🎙️How To Date

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🎙️How To Date

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🎙️How To Date

Podwires Team

Jan 27, 2025

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From Monday 3rd February, the chart-topping podcaster Elizabeth Day and renowned dating & relationship coach, Mel Schilling will join forces for How To Date – delivering expert-led insights, practical tips, and plenty of real-life wisdom on mastering the art of modern dating (because let’s face it, it’s basically a full-time job).

Following the success of How To Write A Book, this is the second in a series of ‘How To…’ podcast masterclasses - the PodClass™️ – offering practical and empowering advice to listeners on a variety of subjects.

As the unofficial Queen of Failure, Elizabeth wanted to create a series that would confront everything wrong with the dating world and provide actionable steps for those navigating its ever-changing landscape. Joining her for this masterclass and making her debut as a podcast host is Mel Schilling, the psychologist-turned-TV expert known and loved for her direct, yet kind approach as the resident expert on Channel 4's Married At First Sight.

Having both met their husbands online at the age of 39, Elizabeth and Mel have been there, done that, and – in Elizabeth’s case – literally face-planted on her first date with her future spouse (because falling in love can be messy). Now, they're ready to impart all they've learnt along the way.

Whether you’re stepping back into the dating world after heartbreak, looking to leave old patterns behind, or hoping to level up your current relationship, each week Mel and Elizabeth will equip listeners with the skills they need to navigate romance with confidence and clarity.

From decoding the apps to mastering open-hearted communication, this eight-week masterclass has an episode for every step of the journey:

Episode 1: Am I Ready to Date?

Episode 2: Meeting Someone
With publisher, podclass host and cultural strategist Sharmaine Lovegrove

Episode 3: The First Date
With winner of Netflix's The Big Flower Fight, cultural curator and creator of HUNGAMA (East London’s Queer Bollywood Hip/Hop night) Ryan Lanji

Episode 4: Communication
With psychotherapist, author and podcaster author Emma Reed Turrell

Episode 5: Red and Green Flags
With sex and dating educator, LalalaLetMeExplain

Episode 6: Taking It to the Next Step

Episode 7: Heartbreak and Rejection
With author and life coach Michelle Elman

Episode 8: The Most Important Relationship
With two very special surprise guests...!

While Elizabeth and Mel can't guarantee you a date in time for Valentine's Day, listeners can expect frank confessions, expert advice, hilarious anecdotes and fail-safe exercises that will empower you to make the changes you need to meet the right person – and to foster the most important relationship you'll ever have: with yourself.

After you’ve listened to each episode of How To Date, you can download all the resources and worksheets covered at www.thepodclass.co.uk

New episodes of How To Date will be available every Monday from 3rd February or you can binge the whole season at once for just £3.99 a month which gets you access to the full How To... channel (including How To Fail and How To Write A Book).

And because Mel and Elizabeth are on a mission to revolutionise the world of dating, they're encouraging everyone else to join in. Also on www.thepodclass.co.uk, you'll find the How To Date Good Dating Pledge, consisting of 10 simple ‘Dating Commandments’ developed by Mel and Elizabeth (below). Listeners can sign up for free and help make dating a safe, fun and rewarding experience for everyone. Let’s make dating better - for all of us!