The #1 Dating Rule That Will Change Your Life (and save months of heartbreak with Sabrina Zohar)

Sabrina Zohar breaks down what’s really driving modern dating, from the pressure for instant certainty to anxious attachment, avoidance, and burnout. She explores how trauma shapes attraction, why great chemistry (or sex on the first date) doesn’t equal compatibility, and how modern dating dynamics can dysregulate the nervous system. Drawing on psychology, neuroscience, and her own journey from heartbreak to building a multi-million-dollar business featured on Shark Tank, Sabrina shares practical tools for setting boundaries, trusting yourself, and dating with intention - without losing your ambition. Timestamps: (00:00:00) Intro(00:01:41) Dating Is a Hot Mess (Here’s Why)(00:02:20) The Science of Dating Multiple People(00:04:27) What You Must Unlearn to Have a Healthy Relationship(00:05:29) Avoidant Attachment: Why Ambitious Women Struggle With Love(00:07:23) Dating While Building a Company(00:09:51) How Hard Should Dating Actually Feel?(00:11:04) Avoidance, Burnout & “No Good Men Left”(00:13:21) Dating Explained in Money Terms ($10K vs $100K)(00:14:53) How You Actually Learn Self-Worth(00:16:04) Build Emotional Safety With Micro-Yeses(00:18:34) Why Asking for Help Feels So Scary(00:19:09) 3 Things Women Must Learn Before Healthy Love(00:20:51) Shopify Ad(00:22:13) The Only Questions That Matter After a Date(00:24:03) Do Men and Women Date Differently?(00:25:14) Why Situationships Are Everywhere(00:27:02) Avoidance Disguised as “Going Slow”(00:30:17) Love Bombing vs Real Interest(00:31:24) Why Setting Boundaries Feels Impossible(00:32:19) Why Women Seek Approval to Be Chosen(00:33:52) How to Spot Someone Ready for Love(00:35:27) Why You Have to Grieve to Move On(00:37:38) Subtle Red Flags Most People Miss(00:40:42) The Yellow Cab Theory (Timing Beats Love)(00:41:47) Is There Ever a “Right Time” to Date?(00:43:36) Why Triggers Are Actually a Good Thing(00:45:29) When Sharing Trauma Backfires(00:46:50) Beehiiv Ad(00:48:11) Stan Store Ad Read(00:49:25) How Narcissists Use Your Story Against You(00:50:51) When Vulnerability Was Weaponized(00:52:37) The Shark Tank Moment That Changed Everything(00:57:09) Why the “Soft Pivot” Worked When Nothing Else Did(00:58:55) When Your Identity Is Tied to Your Work(00:59:09) “Choose Danger” When You Post Content(01:00:04) Service Business vs Product Business Power(01:01:50) Would She Ever Build Products Again?(01:02:11) When Content Became a Real Media Business(01:03:13) Why Followers Don’t Equal Money(01:04:11) The Fear of Losing Everything(01:05:28) Sabrina’s Next Growth Chapter(01:06:59) Last Thing She Put on Her Credit Card(01:07:10) Most Expensive Thing She’s Bought(01:07:22) Walk or Dinner on a First Date?(01:07:23) Coffee or Walk on a First Date?(01:07:33) Favorite Comfort Creator(01:08:19) Favorite Celebrity Relationship(01:08:40) Celebrity Couples That Should Break Up(01:08:54) Creator Brands She Respects(01:09:21) Naming This Season of Her Life(01:10:00) Where to Find Sabrina ⸻ Episode Sponsors: Shopify - http://Shopify.com/HSR beehiiv - http://www.beehiiv.com/hsr?utm_campaign=hsr-2026-Partnership&utm_medium=podcast&utm_source=hsr&utm_term=2026-02-11&stripe_campaign_code=HSR30 Stan - http://getstanley.ai/maggie ⸻ Follow Sabrina Zohar: Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sabrina.zohar Podcast: www.instagram.com/thesabrinazoharshow ⸻ Hot Smart Rich: Join 250,000+ angels and subscribe to the Hot Smart Rich newsletter: https://hotsmartrich.com/subscribe Hot Smart Rich Money Mindset: https://shorturl.at/pJWLc Merch: https://hotsmartrich.shop/YouTube: https://shorturl.at/IXXFZInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/hotsmartrich/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@hotsmartrich Maggie Sellers Reum:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/maggiesellersreum/Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@maggiesellersreumLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sellersmaggie/Locker: https://www.wantlocker.com/users/maggiesellers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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• 0:00Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 0:43Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 1:04Speaker 01

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• 1:29Speaker 02

  I sent 173 text messages to a guy because he tried to end it with me after a month. Yeah, it wasn't my best moment. I had to learn that space is not bad. But also, if I'm gonna be too much, then go find less. That's fine.

• 1:40Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Sabrina Zahar, you are an expert in dating and relationships.

• 1:43Speaker 02

  I love to blend neuroscience, psychology, and just personal experience. For me, I was hyperindependent in my career, but then I would be in romantic settings and I would completely crumble. I got my heart ripped out and stepped on. I was like, there's gotta be more to this. And I just kept investing in myself.

• 1:58Maggie Sellers Reum?

  My biggest fear in life was building an empire and waking up at 50 and not being able to celebrate that with people. But I did not know how to date. How does someone learn that?

• 2:08Speaker 02

  Let's back it up. Highly ambitious women, to your point, avoidance is a lot more prevalent when we're starting a business. If I work really hard, I make money. It's very black and white.

• 2:16Maggie Sellers Reum?

  We're taught process equals outcome.

• 2:19Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 2:19Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And in dating, there is no outcome with the right process. What would you say to the highly ambitious woman?

• 2:27Speaker 02

  The first thing I would say is when we look at the neuroscience of dating, triggers are a good thing.

• 2:31Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Okay, can you explain that a little bit more?

• 2:32Speaker 02

  Absolutely. But the biggest thing, I always ask on a first date.

• 2:38Maggie Sellers Reum?

  What do you think are the three most common things that women need to learn before they are ready to fall in love with their husband?

• 2:47Speaker 02

  Oof.

• 2:55Maggie Sellers Reum?

  In case you missed it, you're allowed to be hot, smart, and rich. So let's get into it.

• 3:05Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Sabrina Zohar, are you ready to get hot, smart, rich?

• 3:07Speaker 02

  I'm so excited.

• 3:08Maggie Sellers Reum?

  You are one of the most popular dating coaches on social media. What is one word that you would use to describe dating right now?

• 3:17Speaker 02

  Can I give you two? Is it a hot mess? There's like a twofold, right? There's this immediacy of this like Amazon Prime way of doing things. Like, I need to know before I go out with you, if you want to be my partner, do you want to get married? Do you want to have kids with me? Are you going to choose me? Are you going to break my heart? We need that certainty. And then with that immediacy and the certainty, what I also start to see is people don't really trust themselves. And so that's kind of why I describe it as a hot mess, because I'm seeing people all over the spectrum, some that are more intentional, some that have never understood what trauma is, or understanding why they do things. And so I think it's quite a spectrum right now. And I'm curious to see what's going to happen with the next generation.

• 3:53Maggie Sellers Reum?

  How conscious do you think people are when they are dating multiple people versus one person?

• 3:59Speaker 02

  For me, I'm a fan of dating multiple people at one time for this simple reason that you don't hyper fixate on one person, right? And so if we're talking neuroscience, like my stuff, I love to blend neuroscience, psychology, and just personal experience. When we look at the neuroscience of dating, when you're dating somebody, oxytocin and dopamine are released in big batches. And so when we have just one person, what happens? Your nervous system is saying, I'm only safe with them. When you have multiple people, what you're telling your nervous system is, look, there are options. It's not the only person, and that there's going to be potentially someone else if this doesn't work out. And so to me, I love that. Now, I also want to be cognizant that if people don't feel like they could do that, like, did you date multiple people?

• 4:38Maggie Sellers Reum?

  It was not something I was comfortable with, but I actually felt like it was really helpful for the exact reason that you're talking about. I felt like I would fall in love with the fantasy of someone. And when you are dating multiple people and you think that there's multiple options, you fall less in love with the idea of someone and you're able to fall in love with that person. But that took me a really long time to learn.

• 5:03Speaker 02

  Life story, right? And that's the thing is because if you're not going to learn from the past experiences, start to implement the material that we're learning, we're just going to keep repeating the same thing, right? There's the saying, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing expecting a different result. It's like, that's also trauma. And so for me, right, I had big T trauma growing up. I had the chaotic household. I had the father that was inconsistent. I had a lot of the turmoil. Somebody else might've had two parents that are absolutely amazing, but maybe one of them just worked full-time. And so we're not ever trying to compare trauma, but what we are trying to understand while we're dating is like, what's coming up for me and what's triggering me? And I think for a lot of people, dating multiple people can feel, oh, I'm not giving anybody my time. But I like to look at it kind of how you were saying of, I think it challenges us to be able to say, just because this doesn't work out, doesn't mean that there's not seven

• 5:46Speaker 02

  other amazing people versus, I hear this all the time and I'm curious if you hear it from your girlfriends, I haven't met anybody like this. It's been so long since I've felt this. And that just tricks your system into thinking that they have to have that person when it could just be a feeling.

• 6:01Maggie Sellers Reum?

