Cupid's Coach with Julie Ferman

The original dating coach, Evan Marc Katz returns to share insights on the hot topics. Money, Sex, Communication, and how to navigate today's dating related puzzles.

This is a replay of Episode 36, enjoy!

My guest is Arielle Ford, author of The Love Thief, a spiritual romance thriller that incorporates heartbreak, healing, and transformation. 

Real, live stories from Boot Camp participants who are CAUSING things to happen for themselves. Holding eye contact, smiling, sharing a calling card, doing a little research, and mustering up the courage to extend an invitation. It's not as hard as they thought it was!

Fractured Family Relationships? Often considered a red flag in dating - Josh Coleman, Ph.D., author of "Rules of Estrangement" addresses the issue from a personal and therapeutic perspective. When values clash among family members, can we agree to disagree? Are there underlying issues at play, and what might we do?

Feeling lost or depressed? Triggered often? Stuck in PTSD from past trauma? Holistic Healer/Reiki Master, Edit Kiss shows us the value in energetic therapy for healing wounds and managing the inevitable stressors in our lives. How we can bring ourselves from misery to peace.

Transform the quality of your early dates, ALL of your conversations, and EACH of your relationships through the art of conversation. Engaging curiosity, acceptance, wonder and creating love through our words and open-hearted presence. 

Real, live stories about how beautiful, happy couples actually met. How a "chance" encounter turned into lifelong love. What did he do, what did she do to cause that first date to happen. There's a moral to every story. Join us.

Loneliness has become a crisis, an epidemic in our culture. Are you part of the problem? Can you become the solution? Are you disengaged or engaged with your fellow humans? And what might happen if you choose to become a difference-maker in your own social life and the lives of those around you? 

Stuck in a One Date Wonder pattern? Are you courageous enough to challenge yourself? Vision Boards - uh oh, are they dangerous? Which criteria SHOULD you stretch on, and how Google Snooping can backfire.

How a broken foot can be a blessing. When relationships morph over time, can we hang in there? Reassessing key criteria after 35 years of marriage. Wow, huh? 

Kristi Price, Matchmaker in Philadelphia & West Palm Beach, on the importance of interactive conversation, bringing care and curiosity TO the dating process. Checking expectations and rethinking the stories we tell. The lengths a matchmaker will go to usher in rock-solid MEN for our female clients Spotting The Narcissism and emotional intelligence.

To what degree are our decisions based on ego, avoiding criticism and judgment, seeking validation? The key to creating balance between work and play. 

Can we cause loving feelings? How? The opportunity in conflict, and the source of chemistry and connection. 

Her company's pay-per-match model and Julie Ferman's Mitzvah Matches are shaking up the dating industry; no longer is personal matchmaking reserved only for the uber wealthy. It's about time.

Does a significant age difference make sense, short-term? Long-term? Looking for your soulmate? Does your soul really care how tall he is or how wealthy he is? 

Are we being honest with ourselves? What's our part in the successes and failures we have had in communication, in all of our relationships? How much courage can we muster up, to find the answers to those questions? We're doing this personal growth work together. Thank you for joining me in this oh-so-challenging conversation. 

Imagine - you, playing Social Director and Personal Matchmaker for yourSELF. Developing your Posse of single pals, engaging "strangers" and causing connections to happen. Julie shares social superpower strategies to build your Little Black Book. 

Why The Alpha Male in disguise is a wise choice. How she and Michael handled the "who pays for what?" issue and how they found their "We" without losing their "Me".