Kate Ward

Falling in love is funny, weird, awkward, happy, or sad. It’s a vibe where IYKYK...or do you? But more than anything it’s PERSONAL and ALL AROUND US. Inspired by true events and performed with love by professional actors, Meet Cute presents: When I Met You. Debuting on February 14, the inaugural season of “When I Met You” brings ten unique love stories that drop you right into the moment where people fell in love with each other, themselves, or their passion. Listen along as Meet Cute delivers a new type of love story each week beginning February 14th.

Ever wish that rom-coms could be reclaimed as pleasures? And not the guilty kind? Well pals, you’re in luck. Tune in to Meet Cute’s new talk show podcast, The Rom-Com Room, where rom-com connoisseurs Kendra Okereke and Mercedes Gonzales Bazan unite each Friday to nerd out about their favorites, their love-to-hates, and every crush and rom-com in between. So follow The Rom-Com Room on the Meet Cute channel, wherever you get your podcasts, to come hang on January 28th, and every Friday after!

This week on “What She’s Having,” celebrity dating coach and OK Cupid dating expert, Damona Hoffman, dives deep with Ashley to discuss all things love, including: running into the paparazzi with Real Housewives of Beverly Hill’s Garcelle Beauvais, Drew Barrymore’s dating priorities, and how to establish your dating “brand”. But that’s not all…stick around for bonus content from Sydney Morton & Ayodele Casel, from Idina Menzel’s A BroaderWay Foundation, as they chat about playing Meghan Markle in Lifetime’s upcoming "Harry and Meghan: Escape from the Palace," ABW’s recent collaboration with Meet Cute, and more. You can listen to the A BroaderWay collaboration with Meet Cute on Apple Podcasts and Spotify series!

This week on "What She's Having," actor, producer and former The Real World: DC fan fave, Mike Manning, joins Ashley to discuss bisexual representation in Romantic Comedies, his rom-com crushes, how he fell in love on national television, and his meet cute with his husband – a marriage he went public with in his Emmy acceptance speech, this past July.If you'd like to submit  questions for our guests, DM us @MeetCute on Instagram and @ListenMeetCute on Twitter! You can listen to this week's new Meet Cute episode starring Julianne Hough, "Taking Space," on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.

This week on “What She’s Having,” Ashley is joined by Bustle’s Entertainment Editor at Large, Samantha Leach, and Meet Cute’s Creative Producer, Lucie Ledbetter, to discuss our favorite BFF-centric rom-coms: SOMEONE GREAT, BOOKSMART and MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING. Is Jennifer Kaytin Robinson the next Judd Apatow? What’s the greatest makeover montage of all time? They chat about all of this and more in Say Anything: An Ode to BFF’s.If you'd like to submit  questions for our guests, DM us @MeetCute on Instagram and @ListenMeetCute on Twitter! You can listen to Meet Cute's newest series, Camp Firefly on Apple Podcasts and Spotify series!

This week on “What She’s Having,” Katy McCaffrey, the co-head of Literary at the Gersh Agency, joins Ashley to discuss how Hollywood is searching for the formula to rom-com TV, why Thelma & Louise DID NOT have a happy ending, her love of The Princess Bride, and how her foundation, We For She is trying to change who is telling our favorite stories.If you'd like to submit  questions for our guests, DM us @MeetCute on Instagram and @ListenMeetCute on Twitter! You can listen to Meet Cute's newest series, Cruise Ship on Apple Podcasts and Spotify series!

This week on “What She’s Having,” CEO of The Dipp and pop culture queen Kate Ward  joins Ashley to discuss the evolution of rom-coms, from MGM to Apatow, how we needed that female host energy on The Bachelorette, the necessity of character driven buddy comedies like Barb and Star after 2020, and why Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is her dream leading man.If you'd like to submit  questions for our guests, DM us @MeetCute on Instagram and @ListenMeetCute on Twitter! You can listen to Meet Cute's newest series, Cruise Ship on Apple Podcasts and Spotify series!

This week on "What She's Having", the New York Times #1 Bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars and The Lying Game, Sara Shepard joins Ashley to discuss how her big break came by crashing a Christmas Party, her experience ghost writing a YA novel for a well known Hollywood A-lister, all things PLL—including her first impression of Shay Mitchell and the inside scoop on her brand new 9 episode series with Meet Cute, "Cruise Ship" debuting July 6.If you'd like to submit  questions for our guests, DM us @MeetCute on Instagram and @ListenMeetCute on Twitter! You can listen to Meet Cute's newest series, "Cruise Ship" on Apple Podcasts and Spotify series!

This week on What She’s Having, Hollywood legend Marlo Thomas joins Ashley to discuss the groundbreaking feminist themes her hit television series “That Girl” explored in the ’70s, how her now husband Phil Donahue first saw her as an “impure thought”, the lesson on love she’ll never forget from Richard Burton and the origin story of why her father Danny Thomas started St. Jude Children’s Hospital.If you'd like to submit  questions for our guests, DM us @MeetCute on Instagram and @ListenMeetCute on Twitter! You can listen to Meet Cute's newest series, "Ain't Love Super" on Apple Podcasts and Spotify series!    

This week on "What She's Having" cult-classic queen, Jenna Leigh Green shares how the inspiration for her iconic mean girl, Libby Chessler, was introduced by Blake Lively's dad, how she lived down the street from Melissa Joan Hart during the famous "MTV Cribs" episode and famed Broadway director Joe Mantello's advice to her on how to play Elphaba in "Wicked." If you'd like to submit  questions for our guests, DM us @MeetCute on Instagram and @ListenMeetCute on Twitter! Please subscribe and rate us 5 stars!You can listen to Meet Cute's newest series, "Ain't Love Super" on Apple Podcasts and Spotify.