278. Love Is Blind Denver Breakdown: Dating Smarter in the Swipe Era
Release Date: 11/04/2025
280. From CrossFit to the ER: My Rhabdo Story and the Power of Awareness
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279. Understanding Rhabdo: What Every Athlete Should Know with Steve Nagib
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278. Love Is Blind Denver Breakdown: Dating Smarter in the Swipe Era
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“It’s not enough to think confident — you have to show it. The inner work matters, but so does the outer energy you project into the world.” — Kimmy Seltzer In this episode, Kristen M. Olson sits down with Kimmy Seltzer — a therapist-turned-dating-strategist and host of The Charisma Quotient podcast — to dissect modern love in the age of apps, filters, and fast connections. They explore: Kimmy’s journey from therapist to style-confidence coach and media personality. Her signature outside-in method for building confidence and attraction. The connection between ...
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277. Creating Community Through Storytelling: Anthony Elio on Denverse: Locals Aloud Podcast, Mental Health, and Mission-Driven Media
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“Even when you’re in that room—the one that feels impossible to leave—you can’t give up. There’s something waiting for you on the other side.” — Anthony Elio In this powerful Turmeric & Tequila™ episode, KO sits down with Anthony Elio, the creative mind behind Denverse (Magazine): Locals Aloud Podcast and its fast-growing podcast. Together, they dive into authentic storytelling, community building, and mental health in the creative industry. Anthony opens up about his own journey through depression and rediscovery, how writing and podcasting became...
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276. Theon Walls: How Faith, Grit & a Phone Call Changed Everything
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“When the phone rings — you’ve got to pick it up. No matter how small it seems, that call might change your life.” — Theon Walls In this powerful episode of Turmeric & Tequila™, host Kristen M. Olson sits down with actor, musician, and creative powerhouse Theon Walls — best known for his breakout role as Dibo in Netflix’s Beauty in Black. Theon shares his remarkable journey from audio engineer to screen actor, opening up about the mental health challenges, faith, and divine timing that led him to his true calling. From a mysterious phone call that changed...
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275. QUICK Guided Mindset Reset: Resilience, Strength & Faith
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274. Trauma to Triumph: Sobriety & Spiritual Growth with Wendy B. Correa
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"Healing is possible. Our stories, even the darkest ones, can become the light that guides someone else forward." – Wendy B. Correa In this episode of Turmeric & Tequila™, host Kristen Olson sits down with Wendy B. Correa—author, yogi, hiker, and healer—to explore her extraordinary life journey. From losing her father at age seven to growing up in a violent household, Wendy shares how trauma shaped her early years and how she found resilience through spirituality, psychology, and community. Her path took her from California colleges to the LA music industry, where sobriety...
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273. Dogs Save Lives: How Our Four-Legged Friends Boost Health, Happiness & Healing
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271. Breathwork & Emotional Healing w/ MJ Renshaw (How to Cry)
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info_outline“It’s not enough to think confident — you have to show it. The inner work matters, but so does the outer energy you project into the world.”
— Kimmy Seltzer
In this episode, Kristen M. Olson sits down with Kimmy Seltzer — a therapist-turned-dating-strategist and host of The Charisma Quotient podcast — to dissect modern love in the age of apps, filters, and fast connections.
They explore:
- Kimmy’s journey from therapist to style-confidence coach and media personality.
- Her signature outside-in method for building confidence and attraction.
- The connection between appearance, energy, and emotional readiness.
- What reality dating shows like Love Is Blind Denver and The Golden Bachelor reveal about our obsession with instant chemistry.
- Why rushing the dating process sabotages long-term connection — and how to start “data-dating” instead of “blind-dating.”
- How to reframe being single as a period of self-alignment, not self-fixing.
Key Takeaway: Confidence is a skill built both internally and externally — when you align your energy, mindset, and presentation, you attract from authenticity, not fear.
Time Stamps:
0:00 – 2:00 | Intro & Welcome
2:00 – 7:00 | Kimmy’s background and evolution from therapist to confidence coach
7:00 – 12:00 | The “Outside-In” philosophy: how style transforms mindset
12:00 – 18:00 | Fear, visibility, and dating after reinvention
18:00 – 24:00 | “Love Is Blind Denver” and reality TV’s dating illusions
24:00 – 30:00 | The data-dating method: collecting connection clues
30:00 – 35:00 | Confidence, vulnerability, and emotional readiness
35:00 – 40:00 | The future of dating and authentic attraction
Kimmy Seltzer:
Kimmy is a Confidence Therapist, Authentic Dating Strategist and Image Expert. With vast knowledge and experience as a therapist, certified style coach, dating coach, and matchmaker, she has helped people find lasting love and connection, attract success and build valuable relationships using her unique “confidence makeover” process. Using an outside-in approach, Kimmy implements targeted style, emotional and social intelligence in people’s lives using her signature formula, “The Charisma Quotient,” working on body language, first impressions, image/wardrobe and flirting and how it impacts attraction. This Los Angeles-based expert travels the country helping people discover confidence, charisma and connection as a speaker at TEDx, National Matchmaking Conferences, eHarmony, Neutrogena, The Guild at Universal and UCLA and media appearances in Tamron Hall Show, ABC News, Fox News, NBC News and Inside Edition. Kimmy is also a regular contributor to the Huffington Post with appearances in Cosmopolitan, Oprah Magazine, Redbook, Reader’s Digest, AskMen, Fox News Magazine, Yahoo and the Washington Examiner, among a myriad of other publications. Kimmy has been the leading love expert on the traveling live dating show The Great Love Debate, the cable reality series, The Romance. You can also listen to her on her podcast, The Charisma Quotient and regular dating segments on 9NBC News, Colorado & Company and ABC10
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