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Girls Can Tell PodcastDating Apps Are Keeping You SingleDating apps didn't stop working because you got older, they stopped working because they were redesigned not to work. The apps realized their most profitable users are the ones who never succeed.
This episode breaks down how dating apps shifted from helping you find someone to keeping you just hopeful enough to stay, why the pool is now full of the emotionally unavailable, and why you keep blaming yourself for a system that was never designed for you to win.
2026-02-0911 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastDating the Emotionally AvailableWhen you start dating someone who is emotionally available, it can feel…off.
There’s no anxiety, no guessing, and no emotional rollercoaster. They text you back, show up, and don’t disappear.
And somehow that can feel less exciting than someone who’s inconsistent, grieving, or still emotionally attached to their past.
In this episode, we break down why emotionally healthy people often don't feel as exhilarating at first, why emotionally unavailable people feel magnetic, and how your nervous system confuses mayhem with chemistry.
If you’ve ever felt more drawn to s...
2026-02-0207 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastWhy You Miss Your ExThe psychology behind why dating feels worst on Sunday nights, why you miss your ex when you’re tired, and how emotional exhaustion makes your brain lie about your future.
2026-01-2707 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastWhy Dating in America Is Uniquely BrokenAmericans think dating is hard everywhere. It's not. The way we do it, app-driven, hyper-individualistic, like a never-ending job interview, is an outlier. This episode compares how dating works in France, Japan, and Denmark, then breaks down what Americans are getting wrong and what we can learn from cultures that make connection less exhausting and more human.
2026-01-2015 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastIs Getting Back Together With an Ex a Good Idea?Going back to an ex feels like skipping the line. You already know each other, you have history, and starting over sounds exhausting. But research shows that on-again, off-again relationships usually increase stress, conflict, and dissatisfaction. This episode breaks down when a second chance can work, and when you're just yearning the familiar past.
2026-01-1314 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastDon't Date if They're Still Friends With Their ExIn the Season 3 opener, we're going to upset some listeners as we discuss how, when someone says they’re “still friends” with their ex, it often means the relationship never fully ended. We explore emotional proximity, unfinished attachment, and why staying close to an ex quietly sabotages new relationships, even if no one wants to admit it.
2026-01-0613 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastHow to Really Read PeopleTrent talks about what’s really going on behind those perfect couple posts, shares his experience staying way too long in an abusive relationship, and explains why sometimes being alone might actually be the win.
2025-12-3011 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastDating While ExhaustedThere’s a point where dating apps stop feeling hopeful and start feeling heavy.
In this episode, Trent talks about dating while tired. When you still want connection, but don’t have the energy to keep auditioning for one. From app burnout and inbox math to why effort no longer scales the way it used to, this episode is about protecting your energy without giving up on love entirely.
If you’ve ever seen a “someone liked you” notification and felt absolutely nothing, you’re not alone.
2025-12-2312 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastThis Hack Will Get You More DatesResetting your profile sounds like a hack. Sometimes it’s just replaying the same disappointment. Here’s what the algorithm is doing, when resets help, when they tank you, and the real strategy that gets you seen.
2025-12-1720 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastIs Dating Younger For You?This episode explains why the dating pool feels smaller than ever, what happens when you have to be better than someone's already good life, and how to handle an age gap in relationships. Plus, a related listener question about dating younger women.
2025-12-0912 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastBuried in the Pile: Why Dating Apps Make Everyone DisposableDating apps promised unlimited options. Instead, most of us got ghosting, burnout, and five half-assed chats at once. This week, we're getting deep into why good people can’t focus on one person, and how choice overload means you’re always one swipe away from being replaced. It's not something you're going to want to miss.
2025-12-0314 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastWhat The Hell is Derealization?Ever wonder why we only recognize the best moments after they’ve slipped by?
This episode dives into the ache of missing wonderful chapters, even as you’re living them. From leaving behind messy apartments and old relationships to the science of nostalgia, regret, and derealization.
It’s all about why we struggle to notice the good stuff when it’s right in front of us, and how to start being present before it’s too late.
2025-11-2611 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastThe Summer He Got HandsomeHow do you see yourself, and how do others see you? One summer, everything changed for me on the outside. On the inside? Not so much.
This episode explores why we never really feel like we fit, even when the world says we do. If you’ve ever felt like you’re faking it, this one’s for you.
2025-11-1913 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastA Hotel is Not a HomeI’ve been living in a hotel with my dog, Holly. Not on vacation, but stuck between homes, routines, and tourists in the elevator.
