https://www.instagram.com/tayloraelina/

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🎁 A Gift for You

Want to stop attracting toxic partners? The solution is to identify your unique Toxic Dating Loop to break the cycle. Find out how in the free Escape Your Toxic Dating Loop Toolkit here: https://www.mettadatestudio.com/dating-loops For even more dating tips, check me out on instagram here: https://www.instagram.com/mettadate/

💃 About Your Host 

Lauren is a speaker, author of "The Mindful Dating Journal: Find a Healthy Love that Lasts," and creator of the free MettaDate Journal mobile app. She combines her personal success dating story with her professional mindfulness training to help singles ditch the dating struggle and claim the loving relationship they deeply deserve.

It’s hard enough to put your sexual needs into words, let alone put them on the table for someone to reject or accept. But what if communicating your sexy desires has more to do with respect than anything else?

Today Pleasure Coach Whitni Miller explains how it’s not so much about finding somebody that’s a perfect sexually compatible match, but rather it’s about learning how you can both show up for each other to find the place where you meet in the middle AND have both of your core needs met. 

Whitni gives us answers to some of the biggest sex and dating questions like:

• Why is it so hard to talk about sex? Spoiler alert: it has to do with worthiness!
• What things should we be talking about to a prospective sexual partner?
• When is it the right time to bring up sex while dating?

By the end of this episode, you will naturally start speaking up more about your sexual needs sooner than later because you’ll understand why these conversations are so important! Clear sex communication gives both people information so they can consent to the type of relationship they choose to build together.

 🎤🎬 Free Queer Love & Dating Summit

Check out the unedited version of Whitni's talk in the Queer Love & Dating Summit! Go from single and stressing to happily partnered with this free 5-day summit! Attract your person faster with a little help from some expert coaches and speakers from the Queer Community! Sign up for access to over 8 hours of trainings and bonus downloadable valued over $700!  Register now: https://www.mettadatestudio.com/queer-love-summit

🏳️‍🌈 Connect with Whitni 🏳️‍🌈

https://www.instagram.com/bde.moves/

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💃 About Your Host 

Lauren is a speaker, author of "The Mindful Dating Journal: Find a Healthy Love that Lasts," and creator of the free MettaDate Journal mobile app. She combines her personal success dating story with her professional mindfulness training to help singles ditch the dating struggle and claim the loving relationship they deeply deserve.