You audit everything else that matters — your numbers, your team, your health. So why is your love life the one place you keep blaming the apps, the city, and "no good men"? In this episode, Amanda runs a live love audit with her client Kate: a four-part walkthrough of the patterns, filters, and quiet standard-slips that keep smart women stuck in talking stages that go nowhere. By the end, you'll have a standards reset and a seven-day plan to run the play yourself.

Key Takeaways

• Why the problem isn't the apps, your city, or a shortage of good men — it's the strategy you've been dating without
• The CEO shift: slow to hire, fast to fire, never rehire — and how to apply it to your love life
• How to require clarity early instead of chasing it for months
• The three places you're over-giving, and how to match a man's effort instead of out-running it
• A standards reset you can write down today, plus a seven-day action plan

Chapters

• 00:00 — What a love audit is (and why you stop blaming everything else)
• 02:25 — Audit 1: Your patterns — the last three men and how they made you feel
• 09:30 — The red flag women normalize, and why you fire fast
• 11:00 — Audit 2: Your filters and the CEO shift
• 17:00 — "I'm looking for a relationship, not a pen pal" — slow to hire, fast to fire
• 24:56 — Audit 3: Energy and behavior — over-giving, chasing clarity, abandoning standards
• 37:00 — There's no shortage of good men. You're ignoring the ones who show up.
• 38:30 — Audit 4: Your standards reset
• 41:30 — Your seven-day action plan
• 44:00 — Listener Q&A: attraction, leading someone on, and calling it sooner

Links

• 🧲 Free training — Magnetic Attraction: set up a dating profile that only attracts high-value men → https://www.bravesinglemoms.com/pl/2148731615
• 📞 Book your personal Love Audit with Amanda → https://calendly.com/d/cn4j-kd2-5g5

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You are the most strategic woman in every room — and somehow, your love life has been the one place you forgot to bring a plan. In this episode, Amanda Carroll breaks down the Strategy Over Hope play: why high-achieving women default to hope in dating, where that rule came from, and exactly how to replace it with the same framework you've used to build everything else.

Key Takeaways:

• The unspoken rule that taught you to leave love to chance — and why it's costing you
• Why "staying open" is not a strategy, it's being undirected
• The three things that replace hope with a real framework: Clarity, Process, and Vetting
• The three-step play you can run this week
  

Links:

• 🎯 Win at Dating Challenge (June 23–25, live with Amanda): https://amanda-pedone.lpcontent.net/fO9M0JrFzZ
• 📋 Free Dating Profile Cheat Sheet: https://www.bravesinglemoms.com/pl/2148446153
• 📞 Free Dating Strategy Call

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You think you’re being smart on dates.

Careful. Observant. Protecting your time.

But what if the very thing you believe is keeping you safe…
is actually the reason nothing is working?

In this episode of The High Value Woman’s Playbook, Amanda Carroll breaks down the pattern that’s quietly sabotaging your dating life:

👉 Overanalyzing men before you even meet them
👉 Looking for red flags instead of connection
👉 Turning every interaction into a test

And without realizing it…

You’re pushing good men away before they ever get the chance to know you.

Instead of dating like a prosecutor building a case…

You’ll learn how to show up:

• Warm
• Curious
• Fully present
• With zero attachment to the outcome

👉 Your only job on a first date:
See if you enjoy being around him.

• Why overanalyzing is killing attraction
• The “friend test” that replaces overthinking
• When to use discernment (and when it backfires)
• How to create real connection on a first date

Book your free dating strategy call and get a personalized plan:

👉 https://singlemomcollective.lpages.co/dating-strategy-call/

Download the Free Dating Profile Cheat Sheet:

👉 https://www.bravesinglemoms.com/pl/2148446153

Send this to the woman who’s overthinking everything and ready for a different result.