This week, I discuss holding it together when nothing feels familiar while pretending everything is fine on the air. I’m also realizing that "boring" might have been the best phase all along.
2025-11-1010 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastThe Best of GCTA quick detour before the next full episode drops. These are the moments listeners keep messaging me about. The parts where I apparently said something honest enough that it stuck.
If you’re new, this is a good place to start. If you’ve been here since the beginning, thanks for staying.
2025-11-0513 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastWe're Only HumansUsefulish is all about the weird threads between the past and the present. The outdated customs, bizarre social rules, and how none of us are as evolved as we think. This is another show I created and I think it fits right in with the current Girls Can Tell vibe.
Curiosity, psychology, and how humans are the way humans have always been.
2025-10-3111 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastCan You Find a Real Connection on a Dating App?My dating app screening process filters out 98% of matches before the first date, and has a 100% success rate with those who make it through. And, no, it's not for sale.
I'll take you from swipes to relationships, how I protect my time and why being picky at 50 is so important. 15 minutes on the reality of dating when you know what you want.
2025-10-2714 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastThe AI Takeover is Happening NowAI isn't "just a tool" anymore. And soon, you will be. We lay out the phases from helpful assistant to human obsolescence, why every job's vulnerable, why the experts are full of shit, and what you can do about it now.
This is a 20 minute wake-up call you can't afford to miss. Seriously, I don't know why you're even still reading this, go listen!
2025-10-2119 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastREISSUE: 608 YousThis is a replay of one of the most popular episodes from days gone by on girls can tell, because episode 27 is taking a considerable amount of time because there's a lot of research going into it. It's going to be an extra important, extra long, action-packed episode and everything you ever dreamed a podcast could be, and almost too much, quite frankly. You might never listen to another podcast again after hearing it, which is next Tuesday. This Tuesday, we're going to listen back to a classic, 608 Yous. I hope you're sitting down.
2025-10-1508 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastHow to Change a Mind?People claim to be open-minded, but try to change their opinion on something, and you'll see the walls come up. Whether it's about relationships or a bad habit, resistance to change is strong. In this episode, we talk about 10 harsh truths about why our brains resist change so fiercely.
Confirmation bias, identity threats, and the agony of admitting we're wrong, we'll explain why facts aren’t enough to change your mind.
Do you think you can change someone's mind? Do you think YOU can change your mind? Listen now, question everything, thank me later.
2025-10-0610 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastCan You Ever Really Trust Someone?In this episode, I get into the truth about broken trust, can you actually rebuild it, or is it gone forever? Whether it's relationships, family, or shady bosses, I break down what happens when trust is lost and why most people want the quick fix instead of doing the work.
Can trust can come back under the right conditions? Maybe, but almost nobody’s willing to do what it actually takes to get there.
Do you even want to rebuild it, or is walking away the smarter move? We'll try and straighten it all out fo...
2025-09-3011 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastDo The Thing That Changes EverythingA listener named Bethany reached out to us. She has been considering starting a podcast for months. She has the name, the microphone, and the concept, but she hasn’t recorded anything yet. She's afraid it won’t be good enough.
Does this sound familiar? This episode is for Bethany and everyone else stuck in the perfectionism, procrastination, paralysis loop.
If you have an idea you haven’t acted on, or a project that’s been on your mind, and all you can think is, what if I do it, and it sucks? You'll want to have...
2025-09-2210 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastYou Can't Be Anything You WantTurns out, those feel-good pieces of advice we've probably all given are nothing but lies.
In this episode, we'll tackle 10 classic pieces of bad advice and explain why they keep people broke, stuck, single or miserable.
You’ve heard them all, now hear why they're all wrong.
2025-09-1614 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastA Horse a PieceYou’ve heard these phrases your whole life.
But have you ever stopped to ask what the hell they actually mean?
In this episode, we look at the bizarre origins of saying like, kick the bucket, riding shotgun, bite the bullet, and, you can take that to the bank!
Because since we keep saying this shit as if it makes sense, maybe we should find out what they actually mean. I got you!
2025-09-0910 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastA Bike With no SeatGirls Can Tell returns for season 2 with a quick update on what’s been happening and what’s coming next.
Think of season two as sharper, meaner, and more uncomfortably honest episodes than ever before.
2025-09-0103 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastThis is the Last GoodbyeAfter 20 episodes, Girls Can Tell is officially ending. This is my goodbye to dating advice and hello to something bigger.
