Have you fallen in love with Instagram Reels, or does it feel like a forced blind date? (this time courtesy of Instagram) Whether you love it or hate it, Reels is here to stay. But there is a way to use Reels to work for your schedule, your business, and more importantly, your personality. Lily Womble, Dating Coach and Owner of Date Brazen, has the goods on how you can turn your Instagram Reels experience into a productive and motivating relationship that can help increase your following and increase your ability to serve your target audience. Listen in on this great conversation as Lily shares her journey from babysitter, to New York Theater Performer, to Top National Matchmaker, to a now successful dating coach featured in the likes of InStyle, ABC News, and Oprah Daily. Lily breaks it down as she helps you develop a healthier relationship with Instagram Reels, your potential partners, and yourself. In this episode of the podcast, we talk about: How a side gig she didn't know existed changed her life The 6 Microcosms of Dating How long it took for Lily to show up as her authentic self on Social Media How a business coach shifted her mindset as an entrepreneur The Brazen Breakthrough Transformation program The Value of belonging to a community Her reluctance to use Instagram Reels until I told her THIS How made-up stories in our minds can be the greatest hindrance to our progress How a Reel that received 27,000 views in 3 days only took 5-minutes to make and post Where Lily gets inspiration for her Reels Permission to not be perfect on Reels Lily's batching process for recording Reels The emotional labor of social media Why she doesn't use the word "BUT" in her social media copy, and what she replaced it with …and more! This Episode Was Made Possible By: Social Media Rockstar Framework Free Course The Social Media Rockstar Framework is your chance to pull back the curtain and get insights on how to build a social media strategy that works for you, learn how to create (and implement) a simple and effective content plan, convert followers into buyers, and much more. Register for this FREE course and gain the confidence you need to use social media as a tool to grow your business: https://onlinedrea.com/free Sendible Social Media Management Tool The all-in-one social media management tool that my agency uses every day to schedule posts and analyze our social media results. Try them out for yourself today: https://onlinedrea.com/sendible About the Guest Lily was a top matchmaker at the largest firm in the U.S. After matching hundreds, she realized that with coaching, women could become their OWN expert matchmaker to find better dates for themselves than anyone else ever could. Now as the founder of Date Brazen, she's helped hundreds of women around the world build badass dating lives that lead to extraordinary relationships through unconventional coaching and transformative community. Website: https://www.datebrazen.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/datebrazen/ Go to the show notes for all the resources mentioned in this episode: https://onlinedrea.com/214