Heart & Hazard
Love is a gamble, and nobody's giving you the odds. Heart & Hazard pulls back the curtain on modern dating: the scams, the heartbreak, the bad advice, and the industry profiting off all of it.
Heart & Hazard is the podcast for anyone navigating the modern dating landscape. Whether you're back in the game after decades away, watching your parents swipe for the first time, or trying to build something better in an industry full of broken incentives.
Hosted by Emma Irvine, founder of Pare Dating, each episode goes deep with lawyers, psychologists, relationship specialists, fraud investigators, and everyday people who've lived it. Real risks, emotional complexity, and the hidden dynamics that no one talks about on a first date.
From romance scams targeting the over-40 crowd to the psychology of attachment, the legal side of modern relationships, and what it actually takes to build a dating platform that puts people first. Heart & Hazard doesn't do surface level.
Because the heart is complicated, and love has always been a little bit of a gamble.
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Romance Scams
How they target the over-40 crowd, the warning signs nobody tells you, and the real people who've been caught in the crosshairs.
Psychology of Attachment
Why we choose who we choose, the patterns we carry from past relationships, and how to break cycles that don't serve us.
The Legal Side
What lawyers wish you knew about modern relationships, from cohabitation agreements to digital privacy in dating.
Dating After Divorce
The emotional complexity of starting over, rebuilding trust, and navigating a dating world that looks nothing like the one you left.
The Dating Industry
Broken incentives, dark patterns, and the billion-dollar business of keeping you swiping. We name names.
Building Something Better
What it actually takes to build a dating platform that puts people first. The hard decisions, the trade-offs, and the wins.