Amanda Carroll

Your calendar is the first thing you blame. It's also the first thing everyone else blames.The travel, the hours, the weeks you're barely home — somewhere along the way that became the answer to why you're still single. And it's the one thing you're not willing to give up.You don't have to. Your schedule was never the problem.This week you'll hear from Jessica, who spent six years cycling through a loop you probably know by heart — get on the app, get off the app, meet someone in the wild, end up with another adult friendship. She was told the travel was too much. She was told the Escalade and the three-bedroom house were intimidating. She didn't shrink her life. She changed her approach. What happened after that took less time than the average talking stage.You'll get the reframe that makes the apps bearable again, what to do when men call your career intimidating, the first-date read that almost cost her the right man, and the boundary work that protects far more than your dating life.Six years, then five m