That something bigger is a new podcast called, Usefulish. It launches Tuesday, August 19th. Same host, different obsessions, because now we're breaking down ALL human behavior, not just dating.
Why did cowboys overdress? How does that explain your Zoom outfit anxiety? And a million other questions you've probably had at one point or another, but just kept to yourself. Well, we're asking them, and the answers are far more interesting than you ever imagined.
2025-08-1004 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastSecure AttachmentYou’re not ghosting, chasing, or spiraling because someone didn’t text back in three hours. So, what the hell is wrong with you? Well, you just might be securely attached!
In the final part of our attachment style series, we’re describing what secure attachment actually looks like, how it’s built, and why it makes dating easier and a little less thrilling when you’re used to things being crazy. If you wonder whether you’re healthy or detached, we'll help you differentiate between the two.
2025-08-0504 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastAnxious AttachmentTrick question, I made it up. However, it sounds like a nicer way of saying 'anxiously attached.'
In part two of our series, we delve into the chasers, the nervous ones, and explain where this wiring originates. Explore how and why it disrupts relationships and discover ways to break the cycle. Whether you're the anxious one or your partner is, we all know someone anxious, and this episode will give you some things you can use today to improve your relationship.
2025-07-2907 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastAvoidant AttachmentYou say you need space. They say they're just "really busy." But what if what you're calling independence is actually avoidant attachment? In this episode, Trent kicks off a multi-part series breaking down the psychology behind how we disconnect in relationships. Backed by psychological research, this first episode gets deep into the dismissive avoidant style. He explains where it comes from, how it plays out in modern dating, and why so many of you keep choosing these emotionally unavailable people. Or, you might discover that maybe you are the emotionally unavailable one!
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2025-07-2110 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastShe's Dating While Her Husband's Dying at HomeThis one’s real. Real bios. Real photos. Real lies.
I went through my actual dating feed live and called out every ridiculous, half-assed, or straight-up manipulative profile I came across. But it doesn’t stop there. Because one profile wasn’t just bad, it was sick!
She’s a flight attendant, used her uniform in photos, and claimed to be single. What she didn’t mention? She’s married and her husband has a terrible illness. And she’s still out there swiping, flirting, and pretending none of it exists.
If you’re wondering wha...
2025-07-1410 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastThe Great Idiot ParadeChicago’s Independence Day is cursed with lunatics lighting mortars and littering sidewalks with sparkler wrappers. These idiots make noise, leave messes, and don’t care who suffers. I’m trapped calming my dog while shit piles up. This episode, I’m calling out the entitled idiots who turn my city into a dump and my weekend into a war zone.
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2025-07-0710 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastAttention Hogs, Noise Freaks, and Dog Owner DicksThis week Trent rips into social media clowns doing stupid shit for clout, loud dickheads who slam everything like they’re in a contest, and dog owners who treat their pets like trash. Skateboard face plants and dogs chained like old bikes, he’s over the bullshit.
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2025-07-0108 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastShaved ApesI’m pissed. Grown men leering at women like they’re zoo animals while yelling from cars, staring like dipshits. It’s pathetic and needs to stop.
Then there’s rich guys dressing like they’re in middle school with shitty cargo shorts and t-shirts with holes in them. It's just effin lazy!
Ten minutes of me tearing into this bs because I'm plumb out of patience for morons. That’s it.
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2025-06-2308 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastYou Aren't FunnyYou aren't funny or special, and here's why. This is a stripped-down episode about existential exhaustion, losing momentum, and the hollow repetition of trying to stay afloat when you're not sure if anything matters anymore.
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2025-06-1707 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastI Fell In Love with CancerThis episode is about how something awful can sharpen your senses and make you appreciate things you've been missing.
An honest, introspective, raw, and sharp take on finding out you have cancer.
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New episodes are released every Tuesday on the website or wherever you listen to podcasts. Check out daily videos and follow us on Facebook, Instagram, X, YouTube, and TikTok @girlscantellpodcast
2025-06-1006 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastUncommon SenseThis is a talk about the slow, humiliating death of common sense. If you’ve ever wondered, "How are people like this?" then this one’s for you.
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2025-06-0308 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastThe Erosion of DecencyIt’s not generational or cultural. It’s basic manners, emotional awareness, and the erosion of decency and how nobody seems to have it anymore. Let's talk about it this week!
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2025-05-2711 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastGrow Up, She's Faking ItThe era of personality performance, Instagram therapists, soft launches, fake grief, and pretending to be deep instead of being real. This episode digs into it without apologizing.