  So you said that you grew up in kind of like a capital T trauma household. What did you actually have to unlearn about the behaviors that you saw to successfully end up in a strong, healthy relationship today?

• 6:13Speaker 02

  Oof. I had to learn a lot of things. I had to learn that space is not bad, that you're going to be okay if somebody doesn't call you. It's okay if somebody doesn't text you. I was that classic anxious girl where if somebody didn't text me for 20 minutes, I was losing my marbles. I sent 173 text messages to a guy because he tried to end it with me after a month. Yeah, it wasn't my best moment. And I think what I learned in childhood was that love is very conditional, right? So we had a lot of turmoil and my dad would just leave. And so I saw I'm too much. There's something wrong with me. If my own father won't stick around, what makes me think anybody else will? And what I had to learn was I'm not too much. Somebody just taught me that my behavior was too much for them because they didn't know how to handle it.

• 6:53Speaker 02

  And so I had to really deprogram, if you will, that there's anything wrong with me fundamentally, when really just I was just asking the wrong people.

• 7:02Maggie Sellers Reum?

  You used the word anxious and it's so interesting, Sabrina, because I would say in every other relationship, I was extremely avoidant, which I actually think a lot of highly ambitious women are, because they can create control and safety out of their life with their job, with the friends that they choose. With relationships, I think I was avoidant because I was picking the wrong person that like truly wasn't good enough for me. And then when I did find the right person, I would say my attachment style worked towards being definitely more secure because I put in the work, but then did lean and does lean a little bit more anxious. What can you say in terms of attachment styles and what you see specifically with ambitious women?

• 7:39Speaker 02

  So I think attachment styles, there's a spectrum, right? And I think what we really have to look at is what's being triggered. And so with highly ambitious women, to your point, avoidance is a lot more prevalent. Why? Because when it comes to ambition and career, if I work really hard, there's an outcome. If I do this, I get a reward, right? If I work really hard, I make money, my company's successful. It's X, Y, and Z. It's very black and white. We're not triggered in the same ways. Romantic relationships are the quickest trigger to your parents. So you might think you're amazing and you're good, but that also could be coping mechanisms, right? Like for me, I was hyper independent in my career and I was the baddie and I was going out there. But then I would be in romantic settings and I would completely crumble. And so I think, one, it's a means of control. We can control the outcome depending on how ambitious we are.

• 8:24Speaker 02

  I don't want anything to take away from this because oftentimes we're scared that if we open up, if we become vulnerable, if we let somebody in, what's that going to do to us? How's that going to impact my career? Am I going to lose myself? And I think for the highly ambitious women, leaning more towards the avoidant. Here's the thing, avoidant people still have anxiety, right? Like you can understand what I mean by that. It just manifests differently. And I think when we compartmentalize, especially in our career, it's a form of control and it's a guarantee of something at the end of it, unlike relationships.

• 8:55Maggie Sellers Reum?

  So interesting. I want you to look at this thing. So I just tweeted this or put it on threads this morning and I said FYI, it's really lonely at the top and PS, it's really lonely building it. Look at the response from someone and can you read the answer aloud?

• 9:09Speaker 02

  Yes. So one was loneliness must be an epidemic. And the second is this and also very challenging for a single girly who's trying to build a company and find love simultaneously. But I know it's doable and my time is coming. It's been beautiful watching you do it.

• 9:20Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Can you talk a little bit about this woman who is like, dating is so hard. I'm building a company. What would you say to that version of yourself?

• 9:30Speaker 02

  I was her about five years ago. I was building software, my clothing company. You know, when we're dating and we're starting a business, we have to look at priorities. And I was focused because I'm a software. I'll give you a story. I'll never forget. I met this guy on like a dating app or something. We went out on one date. We went for a walk. Very inconspicuous. I just wanted to see if I liked him. Had a feeling I wouldn't. And that night I had a call with my manufacturing. Now, I lived in New York at the time. Manufacturing was here. Three hours. It was nine o'clock at night and I told him, I said, hey, I'm going to be off my phone. I have to have a call. I will talk to you tomorrow. I had 47 text messages from him on a 30 minute call accusing me of cheating, accusing me of being out with somebody else, didn't believe that I was doing this. And for me, I saw that as a threat to my safety because my career was my priority. And so now you're, I hate to say, but you're fucking with

• 10:14Speaker 02

  my priority and you're coming into something that makes me now no longer feel safe because that's where I'm putting my energy. And now you're accusing me of something. And so I think when you're building a company, you do have to make sacrifices. Right? I met my partner when I was building all of this. And with that came a lot of times saying, hey, I'm so sorry, I can't make it. Hey, I have to go out and record some things. Hey, we have to turn our house into a studio. Hope you're okay with that. I've had men tell me I'm intimidating and say, wow, it freaks me out how much of a badass you are in this business. Do I fit into your life? And so I think that's the balance of when you're really trying to build an empire, you have to be one with somebody. We're going to talk gender norms. You have to be with a man or they that is really confident in themselves, right? Like, you know that your husband is really confident in who he is to have you be building this beautiful empire

• 10:59Speaker 02

  that you're building. Otherwise, that would be, that would be a threat to his.

• 11:04Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Masculinity.

• 11:04Speaker 02

  Masculinity and personality, same with my partner. He, we always say, I'm the picture, he's the frame, right? He puts me on the pedestal, he doesn't try to knock me off. And so I think for a lot of people, especially when you meet a woman, a lot of men look at that and say, but how am I going to fit in if this is, you're building a business is really difficult. It doesn't mean you can't, it just means that you're not dating the right people.

• 11:23Maggie Sellers Reum?

  It's also so interesting because when I was single and I was starting this business and it was so much effort. And I think one of the questions that I've always wondered is how much effort should dating really feel like when you are already exhausted as a woman from doing it all?

• 11:43Speaker 02

  The doing it all, I've always, I'm like, I believe we can have it all. It's just going to be a sliver of time of how much can we have of each? And I think dating, listen, no matter what, dating, relationships, you're married, it's exhausting. It's exhausting because it is work. It's the same with running a business. It's not a bad exhaustion, but I'd be lying if I said I wasn't tired all the time. The reason that dating feels a lot harder is because, one, we don't trust ourselves. And so we're over complicating and we're reading into things and, oh, he said this and we're sending it to the group chat and we're assembling all the team instead of just trusting our gut and saying, I didn't love the way that person said it and I'll handle it. And I think a lot of the times we try to make it something that it's not. I will say, a relationship isn't easy, but it should flow. And if you're not having a flow, then that's where we're starting because you can't change other people.

• 12:25Speaker 02

  And so the more we try to get people to become what it is that we want, the more exhausted we're going to become because we're already trying to go against the grains of getting a business out there. Now, do you want to have to deal with a partner? Do you want to be their parent? Do you want to be their partner?

• 12:37Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Well, that's what I see so much with my friends that are these incredibly successful women that are running these multimillion dollar businesses and they are just exhausted from running their business, being a good friend, doing their laundry, working out, getting their, like, all of the things that go into building their personal brand and their life. And so often I think that they get into the mindset where there's like, there are no good men left. I haven't met someone that's on my level and they're just tapping out of that dating conversation. What would you say to that woman founder, highly ambitious, successful, driven woman? To get them back in the mindset where they don't think that the outcome is there's no good men left. I'm too tired.

• 13:19Speaker 02

  That's a cognitive bias and I totally understand that because I will say this, you'll see it when you believe it. And so I'm a big fan of that. I have a sign above my door that says that because if I don't actually believe that there's something out there for me, then how am I ever going to see it? Because I could have the queen of Sheba or the king of Sheba in front of you and you'll tell me there's a problem with it. And so I think what I would say is we can reframe. They're in addition to your life, not instead of. And so if we know that somebody's in addition to your life, then that means that they need to be additive. I think of it like a bank account. Are you in the green, right? If that we're benefiting, I'm growing from this, I feel fulfilled, I feel like it's an outlet, I can have fun, not just sexually, but intellectually and with that connection? Or do I feel exhausted? Are my needs not being met? Right? And I always kind of, we got our, our girls that are business owners, you're going

• 14:04Speaker 02

  to appreciate this kind of example. If you were going out there and we'll use just an even number. Let's say you said, I need a salary for a hundred thousand dollars. That's it. I cannot live any lower. I won't be able to pay rent. I can't pay my utilities. Then you're dating these people that are offering you $10,000. Very limited, not offering what it is that you need. And instead of saying, no, thank you, I will wait for what's deserving of me. We say, okay, fine. And then we get resentful and our needs aren't met and we take something that is below us and what we deserve because we think there's nothing else. But you don't know what's coming. And that's the beauty of it, right? If we learn to surrender to the outcome. And so I want anybody that's dating right now to start to date with detachment. That doesn't mean you don't care about people, but what you're doing is you're detaching from the outcome. Because when we're beholden on this has to be the one, there's no one else, what do you think is happening?

• 14:48Speaker 02

  You're releasing dopamine and then you're becoming addicted to that person like a drug? And they might just not actually be your person.

• 14:53Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Why as women do we often find ourselves taking that $10,000 offer?

