Meet the Minds Behind
Smart Love Secrets
actually makes sense.
These are real specialists in emotional psychology, communication strategy, breakup recovery, and dating culture.
Maya Ellison
Helps women break toxic dating cycles and rebuild confidence in love
Maya Ellison has spent the last decade helping women unlearn the emotional habits that keep them stuck in toxic dating loops. She blends mindset coaching with attachment theory to help her clients rebuild their confidence from the ground up.
After working with over 500 women in one-on-one coaching and group intensives, Maya knows how to cut through emotional confusion and offer clarity fast. Her advice focuses on helping women stop chasing emotional breadcrumbs and start attracting healthy, mutual love.
She’s calm, insightful, and has a gift for showing you the blind spots you didn’t even know were running the show.
“You’re not broken. You’ve just been taught the wrong kind of love. Let’s change that.”
David Niles
Guides clients through emotional communication and spotting red flags early
David Niles spent over 14 years watching relationships break down inside courtrooms. That front-row seat to emotional chaos made one thing clear, most breakups don’t come from big blowups, but from years of missed signs and misunderstood emotions.
After leaving law, David retrained in human behavior and emotional communication. Now, he helps men and women identify the subtle patterns that create emotional distance, resentment, and conflict. His coaching style is clear, calm, and brutally practical.
Whether you’re walking away from a confusing relationship or trying to rebuild something shaky, David’s approach brings clarity to what’s often emotionally messy. He’s especially skilled at helping clients recognize red flags early, and trust themselves when something feels off.
Jasmin Rhodes
Jasmin started her career covering the dating scene for media outlets in New York and LA. Her writing quickly caught attention not because it was trendy but because it made people feel seen. From awkward ghosting to the stress of “what are we?” she dives into the messy middle of modern relationships with clarity and compassion.
Now a full time dating culture writer and emotional insight coach, Jasmin helps people decode their own dating behavior. Her work focuses on anxiety in early stage dating, text miscommunication, and why emotionally intelligent people still end up in confusing situations.
She has written for top publications, been quoted in Cosmo and Elle, and runs a TikTok where she unpacks real life breakup messages. If you have ever second guessed a message you sent or stayed up thinking about one you didn’t, Jasmin is your go to voice of reason.
Chris Mateo, PhD
Chris Mateo is a behavioral scientist who has spent over two decades studying the psychology of romantic attachment. His research explores the subtle emotional habits that shape how we choose partners, handle conflict, and respond to rejection.
Chris does not just stay in the lab. His goal is to take complex psychological patterns and explain them in a way that helps people actually change. Whether it is the reason you keep texting someone who is pulling away or why certain compliments make you anxious, Chris breaks it all down with clarity and science.
He has contributed to academic journals, appeared on podcasts about emotional behavior, and now focuses on helping people spot their blind spots before they lead to emotional burnout.
If you want a calm, data backed voice to guide you through love’s invisible traps, Chris is the expert you want to learn from.
Natalie Ford
Natalie Ford doesn’t have a stack of certifications on her wall. What she does have is something far more powerful. She has lived through the mess herself. Ghosting, betrayal, long distance disappointment, breadcrumbing, she’s been through it all. And instead of letting it break her, she used every setback as fuel to build something stronger.
After walking away from a toxic relationship that drained her for years, Natalie began speaking out in online forums. Her raw, relatable posts attracted thousands of women who saw themselves in her story. That’s when she decided to take things further.
Today, as a breakup recovery coach, Natalie helps women take back their confidence and stop chasing situations that go nowhere. Her advice is direct, grounded, and deeply personal. No fluff. No sugarcoating. Just honest support from someone who knows what it’s like to feel stuck.
If you’re ready to let go of what’s holding you back, Natalie is here to give you the truth, the clarity, and a real path forward.
Marcus Wynn
Marcus Wynn built his coaching style around one hard truth. Most men don’t know why they keep messing things up, and most women don’t know how to spot the ones who never planned to show up emotionally.
After years of struggling in his own relationships and repeating the same toxic patterns, Marcus finally began studying emotional accountability. What started as personal healing became a mission. He now coaches men who are ready to break cycles of avoidance, anger, and guilt, and guides women on how to stop giving their energy to partners who only offer confusion.
Marcus doesn’t preach. He listens. He challenges. He helps people get honest about their blind spots and learn the difference between real connection and emotional performance.
If you’re a man tired of self-sabotage or a woman tired of being strung along, Marcus offers clarity with compassion, and insight without ego.
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