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2025-05-2007 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastFainting Your Way to Better DatesWhy I’m choosing to faint more in public, and why it totally works for any occasion.
Also, oat milk meltdowns, machetes in a Wendy’s parking lot, police dealing with chaos, unintentional midlife cosplay, and the street smarts bad guys don't want you to know about. Get ready to feel old, unsafe, and kindly attacked.
So, like every other week.
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2025-05-1310 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastDo You Think I'm Pretty?This episode we find out why you aren't funny, discuss the NERVE of some people liking you and ruining your day, and explain proper driving etiquette.
Also, we get into a listener email highlighting the importance of locking your glove box.
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2025-05-0608 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastAccidental BBCHave you ever received a text message meant for someone else that revealed something they would never want you to know? It probably wasn't as revealing as the one I received! I have a personal story about a text I got from my girlfriend that was meant for someone else. It revealed more in one sentence than she could have written in a novel, along with the gross lies she used to cover it up.
But that's what liars do.
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2025-04-2907 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastHow to Get Love BombedAre they one person today and another the next? What the hell just happened?! Do they tell you it's all in your head?
Why that's complete bullshit, why you're not imagining things and what you can do about it today!
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2025-04-2909 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastYou're Dating Your SonFind out why your profile photo might be working against you and keeping you single.
Also, women, are you too close to your adult son? Should you include in your bio that "the man in the photo is my son" because he might otherwise be easily mistaken for your date? If so, he'll be the last boyfriend you'll ever have.
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2025-04-2911 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastYou're Not Right in The HeadYour dating profile speaks volumes about you, and yours has been talking shit behind your back. Find out what it's saying and how you can change the narrative, or don't, and be alone for the rest of your life.
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2025-04-2907 min
Girls Can Tell Podcast608 YousHave you ever wondered what it's really like using dating apps for women? I went undercover to find out and now I'm back to tell you about all the shocking and unexpected things I discovered in this episode.
Guys, you might want to sit down for this one. Girls, well, haven't you done enough already?
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2025-04-2908 min
Girls Can Tell PodcastDo NOT Listen to This PodcastLet's face it, dating after 50 had this coming!
A show about modern dating and life in your 50s with hilarious observations, education, self-help and entertainment.
Hosted by radio veteran Trent Erikson, this show delivers some much needed brutal honesty about modern dating, life, and the stuff no one talks about.
Look, dating in your 50s sucks, your podcast host shouldn’t.
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2025-04-1202 min
Literary AnythingEpisode 75 - End of Year Wrap Up 2024Hey everyone!! It's here – our #LiteraryAnything End of Year Wrap Up episode! Paula's favourite of the year (Salma doesn't have a favourite, she loves all her children). In this episode they discuss their favourite books from the year, our most borrowed fiction and non-fiction books and what they're looking forward to reading in 2025.
Also we have a special treat coming in January, listen to find out all about it!
Books they mention:
The Reading List – Sara Nisha Adams
Rabbit Hole – Kate Brody
Rebel Rising – Rebel Wilson
You Are Here – David Nicholls
I'm Not Really Here – Gary Lonesborough
Lola in the Mirror – Tre...
2024-12-0334 min
Top Four Takeover PodcastLIVERPOOL IN THE MUD! CHELSEA RELEGATION??0:00 - 4:35 - Liverpool lose again! Arsenal vs Oxford preview! Is arsenal chasing the league or the top 4??4:36 - 14:34 - Arsenal vs Tottenham preview! Transfer rumours! Felix to Chelsea! Mudryk to Arsenal! Trossard!14:35 - 20:00 - Arsenal vs Newcastle review! Football from 90 minutes to 60 minutes? Gabriel better than Saliba??21:15 - 26:51 - Is Chelsea getting relegated?? Who's making top 4??26:52 - 32:55 - Rashords form lucky?? What can Manchester United do this season?? Casimero proved everyone wrong?? Flopped most expensive premier league transfers! Pepe the best???32:56 - 49:05 - Player comparisons are back! Premier League 2023...
2023-01-1450 min
Talks with TrentWeek 21 (Unit 6: Developmental — Childhood)This episode goes through physical development in terms of prenatal develop & infancy, social development theories of Erikson, Ainsworth, Baumrind, Harlow, and Lorenz, and last cognitive development through schema assimilation, schema accommodation, Piaget’s Stages, and finally Vygotsky’s theories including the Zone of Proximal Development
2021-02-0846 min