How to find true love (w/ Francesca Hogi)

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  You're listening to How to Be a Better Human.

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  I'm your host, Chris Duffy,

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  and today's episode was recorded in front of a live audience in Vancouver at the 2025 TED conference.

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  This month on the show,

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  we're thinking about love and who could be a better guest for a love conversation than the author of How to Find True Love,

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  Francesca Hoge.

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  Francesca is many things.

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  She's an author, she's a love coach, she's a former competitor on the TV show Survivor.

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  But above all else, Francesca is someone who really believes in the magic and potential of romance.

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  But at the same time, she's very realistic about what love is not.

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  So whether you are single and determined to stay that way,

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  whether you are in a committed relationship looking for love or something else entirely,

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  Francesca's got insights that I feel very confident are going to resonate with you.

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  To get us started, here's a clip from Francesca's TED Talk.

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  The fairy tale industrial complex.

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  has been lying to you.

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  Through a pervasive web of marketing, advertising, music, movies, and more,

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  it said that while you can't buy love, you can buy your worthiness of being loved.

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  Its commodification of romantic love as a storybook fantasy can be summed up in three simple words,

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  happily ever after, happiness forever, if only,

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