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Ben Hart

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405 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

And it kind of like niched itself into the dating world. Like I've been... I'm fascinated with the details and the intricacies of interaction, specifically in the context of attraction and dating. So I find that I've always found that super fascinating to me. I've been like, you know, and I have my own personal history of dating in New York for over 20 years.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

Like I kind of understand some of the things, you know, and that's what kind of makes it maybe more unique than some others is that I try to make it fun. And I started doing dating specific content in, what was it, 2021? Three end of 2023. So I kind of took the content I was doing, which was very general, high level personal development.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

Like I kind of understand some of the things, you know, and that's what kind of makes it maybe more unique than some others is that I try to make it fun. And I started doing dating specific content in, what was it, 2021? Three end of 2023. So I kind of took the content I was doing, which was very general, high level personal development.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

Like I kind of understand some of the things, you know, and that's what kind of makes it maybe more unique than some others is that I try to make it fun. And I started doing dating specific content in, what was it, 2021? Three end of 2023. So I kind of took the content I was doing, which was very general, high level personal development.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

You know, it was just a little too gray, if I'm being honest. And I understood that, too. But when I started to say, you know, I said, OK, let me just talk about the shit I really want to talk about. And I use TikTok as a playground for that. And then the first day I did, it just kind of started to go. And then I realized.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

You know, it was just a little too gray, if I'm being honest. And I understood that, too. But when I started to say, you know, I said, OK, let me just talk about the shit I really want to talk about. And I use TikTok as a playground for that. And then the first day I did, it just kind of started to go. And then I realized.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

You know, it was just a little too gray, if I'm being honest. And I understood that, too. But when I started to say, you know, I said, OK, let me just talk about the shit I really want to talk about. And I use TikTok as a playground for that. And then the first day I did, it just kind of started to go. And then I realized.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

that obviously the you know the dating niche is a very interesting one but i realized that i was going to quadruple down on something that i feel like if you just asked me a question i could just kind of go on whereas some other topics i was like all right let me think about one two three these are kind of things i can kind of just flow with it became more of like a flow state thing for me and that's kind of just how it really started and then you know everything for me over the last year and some change has been a result of me using tick tock as a playground

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

that obviously the you know the dating niche is a very interesting one but i realized that i was going to quadruple down on something that i feel like if you just asked me a question i could just kind of go on whereas some other topics i was like all right let me think about one two three these are kind of things i can kind of just flow with it became more of like a flow state thing for me and that's kind of just how it really started and then you know everything for me over the last year and some change has been a result of me using tick tock as a playground

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

that obviously the you know the dating niche is a very interesting one but i realized that i was going to quadruple down on something that i feel like if you just asked me a question i could just kind of go on whereas some other topics i was like all right let me think about one two three these are kind of things i can kind of just flow with it became more of like a flow state thing for me and that's kind of just how it really started and then you know everything for me over the last year and some change has been a result of me using tick tock as a playground

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

Yeah, it was like a point of zero for me. I didn't know what to expect here, right? Like it was, that's one of the reasons why TikTok was big for me because it was a place where nobody knew me. And that was really important because I didn't have an identity box I've already established. Like, you know, when you're on Instagram, all of a sudden you're a long lost ants there.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

Yeah, it was like a point of zero for me. I didn't know what to expect here, right? Like it was, that's one of the reasons why TikTok was big for me because it was a place where nobody knew me. And that was really important because I didn't have an identity box I've already established. Like, you know, when you're on Instagram, all of a sudden you're a long lost ants there.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

Yeah, it was like a point of zero for me. I didn't know what to expect here, right? Like it was, that's one of the reasons why TikTok was big for me because it was a place where nobody knew me. And that was really important because I didn't have an identity box I've already established. Like, you know, when you're on Instagram, all of a sudden you're a long lost ants there.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

And then like other people are starting to be like, who's this dude now? You know, and TikTok was that thing for me. It was like, nobody knows me. Let me just say the shit I want to say and test it out there. And then when I did that, you know, after like nine, 10 months, then I brought it to Instagram.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

And then like other people are starting to be like, who's this dude now? You know, and TikTok was that thing for me. It was like, nobody knows me. Let me just say the shit I want to say and test it out there. And then when I did that, you know, after like nine, 10 months, then I brought it to Instagram.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

And then like other people are starting to be like, who's this dude now? You know, and TikTok was that thing for me. It was like, nobody knows me. Let me just say the shit I want to say and test it out there. And then when I did that, you know, after like nine, 10 months, then I brought it to Instagram.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

Yeah, I felt like it gave me more. It took a while for me to gain the confidence to distribute it and talk about that around people I already knew. You know, like that's kind of the identity box, right? You establish an identity and it becomes a perceived risk when you're like, well, do I want to hop out of this box? And do I care? Why do I care? Which everybody cares to a degree.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

Yeah, I felt like it gave me more. It took a while for me to gain the confidence to distribute it and talk about that around people I already knew. You know, like that's kind of the identity box, right? You establish an identity and it becomes a perceived risk when you're like, well, do I want to hop out of this box? And do I care? Why do I care? Which everybody cares to a degree.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

Yeah, I felt like it gave me more. It took a while for me to gain the confidence to distribute it and talk about that around people I already knew. You know, like that's kind of the identity box, right? You establish an identity and it becomes a perceived risk when you're like, well, do I want to hop out of this box? And do I care? Why do I care? Which everybody cares to a degree.

Creating Confidence with Heather Monahan
#520 What He’s Really Thinking in the First 3 Dates: Flirting, Communication & Navigating the Early Days of Dating with Dating Strategist Ben Hart

And then, you know, there was a point that it came where once I started to get more wildly accepted, I started to care a little bit less. Yeah.