How to Get a Girlfriend with Connell Barrett
Tired of Struggling on Tinder and Bumble? Try the Innovative Dating App that Helps Men and Women Connect IRL!
10 Apr 2025
Tired of endless swiping that never leads to dates? Want to meet wonderful women in real life? Dating coach Connell Barrett welcomes David Vermeulen, founder of Inner Circle, a different kind of dating app. Inner Circle helps singles skip the small talk and make meaningful connections, both online and offline. As Vermeulen explains in this encore episode, Inner Circle hosts real-world events so its members can stop wasting time on flaky matches and connect with singles who genuinely want to date.With Connell and David as your guides, you’ll discover:4:46: The Dating Horror Story that Inspired David to Start Inner Circle6:38: How Inner Circle’s Technology Virtually Eliminates Fake Profiles7:55: Why the Platform’s IRL Events is “Where the Magic Happens”10:43: A Game-Changing Strategy for Introverts to Meet Women in the Real World11:25: Connell’s One-Sentence Dating Mantra that Will Transform Your Love Life19:29: How “Tinder is Like McDonald’s,” in David’s View27:41: Why Quality Matches Always Beat Quantity30:54: How to Decide if She’s Worth a Second Date33:36: A Simple Writing Tip to Make Your Bio Magnetic to Women35:32: David’s Surprising Rule for Online-Dating Success: “Opposites Don’t Attract”Ready to finally connect with women on a dating app that actually works? Listen now!LEARN MORE ABOUT INNER CIRCLE:https://about.theinnercircle.co/CHECK OUT INNER CIRCLE ON INSTAGRAM:https://www.instagram.com/innercircleco/DOWNLOAD THE INNER CIRCLE APP:https://apps.apple.com/us/app/inner-circle-dating-community/id838136374FOR A FREE STRATEGY CALL WITH CONNELL TO LEARN HOW TO HAVE GREAT FIRST DATES:http://www.datingtransformation.com/contactTO GET FREE ACCESS TO “THE FLIRTY 30,” CHARMING QUESTIONS TO ASK WOMEN ON DATES, ON THE APPS, AND WHEN YOU APPROACH:http://www.datingtransformation.com/FLIRTY30WANT A FREE COPY OF CONNELL’S NO. 1 AMAZON BESTSELLING BOOK, “DATING SUCKS BUT YOU DON’T”? EMAIL CONNELL AND WRITE “FREE BOOK” IN THE SUBJECT LINE AND YOU’LL GET IT INSTANTLY:[email protected]
Full Episode
I read this quote for you. You wrote, Tinder became a little like McDonald's. It's addictive and you want more, but as soon as you consume it, you feel sick. All right, welcome back to the How to Get a Girlfriend podcast. I'm your host, dating coach Conal Barrett. I'm here to help you learn to flirt, get a great girlfriend, and do it with authenticity and integrity.
No sketchy pickup artist moves needed. And speaking of integrity and authenticity, we have a pretty great special guest for this episode. My guest today is David Vermeulen. David is the founder and CEO of Inner Circle. a global dating app for ambitious singles, just like you, seeking real connections.
He launched it over a decade ago in Amsterdam, and now Inner Circle has grown to have more than 2.5 million members. It's in 30 countries, more than 30 countries, and it's in cities like New York, London, and Paris. And the cool thing about it is that Inner Circle is not just a swiping app, quote-unquote. It taps into members' lifestyles, and...
and who they are as people, because David is about believing that the real magic happens offline, not on a dating app. And the other thing that's cool about the app, and we're going to talk about this a lot, is Inner Circle also hosts exclusive events in real life
so that like-minded people can meet and mingle so check out their instagram at inner circle co for a peek into their events in their community you can also go to their website about dot the inner circle dot co david welcome to the how to get a girlfriend podcast thanks for having me connell really exciting to be on your podcast your intro is so long we might need to do two parts
Part one for your intro, part two for the rest of it. But yeah, I'm really excited to talk to you because I don't have very many podcast people on my, I should say, dating app experts on my podcast because I don't like a lot of them. But what I love about Inner Circle is that you are helping men and women solve some very common relatable problems.
Like the problem that you had back in the day, you were struggling, as I understand it, with things like bad dates or just not finding the kind of women who shared your interest back in the early, maybe circa 2011, 2012. Talk a little bit about the dating problems you were struggling with and how that led to you beginning Inner Circle.
Yes, well everything starts with a company with the problem you personally have and at that moment in 2012 I was single, I was living in London And it was for me difficult to meet somebody at work, but also in the pub with the English women were not really approachable. So I thought, let's give it a try online. At that moment, it was only websites. There was no Tinder launched yet.
Well, at least it didn't have the big breakthrough. So I was going on different websites. But I mean, if you looked at the pictures, it was most of the times too good to be true. And if it's too good to be true... It's too good to be true. And also the names like Butterfly69. I mean, it was really difficult to actually find a normal, to have a normal chat conversation. And it took me hours.
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