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Ready For Love with Hilary Silver

I created this podcast to help smart, successful women like you finally get everything you want in love—and in life—by turning your attention inward, where real transformation begins. Because the truth is: when you change, everything does. This isn’t another podcast about how to “fix yourself” to be chosen. It’s about becoming so whole, grounded, and self-led that you choose what—and who—gets to be in your life. As a former psychotherapist turned truth-teller and life disrupter, I’m not here to

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19:07

#102: There Is No Such Thing As A Situationship

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2026/02/06

Calling something a situationship does not make it casual, modern, or empowered. It usually means you are in a real relationship without clarity, commitment, or respect. Hilary strips away the cute label and names what is actually happening when feelings, time, and emotional energy are involved but no one is willing to define the terms. Ambiguity may sound flexible, but it comes with a very real cost.Living without clarity creates constant anxiety. You are left guessing where you stand, managing

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18:32

#101: One Simple Habit To Upgrade Your Life Instantly

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2026/01/30

What you tolerate becomes the standard that quietly decides your confidence, your relationships and the life you believe you deserve.So many women mistake tolerance for maturity. Staying flexible and patient or understanding can feel like growth when it is really training you to live with friction. Hilary Silver reframes tolerance as an identity signal. The broken routines, the low level irritation, the one sided dynamics you have learned to live with all reinforce an internal message about what

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24:49

#100: The Worst Relationship Advice Women Keep...

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2026/01/23

Modern dating advice that trains women to manage men instead of trust themselves and this explains why so many smart, emotionally aware women end up anxious, exhausted, and disconnected from their own intuition. When dating guidance asks you to stay chill, wait longer, or twist yourself into something more acceptable, the problem is not you. It is the system you were taught to follow.This conversation flips the framework back where it belongs. What if your discomfort is clarity? What if your

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21:37

#99: Master Detachment and Watch Everything Chase You

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2026/01/16

The moment you stop gripping so tightly to what you want may be the exact moment it finally becomes possible. Here is a hard truth: the tighter you squeeze, the faster things slip through your fingers. When wanting quietly turns into needing, everything starts to feel urgent and heavy. You overthink. You push. You try to control the timing, the outcome, and other people. And somehow the thing you want keeps dodging you.Hilary breaks down why detachment is actually your secret weapon. You still

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26:58

#98: 5 Principles That Help Me Stay Super Fit

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2026/01/09

Staying fit and confident as you age has NOTHING to do with discipline or rules and everything to do with how devoted you are to yourself.Most fitness advice for women over 40 is exhausting. Push harder. Try again. Do more. Hilary says what a lot of women are already feeling but rarely hear out loud. That approach is not making you stronger. It is just making you tired. And it is definitely not building confidence. In this episode, Hilary shares the five principles that help her stay super

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18:49

#97: Give Me 14 Minutes and I’ll Make You Dangerously...

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2026/01/02

Confidence is not built by proving yourself through achievement. Instead it happens by deciding you trust yourself no matter what happens. You can’t lose, no matter what.If you are successful on paper but feel unsure, self-doubting, or overly accommodating in dating and relationships, this episode will hit close to home. Hilary explains why confidence built through achievement works at work but falls apart in intimacy, and why so many smart women mistake competence for true confidence. The

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20:30

#96: The Real Reason You Can't Be Yourself In...

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2025/12/26

People pleasing in romantic relationships is often praised as being “easygoing” or emotionally smart, but it is actually self-betrayal that blocks real love, emotional safety, and genuine connection.In this episode, Hilary pulls the curtain back on approval seeking and emotional self abandonment. This is the habit of editing yourself, managing reactions, and shape shifting to avoid rejection. It can look polished on the outside, but it leaves you anxious, unseen, and quietly lonely. The attention

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20:20

#95: Stop Settling in Relationships And Get What You...

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2025/12/19

If your relationship looks good on paper but feels empty, this episode explains why settling in love keeps happening and how it quietly trains you to accept less in relationships.Hilary gets direct about why smart, capable women keep choosing the wrong men and staying in relationships that technically work but emotionally fall flat. This is not a dating pool problem. It is a self-worth and scarcity mindset issue that shows up when fear of being alone feels safer than asking for more. If you have

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40:44

#94: Dating After Loss: How Charlene Found Real Love...

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2025/12/12

Charlene thought she was ready to date after losing her husband and parents, but she struggled to find real love with the men she was dating. Each relationship reflected the same old wounds she carried into her marriage: overgiving, hoping for scraps of connection, and treating attention like approval. Nothing shifts until you’re willing to look at what keeps repeating and ask why it still has a hold on you. That question became her turning point.Inside the Ready for Love program, she rebuilt

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19:05

#93: Why You Keep Attracting Narcissists and How to...

