Midlife Dating Podcast

About Midlife Dating Podcast

Dating in midlife isn’t easy. After his 21-year marriage ended, Paul Nelson found himself back in the dating world. Over the next decade, he went on over 180 first dates, had countless phone calls, and engaged in thousands of online conversations. What he discovered along the way wasn’t just how to date again, but how much personal growth it takes to become the kind of partner you truly want to attract. On the Midlife Dating Podcast, Paul is your guide to the nuances of dating learned on the street level. It’s the little things that add up. The mistakes you make aren’t setbacks—they’re growth opportunities. They allow you to adjust and course correct. Only then can you find someone who’s also done the work. Episodes blend practical advice, book and movie reviews, and real-life stories with hard-earned insights. Paul’s goal is simple: to help Gen Xers and Baby Boomers date smarter, laugh more, have fun, and conserve our most valuable commodity—time. If you’re ready to stop repeating the past and create some great memories moving forward, the Midlife Dating Podcast is for you.

Publisher

Paul Nelson

Category

education · society & culture · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

29 Sept 2021

Latest episode

8 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

37 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   8 Oct 2026

   EP36 - Ghosted? Now What?

   Ghosting, the Rule of Halves, and the 48-Hour Rule for Midlife Online Dating and Repeating Patterns Paul Nelson of the Midlife Dating Podcast explains why dating app conversations often die and maintains that it's usually normal attrition, not a personal failing. He introduces the "Rule of Halves," noting predictable drop-off rates from match to message, message to call, and call to meetup. He urges redefining success as reaching an in-person date with a purposeful, situationally calibr...

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   2 Oct 2026

   EP35 - Right Swipe Discipline

   Right Swipe Discipline: Stop Collecting Matches and Start Getting Dates The episode explains why many Baby Boomers and Gen Xers get plenty of dating app matches but never reach phone calls or first-date meetups: they treat matches as progress, keep swiping, and overload themselves with too many conversations. Podcast host Paul Nelson, drawing on 12 years of online dating and 185 first dates, describes how apps engineer dopamine-driven swiping like a slot machine, creating a “dating trea...

3. 

   21 Apr 2026

   EP 34 - To Venus and Back, Part 3 of 3 – Last Orbits Around Venus: Dakota, Christine, and Moving On

   EP 34 - To Venus and Back, Part 3 of 3 – Last Orbits Around Venus: Dakota, Christine, and Moving On In the final part of our series with Turner Grant, we jump into his “last orbits” around Venus: the intense long-distance Paris connection with Dakota, the secretive New York encounters with Christine, and the slow realization that online dating had turned into a treadmill to nowhere. Turner shares how fantasy and reality collided, what it felt like to be someone’s “Finch” from Out of Africa, a...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

176

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.0 / 5

2 ratings

Spotify

3.9 / 5

14 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 27 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

9

Social presence

0

YouTube

64

Engagement

50

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