Summary: “Saying ‘Yes’ is just so important, because nothing magical ever happens when you are just sitting on the couch.” - Courteney Kay The Bucket List Life Podcast #25 - Courteney Kay The world of online dating can be an intimidating place for those venturing into the dating scene. The process of dating in general can be a frustration and tiring experience. Thank goodness for those that attempt to make these necessary ventures in life more tolerable. Our next guest on The Bucket List Life Podcast episode #25, is one of the exciting and wonderful people that help others find their perfect soul mate and bring love into their lives. Courteney Kay is the Regional Coordinator and Executive Matchmaker for Dating Ring. Courteney has an extensive background as a Matchmaker, having ran her own singles events company in Southern California and hosted speed dating events as well as written many blogs and articles for various dating websites. Now living in San Francisco with her fiancé of four years, Courteney has some helpful tips and suggestions for success in dating and finding true love. Highlights from their podcast conversation: 7:30 Courteney talks about growing up as a perfectionist from a very young age and how she was encouraged to overcome perfectionism by her loving and supportive parents. 14:15 Courteney shares her love story of how she met the man of her dreams through Match.com and the most romantic marriage proposal she received in Rio De Janeiro, six months afterwards. 19:30 Courteney talks about what her finance, Ray, did differently to get her attention on match.com and how she knew from day one that he was different from the other boys/men. 27:00 Courteney describes her passion for her current career as a Matchmaker and how she got into the industry designing dating profiles for others online and giving them dating advice. She talks about building her expertise, her speed dating experience and writing dating articles on the side of her full time jobs until she started working full-time with Grouper, setting up three on three group dating. 32:00 Courteney shares some really basic tips for online dating and setting up your profile. The most important thing you can do is represent yourself as genuinely honest, transparent and authentic as possible in your online profile. As an Executive Matchmaker for Dating Ring, she shares her technique for filtering down prospects for her clients and really getting to understand what it is they are looking for. 40:00 Courteney shares some first date tricks to keep in mind. As well as some do’s and don’ts that are acceptable in todays modern dating scene. She suggests that we dress for success, ask some genuine casual questions, have fun and just figure out if you want to see the person again on a second date. 49:45 Courteney encourages people who have just come out of a long term relationship to give themselves more time than they think they need on their own afterwards to really process the relationship. 53:15 What is on Courteney’s bucket list with her finance Ray? She would love to fulfill all of their entrepreneurial dreams together, travel more around the world, get married, have a house with animals and kids and have a lot of fun together. 55:30 Courteney would like to leave us with the following suggestions: Do yoga and be the best person you can possibly be every day. Thank you so much Courteney, for sharing all of your expertise in the world of dating and matchmaking and your own amazing successful love story. That wraps up episode #25 of The Bucket List Life Podcast with Kenyon Salo. Please remember to RATE and REVIEW on iTunes and also FOLLOW us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. Feel free to join our Team Bucket List and contribute to making the world a better place. Until next time, be amazing and when you give love, love comes back to you. Resources links from this episode: * DatingRing.com (https://www.datingring.com) * courteney@datingring.
