the INTERWOVXN podcast
Interwovxn’s co-founder Theresa talks with matchmaker and middle age dating specialist, Lori Mendelsohn of Smart Funny Single, about dating in middle life, changing dating paradigms, letting go of expectations, what makes a great first date, and more. Listeners hear Lori talk about how she arrived at her current profession, and share how her professional skills are rooted in real life experience. Theresa and Lori get right into nitty-gritty topics like dating after divorce, sex after menopause, getting out of a dating rut, and embracing change.
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Episode TRANSCRIPT
THERESA: Hi Lori, thanks for being here.
LORI: I'm thrilled to be here. Thank you.
THERESA: I'm dying to know, like a little background about how you got started in all of this. I know that you are a student of human nature. Can you talk about the moments you realized that this was your calling?
LORI: My back story is not as a dating coach and a matchmaker. Although I started doing matchmaking when I was 19 years old, it was when I was in college. And I had just met a guy, and I intuitively said, oh, you two should meet and then they ended up getting married and then it kept happening over and over and over and over again, resulting in marriages and now great grandkids. Because you know that was 40 years ago. You know, I'm 66 years old, so I've been doing it a while, interestingly enough. I met a medium a few weeks ago and he knew literally nothing about me and he looked at me and the first thing that he said was when did you know that you had this gift of connecting people? And I said I've always known it. I just was afraid to use it. Because I was a misfit kid. I was empathic. I was very much a loner. I was. I was that odd girl that no one ever chose for teams or sports. Because, you know, I don't have an athletic bone in my body, but I knew that I had a gift and I knew that the gifts that I had one day I kept telling myself you're going to use those and you're going to be helping people. In fact, one of my clients yesterday when I was doing a coaching session with her she said to me, have you been a psychologist before and I said well she said this is just so easy for you and it absolutely is easy for me. It's easy for me to see the challenges that women are having. And how women get in their own way. And I feel that I am that culvert to them. Seeing what it is that's blocking them and helping them release it, you know they have a lot of aha moments to quote Oprah. They have a lot of moments that they're swearing and saying holy blank. How did you know that about me? And I just know I see intuitively things that people don't normally see and the gifts are hard to explain.