Speaker 1: The d is back, so the band aid has been
Speaker 1: ripped off. I have been single for a minute. When
Speaker 1: I became single is nobody's business, but it's been a while.
Speaker 1: I set a certain period of time for myself that
Speaker 1: I was going to reflect, to heal, to do therapy,
Speaker 1: to be alone, to not get into anything, to avoid intimacy,
Speaker 1: to just take a beat, because my whole life is
Speaker 1: someone liking me and then me reacting to that, versus
Speaker 1: me saying I'm standing here, my own two feet that
Speaker 1: are grounded and deciding what I want. And this is
Speaker 1: going to be a very different dating error than I've
Speaker 1: ever had before, because what I'm struggling with is so
Speaker 1: many young women say I can't meet a man. I
Speaker 1: want to meet someone, and at all ages, I mean
Speaker 1: literally at fourteen, fifteen to twenty five to thirty five.
Speaker 1: People want to meet someone. Women want to meet women,
Speaker 1: men want to meet men. I'm not disregarding every type
Speaker 1: of relationship. I'm just talking about I guess dating as
Speaker 1: I see it in my sense. And this is different
Speaker 1: this time because I feel like I'm a fully formed
Speaker 1: human being. We're always growing, we're always evolving, but I'm
Speaker 1: not trying to get anywhere. I'm not trying to become successful.
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to get married. I'm not striving to
Speaker 1: have kids. I'm not someone who would really like to
Speaker 1: be a homeowner one day. All of my boxes are checked.
Speaker 1: That's what's different. At every other period of my life,
Speaker 1: even six years ago, because I wasn't yet done with
Speaker 1: my divorce, I haven't had my boxes checked. I didn't
Speaker 1: feel like I was financially sound, secure as a businesswoman.
Speaker 2: Like I think I'm a badass at this point.
Speaker 1: I always have been a badass, but at this point
Speaker 1: I have street cred and the respect of people in
Speaker 1: the financial community, venture capital, real estate, entertainment, media, podcasting,
Speaker 1: social media, like all across the board. I have proven
Speaker 1: myself as a businesswoman. I've proved myself as a woman.
Speaker 1: I've proved myself to myself by the way I had
Speaker 1: proved myself a long time ago as a businesswoman. But
Speaker 1: I have proven myself to myself now as a mother,
Speaker 1: as a partner, as a business partner, as a real
Speaker 1: estate investor, as a venture capitalist, as a media mogul,
Speaker 1: as an influencer, the accidental unexpected influencer, as a friend.
Speaker 1: I'm good like I feel as a comedian. I feel
Speaker 1: good and now I'm a fully formed human being. I
Speaker 1: am not the ike addresser. I do not need to
Speaker 1: be put together. I am coming fully formed, fully put together,
Speaker 1: and now I'm ready to date, and I'm ready to
Speaker 1: take you with me. I'm going for broke. So doesn't
Speaker 1: mean I'm going to marry someone who's going to take.
Speaker 2: Me for everything. And it doesn't mean I'm going out
Speaker 2: with someone broke.
Speaker 1: What it means is I'm going all the way or
Speaker 1: I'm just not going to do it, meaning I want
Speaker 1: a partner, someone additive. I want an equal rock stars
Speaker 1: need rock stars, is what my friend Louis said to me,
Speaker 1: and so that's what I want. If I don't find that,
Speaker 1: I'm going solo because I've realized through this past several
Speaker 1: months that i can be alone. I like being alone.
Speaker 1: I'm confident, I'm secure, set a good example for my daughter.
Speaker 1: I have consciously uncoupled. I have been healthy in a
Speaker 1: breakup as one should. I have survived and thrived in
Speaker 1: a divorce, and I have been in charge and I've
Speaker 1: created my own destiny and now I'm happy. And you
Speaker 1: shouldn't be dating until you're happy. You should be a
Speaker 1: fully formed human being. You should be the person you'd
Speaker 1: want to date. You should feel like you're coming into
Speaker 1: a partnership bringing something to the table.
Speaker 2: You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: You show up at a pot luck, you want to
Speaker 1: be proud of your dish. This is what I came
Speaker 1: with tonight, not something you're like, well, I had to
Speaker 1: buy at the supermarket, it sort of sucked, etc. You
Speaker 1: want to walk in like proud. You go on that field,
Speaker 1: the play sport. You want to be like I got this.
Speaker 1: Whatever you do. You want to show up, things gonna happen.
Speaker 1: You can make mistakes, But if I show up on
Speaker 1: a stage and I'm gonna speak in front of a
Speaker 1: bunch of people, I want to make sure I come correct.
Speaker 1: So in dating it's the same thing. I am a
Speaker 1: fully formed human being. I am a strong woman, I
Speaker 1: am successful, I am confident, I am funny, I am sexy.
Speaker 1: I look good, and I bring something to the table.
Speaker 1: And that's what every woman should do and be when
Speaker 1: she's entering into the dating space. You don't want to
Speaker 1: be like some wounded bird walking in, choosing people for
Speaker 1: the wrong reasons, going in for the rebound as a
Speaker 1: reaction to what you had that wasn't.
Speaker 2: Good for you. You want to go in like I've.
Speaker 1: Experienced this, that and the other thing, and I'm walking
Speaker 1: in now with all of this institutional knowledge and I'm
Speaker 1: ready to go.
Speaker 2: So this is just be dating. The d is back.
Speaker 1: We are ready to go, and you're coming with me.
Speaker 1: I will not be sharing personal information. I will be
Speaker 1: dating a certain level of man that would never want that.
Speaker 1: But I will be sharing the experience and the cautionary
Speaker 1: tales and the advice and about the apps and about
Speaker 1: the matchmakers and about all of it, the age, the texting,
Speaker 1: the process, the experience in dating successful men. And we're
Speaker 1: going all the way, baby. So who's coming with me?
Speaker 1: Because you're going to learn a lot. Get your books out,
Speaker 1: buckle up your seatbelts. I've never had a problem dating,
Speaker 1: and this is going to be one for the ages,
Speaker 1: one for the books.
Speaker 2: Who's ready