Today's guest, Jessica, shares insight on what it truly looks like to heal, rediscover yourself, and step into a new chapter after divorce. She discusses dating with the right mindset, how to avoid repeating past dating mistakes, the best date for getting to know someone, and the steps that someone who hasn't dated for 5, 10, or even 20 years can take to make dating smooth and successful.
Jessica Yaffa is a speaker, trainer, coach, and internationally recognized leader in healthy relationships.
After years in rehabilitation, intervention, and community advocacy, she founded breakthrough programs that reshape how we address relationship challenges.
Jessica's training, certification programs, and workshops have reached thousands — and her coaching helps individuals and couples step into vulnerability, authentic connection, and lasting relationship health.
She also supports corporate teams in improving communication, emotional intelligence, and workplace culture.
Her mission is simple yet profound: to redefine what healthy relationships look like and help people reclaim their worth.
With two decades of experience, not only is she a two-time author, Jessica, is an internationally-recognized healthy relationships expert, speaker, trainer, and coach.
She holds several positions of leadership within the mental health community: Co-founder and President of the nationally-recognized non-profit, No Silence, No Violence, former President of The San Diego Domestic Violence Council, and CEO of Jessica Yaffa Coaching Institute.
Jessica has been featured on several high-profile talk shows, as well as in numerous publications in print and on the Web.
The most pivotal moment of her career thus far was the epiphany that her vast knowledge of dysfunctional relationships offered her unique insight and an intimate understanding of the dynamics of healthy relationships.
She realized that, through reverse logic, the exact systems that break down a relationship can actually build it up.
Understanding that unhealthy relationships and healthy relationships are two sides of the same coin, Jessica became a certified relationship coach, offering private coaching for individuals and couples to help them realize and affirm their true value, find freedom in vulnerability, and step into their authentic selves.
She has since created her own accredited coaching program where she trains other professionals to be able to do the same.
Jessica's expertise expanded to include relationships in the workplace, and she has helped numerous corporations and organizations embrace cultural diversity, address communication issues, and increase emotional intelligence at all levels of the organizational hierarchy.
Her work spans universities, government agencies, mental health systems, first responders, corporate teams, and communities nationwide.
It is here, at the helm of a movement to eliminate relationship abuse and strengthen the bonds that tie us together, that Jessica has triumphed over tragedy.