• 15:00Speaker 02

  Where did you learn that from? That's always the question I go back to. It was like, well, where did I learn that that's all I'm deserving of? Where did I learn that that's all I'm worthy of? Me? My dad. My dad taught me that. Was that nobody is going to spend money on you. No one's going to care about you. Nobody is going to be there because that's how he taught me that what was love. So if we're talking about the brain. When we start to date and we get really excited, we get triggered often, right? Now, that word has been hijacked in the TikTok university world, so like for argument's sake, we'll, we'll explain. A trigger is a cue to your nervous system that you're not safe. It's a neutral action or inaction. So that could be your partner slams the door and you might've had trauma as a kid. That doesn't mean your partner did something wrong. That was a cue to your nervous system. And the problem is when people get triggered, what happens?

• 15:43Speaker 02

  Your prefrontal cortex shuts off and you go into your amygdala. Your amygdala is your fear center. That stopped growing when you were about seven. So we're coming at it from children and we're literally acting as if we're dealing with our parents again, which is why we feel like we don't have choices and why we feel like we take what we can get. Because if I have scarcity mindset that I don't believe it's out there, then I'm never going to actually stand up for myself that it is. And the biggest thing, if anybody is listening, this is the number one thing. You gotta learn to grieve the ending of things because when you start to set boundaries, when you come and say, I deserve more than this, you're gonna have people that say, I don't think you do. That's okay, let them go. Because it's the same as if I were to try to find a buyer for software and they say, I want to pay $10 for the shirt and I tell you it's 20, then you're not my buyer because you don't appreciate the value of what I offer.

• 16:27Speaker 02

  How does someone learn that though? That's doing the work, right? So really understanding your value. I love internal family systems, so IFS. I love parts work. And so to me, it's really about understanding, okay, where did I learn that from? Let's back it up. Let's say you're out there and you are a baddie in your career, right? You have that on lock, but in dating, it's a hot mess. So maybe what we want to start to look at is what are the coping mechanisms that got me to where I am in my career? Where did I learn that from? And then how is it manifesting in my relationships? Because they don't always go together. I could be a bulldog in my business, doesn't mean I need to be a bulldog with my partner. Then what we want to start to say is what are my patterns? We want to look at what are the patterns that I keep doing, right? And if the patterns are, I self abandon, I play small, I fawn, I get scared. Right?

• 17:10Speaker 02

  The first thing I would say is, okay, well, when that trigger happens, what's happening in your body? Where do you feel it? Do you feel it in your chest? Okay, how familiar does that feel? And then how old do you feel? Asking ourselves, like when sometimes my, when Ryan will say something and I'm like, I'm gonna wring your neck. I have to remember and go, wow, I feel like I'm seven. Oh, I feel like I'm talking to my dad again. So then it's not actually about my partner. But do you notice how like self-awareness is the first step? And then the choices that we make that come after are really how we start to make changes?

• 17:37Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I find this fascinating because I was that woman who like, my safety net is why I am so driven and ambitious today. Like, that is the thing I love the most about myself. It also created such problems for me when I was dating before I met my husband. And I remember my therapist did this really interesting exercise with me where I recognized for the first time that I could not ask for help from anyone in my life. I wouldn't ask it from my friends. Like, let's take moving for an example. I would inconvenience myself, put pressure on myself. I would never say to my friends, like, I need your help moving this weekend. I'm in a crunch. I'm going to be having to do 10 different trips with my car going back and forth from my house. I wouldn't ask for help from my friends. And it was

• 18:22Maggie Sellers Reum?

  that simple exercise of like, I wasn't ready to apply that with men yet, because that was so scary to me. Like, needing someone in a relationship was terrifying to me. So I did that through learning with friends. Like, okay, I now need to ask my friends first for help before I'm ever willing to do that with my husband. Like, I think every woman listening to this is a very driven, successful, they want the best life for themselves. So putting themselves in situations that are scary and uncomfortable before they do the big one yet, like, what are other examples like that that women can be doing to practice this?

• 18:59Speaker 02

  I love it. Micro yeses is what we're going with. So our nervous system is flexible, right? It is. We want a flexible nervous system. So we have something called our window of tolerance. Your window of tolerance is essentially how, what can you go through where you either go into hyper arousal, getting super anxious, or hypo arousal shutting down? When you're in your window of tolerance, that means we can have flexibility, right? So I can get an inconvenience, but that's okay. I can bring myself and we have, we want that, right? We don't just need to be regulated all the time. So that's why New Year's resolutions don't work. New Year's resolutions don't work because if we say, I'm gonna lose 100 pounds tomorrow, your nervous System is saying you haven't gotten off the couch in like six years. That's too overwhelming. You're not safe. We don't know what to do here. Let's go back to what we do. Your brain is always looking for shortcuts. So we want to do micro yeses.

• 19:41Speaker 02

  So for instance, if I were going to say, I want to work out every single day and I want to lose a hundred pounds. My advice would be put your shoes by the door for a day. Then the next day you put your other shoe. Then the next day you put your socks. Then the next day you put your other sock. You start to increment it because what you're telling your nervous system is this is safe to do. And I can achieve the goal. And so that's why your therapist had recommended saying, hey, why don't you go and ask a friend first? And then I would have actually be curious if you don't mind getting vulnerable.

• 20:06Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Of course.

• 20:07Speaker 02

  What were you afraid of happening when you did ask for help? What was the fear?

• 20:11Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Someone abandoning me or me needing them. And I never needed anyone in my life because I've had to figure things out for myself.

• 20:19Speaker 02

  Did you never need anybody or did you need people but you didn't have that available to you?

• 20:23Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I needed people and I didn't have that available to me. In the way of the dynamic of dating and relationships. And so that was a very scary thing for me to learn. And I honestly feel like there was a few things that I had to learn before I was truly ready to even meet the potential of my husband. What do you think are the three most common things that women need to learn before they are ready to fall in love with their husband?

• 20:52Speaker 02

  You got to learn how to say no. That's the biggest to me is like you got to learn to walk away from the wrong things. You got to take up space. You have every right to tell somebody, I don't like what you said to me. I don't appreciate that. We have got to be okay. And I think the third thing is regulate your nervous system. Because if we don't have regulating techniques, then I'm going to scream at my partner all the time. Like the reality is love is conditional. Unconditional love is childhood. You hope that your parents, no matter what you do, even if you kill them, they would still love you. Adult relationships are conditional because if your husband made a 180 tomorrow and started acting like a tyrant, you wouldn't still going no matter what, I'm going to be by your side. You would have respect for yourself to say, excuse me, this doesn't work for me and either we work through it or I walk.

• 21:35Speaker 02

  And so I think those are the three main aspects because learning to grieve the ending of things is really how we'll be able to move on. Because that's where people get stuck. I hear it all the time. I can't get over them. It's been a year. It's like, look at the narrative that you've created about this. And usually what does it mean about you? That's what I really always want everybody to get back to because when we start to ask, "Why don't they like me? Why don't they want to be with me?" I want you to reframe, "Why do I don't like?"

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• 23:25Speaker 02

  I don't like that they don't want to be with me. Okay, what don't you like about it? I don't feel chosen. Great, so that's the issue. It has nothing to do with why they're not doing this. The more we focus external, the more we're disconnected from internal experiences and what we're going through. And so I think we have got to be okay. One, being alone, and not being alone meaning, single forever, that's the way, but knowing that if this doesn't work for me, I'm okay to walk away because I know better exists.

• 23:49Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 24:32Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 25:15Maggie Sellers Reum?

  to take inventory of how they feel after a first date and a second date? Like, what would you say those questions are that women can actually answer in their journal when they're having that alone time after a date to really sit with like, that is a good feeling? I want to do that again.

• 25:31Speaker 02

  I remember a friend, she was a therapist once, and I was a guy who treated me very poorly. And she said, remember the feeling so that you won't go through this again. And I was like, hmm, and the positive and the negative, right? I think after a first date, the first question I always ask is, how did I feel with them? I don't care how you felt about them. I really don't because I hear it all the time. The spark and the chemistry. It's like, sure, that can mean you have great sex. That's without saying. You might have this electric chemistry. That doesn't mean you're compatible. That doesn't mean that you can have conflict, regulation and repair. That doesn't mean that you can get through the hard times. That just means you can have some fun. So I think after a first date, we want to ask, how did I feel with them? Did I feel safe? Like, not just physically safe, of course, but did I feel emotionally safe? Did they judge me? Did they discredit me? Did they gaslight? Did they deflect?

• 26:13Speaker 02

  How did they speak about their ex if you spoke about it? How did they speak about people in their life? And also, starting to get curious within ourselves, was I comfortable to ask questions? Did I feel safe enough? Because I see it all the time. We'll go on a first date and everything is, I don't want to say anything. I don't want to be too much. If I'm going to be too much, then then go find less. That's fine. I'd rather take up the space and ask the important questions. Like, I always ask on a first date, how'd your last relationship end and what did it teach you about yourself? I don't care about the ex. I don't care about the ex. I want to know how it ended and what you learned, because I want to understand if you're growth-minded. I want to understand if you talk about your ex negatively. I want to understand where you've processed and moved on. Otherwise, that could be a really big red flag. So I think it's also being cognizant and aware when we're on the dates to saying, I just, I hated when they said

• 26:58Speaker 02

  this. Don't overlook that.

• 27:01Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Do you think that men date differently than women in today's society?

