You don’t have to be perfect to be loved. You just have to be real.

What We Believe

• Dating apps reward quick judgements. Real partnership requires genuine understanding.

• I match based on who people actually are, not who they think they should be.

• Your path doesn’t have to be conventional to be worthy of real connection.

Why Wayward Hearts:

Because everyone deserves to be genuinely understood.

Dating apps reward quick judgments. Traditional matchmakers focus on demographics. But real compatibility comes from deeper understanding - values, emotional maturity, how you show up in relationships.

That's what we do here. Thoughtful, intentional matching for people who want real partnership, not just any relationship.

What We’re Really Doing

Matchmaking should be about understanding, not algorithms. It's slower than swiping. It requires patience. But when it works, it works because two people were genuinely seen and thoughtfully matched. That's what I do here.

I make wayward hearts feel seen

I didn't come to matchmaking from a weekend certification course. I came to it after more than 40 years of building relationships as the core of my professional life.

My career has taken me across sectors and continents. I've worked at the policy level, helping governments, nonprofits, and communities create better futures through evidence-based design, social advocacy, and inclusive systems. I've led disability and gender equity initiatives, designed health programs for vulnerable populations, and spent 15 months living and working in Botswana doing international development work. In every role, the real work was the same: understanding people, earning trust, and creating the conditions for genuine connection.

Facilitation has been central to everything I do. For decades I specialized in guiding groups through complex, often charged conversations, staying open and neutral while holding space for different perspectives, moving people from conflict to collaboration and from misunderstanding to mutual recognition. Those skills don't stay in the boardroom. They are exactly what good matchmaking requires.

In policy work I learned to think about human systems at scale: what drives behaviour, how communities function, how people make decisions about their lives and relationships. In international development I learned how people connect across vastly different backgrounds, values, and worldviews. In facilitation I learned what creates trust and what destroys it.

For more than four decades, my job was to understand people. What motivates them. What they need. How they connect. What makes relationships work or fail. That's not something you learn in a course. That's lived expertise.

I invest 90 minutes on every new paying member: reviewing their profile carefully, preparing for our conversation, conducting a 40-minute video chat, then updating their profile with everything I've learned. I'm not collecting data points. I'm understanding who someone actually is so I can find them a genuine match.

I began building Wayward Hearts in early 2025 and launched in July of that year, because I saw too many Islanders struggling to find real connection through dating apps and traditional approaches. They deserved something better. Something human. Something that actually honoured who they are.

At its heart, my work hasn't changed. I still help people feel seen and valued. This is just on a more personal level.