Co-Host: Jillian Romero Chaves - Clara For Daters
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My guest Jillian Romero Chaves is the founder and CEO of an app called Clara For Daters, which she emphasizes is NOT a dating app. As an active dater and a dating advocate herself as a single woman, she developed Clara as a tool to empower dating app users to get the most out of their rapidly-declining experience.
Now, it’s no secret that the vast majority of dating app users are indeed growing more disillusioned–if not flat-out disgusted with–their lack of success nowadays. But are dating apps indeed worth saving?
With people’s social muscles still atrophied out there as much as ever, Jillian is looking for ways that online dating apps can somehow start serving their users better. In fact, her optimistic hope is that the apps will start seeing their customers as daters instead of mere users. What does she mean by that, exactly?
And since Jillian is dedicated to cultivating genuine, in-person social connections, she feels compelled to confront the loneliness epidemic rampant in our digital age. How is it that app daters can escape the the endless cycle of swiping and messaging that goes nowhere, and instead starting again to use the apps as they were apparently originally intended…as a tool to facilitate meeting REAL people in the REAL world on REAL dates?
Why is she so strongly for the concept of ‘roster dating’ (or ‘rotational dating’)? And for sure, how did the recent ‘Bumble billboard fumble’ affect her and her outlook on things?
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