• 27:05Speaker 02

  Yes, and. I think men are becoming more aware of things. It's a slow progression, don't get me wrong, but I would say 50% of my clients are actually men. And I get a lot of men that come to me saying, I don't know what to do anymore, right? Like, if I call too much, I'm being too much. If I don't call, she says I'm ignoring her. If I make too many plans, I'm being too easy. If I don't make plans, then I'm playing a game. And so I think there's a big confusion, especially as women that are founders and CEOs and baddies. It's going to be difficult because men are trying to figure out where they fit, especially when the gender norms have always been like, you stay home and cook and clean, and I stay out. We're switching that, and I'm so here for that. But I think men date a little bit more in the moment, right? They're just like, I like her, she's cool, I want to see her again. Women are on the, do I want to have kids with this person? Do I see them coming

• 27:50Speaker 02

  home with me for Christmas? And it's like, you had one drink with the person, we don't need to figure all that out. And so I think it's finding a balance. Now, that's not all people, but I think men have a little bit more of a presence when they date, that they're in the moments. And then when they're gone, they will then process and say, she was cool, but I don't need to see her again. Whereas women, I think we hold on to the projection and the idea of them so much more than we actually need to, because we want it.

• 28:12Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Is that why you think that we're seeing a lot more situationships happen? Because we're dating completely differently?

• 28:18Speaker 02

  Situationships are one person's too afraid to speak up and the other one is benefiting from not committing. Which one of the two are you? Situationships, what are they, right? They are a relationship without the boundaries and the terminology. So you're sleeping together, you're going out together, maybe you're hanging out with friends and family. You're doing all the travel, maybe you're going away, right? We're doing all the things, but no one's ever talked about, so what are we doing here? Here's what I like, right? And so I think the reason we have situationships is because people are terrified of taking up space. There's the one person that's benefiting from that. And then there's the other one, because I hear it every day. I'm scared to say something, what if they walk away? It's like, well, then you didn't have them to begin with. And so I think there's a fear of, I don't want to be too much. But that really is a core belief. That's not actually who this person is, because I slept with my partner on date one.

• 29:03Speaker 02

  And I looked him in the eyes, I promise you and I swear, I looked him in the eyes right after. We went to dinner and I said, I had a really good time. And if this is all it was, great, thank you so much. I kind of needed that. And if not, if you're going to call me, that's because we're intentional. Don't waste my fucking time. I don't do casual, I don't do hookups. And if you get to know me, that's because we're building something. If not, it was great to meet you. And when I left, people have asked him, Ryan, why did you call her again? And he said she wasn't afraid of losing herself. She didn't care about losing me. And he was like, that was really sexy, because I knew you were there because you really wanted that. You didn't need me. And I think that's where we want to get to is like, I want you in my life, but I don't need you in my life. Because it's full and robust as it is.

• 29:40Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I love your advice, because I feel like a lot of other dating and relationship coaches, they try to put parameters around certain things, like this is what it means when you sleep on the first date. This is what it means when you wait this amount of time. But I do think that one of the most confusing things for me when I was dating, especially as a busy woman, is like, when we especially go through education, we're taught like, process equals outcome. And if you do this, you get that, the do be have cycle. And one of the hardest concepts for me to grasp in dating was like, there is no outcome with the right process. And what is the right timeframe that like, you even know when you're an associate and you're going to move up to a manager and you're going to go to a director?

• 30:25Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Or like, when you raise X amount of money, what are you going to be able to do with your business when you get that? And I think dating for highly ambitious women is challenging, because it's one of the first times where it's like, there are no, none of those rules. What are signs or feelings that's like you are progressing? This isn't going from love bombing. This is actually progressing in the right way. Because one of the things that I've seen you talk about is like, things should marinate slowly. Things should be slow. But like, how slow is too slow? How fast is too fast?

• 30:58Speaker 02

  I think it's a valid question. I think when we're looking at timelines, there isn't, right? Like, to your point, somebody could get married after six months and say it's the love of their life, and someone could take five years. I think what we're looking at is, do you feel safe? Do you genuinely, do you have a foundation of safety? And the biggest thing I also really look at is, what are both of you doing to progress it? Are you having conversations of depth? Are they being consistent? Consistency doesn't mean that they text you every single morning at the same time. Somebody could do that and text you and 17 other women while they're taking a shit and not actually be intentional, right? Like, I've seen it. I've seen men set a timer. I've been on dates where they text other women while they're with me. That doesn't mean anything. What I want to look for is, do they shy away from conversations? Or do they have them head on? Are they curious? Curiosity is so important. Do they ask questions?

• 31:43Speaker 02

  Do they genuinely care about you and what you have to offer? Are they making space for you in their life? Right? If we have a first date, first date just to see if I want to have a second date. Second date just to see if I want to have a third date. That's why I hate the advice of date to marry. I'm not opposed to being intentional, of course. Like, I don't want to waste my time and this is what I want. But when we put it on, I'm dating to marry, what we're saying is, that's the only thing that matters. Everything else doesn't matter. I want that. Well, but you get to choose that. You get to choose the partner that you do that with. And so, instead of I'm dating to marry, I'm dating intentionally because I know what it is that I want. I have my non-negotiables, and I'm not going to settle for anything less. That is the energy that we want to bring, as opposed to it being kind of, I feel like, muddied with, don't sleep with them on the first date, and don't call too many times.

• 32:28Speaker 02

  It's like, you think of them and you want to text them? Send them a text. If the person doesn't answer, great, they're not that interested. I don't think we need to over-conflate it. I think we can look at, because if somebody doesn't answer me for 12 hours, sure, great, that sucks. You know what also sucks? They didn't ask me out. They haven't made plans. They haven't called me. They haven't FaceTimed me. I haven't heard anything about them. So, the texting doesn't matter. What matters is, they're not showing up. And for me, I think we really want to look for somebody when we're in those dating stages going slow. Are they having those conversations with you? Because if you can't even say something without being terrified, the love bombing, right? You could set a boundary. Hey, I don't move at that speed. I really appreciate it. Thank you so much. I would love to get dinner. Why don't we do dinner on the third date? First date, I'd like to get a coffee. See how they respect your boundaries? That's going to be important.

• 33:14Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I feel I would have been so uncomfortable saying to someone, I don't do that on the first date. Like, let's do that on the third date. And I did find myself in situations before my husband, where I was with a lot of love bombers, and I couldn't really figure out the difference between love bombing and like, wow, this feels really good. And to your point, like, you slept with your partner on the first date. Like, things progressed. If someone is feeling like they're in this pattern of being with these love bombers, because I did find it very hard to set boundaries. I will say, before my husband, I found it extremely difficult. And I think a lot of ambitious women can relate to that, especially because ambitious women are having to be so masculine at their jobs.

• 33:59Maggie Sellers Reum?

  They are solving so many problems. It feels like a relief when there is someone that comes into your world and is like, planned this. Let's go to dinner here. I know you love tennis. Let's do this. Like, oh, I'm planning a trip for you. And I found it, truthfully, very hard to distinguish between this is love bombing and this feels like nice and good, and it's progressing. What are those signs?

• 34:23Speaker 02

  I think when we look at love bombing, it's an inorganic amount of love, attention, and affection in a short period of time, right? So if I walked by this house and it's beautiful, and I said, wow, what a beautiful house. You're not throwing the keys at me. You're not like, yeah, yeah, come on in. It's like, no, no, I have to earn that. You need to get to know me. You need to understand me. You're not welcoming me into your home. But yet, all of a sudden, we're going to give it away. Typically speaking, I would be curious for you, what felt scary about setting a boundary?

• 34:48Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I think until about three months, six months before I met my husband, the question I was always asking myself was, does he like me or do I like him? And it was never, do I like myself around this person? And it wasn't until I flipped that question and said, do I like myself? Did I prioritize myself while I was dating? It took me 31 years to learn that lesson.

• 35:14Speaker 02

  Totally.

• 35:15Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Why do we learn that lesson too late? Like, why as women are we constantly seeking the approval of the other sex to be chosen?

• 35:23Speaker 02

  Well, that's, that's a core, that's childhood right there, all in a nutshell. So I'll say this, if you're scared to set boundaries, I want you to visualize the little child that needed them. I want you to visualize like the seven-year-old you. And every time you don't set boundaries, you're telling that version of you, you don't mean anything to me. They matter more. I need them to like me because you are nothing. That's how I visualize it. When we think of like people pleasing, am I being hurtful or harmful? I can hurt your feelings by saying no. No, I'm sorry, I'm not in town that night. I apologize, I can't make it. Harmful is mommy needs a self-care day when your kid has a recital. And you're like, what are you doing? Like, your, your child needs you. And so we're looking at, if I'm hurting your feelings, fine, I can do that. No, I can't make dinner. I apologize, I have, no, I don't even apologize. I can't make dinner, I have a meeting that night, but I could do Thursday?

• 36:05Speaker 02

  If we're scared, typically speaking, when we're scared to set a boundary, we're scared of, what is that going to mean about me? Am I going to be abandoned? Are they going to reject me? Are they not going to like me? Am I going to be difficult? Am I going to be too much? And that's where I have to say, how old do you feel? And where'd you learn that from? Because if I say, that's true, I'm not the 30, I'm 35 right now. Am I a 35-year-old woman that is saying, no, I don't want to do that? Because when we say no, oftentimes as women, we're told, keep sweet, play nice, be a good girl. And then setting boundaries goes against that. And that goes into that fawn response. That's your nervous system saying, I don't know what to do here. I don't feel safe and I can't keep you safe. That's our job now. Because as the adult, that's my job to take care of my little. I couldn't set a boundary with my father, but I can set one now because I'm not seven anymore. I'm an adult.