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2025/12/05

Feel like a narcissist magnet? If you keep dating narcissists, attracting narcissists, or you keep repeating narcissistic relationship patterns, there’s a reason, and it has everything to do with something no one is telling you. The truth is, narcissistic relationships take hold when you sideline your own needs and shrink your self-worth.Hilary breaks down the traits that make women vulnerable to toxic relationships with narcissistic men: people-pleasing, conflict avoidance, craving attention,

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22:57

Stop Loving Someone Who Doesn’t Love You Back

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2025/11/28

Unrequited love can take down even the most capable, confident women, and Hilary is done watching smart, high-achieving women lose themselves over someone who can’t meet them where they are. This episode is a call back to your power, especially in those moments when your mind is spinning, your heart is hopeful, and the person you want isn’t choosing you back.Hilary dives into the shame, the second-guessing, and the quiet panic that shows up when you start making someone else’s behavior mean

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21:46

The Painful Truth About Why You’re Still Single

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2025/11/21

Still single and calling your love life “fine”? Please. Hilary isn’t buying it, and neither should you.In this episode, Hilary is getting real about the quiet ache that hides behind independence and success. She’s talking about the kind of loneliness that becomes familiar enough to live with, even when it quietly hurts. Maybe you’ve told yourself the timing isn’t right to start dating or to find romance, or that you’re focused on other things. But what if you’ve just gotten comfortable being

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35:40

How to Stop Sabotaging Your Love Life

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2025/11/14

Think you’re “too much,” “too independent,” or “too intimidating” for love? You’re not. You’re just done playing small!In this episode, Hilary Silver sits down with Ready for Love grad Kara Judd, a powerhouse executive who finally got honest about what was really holding her back in relationships. Kara opens up about how she stopped blaming her success, her height, and her “strong personality,” and started doing the deeper work, rewriting the stories that kept her settling for less. Now she’s

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14:37

#89: Why He Won’t Commit (And Why You’re Still Waiting)

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2025/11/07

When a man keeps you half chosen and half confused, the real problem isn’t his hesitation but the part of you willing to wait for it!Ever been strung along by a man who gives just enough to keep you hopeful but never enough to give you certainty? One day he’s all charm and chemistry, the next he’s conveniently unavailable? You start analyzing his behavior like a crime scene. Does he have trauma? Is it timing? Is it me? Hilary calls BS! In this episode, Hilary dismantles the obsession with

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22:50

#88: How Kimberly Found Love After 13 Years of...

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2025/10/31

When you’ve been single for 13 years, “I’m fine” starts sounding a lot like “I’ve given up.”Kimberly was successful on paper, but she was quietly miserable off it. Between perimenopause, work burnout, and pandemic isolation, she’d convinced herself she was too busy (and too jaded) for love. Then she found Ready for Love, and everything shifted. She thought she was signing up to find love. Happily, she found herself in the process. In this episode, Kimberly gets raw about forgiving herself

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17:51

Stop Mothering Your Man

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2025/10/24

If you’re a woman who can run circles around most humans — yet still finds herself scheduling her partner’s appointments, tracking his moods, or generally keeping his life stitched together — congratulations, you’re unofficially in man-keeping mode. Hilary is calling it out the silent epidemic of high-achieving women accidentally becoming their partner’s project manager instead of their partner. Spoiler: nothing kills attraction faster than turning romance into a daycare.But rather than blaming

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26:15

#86: From Walls Up to Wide Open: Meryl’s Reset on...

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2025/10/17

If you’ve ever rejected a man because his name annoyed you… this episode is for you.Hilary sits down with award-winning interior designer and unapologetic former love-skeptic Meryl Stern, who admits she once dismissed perfectly good men for crimes like “bad vibes” and “unfortunate first names.” (Her words.) But beneath all that discernment? A woman hiding behind a beautifully curated emotional wall. Inside Ready for Love, Meryl didn’t just “work on herself” — she resigned from decades-old

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#85: The Worst Dating Advice for Women...And Yes, I’m...

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2025/10/10

Ever seen those videos promising to “make him obsessed with you in 5 texts” or “7 tricks to make a man worship you like a queen”? Yeah… Hilary’s not having it.This week, she’s calling BS on the toxic, clickbait dating advice flooding YouTube. From “dark psychology” tactics to straight-up patriarchal conditioning, this advice is designed to manipulate women, keep them second-guessing themselves, and—let’s be honest—get them to buy something. Hilary breaks down four reasons why these tactics are

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#84: How Investing in Yourself Can Change Your Love Life

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2025/10/03

Lori Young, a Ready for Love alum, decided she was done settling for crumbs of affection, heartbreak, and controlling men. Instead of buying the couch she’d been saving for, Lori put that money into herself—and it changed everything.In this conversation with me, Lori shares how she broke old patterns, stopped confusing drama for chemistry, and learned to ask for what she actually wanted. Today she’s married to a secure, steady partner, thriving in her career, and bold enough to run for city

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14:34

#83: What Matters MORE than Who You Are Meeting

Ready For Love with Hilary Silver ·

2025/09/26

You can spend thousands on a matchmaker or swipe until your thumbs go numb, but if you keep running into the same disappointing patterns, the real question isn’t “where are all the good men?” The real question is how are you showing up when you meet them?In this episode, Hilary unpacks why so many smart, successful women struggle in love even when everything looks perfect on the outside. Ghosting, mismatches, and one-sided relationships aren’t the problem themselves—they’re signals of something

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