The Mating Grounds Podcast

If ever you want an example of someone who went from awful to fantastic with women, then Charlie Hoehn is your guy. He went from being an embarrassed, ashamed, ignorant teenager to a star, who surrounds himself with smart, beautiful women and lives an incredible life.     In this episode, Charlie reveals, very openly and honestly, how he did it and what mistakes he made along the way. He also tells some hilarious stories about his earlier failings with women and his journey to overcome those and become the man he is today.

Being nervous is not attractive. A lot of guys get nervous around attractive women, and there are actually evolutionary reasons for this.But if you want to get over it, then there are a couple of things you have to do.Firstly, you need to focus on the process, not the result. And secondly, you need to own your sexuality.  Tucker, Nils and Dr. Miller tell you exactly how to do that in this Q&A session.

How do you build confidence? The key is simple: demonstrated performance. In this short Q&A episode Tucker, Nils and Dr. Miller tell you exactly what that means, and how you can put it into practice for yourself and reframe your goals to build confidence even in situations where you would otherwise feel uneasy.

You asked for it, so here it is. By popular request, Tucker, Nils and Dr. Miller break down exactly why assholes do well with women in certain situations, and why some women, at specific points in their lives, are attracted to assholes. They also explain why being an asshole isn't an optimal mating strategy for the vast majority of guys.   Tucker also tells an incredible story about Britney Spears and Kevin Federline's relationship, including some shocking detail about her history that you haven't heard before anywhere else.

When you leave school, your mate value drops through the floor. You're suddenly competing with guys older, more experienced and more attractive than you are, and at the same time, all the girls your age are realizing how high their own mate value is. This is not a good situation to be in. But there are ways to level the playing field. Tucker and Dr. Miller talk you through the steps you need to take, including where to live (or travel), where you should meet women, and how to make your social life an extension of your mating life.

If you've ever wondered what women think and say about you when you aren’t around, this is your podcast. Today Tucker interviews Carl White, a Tony award-winning Broadway producer. Carl is the "gay best friend" to legions of attractive, single women, and he has spent his life listening to them talk about men, while treating him as "one of the girls." He pulls this curtain back and reveals dozens of actionable insights, including how to make women feel safe, how to get them to want to open up sexually to you, and where to go to meet great women. Carl will also tell you some of the most common mistakes you are making with women – and how to fix them.

College is when the world starts to open up for most men, and there's a lot you can do there to make yourself more attractive and increase your ability to have relationships with women. The main thing that you can change is your relative social status, and it's not hard to do. Tucker and Dr. Miller tell you exactly how to do that, along with explaining how to pick your classes to increase your mating opportunities, and how to find women that you'll have things in common with. The pair also share some of their funnier stories about their own mistakes with women from their college days.

Tucker interviews Dr. Christopher Ryan, the bestselling author of Sex at Dawn, the seminal text on the evolution of monogamy in human mating. Over the course of the hour, Tucker and Dr. Ryan touch on a number of fascinating subjects, but none more so than trust. Specifically, the idea that if a woman trusts you, she is more likely to feel comfortable exploring the limits of her sexuality with you. What does this mean in plain English? Provide a safe, comfortable space where she can trust you, and she'll let her freak flag fly.    

High school sucks for everyone. That's just the way it is. It wasn't great for Tucker and Geoff either. But there are things you can do to make high school better. Tucker and Geoff tell you what you need to do to get the most out of those four years, including what type of jobs you should get and how to meet girls from outside of your high school. They also share their fantastic stories about how they "discovered" masturbation.

In response to continual listener curiosity, Tucker and Dr. Miller discuss their opinions of the PUA/seduction community. Not just what it gets right and wrong, but how its systematic assumptions about women, men and relationships prevent its 'gurus' from providing effective long-term guidance to young and struggling guys. Tucker and Dr. Miller also talk about howThe Mating Grounds takes a very different approach to women and dating that solves these issues and engages many others the PUA community doesn't realize even exist.

If you want actionable insights from a brilliant, accomplished, beautiful woman, this will be your favorite Mating Grounds interview so far. Isabel Behncke is a Primatologist at Oxford University. She begins by explaining her research with bonobos and lays out exactly what this means for guys: basically, she says to "feed the woman." Trust me, it'll make perfect sense the way she explains it. Isabel also tells you how to be vulnerable (which is very attractive) without coming off as needy (which girls don't like), what to do when you're taking a girl to dinner, and exactly how to correct the most common mistakes she sees guys making all the time.   **Make sure to leave an honest review when you're done listening, we listen to yourfeedback.**

Most guys come off as awkward and creepy to girls, and they don't even realize they are doing it, or how to stop. This episode describes what initial social interactions are like from a woman's perspective, specifically details how guys go wrong in these interactions, describes the quick and easy things guys can do to solve this problem, and ultimately be more confident and effective in approaching women. Tucker also outlines the fundamental shift in mindset that led to a dramatic increase in his success with women (as well as making his life much more fun at the same time).

In this episode Tucker interviews John Durant, author of The Paleo Manifesto. John openly and honestly talks about his failings with women, and goes through the steps he took to become more confident and charismatic (with the help of paleo principles). John and Tucker also talk about the big problems that hold a lot of guys back, and how to fix them, as well as how to meet women in a big city like New York.

In this episode Tucker and Dr. Miller go through the different ways that women evaluate men: size, body shape, clothing, jewelry, smell and initial contact, and help guys understand what they are doing wrong, and how to fix it.

Tucker and Dr. Miller examine what dating is really like for women, by discussing a thought-provoking hypothetical for guys, Tucker's experience in a gay bar, the varying consequences to sex for men and women, how men and women react differently in certain mating scenarios, and what it's like to be an attractive woman who gets hit on constantly.

Tucker and Dr. Miller talk about the evolutionary psychology behind what women find attractive, i.e., why women pick the traits they pick. Dr. Miller explains what sexual selection is and how it impacts female mating choices, the dating issues of a 17-year old hunter gatherer, and intra-gender competition.

In their first full-length episode, Tucker and Dr. Miller discuss the traits that women find attractive in men, the preferences that vary between women (and why), and the reasons that both men and women often don't give good advice to other men.

In the introductory podcast with both Tucker Max and Dr. Geoffrey Miller, they talk about their goals with the Mating Grounds Podcast, and the upcoming book, Mate. Tucker and Dr. Miller also discuss what they plan to teach guys, and how the Mating Grounds is different than the advice that guys get from other sources.

Dr. Carin Bondar is a biologist with a PhD from the University of British Columbia. She's also the presenter of Brave New World With Stephen Hawking on Discovery World, Outrageous Acts of Science on Science Channel and Daily Planet on Discovery Canada.   In this episode Dr. Bondar and Tucker discuss the relationship between animal mating behavior and human mating behavior, why being honest and up-front works with women and the difference between confidence and arrogance.

Dr. Catherine Salmon is a Professor of Psychology at University of Redlands. In this episode Tucker and Dr. Salmon discuss the differences between male and female pornography, how romance novels represent and portray female sexual preferences, how men and women express their sexuality, the line between treating a girl like a princess and being a doormat, and how guys can develop social currency and status.   Dr. Salmon's research focuses on evolutionary psychology, particularly how it relates to female sexuality, pornography, and birth order of children.