• 36:49Maggie Sellers Reum?

  How can you spot the person that's ready for love and the person that just wants the attention?

• 36:53Speaker 02

  Boundaries. If you, if somebody that wants attention texting you all the time, can we see da da da, da da da, da da da, the minute you say, that doesn't work for me, you start to see their intentions because they might take it personally. Or they say, well, I was just trying to be nice. And you're like, oh, all right. Well, I'm just saying, I don't want that. That is the quickest way. And I know I feel like a broken record of like, the boundaries. Boundaries do feel scary, but that's why we have to practice them. Saying no to a barista that asks if you want something in your coffee. That maybe normally you'd say yes, because you don't want to be difficult. But this time you say, no, I want 2%. That's okay, right? Because what you do is you teach your nervous system that's safe. I'm allowed to do this. I remember when I met Ryan, we, it was maybe like a month after we started dating.

• 37:35Speaker 02

  And I was sitting by my pool area at my old apartment and I called my mom and I said, there's something that's bothering me that he's doing. And I said, Mom, I'm terrified. He's going to call me in 20 minutes. What if he breaks up with me? And my mom said, good, let him do you the favor then. And I was like, oh. And I remember calling and seeing him and he just sat there and I told him and I was waiting for it. I'm like, he's going to tell me I'm too much and this. And he just said, man, that makes total sense. I'm so sorry. I did that. You're right. I need to take ownership of that. And I remember being like, what? Sorry, what? Did you, did you just take accountability? Did you, you just told me that I'm valid? But that wouldn't have happened unless I took up that space. Because if I had played small, my needs were never going to be met. Because how would they have been if I don't advocate for myself?

• 38:14Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Yeah.

• 38:14Speaker 02

  The same as being a woman in the business world. We have to advocate for ourselves. Nobody's going to do it for us.

• 38:20Maggie Sellers Reum?

  One of your most viral videos is about not changing who we are, changing the environments that we're in. What advice do you have for women who are ready for that? But it still really affects them to set those boundaries. Like, what are they doing to move past that?

• 38:35Speaker 02

  Grief. You gotta learn to grieve. That's the biggest thing. Because the thing is, people pleasers want everything to work out. And it's not, there's nothing wrong with anyone people pleasing. But that doesn't come out of, oh, I'm such a good person. I just want to make everyone happy. It's like, no, that's a fond response. That's me trying to control the outcome. If I'm a good girl and I manage the, what's happening, then I won't get in trouble. I won't get yelled at. Everything will go my way. We all know that never happens. And so the number one thing is we've got to learn to grieve. What does that mean? Cry? Validate your experience? Hey, that really sucked. I didn't love that. If you actually, self compassion releases more dopamine than external. So even just saying, given everything I've been through would be, makes total sense. That would be really tough to set a boundary. That right there just released dopamine and that's how we validate our own experience.

• 39:19Speaker 02

  If I don't validate my emotions, what makes me think that my partner is going to be doing that? Because if I start crying and say something and my partner goes, here you go again, being a nut job. Okay, well, I didn't validate my own emotions. If I did, I'd say, excuse me, that's disrespectful. I'm hurting right now and I'm going through something. But then if I do that, I have to be okay with the fact that that person might not respect that. That means I have to be okay to lose things. I had to learn that even with my business. When I started software, I remember saying, if I lose this, I'm nothing. I'm a worthless nothing. And then I went to Shark Tank and I was on my, I was there, I was on set and they sent me home. And I had to be okay to lose things because when I did, this entire career started. When I walked away from the guy right before Ryan that I was dating, that was a total jackass,

• 40:04Speaker 02

  a waste of my time, I met him three days later. Because I wasn't holding on to what wasn't working, I was making space for what would. And I think we have to have some element of faith to believe that there's something out there for us and I'm not going to settle until I get it.

• 40:21Speaker 02

  God, you didn't come this far to deal with that, to deal with some, a boy who their mother didn't teach them right. Like, we are not doing that anymore. It's 2026 or whenever you're listening to this, you deserve better.

• 40:32Maggie Sellers Reum?

  One of the most shocking red flags that my therapist taught me about, which I would have completely overlooked as a busy, ambitious woman that was dealing with like much different level of priorities. But like when I would go on a date, I would overlook the very small things. So he said this thing to me where he said,

• 40:50Maggie Sellers Reum?

  "Don't overlook a man's car being messy if they pick you up for a date because that actually is a sign that they are not going to prioritize your needs in the future relationship." And I was so confused by that because I was like, what do you mean a messy car will mean that this person won't prioritize me? And he broke it down by saying that...

• 41:11Maggie Sellers Reum?

  People make the things that they want to make a priority. And if he wanted to make a good impression on you, he would have cleaned up his car. He would have made it felt like an environment that you were a priority in. Whereas you are one of many things that that person is dealing with at the end of the day. And him not coming with a clean outfit and a nice, clean car, not like a nice car, but a clean car, signals that you are one of many priorities, you aren't the priority. And it was so interesting because I went on a first date that week and there was a guy that picked me up in a messy car. I was able to pick up on other little red flags that I may have overlooked because I was in the mindset of like, I'm trying to build an empire right now. I'm not paying attention to how messy or clean your car is. I was paying attention to way bigger things.

• 41:56Maggie Sellers Reum?

  What is another small, simple thing that people should be paying attention to, but they often overlook that gets them in that same situation again?

• 42:04Speaker 02

  Red flags are a pattern of behavior. So when we're looking at red flags, how do they deal with waiters, right? I always look at like, how do they deal with people when we're out? Because if you don't treat everybody with respect, just because you don't deem that this person can do something for you, then I'm not interested in continuing. I look at what happens when I share something. How do they handle my vulnerability? Because that's really important. I look at how do they regulate? For me, that's the number one because my really good friend of mine is a neuroscientist and he always says, your story determines your strategy. And so when I'm feeling super secure in myself and I'm feeling really good and I'm in that ventral state and I'm feeling really regulated, my story is, I can do this and I'm, I got this. And then my strategy starts to show that I take care of myself. I clean my home.

• 42:48Speaker 02

  That's what we want to look at. To your point, if somebody is a hot mess in every area of their life, what makes you think that they're going to be any different with you? And so we want to look at patterns of behavior. How do they talk about people in their life? How do they communicate with you? Like I know, I think a lot of people want to look for the small, little things and like, sure, right? Things of, do you feel like they're being disingenuous? Like, do you think they're lying to you? That, that, that, sure. But I think early on in dating, what I want, what the biggest thing I look for is, do they hold true to their word? That's huge for me. If you tell me you're going to call me, did you call me? And if you didn't, did you take ownership as to why you didn't? Or did you just pretend like you didn't tell me you were going to call me three nights in a row and never did? And I think we overlook things like that. Oh, he's busy. Oh yeah, they just have a lot of things going on. It's like, so did I.

• 43:29Speaker 02

  I have a lot of things going on. I'm incredibly busy. I've had a lot of trauma. I don't hurt other people. And so if I'm not doing that, why do I have to make it okay for other people to do that?

• 43:39Maggie Sellers Reum?

  One of my favorite videos that you posted was the men marry the women in proximity.

• 43:44Speaker 02

  Oh, the yellow cab theory.

• 43:46Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Okay, can you explain this theory for people that don't know what it is?

• 43:48Speaker 02

  Of course. So, anyone watch Sex and the City, it's the yellow cab theory that when a man has his cab light on, that's when he's ready. Like, here's a harsh reality. It's not just about love. It's proximity and timing, because I can love somebody with every bone in my body, but if I'm not emotionally available, it's going to be a moot point. Me and Ryan met, we both were dealing with grief. And we have both said, had we met even a year prior, it would never have worked, because he needed and I needed to go through such a great loss to appreciate the life that we had, to then say, what am I doing? I need to change the way I'm doing things. If I had met him a year prior, I was in my hot mess phase, I was texting too much. Proximity and timing matter a lot more than love, because you could think that this person is the best thing on the planet, but if you met them at the wrong time, you met them at the wrong time.

• 44:33Speaker 02

  Like, maybe if you met your husband 10 years prior, you wouldn't have been in a space. But when you met him, you were at that time saying, okay, I'm ready for this. I can do this. I can show up at this now. That matters a lot more than how much you love somebody.

• 44:46Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Does it matter about what's going on in your life at that time? Like, a lot of people listening to this are in the throes of building the business, raising the money, trying to keep their life together. Like, is that the right time to date?

• 44:57Speaker 02

  I don't think there is a right or wrong time. I met Ryan when I had nothing. Like, let me preface, the software when it started was quite successful. After the Shark Tank thing, and I had a whole thing with the company, it all 180ed. And so, at that time, I had nothing. I had just started creating content on TikTok. I couldn't afford rent, I couldn't afford food, I couldn't afford my dog's medication, which then potentially was the reason he passed. Like, there was a lot happening. And if I had that excuse, oh, well, no, no, I'm building a business. I can't date you. To me, those are excuses, because I had a lot to give and I also had a lot to receive. I just prioritize differently, because I made choices for myself to do that. I'm not saying that anybody listening, please, take whatever time you want. If you say you're not ready, please don't feel forced.

