 Ali welcome welcome back to MCC. I'm happy to be back. It's excited actually great to have you This is a wonderful occasion, and I'm gonna ask you a couple of questions if you wouldn't mind. Okay. I'm under being a tribute here Okay, sounds good. We're going right into the interview questions. Um, tell me a little bit more about half Dean Sure We are a very unique website because we allow you to see the person behind the profile So typical websites you're just a picture your age and your first name What we do is we allow you to learn all these other things about a person that really matters like their personality their interests Their answers to 158 marriage questions their priorities all kinds of things from their deal breakers To will make you amazing together to what type of challenges you guys may have That's the online version and in the offline We actually allow our members to meet in person with unique events and as you've probably heard MCC has had two amazing events And both have been quite successful Our first event we have 61% of our attendees match at MCC And our second event was the highest we've ever had in 10 years of doing these events Which was 83% of our attendees finding a match That is extraordinary Well, what brings us here today is to to a little bit of orienting Obviously, you gave us a great introduction to half Dean But I have a couple of questions for you Then I thought would be great for the people that may not be able to attend I might be curious about what half Dean is like. So it sounds good to me. I'm ready for the question Fantastic first question. How can a person gauge if they are ready for marriage? That's an excellent question So a lot of people are looking to get married. I'm ready to get married I'm not sure if I want to get married. How do I know if I'm ready to get married? That's an excellent question. And these are questions that I think Parents ask their kids because the kids like I want to get married But are you really ready to get married because do you have any responsibilities that you're handling right now? And a lot of kids when the parents do all the responsibilities for them The kids have never been tested with those responsibilities and all of us as individuals We know once you get married. It's a lot of weight and responsibilities on your shoulders So one of the things you gauge is like can I handle responsibility and one of the ways you can test as to Do I have any responsibilities that my parents have given me the second way is to figure out like what? Qualities is the opposite gender looking for in a husband or a wife and to have I acquire those equalities yet There are certain things that like for example, we men are not naturally born with like for example emotional intelligence Sisters have the debt by default. We don't have it by default So there are certain things we have to acquire and as we acquire these Different unique traits we become more and more quote-unquote marriage material and until we do so We're oftentimes not ready So it's being able to learn about the opposite gender learning about what it takes to be married What learn what it takes to be successfully married? One advice I always give people is find people who've been married for a long period of time and ask him What is the secret right because you've been married for 20 years? What are you doing that works? Learn from them because they have figured something out I think this is one thing that comes from our previous generation as much as we have technologies in our phones Our parents may not be all tech savvy, but one thing they have figured out is how to make a marriage work So look acquiring the wisdom with their parents have taken years and years to learn Could save us a lot of headache a lot of disputes and hopefully successful marriages That is a great explanation. Thank you so much for that response Second question. What is a good way for people to determine if they are compatible? That's also a great question. So I Figure there's a couple different things we're talking about having discussion with someone just recently today about the same topic I tell people if you want to Get married find someone you're attracted to If you want to stay married find someone you can tolerate Someone who can handle our quirks are our little flaws that we all have We all have them including myself and like who can handle those small things And if we can figure someone that can handle me and I can handle them Then the other parts of much more teacher things kind of fall into place because no matter how beautiful or handsome He is after a while. It's just normal You love chicken you really really love chicken But if you eat chicken for breakfast lunch dinner breakfast lunch dinner every single day seven days week 25 after six months It's just chicken So as base as a handsome as beautiful whatever they were it just becomes normal after certain points So it has to be much more depth than just the surface level So when you're looking for compatibility, you're looking for depth You're looking for small things that help you connect on a deeper level and when you find someone like that You're more likely to be very successful in marriage. So one of the things we do on our website We ask people to list your priorities in marriage So you ask someone here's ten characteristics or ten things that you should That's important to me for a marriage and I'm gonna order them from the most important to least important I'll give you some examples like similar religious understanding or neatness good manners Desire for children same culture Kindness of all these type of Characteristics, what's the most important thing? What's the least important and what you do since all of them sound good? There's no right or wrong answer. You give it to the person you're speaking to for marriage and you ask them to prioritize it the list And then you compare and you can see are we compatible or are we thinking differently? So for example, the sister has desire for children is number one two or three, but for him is number ten or She she has same culture as number one and Intelligence is number ten She's like, okay, maybe this is not what I'm looking for but you know, everyone's gonna be different You just have to find someone that matches with which what you're looking for that is fantastic That is a great formula. Yeah, I'm so grateful that you have Sorted out such in such great detail. Yeah, and by the way, I'm just one piece of this puzzle I'm just it is an entire team behind half Dean that makes this thing work I'm just the person behind the microphone right now But me my partner surprise had been doing these events for about 11 years and the website's been going up for 12 And with 2,700 success stories We've come to have figured out some of the things that work really well some things that don't we're always trying to tweak it to make it Even better inshallah Fantastic, well, thank you for taking time. Thank you for having me speak with me today, and it's truly been a pleasure I'm excited to hear about the turnout of today's event I'm excited to I can't wait a few hours. We're gonna find out the results inshallah He's exciting inshallah, and thank you so much. Thank you for having for your program