Bela Gandhi

And then I started teaching all of my friends how to do this.

Like, what do you actually want to look for?

Like just be smart about what's good and what's not good so you can start to pick good partners.

I started standing up in wedding after wedding after weddings.

I'm so glad Bella was my wise owl, you know, telling me how to date and pick partners.

So finally in 2009, after having had a career in M&A and running a manufacturing business with my family, and then we sold it, I started Smart Dating Academy in 2009 because I thought it was supposed to be, you just know.

Some of us get lucky and we know, but for those of us who are like, I'm not sure, I

I know how to do this.

This is where having a plan and a system and an end game will really help you to find someone where you don't end up in those statistics.

So of the couples that have decided to get married, none have divorced.

And why is that, right?

When you have a method to pick a person that ultimately will become your best friend, that you're attracted to and you want to sleep with, and you have guardrails around you, this is what we do, right?

It's not just we're teaching a framework, but what we do is we teach people in a bespoke way so it's custom to them.

We know a lot about their backgrounds, a lot about their own attachment patterns.

what they've done relationship by relationship, what works, what didn't work, what was their responsibility, what was their partner.

So we have this whole amalgamation of data points.

And so we help teach them who is a partner that's going to make them happy.

We call them high GPQs, high in good partner qualities.

And then we teach them all of the red flags that they might see through the process, how to pace their dating life.

But what's important after that is we continue coaching them, usually for a year at least, through the process so that they get acclimated, so they're not afraid, so they feel safe.