• 45:39Speaker 02

  But eventually, we do have to say, ready isn't necessarily a timeline. It's a feeling. It's a feeling of, I'm ready to be disappointed if that happens. I'm ready to be excited, because I think a lot of us were so used to being disappointed. Right? What if it doesn't work out? But what if it does? What if it does? My mama always said, be careful what you wish for because when you get it, what are you going to do with it? Are you ready to receive that in your life? And so if you're focused on the business, that's great. If you genuinely don't have bandwidth and time, please don't waste anybody else's. But if you were saying, I do, I could make a few nights a week, like I could make space for someone else in my life. Don't let your business not being where you want it to be, be the reason you don't do that because there is no perfect time. I'm so grateful I gave Ryan a chance, even though I was in

• 46:21Speaker 02

  the thralls of starting a really amazing company, I wouldn't have been able to do it without the experiences of my partner because he triggered me in ways that helped me grow and that growth helped work in my career as well.

• 46:34Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Did you just use triggering as a good thing, that word?

• 46:36Speaker 02

  I think triggers are a good thing.

• 46:37Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Okay, can you explain that a little bit more?

• 46:39Speaker 02

  Absolutely. So triggers, like I said, neutral action or inaction. What a trigger does is it sheds light for me on things that I need to work on. So if I'm triggered consistently, so let's say I get trolls on the internet, we all do, right? Everybody gets it. And when I get triggered by them, I have to stop and go, all right, girl, you believe what they're saying then. Then there's something about what they're saying that is hitting a nerve for you. Work on it. To me, it's an opportunity, it's an invitation for me to get curious about myself. And I'll give you, give you an example because I always come with a

• 47:07Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Love it.

• 47:07Speaker 02

  Still kind of learning each other. We had gotten our first house and we were like, okay, we're doing it. And I remember he was in the kitchen and I said, hey babe, do you want to do something? Like, do you want to go do, go to Home Goods, I think, knowing me? And he went, no. I just walked off, right? To anybody else, they'd go, all right, partner just doesn't want to. I, that was it. I was, I got this wave of heat. I sat there and I was like, I'm gonna kill it. And I had to stop and I said, no, no, no, the pinch doesn't match the ouch. You're freaking out. Your partner's allowed to say no. And I said, I sat there and I said, Sabrina, get curious. And I went, how old do I feel? And I was like, this is dad. Got it. And I said, okay, I felt dismissed. It doesn't mean it's what he meant to do, but I felt dismissed. So he came back in the room and I said, can I share something with you? Which is always what I suggest, ask for consent when you'd like to have a conversation with somebody about something serious. I said, can I share

• 47:52Speaker 02

  something with you? I said, when you did that just now, that reminded me of my dad because growing up, he would go and walk off. And I felt so small and dismissed. I know that wasn't your intention, but moving forward, would you be able to maybe just give me a reason why you don't want to do it? So I don't internalize and take it personally? And he stopped and went, that makes so much sense. I could see how that was actually a really dick move. I'm so sorry. You're right. Moving forward, I'll let you know why I don't want to. We've never had the issue again. Do you notice how the trigger was mine to own? It's not Ryan's fault. He's allowed to say no. He's allowed to do things. I'm the one that has to work on it because if I make triggers, everybody else's problem, I'm outsourcing my healing to everybody else when they didn't do anything.

• 48:31Maggie Sellers Reum?

  What date did you tell Ryan about the trauma with your dad?

• 48:35Speaker 02

  It was about three months in.

• 48:36Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Why did you wait so long?

• 48:38Speaker 02

  Because we can't, we don't trust these, who are these people? I don't trust that person. What if they're a narcissist and they're going to use that against me? We have to, trust is conditional. I give you a little, I see what you do with it and I see then how, what is the space you create? Because if I say something vulnerable and then all of a sudden, two weeks later, you use that against me, I just gave you ammunition into my deepest, darkest wounds, the things that are gaping and open that I'm trying to heal shut and I'm giving you access to them to pour salt anytime you want. That has to be earned and we trauma dump because a lot of the times when we trauma dump, we want to create that intimacy. We want to force that of like, oh, look, look how close we are. I told them all about my dad and they didn't run. But that other person also doesn't know what to do with it. They might not know how to support you. They don't know you well enough. It feels uncomfortable. And so I don't think,

• 49:23Speaker 02

  you don't have to hide it. But I told Ryan on our first date, I said, my father and I have a tumultuous relationship and over time, it's something I'd love to share with you. But for now, that's what I feel comfortable sharing. And he was like, okay. And same with him. He was like, I don't talk to my dad. And in time, we didn't talk about trauma until like four, like three or four months in, when we started to feel comfortable and I thought, okay, I could see this going somewhere because why am I going to share with you my deepest, darkest wounds if I don't even know if I want to see you again?

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• 51:14Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 51:59Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 53:45Maggie Sellers Reum?

  When you said something like, "People can use your story as ammunition against you", what did you mean by that?

• 53:53Speaker 02

  Narcissists love to do that. So think about if I tell you, "Growing up, my dad made me feel like I was invisible", and you're like, "Oh yeah, totally", and then all of a sudden, two weeks later, we're in the kitchen and I do something and it's, "No wonder your father couldn't stand you."

• 54:08Speaker 02

  And you're like, "Wait, what? Oh my God, wait, you see that too? They can use it against you because they know how to manipulate that. If they know that that's your wound, that's your Achilles heel, right? Then they can do things that could actually hurt you intentionally, because what happens? That's specifically narcissists. We hope that nobody else does this. Narcissists, they go into the, they just drench you with love, right? That's why they love bomb. And they come on really strong because they are charming and they want to win you over. They want your boundaries to come down so they become the center of your universe. They do it as, "So, look, I love you. Look how much I care about you." Then they go into the devalue stage. Once they go into the devalue stage, they take all the things you told them about, and they use it against you. And then they go into the discard phase, when they have no more use for you.

• 54:52Speaker 02

  "That's it, goodbye, I don't need you anymore." We don't need to hand that to them. You need to make sure that they've earned that place in your life. They don't just get it. Because I'm not just going to tell you what I went through as a kid so that, what, you could tell me later that my dad was right? There's something wrong with me?

• 55:08Speaker 02

  Did you ever experience that? Did you ever have anybody use your traumas against you?

• 55:11Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Totally, but I think that I was too naive to even realize it at the time. I don't think it was outward is what you're talking about, but I've been in other dynamics and I have people very close to me that I've seen that dynamic play out and it's dangerous and scary, which is why like this conversation was so important to me for a few reasons. Like when I was single and my biggest fear in life was truly building an empire, building a business that I knew that I was going to be able to do and waking up at 50 and looking around and not being able to celebrate that with people. Because the one truth that I really fundamentally believe is the key to a happy, healthy longevity life is relationships.

• 55:56Maggie Sellers Reum?

  It is the one thing that like we need as humans after food and water and our basic necessities. And I felt for so long, like I did not know how to date. There wasn't a playbook. And I'm fascinated with your story because I think that there's going to be a lot of founders that are listening to this that are kind of at their wits end of building their business. Like I get a lot of messages from women that are like, it's been five, six years, like it's not progressing. I don't know what to do. My identity is tied up in this. I want to pivot. And so I really wanted you as a guest because you are an expert in dating and relationships, but you also mastered the pivot yourself

• 56:37Maggie Sellers Reum?

  from a multimillion dollar company to completely going a different direction. So I really want to focus the next part of the conversation on that because a lot of people on that are listening to this will understand what Shark Tank is. And like, that's how far you did get. Let's take it back to 2022. You're 32 years old. You make it onto Shark Tank. You're running a clothing brand. Your dream as a child, seven-year-old Sabrina, is to be a clothing empire female CEO. How did you end up as a dating and relationship coach that made their mark on social media? Like what happened?

• 57:13Speaker 02

  So backtrack was in 2019, I got my heart ripped out and stepped on and I almost took my life because the relationship ended. And it was the worst breakup. I married my father, right? Like it was the same thing. I was with him.

• 57:26Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Were you married?

• 57:26Speaker 02

  We were and we don't really. I don't really talk about it too often. Okay. Anyways, yes, so I was married for a year. It was a very blip on the screen and it was a very like, we love each other. Let's just do it without really thinking it through. And I became a shell of a human. I was about 30 pounds soaking wet. Like I was, truthfully told, I'm five eight. I was 96 pounds, I think, at the time. So I was very scary looking. And it was to the point where people were asking like, hey, are you okay? I was alienated from friends and family. He really got me away from everybody and was incredibly manipulative and would do, one of us loves you more than the other. And so he was trying to imply that he loved me more than I loved myself. Very manipulative so that I would constantly cave and say, okay, whatever he says, I will do. And when I got out of that, that's when I started therapy. I was like, I know there's got to be more to this.

• 58:11Speaker 02

  There's something wrong. And I dove head on and I started to even see the difference between, okay, the internet is telling me if he wanted to, he would. But is that accurate, right? Like, isn't there more to it than that? Isn't there bandwidth? Isn't there capacity? Are we talking trauma? Like, can I have, I have questions. And so it was the start of that. Then fast forward to 2022, I had moved to LA. I left New York and I was in New York for 12 years. And I get to LA and I'm thinking, this is gonna be great. Dating is fantastic. I met all these hot guys. Oh my God, it was worse than I ever imagined. I felt so alone and I felt really scared because I was taking up space. I was having these conversations and I wasn't being met with that reciprocity. So I'm like, oh, here we go. So fast forward now it's 2022 in summer and I get Shark Tank. This to me is it, right?

