In this episode, I’m sharing a transparent update about the podcast: why I decided to rename it The Feminist Dating Show.

I talk through the intention behind the previous name, what I heard from listeners over time, and why I want the podcast name to immediately feel inclusive and clear—especially for people who are new to this work. Feminist dating has always been the value system underneath everything I teach, and this new name reflects that, while still serving the amazing late bloomers and re-entry daters we serve. 

Nothing about the mission or the content is changing. This show is still for late bloomers, restarter daters, and anyone who’s been taught it’s too late or too much to find what they want. 

Let’s do this! 

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Show transcript:

Lily @ Date Brazen (00:00)

Hey, gorgeous friends. Welcome to another episode of the podcast. I’m so glad that you’re here. Welcome to twenty twenty six on this show.

We took I took the month of January off from producing episodes just to recharge and to do some ⁓ intentional Thinking around where we are going with this podcast. I just want to say first and foremost Thank you for being here. Thank you for listening. I look at the numbers of you who’ve just been showing up every single week and I’m really honored and humbled

by you showing up every week, or showing up when you do, whenever you do. It makes me really happy after six years now of running this podcast. So I wanna share a shift that we are making in the podcast transparently, and that’s what this episode will be about, the name change of the podcast that I am really excited about, excited to share with you.

I’m gonna share why I’m gonna share what’s behind it. I’m gonna share my thinking I’m gonna share all of the things ⁓ and then next episode We are going to get into some feminist dating hot takes that I have for you, which I’m really excited about so This podcast is the core of my mission my business my work And I really want to be intentional about how it shows up in the world when I renamed the show the late bloomer show

used to be the Date Brazen podcast, then it was the Late Bloomer show. I was so excited about that shift and I still love that energy of reclaiming that label. I, as you know, if you’ve listened to any of the podcasts, I identify as a late bloomer. I felt so behind, I felt too late. And I really built my work in general. Before we renamed the show The Late Bloomer Show, I built my work for people who feel behind, who are first timers, and also,

We were serving stop and start daters or those re-entering dating after a breakup or a divorce or being widowed. And I still believe in destigmatizing the label Late Bloomer and helping people see and know that it’s not too late. Both hands, because you know I’m all about the both hands. Over the past few months after that shift to the Late Bloomer show, I noticed a few things. Some of the audience loved it and…

like identified as a late bloomer, it didn’t feel like a sticky thing, it just felt like, yeah, this makes sense. And a large part of our audience who identified as the restarter dater or the stop start dater or those who’d had one relationship really didn’t feel resonant or like they were included in that label.

And especially for those who were just finding the podcast, who didn’t know me, didn’t know this work, didn’t know our community, didn’t know our heart, they struggled. I would hear in the DMs over and over again, Like they struggled to identify with that label. So my intention was to reclaim the label, to destigmatize it, to help everyone who fell behind or too late attract more. And I have seen that the impact on so many was that the label still felt like a label.

And so for those who DM me saying, don’t identify with that, is this podcast still for me? I’m not sure that’s for me. I don’t wanna call myself a late bloomer, even if I relate to the content, right? Because maybe they were new to the work and they didn’t know how we were sort of remixing that, those two words. ⁓ This was important information for me to listen to. As a podcast host, as a business owner, as a human being, as a feminist dating coach, I really wanted to listen to this feedback.

What I do know is that the name Late Bloomer Show has required some explanation and that labels can create friction before someone presses play. And I want the podcast name to immediately tell someone that this show is for them, especially if they’ve never been in my world. And feminist dating has always been our value system. And it is now an invitation, right? So we are renaming the show, The Feminist Dating Show for

Late Bloomers for restarter daters, for those who have stopped and started in their dating lives, for those that feel too late or too much, this podcast is for you. So nothing about my mission is changing, nothing really about the content is changing, we’re still gonna have live coaching episodes with incredible people, some of whom identify as Late Bloomers, some of whom have had ⁓ a divorce or they’ve…

been widowed or they’ve been in 10 relationships that have all felt like situationships, right? We have so many great episodes coming out with those incredible humans who have come on the show to be coached. We are still going to be, I am still going to be interviewing experts about topics related to feminist dating. I wanna get into our relationship with money and dating. I’m gonna bring on an expert about that. We’re gonna talk about anxiety and dating. I have an expert in mind on that. Like, I have so much good stuff coming for you.

And I also, of course, will be doing solo episodes with my feminist dating hot takes.

So in this podcast, we are coming from the lens of shared values of feminism, which means the social, economic, political equality of the sexes, which means ⁓ stepping into liberation for all. And especially in this moment in our history that is so tough and horrifying as our country. ⁓

is in the second Trump presidency as we’re watching what’s unfolding in our country with ICE and as we are, as a people coming together to demand change and to protect our neighbors. ⁓ I do think that the way we do one thing is the way we do everything. ⁓ just like feminism calls for community care, just like feminism calls for belonging and

protection of our neighbors, I believe. feminist dating life is you stepping into your agency and power everywhere. It is you never accepting less than you desire and really ⁓ learning how to attract equitable partnership in which you are treated beautifully and in which you feel lucky to.

Be with somebody they feel lucky to be with you, right? Like I do believe that dating is a microcosm and that when you have a feminist dating life that is rooted in your power and aliveness and preferences, that you can attract more than you thought possible. And I know that this feminist dating life also means that it’ll be more joyful and more life-giving for you. So you have more energy to do other things in your life. Dating won’t be so depleting and demoralizing and exhausting. It’ll be just an expression of your desire.

an expression of your agency. So you have energy to make change in your community more so, you have energy to pour into your own friendships more so, you have energy to come up with creative solutions to problems in work, in your personal life, everywhere. So I really think that this podcast name change is just reflecting the work that we’ve already been doing. And I also want you to know if you do identify as a late bloomer, I am right there with you. I identified as a late bloomer.

And I still know that this show is for you, as it is also for those who are restarting, those who are ⁓ reentering dating, those who have never found a equal, equitable partnership. They haven’t found it yet. This show is for you. So going forward, this podcast is called The Feminist Dating Show.

It’s gonna be the same types of conversations, same types of coaching, same commitment to late bloomers, and everyone who’s been taught that it’s too late, just a clearer front door for them and for you. let’s fucking go. Talk to y’all very soon.