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Send us Fan Mail If you've heard me mention Simply Irresistible all week and wondered what it actually is, this is the episode that lays it out. I built it, first, for myself. For the woman I was before 2018, the one who wanted love so badly, who was tired of being asked "why are you still single," who kept opening my heart and kept watching it not work out. What changed everything...

Send us Fan Mail You meet him Thursday. By Sunday you've spent three days straight together and you're sure this is the one. Then, right after things get physical, he gets a strange look, mumbles something about not being able to handle a relationship, and disappears. If you've lived some version of that, this episode is for you, because the pattern is more predictable than you&apos...

Send us Fan Mail =We talk a lot about what a program costs, what a coach costs, what it costs to finally invest in yourself. We almost never add up the other number: the cost of doing nothing at all. In this short, honest episode, I ask the question most women avoid. What does it actually cost you to keep coming home to an empty house you don't want to be alone in? What does it cost to want l...

Send us Fan Mail The second you truly decide you want lasting love, everything that isn't love comes marching straight at you. The bad dates. The disappointing texts. The clowns. The little voice that says don't bother. That's not the universe telling you to quit. In this episode, I make the case that it's the exact opposite, and that how you handle the mess that shows up is wh...

Send us Fan Mail Here's a truth most people skip right past: a new love can't find its way in until you've properly grieved the last one. Not just the marriages that ended in loss, but the ones that ended in disappointment, betrayal, or worse. In this episode, Diane makes the case for grief you may not even realize you're carrying. Because if the relationship you had wasn'...

Send us Fan Mail You have a list. He needs to be over six feet, make six figures, and check every box you've been adding to since the last disappointment. Every item sounds reasonable on its own. Stack them all together and you haven't described a man, you've described a Disney prince who does not exist on this planet in this lifetime. This episode is about trading the fantasy check...

Send us Fan Mail This episode is about intuition and do you trust yours? Can you tell the difference between intuition and fear? Do you make decisions based on fear and pretend it's your gut speaking? Or do you make a decision based on your intuition and pretend it's fear? On this episode I babble on about it. (It's getting late and I've recorded a lot today.) Remember to join...

Send us Fan Mail This is the 2nd day of my 12 day podcast marathon, and I want to wish you a very happy 4th of July, a very happy 250 birthday, America. I wanted to let you know of a special event I've been invited to in San Antonio. My good friend Sharon Jenkins has created a live, in-person event in a hotel on the Riverwalk and I'm one of the speakers. I'll be teaching about Datin...

Send us Fan Mail Have you ever found yourself trying to date a guy with certain qualities and he originally had them. But something happened, and eventually you discover that he's just like your alcoholic dad or the ex-husband who carried carried secrets or your first boyfriend who cheated on you.  There's a reason for it, and we're going to talk about it on Thursday, July 9th at  7...

Send us Fan Mail You want something real. Then a conversation turns toward what you actually want, and it gets tense, or you go quiet, or you reach for the tired line. All he wants is a nurse or a purse. All she wants is my money. Here's what those lines are really doing. Every time you say one, you teach your own brain to expect exactly that, and then you keep finding it. Grown-up dating sou...

Send us Fan Mail Episode 65: Water Seeks Its Own Level, and So Do Daters You keep meeting men who can't quite meet you. Different faces, same ceiling. You're across the table from someone who runs out of depth right as you're ready to go deeper, and you start to wonder if the good ones are simply gone. Water seeks its own level. So do daters. The men who keep showing up tend to matc...

Send us Fan Mail Simply Irresistible returns July 14, and in this episode Diane pulls back the curtain on what the program really is and who it's for. After dating from 16 to 58, Diane learned that no amount of advice or tactics worked until she cleared out what was actually keeping love away. She shares the story of the New Year's Eve she heard a voice tell her to get engaged in 2018 an...

Send us Fan Mail Online dating has the lowest barrier of any way to meet someone, which is exactly why it works AND exactly why it can try the patience of a saint. Everyone is in the pool, from the woman whose standards have quietly become a moat to the man who puts in one quarter and expects a jackpot. And yet, by the last numbers I saw, around 40% of couples now meet online. The channel delivers...

