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

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. I've led disability and gender equity initiatives, designed health programs for vulnerable populations, and spent over a year living and working in Botswana doing international development work. I earned a Master's degree in International Relations in Paris. 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 guided groups through complex, often charged conversations -- staying open and neutral, 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.

What I learned across four decades is this: what drives people, how they connect, what makes relationships work or fail. That's not something you learn in a course. That's lived expertise.

I'm not collecting data points. I'm understanding who someone actually is so I can find them a genuine match. 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.

But here is why I actually do this work.

I have been lucky enough to experience unconditional love in my life. I know how rare it is. I know what it feels like to be seen completely -- not the version of yourself you've been conditioned to present, but the real one. And I know what it costs people when they spend years settling for less than that, or when they stop believing it exists for them.

It does exist. And more people on this Island deserve to find it.

I began building Wayward Hearts in early 2025 and launched in July of that year. Not because I needed a new career. Because I saw too many people struggling to find real connection through apps and algorithms, and I knew I could do something better. Something human. Something that actually honours who they are.

That is still the work. Helping people feel seen and valued. Just on a more personal level than before.

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.

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