• 58:55Speaker 02

  Like this is the Mecca. I am, I've made it through 40 something rounds of calls. I'm on the last step. I'm on set and I'm like, okay, this is my life. And that's also where we were talking about earlier of not putting everything into one thing. And I said, this is gonna be it. And they put me on set and all of a sudden they're, they come in maybe after 20 minutes, like, are you ready? You're up next. I'm like, okay, I've got the set. I'm gonna go give it to Mark like this is it? And like another 30 minutes go by, I'm like, hmm, this can't be good. And they come in, I'm so sorry, we can't fit you on today. Oh, we, we hate when this happens. I said, that's okay. You'll find another spot, right? Oh no, that's not how that works. We'll have to put you in a standby. I was like, wait, what do you mean standby? So like world crumbles. That's, I thought that was all I had. I didn't think I had anything else.

• 59:40Speaker 02

  And at the time, I remember I went home and I lost my marbles. And a guy called me that I had one date with, one date with, and he was a founder and he wanted to know how it went. And I never spoke to him again after that, but I thank him for actually saving my life that night because he taught me that you could have a beautiful date with someone and a great conversation that doesn't need to go anywhere. It could just be someone caring about you as a human and being there for you. And I think the next day, my friend said, listen, man, you talk about dating all the time. You relate it to business where you're always talking about this. You should start a career. And I was like, no one's going to listen to me. Who cares about me? That was my core beliefs. And so aftershock tank, when they told me officially, sorry, they try again next year. I had nothing to lose. I had everything to gain. And so I said, you know what? I have something to say. I'll start it on Tik Tok.

• 1:00:24Speaker 02

  I'm going to put myself out there and I'm going to be okay being a bearish because being cringe is part of it and we'll learn. And then I just kept showing up and kept showing up and kept doing it. And then I started, my first viral video happened like two months later and I just kept investing in myself. And then now here we are, multimillion dollar company later where my, my partner is also my COO and my book comes out this year. Like I've changed my life because I was okay losing what I thought was going to be my life. And that I think is part of dating relationships, career, that if you're at the end of the road saying, I can't do this anymore. That doesn't make you a failure. That actually makes you really strong that you can admit that. What are your choices? And that's where the pivot came in of what are my choices are? I could try something new. I can say what I want to say because I knew there has to be other people out there that

• 1:01:08Speaker 02

  were feeling what I felt. I didn't want to just make clickbait. I wanted to create content that actually spoke to the girl that I was because I needed that at the time. And that's how I've always run my business. How can I actually help people? Not how can we just put more things out there that already exist, which is why Hot Smart Rich exists. Right? You saw a hole. You saw that what you're doing wasn't being done and you filled it. And that's what we need more of, even if you have to start over.

• 1:01:31Maggie Sellers Reum?

  You at this time, did you fully give up the dream of the clothing empire? Or were you like, okay, I'm gonna keep my feet in, I'm gonna kind of have like testing the waters? Like where were you at in terms of the hard pivot? Or I would call the soft pivot?

• 1:01:47Speaker 02

  Soft pivot for sure, because I had so much inventory. I still had like $80,000 of inventory at my factory. So I'm like, okay, I kind of need to liquidate this. So I saw it as I have software, I'm gonna keep running it as I am. Let's see where this goes. And then that started taking priority, that started growing. Then I started the podcast. It just, everything kept morphing to where eventually software became an afterthought. And then here we are, potentially selling the company this year. Cause it's just, I love it and it's my baby and I am so grateful for it. The hard pivot had to come when I look at the bottom line going, how much time and energy I'm spending to make this much? How much time and energy I'm spending to make this much? We're gonna go with, and also what I love to do. Because again, like it's okay.

• 1:02:28Speaker 02

  I remember one of my friends started a company and he sold his, he, the first company, I think he sold for like 300,000. The second company he sold for a hundred million. Big difference. And I remember asking him after he sold the hundred million dollar company. I was like, you know, I didn't know about the first company. I said, you're so lucky. And he said, why? I said, well, your first company you sold for a hundred million. And he goes, no, no, no, you don't know about all the failures that came before it. And he was like, but I learned from it. I learned from it so that I could become this version of myself. And so I think for me, the hard pivot had to come when my soul just wasn't in the company anymore. And my passion just wasn't there because I love to help people, just not in that way.

• 1:03:02Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Do you think that you would have the same reaction as that with a brand that is so tied to you? Like the Sabrina Zohar Show, the podcast. Whereas software, I love the founding story because it was surrounding your moms and your isms. And obviously that was extremely tied to your identity. Was it tied to your identity in the same way that like you've built this brand? And obviously what you're passionate about now?

• 1:03:27Speaker 02

  So the funny thing is that the podcast, the Sabrina Zohar Show, used to be called Do The Work. And I got a cease and desist a year and a half ago where I had to change it. I lost my shit when I got that. I remember collapsing in Ryan's arm, having panic attacks because I was like, this is it. Right? The show was number three in education. I was climbing the charts. I couldn't keep up with the growth. It was just, but people didn't know who I was. They knew about the podcast. They were like, oh, you're Do The Work. What's your name? And I was like, wait, what? But at the time, I said, either I could lose it all, right? Change the name and just close it and be done, or believe in myself and put my name on it. So I did have to pivot in that way. And I think that's part of being a good business owner is we're going to have a lot of inconveniences. You're going to have a lot of times that you're like, why am I here? Why do I do this? Remember your why. I remember my who.

• 1:04:12Speaker 02

  Who am I doing this for? My little. And so software had my identity to a certain extent, but because I think it was a product based business, there was a third part, like there was a bit of a gap there. Whereas the podcast is so me, I'm vulnerable, I'm raw, I share so many stories, but I was okay losing it as well because I've already lost so much. What am I going to hold on to this for?

• 1:04:34Maggie Sellers Reum?

  You've built millions of followers cross-platform and I love one of your principles and it is you choose danger when you upload a video. What does that mean?

• 1:04:44Speaker 02

  I am not afraid to say what needs to be said. And so I know that can come with a lot of backlash. Now, when I first started creating content and saying texting isn't the end all be all, I got inundated, I got screamed at, I got yelled at, but I also had the audience that I was looking for and I knew I had to sift through it. And so now I made the video, got 11 million plays, saying, you know, I'm going to say what nobody else says and you're using therapy talk as a reason to avoid accountability. Oh, I've had therapists stitch it and try to. Let the, uh, let the engagement show you what it is that people resonated with it. And so I look at it as when I post and when I upload and I choose danger, I'm also okay choosing whatever's going to happen is may because I believe in what I'm doing. I believe in what I'm saying and I believe in the messaging. That's all that matters.

• 1:05:29Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Do you feel more in your power as a CEO and founder doing this service-based business than you ever did doing a product-based business?

• 1:05:38Speaker 02

  A hundred percent. To be fair, software, my sister and I started and then she didn't want to do it. And so I always had this where I was like, I did it with you. This is me. This was me putting myself out there. This was me having nothing, starting with nothing, zero followers on everything and saying, I have a thought and I have a belief because I believed in myself. So to me, that's why this matters more is because I started this from a place of I had to eat what I kill. And so I really put myself into it. I love also what I do. There's nothing more special than having somebody say, I listened to a podcast of yours, I did the work and now I have a husband or I have a person or you helped me get there. I don't think there's any product I could ever make that will replace that.

• 1:06:16Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Do you think that you'd ever do product-based businesses again?

• 1:06:18Speaker 02

  No, thank you. No, unless the inventory is not a thing, right? If it's a card game or something where you only have, but having SKUs and sizes and colors and that, that, that, that, no, thank you. Unless the stars align and it made sense, but I love service-based way more. I had merch, right? I'll do certain things, courses, things like that. But I enjoy working with people.

• 1:06:37Maggie Sellers Reum?

  When was the moment that you connected the dots between I'm running a content-based thing to like, I'm running a content media business?

• 1:06:45Speaker 02

  It was February 2023. It was the first month, I'll never forget it. My mom called me and I said, Mom, I booked three people this month. If I do that next month, I could pay rent just on this business. And the next month I booked out all of my sessions. And then the next month, and then the next month, and then I was making 60K, 100K, 200. I didn't know what to do with all this money. It was just coming at me in a great way, very blessed. But that was when I realized you have something here. Once I hit the million followers, that's when I realized you're not just a creator, you're a voice and you get to use yours for something special.

• 1:07:19Maggie Sellers Reum?

  There's a huge misconception though around follower count equals money. Because I think that there's actually like, even for myself, I don't have a million followers, but I would say I have one of the most lucrative audiences because they are highly ambitious, driven, incredibly successful women that like, is a community that brands want to tap into. When you were at a million followers, did that equal like a million dollars of sales?

• 1:07:44Speaker 02

  Oh, not even close, 100%. Followers are like being rich in Monopoly. But for me, it was more of there's an audience that wants to hear me. That's what I was looking for is like, is there somebody that wants this? Is there someone that cares about this? Having a million people watching my videos? That was wild to me. But 100%, you could have somebody with 10,000 followers making $10 million a year and you could have someone with 20 million followers making nothing. The platforms don't pay you. None of that is how you're monetizing. How I monetize is what I'm giving people. So I have courses, I've got the podcast, right? We've got all these different businesses out, you could work with me. There's all these different outlets. But what I was looking for, the only reason follower count mattered to me was to know that there is people out there that actually want to hear my voice. And that's where it keeps me going.

