

Smart Dating Academy - The Podcast
The Smart Dating Academy Podcast
Smart Dating Academy helps busy, successful professionals to jump start their dating lives. We have a results-oriented, fun 8 step process - which transforms you into a better dater - helping you find "the one".
This podcast is meant to help you put more love in to your life, and more life in to your love
This podcast is meant to help you put more love in to your life, and more life in to your love
Episodes
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Feb 9, 2024 • 8min
121: Does Exclusivity Mean They're Your Boyfriend/ Girlfriend?
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Feb 8, 2024 • 18min
121: Will Dating a Friend Ruin the Friendship?
WIll dating a friend ruin the friendship? The answer to this question, as you might expect, is complicated, and there isn't a firm yes or no. It's going to depend on you, and the person. Before you get into the relationship, look at this person crucially. Listen to this amazing podcast where Bela explains the eight crucial things to consider before jumping into a relationship with a friend (and she has a LOT of experience with this with her own marriage and clients)!
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Feb 7, 2024 • 6min
121: Why Butterflies are BAD in Dating!
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Feb 6, 2024 • 8min
121: The BEST Way to Say What's Bothering You!
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Feb 5, 2024 • 11min
121: 4 Sentences That Will Bring You More Love, INSTANTLY
Bela will share an amazing set of sentences that she learned serendipitously from Dan Harris that will bring you more joy, ease, and reduce anxiety. It has changed her world in the last week, and everyone she has shared it with has LOVED it. Today, she's giving it all to us in this jewel of a mini episode. Be ready for things to change for you in a very loving way.
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Jan 29, 2024 • 53min
120: Easy Ways to Make Meaningful Friendships in Adulthood!
This week I'm having a fun conversation with Lane Moore, who was the "sex / relationships" editor at Cosmo, is an award-winning actor, author, and comedian. Moore is most famously known as the creator and star of one of the most well-reviewed comedy shows in the world, Tinder Live, where she projects her dating app onto a screen, swipes through profiles live on stage, and the audience votes whether she swipes right or left, to cathartic, hilarious, and surprisingly kind results.
We talk about:Fun moments on her Tinder Live shows
Her books "How to be Alone" (and it starts with accepting who we are and what we need) and "How to Find Your People"
What self-love and self-worth really means (I love her defintion)
How a pet can help you feel healthy, happy, and unconditional love and heal from heartbreak
How to form authentic adult friendships
Different attachment styles and what they mean in friendships
Friend breakups: How to know when to leave and how to do it
The ONLY time ghosting is ok
What being vulnerable REALLY means
You don't want to miss this high energy episode filled with awesome advice on how to find YOUR people.
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Jan 22, 2024 • 42min
119: How Courtney Found Love, in a Very Unexpected Package!
Get ready to be inspired by another true "finding love story" from one of our awesome clients that found the most amazing love (and it took a longgg time)! Massive plot twist here, by the way, that you won't believe, so listen to the WHOLE thing! Courtney Bass Sherizen is a badass HR Executive with two degrees from Harvard and is also a certified yoga teacher. She just celebrated her 4 year wedding anniversary and has a 2 year old. But just a few years ago she was in your shoes looking for love.
Courtney was on a long and arduous journey when it came to dating and was longing to find a lasting partner and to be a mom. Her parents saw Bela on the Steve Harvey Show and encouraged Courtney to reach out to SDA, which changed her course forever and fixed her picker. You literally will not believe how Dan won Courtney's lasting love and marriage - still blows me away (yes, men that want to be with you will move MOUNTAINS to be with you)
You will hear:
How Courtney had to overcome self doubt and fear when it comes to dating
How she found out about Smart Dating Academy
How the online dating stats used to bring her down
How she used to hide parts of herself and held up barriers to protect who she was - which prevented her from showing up in relationships
How she fixed her picker with Lindsay's help
How Dan reached out to Courtney, and why she said NO at first :)
How she KNEW she wanted to be a mother, and wouldn't settle for less
How Courtney left Dan, and why he came back SHORTLY thereafter (and what changed) - this is truly amazing
How they blend their families together (Courtney is African American and Dan was raised in the Jewish faith)
You will absolutely love Courtney telling her love story! Love came in an unexpected package for her and it can come for you, too!
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Jan 15, 2024 • 56min
118: The D Word: Making the Ultimate Decision About Your Marriage
This week the amazing Kate Anthony, author of The D Word: Making the Ultimate Decision About Your Marriage and the creator of the groundbreaking online coaching program, Should I Stay or Should I Go? came to chat with me about all things involving the decision if we should divorce or breakup.
Kate empowers women to find their strength, passion, and confidence even in the most disempowering of circumstances and helps them move forward with concrete plans.
There are some of the incredible insights that Kate shares with us to help you navigate one of the toughest decisions of your life.
Kate talks about:
The very first thing women need to look at when trying to make this decision (which is not what you might think!)
How to get to know yourself again
The Research that shows why women are often unhappy in their marriages (which will blow your mind)
Why women often feel like they aren't enough without a partner
What you should feel in a healthy relationship and an emotionally abusive relationship
What feeling to look for in a relationship that are major red flags (and that applies for all non-heterosexual relationships)
What the difference is between a narcissist and a sociopath
You don't want to miss this awesome episode! Even if you are not thinking about divorce, you can get so many eye-opening and great takeaways.
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Jan 8, 2024 • 41min
117: How to Make 2024 your Most Fabulous & Sexiest Year!
JJ Virgin, triple-board certified nutrition expert and Fitness Hall of Famer, discusses aging powerfully and sexily at ALL ages, emphasizing the importance of body composition, tracking, and lifting heavy weights. She shares tips on measuring and improving body composition and the benefits of weight training and resistance training. Bela and JJ also discuss the challenges of finding a long-term partner and offer three key tips for aging powerfully.

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Jan 1, 2024 • 1h 5min
116: The FINE Art of Small Talk
Bela talks with best-selling author Debra Fine about the importance of small talk. Topics include Debra's journey from being an engineer to improving her conversation skills, the art of active listening and digging deeper in conversations, the significance of small talk in dating and creating chemistry, balancing talking and listening, overcoming the fear of rejection, developing the skill of being a good conversationalist, and the power of small talk in building connections.