Send us Fan Mail If you've been single for a while and you've got some money to spend, a matchmaker can start to look awfully tempting. Someone else does the work. Someone else vets the men. Someone else hands you a curated list of possibilities while you sit back and wait for love to be delivered. I understand the appeal. But before you send that Venmo, there's something you need t...

Send us Fan Mail Join me on May 21st at 7 p.m. central for an hour long program called Dating Safely & Scam-Free. Sign up here: dianebrandonmoody.com/safety The 7 Dating Patterns Smart Women Don't Realize They're Running - And Why Recognizing Yours Changes Everything. 

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Send us Fan Mail If the CNN news about the online membership (made up of the biggest scumbags alive) scared you, I get it.  If you lost money to a scammer, you aren't alone. Americans lost $1.4 BILLION to romance scams ($10 billion if you count all the reported scams, not just romance) in 2024.  If you want to be with me LIVE during my updated class on Thursday, April 30th at 7:00 p.m. centra...

Send us Fan Mail Season 4 of Love on the Spectrum just dropped on Netflix, and I watched the whole thing in one sitting. In this episode, I share five things every dater can learn from the autistic adults on this show, from their courage to their honesty to their refusal to play games. I also talk about the show's coach Jennifer Cook, who said something about her coaching philosophy that beca...

Send us Fan Mail This week I saw Louis Theroux's new documentary on Netflix called "Inside the Manosphere." It's creepy, and yet important for every man and woman to watch so they know what's going on in male-female dynamics, especially among younger men.  Please share this with your friends! Leave a review or a suggested topic you'd like me to cover. The 7 Dating Pat...

Send us Fan Mail Hello and Happy New Year (almost!).  I hope you can join me on Dec. 31, 2025 from noon to 2 p.m. central time for Manifesting Love in 2026.  IT'S FREE!!! You may think "manifesting" is silly, but I manifested my husband within hours in 2017, I manifested being engaged in 2018 and manifested a trip to Paris (down to the exact hotel). So why not give it a try?  Go to...

Send us Fan Mail New episode of Fiftysomething Love is up! I'm talking about Manifesting Love in 2026 and the exact ritual I did on NYE 2017 that changed everything. If you've been wondering what I'm doing on December 31 and why, this episode explains it all.  Link: www.dianebrandonmoody.com/manifesting The 7 Dating Patterns Smart Women Don't Realize They're Running - And...

Send us Fan Mail Did you know your decision-making abilities can be clouded by your body not signaling safety to you?  Did you know I extended The Simply Irresistible Collective to 11:59 p.m. Dec. 1st, 2025 (Cyber Monday)? Did you know I created an INCREDIBLE BLACK FRIDAY BONUS for The Simply Irresistible Collective?  Book a call on www.dianebrandonmoody.com/love-audit so we can make a decision. T...

Send us Fan Mail I invited Sharon to speak again on an upcoming summit. This is the 3rd summit where she invited me, along with several other experts, to speak about dating.  Here's the link to sign up: https://the-2025-forty-plus-and-flirty-dating-summit-holid.heysummit.com/?ac=YsJ19gVe    (Yes, it's a long one!) Questions? sharoncjenkins@gmail.com Make sure you get your 25% discount on...

Send us Fan Mail CJ is a rockstar client! She was my latest 1:1 client and hadn't dated in many years. She was with her husband for quite awhile, but then he died unexpectedly 12 1/2 years ago. It took her awhile to want to date again, which was absolutely understandable.  But then it wasn't all about her husband dying, it was also about being scared of dating and scared of the unknown ....

Send us Fan Mail New schedule for Simply Irresistible: enrollment is extended through 11:59 p.m. on Cyber Monday, Dec. 1st. Program begins Tuesday evening at 7 p.m. central,  Dec. 2nd, 2025. How do you know that you need this program? *Do you always end up dating "the same guy in a different outfit"? *Have you ever dated someone you absolutely KNEW wasn't a good idea, but you were c...