• 1:08:27Speaker 02

  Cause if I only had 10,000 followers, maybe it would be a hobby. But I don't know that it would necessarily be the biggest business in the world because that helped me to understand, okay, you have something here.

• 1:08:37Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Was there ever a moment that you just thought like, this is all gonna go away?

• 1:08:41Speaker 02

  Almost every single day. That's my trauma, though. That's my stuff because growing up, my dad, you wouldn't know. He would be off with his girlfriend. He cheated on my mom. We didn't know. If you said something to me he didn't like, he would just leave. He would just walk out. So I've always had this fear of I'm gonna lose it. I'm gonna lose it. And every day I have to work on my nervous system to say, you're not because you built it. It wasn't given to you. So nobody can take this from you. And if you lose it all, look what you built. You could do it again. And so that's my self-talk of having to remind myself who the fuck I am and what I actually bring to the table, not just what people benefit from me.

• 1:09:16Speaker 02

  Trauma doesn't go away. Anxiety doesn't go away. You learn to live with it. You learn to deal with it. You learn to cope with it and you learn to rewire it, but you don't get rid of it. That's like getting rid of a part of you. You can't.

• 1:09:27Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Damn. Wish I could.

• 1:09:29Speaker 02

  Right? If we could just like lobotomy and just like get rid of anxiety. But then honestly, I wouldn't be as good of a business owner.

• 1:09:36Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I saw this TikTok about the question being posed. Like if you could get rid of the worst thing that's happened to you, would you do it? And there is a part of me that wants to say, yeah, of course I would. But no, I wouldn't. I think it actually makes me so much better at what I do every single day. And it's something that stays with me because we all have our own unique stories. I feel like you've really come into yourself in the last three years. Do you feel like there's a whole next evolution that's coming? Like, what is your book about? What is that next phase?

• 1:10:10Speaker 02

  I think if I stop growing, then put me six feet under, right? Like, if this is it, if this is it, I don't want it. Unsubscribe. There's gotta be more to life than this. I have got to explore more. For me, my number one goal is like, I want my own show. I want to host a dating show where I actually can help people in a broader scale. The book is about patterns. So I wanted to make sure it wasn't just about dating because I want everyone to be able to read it, to understand where did I learn this from? How old do I feel? What's coming up for me? Did you ever see the movie Eternal Sunshine?

• 1:10:35Maggie Sellers Reum?

  No, but I don't watch movies or TV.

• 1:10:37Speaker 02

  Okay, so.

• 1:10:39Speaker 02

  But in the movie, it's about getting your memory erased. And so the woman Clementine, which is where I named my dog after. She gets her memory erased of him and he's trying to do the same thing. And then spoiler alert to anybody at the end, he's like, I don't want to let go of it. These are my memories. I don't want to lose her. The whole point being of you can't erase the parts of you that you're some of all your parts. If I didn't have my father who taught me all these things, then I wouldn't have been a hot mess. I wouldn't have slept my way through New York. I wouldn't have done all this and I wouldn't be where I'm at now because what personal experience would I come to you with? How could I sit there and say, I know how you feel. Oh, you're spiraling because they didn't text you. You're starting to question your worth. You're calling all of your friends. You're having a panic attack. Sit your ass down and let's talk. If I was like, oh, I met my husband at the grocery store when I was 18 and we've been together ever since.

• 1:11:21Speaker 02

  You probably wouldn't take my advice as much as the person saying, I got out of the depths of hell. Let me teach you how you way out. Of course it sucks. I wish I didn't have it, but at the same time, I wouldn't be the version that I am now. So what's the point of wishing we didn't have it?

• 1:11:34Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I'm so happy you came on Sabrina Zohar. I have a few rapid fire questions to ask you.

• 1:11:38Speaker 02

  Okay.

• 1:11:40Maggie Sellers Reum?

  What is the last thing you put on your credit card?

• 1:11:42Speaker 02

  My laptop. That was a fun shirt purchase.

• 1:11:44Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Oh, that's so rough because you're like, I need it, but it's not like the most fun thing, but it's still the biggest thing.

• 1:11:50Speaker 02

  Yeah.

• 1:11:50Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Um, okay. First date, coffee or walk?

• 1:11:53Speaker 02

  I would go for a walk because I like bilateral movements help me process. And so when you're walking, you're actually regulating your nervous system and you're staying present. And so I think that's a really great way because coffee might be caffeine and could really impact how you're viewing that person.

• 1:12:04Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And would you say walk over dinner?

• 1:12:06Speaker 02

  A hundred percent. I do not want to be stuck at dinner with someone I do not know. Personally.

• 1:12:11Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Okay. Split the bill or he pays?

• 1:12:14Speaker 02

  If he asks me out, he pays.

• 1:12:16Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Love that. Who is your favorite comfort creator?

• 1:12:20Speaker 02

  I have Ashley Mixon. She's a skincare and she does skin flooding and I just watch her for hours or those ASMR pack and order with me. I don't know why, but they're so relaxing. I don't look at anything in my field. It just, it throws me off my game.

• 1:12:34Maggie Sellers Reum?

  By the way, so do I. And I think like some people might interpret that as like not a good behavioral trait, like a mean girl trait. But to me, it actually makes sure that I stay in my own lane. It's like a horse race. I have my blinders on. I'm not getting influenced by what people are doing. So I refuse to look at what anyone else is doing in my field.

• 1:12:50Speaker 02

  You don't want to see my TikTok algorithm. It's dogs, it's all the ASMR videos and it's skincare. It's nothing dating because I get frustrated, I get anxious and I'm like, you know what? I don't need to know what you're doing. I need to know what I'm doing.

• 1:13:00Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Who is your favorite celebrity relationship?

• 1:13:03Speaker 02

  This doesn't age well. It used to be Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. Right? Used to be. Now, I would say, I really like Selena Gomez and, and, uh, Blenny Blanco. I do. I, I love him so much that inadvertently I love them together, but I just love the way he shows up for her. It's so beautiful.

• 1:13:21Maggie Sellers Reum?

  I love that. Who is a celebrity couple that you're like, they need to just leave each other?

• 1:13:26Speaker 02

  Anybody J Lo dates? Cause I just, every time I see it, I'm like, girl, what are we doing here? Yeah, that would be, every time I see her, I'm like, there's a reason you guys are single. This isn't working.

• 1:13:35Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Who is your favorite creator brand that you aspire to be?

• 1:13:39Speaker 02

  Truthfully, there's very few because I feel like a lot of the people, especially in my field specifically, are charlatans. There's a lot of snake oil salesmen. There's a lot of people that are inauthentic. I have people in my world, like Jillian Turecki is a really good friend of mine. I just love her as a person and I aspire for the way she's built her career to keep going. And she, we're like big sister, little sister. I would say Jillian. She's just a really beautiful soul and her content's great.

• 1:14:04Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Love that. Okay, last question. Sabrina, if you had to title this season of your life, what would it be called?

• 1:14:11Speaker 02

  It's go to.

• 1:14:11Maggie Sellers Reum?

  If you're starting a business, there are certain things that are so fun to think about. Y'all know I love a mood board, so everything that relates to the creative, the name, the brand, the website, the vision board. But then there are the things that make you pause and ask, am I even doing this correctly? Or do I even want to be doing this? Like forming your business, getting the right documents, keeping your personal information private. This is where our sponsor, Northwest Registered Agent, is so helpful. They're a one-stop shop for founders who want to launch and legitimize their business without turning it into a giant admin spiral. They help you form an LLC or a corporation, act as your registered agent, and give you tools like a business address, operating agreement, website, phone number, professional email, and free guides.

• 1:14:55Maggie Sellers Reum?

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• 1:16:14Speaker 02

  Time. That's it. It's time to make things happen. I'm tired of playing small. I'm tired of doubting myself and I'm tired of believing what my father taught me. And it's time for me to show myself what I could do.

• 1:16:26Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Well, you don't know how much I needed this conversation. I'm so, so, so grateful that you came on. Where can people find you? And what can HSR help you with right now?

• 1:16:33Speaker 02

  Honestly, the HSR community, just being here, like just supporting, just being here and not trying to change me. I think that's all I ask from people is like, it's okay, I curse a lot. I talk really fast. I have ADHD. I get it, I'm not for everybody, but I don't have to be. And so all I ever ask is just for the support. If it jives, great, come on in. I've got my book coming out, please buy it.

• 1:16:54Maggie Sellers Reum?

  October 2026.

• 1:16:55Speaker 02

  October 2026. But outside of that, just thank you for being here because I think us building a community is what matters so much more. The rest will follow.

• 1:17:02Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And where can people find you?

• 1:17:03Speaker 02

  SabrinaZohar on TikTok and the Sabrina Zohar Show on Instagram and YouTube, I believe.

• 1:17:08Maggie Sellers Reum?

  And when does your podcast come out? What day of the week?

• 1:17:10Speaker 02

  Every Friday. It's a lot of solos. I just talk to myself for 40 minutes. It's great.

• 1:17:14Maggie Sellers Reum?

  Love it. Thank you so much for coming on and thanks HSR for listening. Love you, guys.