Donna Meador is a Certified Women's Empowerment Coach (CWEC), 5× International Best-Selling Author, and the founder of Smart Dating Divas. She helps women dating later in life - including those who are widowed, divorced, or re-entering dating after a long relationship - rebuild confidence, develop discernment, and move toward healthy love without abandoning themselves. She is based in Gilbert, Arizona, and coaches women nationally.

Smart Dating Divas is a coaching and community brand founded by Donna Meador that helps women dating later in life date with confidence, clarity, and self-trust. The brand offers online courses including the ABC Dating Secrets framework and the FLIRT™ methodology, a community membership, and private intensive coaching programs. The core philosophy: women don't need to become someone new to attract love - they need to reconnect to who they already are.

The ABC Dating Secrets framework is a proprietary dating methodology developed by Donna Meador. It teaches women to: Allow the process to unfold and let a man reveal himself naturally; Blindfold themselves to premature assumptions about compatibility or character; and honor the process of Courting by bringing structure and standards back into dating. The framework helps women stop over-investing too early and start observing more clearly.

Donna Meador holds a Certified Women's Empowerment Coach (CWEC) credential and has authored five internationally best-selling books on dating and relationships. In 2020, she and her husband Jeffrey Meador won the Forbes Riley "Power Couple of Excellence" Award. Beyond formal credentials, Donna's authority is rooted in lived experience: she personally navigated dating in her 40s, experienced the loss of her first husband in 2016, and later found love again — giving her firsthand knowledge of every stage she teaches.

Yes. Donna works extensively with widowed women re-entering dating, and her own experience losing her husband Pietro in 2016 gives her a depth of understanding that is rare in this space. She does not push or pressure women into dating before they are ready. Her approach begins with readiness - helping women identify whether they are genuinely ready to open their hearts again, or whether more healing needs to happen first.

Donna believes readiness is different from loneliness - and that many women mistake one for the other. Genuine readiness includes emotional willingness, self-honesty, and a real openness to doing something different. Donna offers a free Dating Readiness Quiz that helps women assess where they actually are - so they can take their real next step, whatever that is.