Two Crazy Friends, One Big Idea
Hi. We’re Tami and Amy. Two long-time friends and relationship experts who have been
in the study, research, and business of improving relationships for over 30 years.
We couldn’t help but notice the current dating culture is in need of a
GIANT overhaul-
so we’ve decided to help make that happen!
Through in-person dating options inspired by popular reality shows,
we are committed to improving your dating experience and helping you find your best match and healthiest relationships.
We’re also a Therapist and a Coach…so hit us up if you need therapy, coaching, or both. We’d love to work with you!
Tamara Prado Atkin
Tamara is an experienced therapist, working primarily with couples, military veterans, and teenagers. She has earned a Bachelor's degree from Brigham Young University (BYU) in Family Science, a high school teaching certification from BYU, and a Master's degree in Psychology with an emphasis in Marriage and Family Therapy from Our Lady of the Lake University (OLLU).
Tamara is informed in Narrative Therapy, Solution-Focused Brief Therapy (SFT), Collaborative Dialogical Practices, Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), Couples Therapy, Pre-marital Therapy, Financial Therapy, trauma therapy, such as EMDR and IFS, and Professional Counseling, including career and school counseling. She has worked with teenagers as a high school counselor, high school and middle school teacher, and SnowBoard Instructor at the Canyons Ski Resort in UT, before becoming a therapist.
Tamara has lived in California, Arkansas, Washington, Utah, Arizona, Nevada, and Texas. She has been married to her favorite man in the world for over 25 years and she is the mother of four awesome, and mostly grown, children. In her spare time, Tamara enjoys the outdoors, comedy shows, reading the classics, and dreaming up ideas that will improve the world, such as Core Connect Dating Adventures.
This world will be a better place with more awesome, well-working relationships, and creating ways to bring people together, in a fun way, is her passion. Co-founding Core Connect with Amy, her longtime friend from high school and college, has been a labor of love. It is her hope that each of you will enjoy the journey of dating through these adventures as much as they have enjoyed imagining these opportunities for you.
Amy Nilsson Maughan
As a personal development/ dating and relationship coach, Amy is committed to helping clients increase their confidence, accomplish big dreams, and thrive in all types of relationships.
With an undergrad in Family Science, an MFA in creative writing, coaching certification through the Life Coach School, additional training in relationship coaching, IFS, NLP, and music and art therapy, she has worked, volunteered, and taught nearly every age group in a wide variety of settings- including elementary through high school, university classrooms, workshops, camps, churches, prisons, and an addiction recovery center.
She has a passion for music, art, writing, travel, connection, and fun- and believes these are all effective—and crucial—methods for improving mental health, strengthening relationships, and living a full, abundant life. She writes articles and YA novels exploring the complexity of family dynamics and is also working on a non-fiction book about the power of story in healing both physically and mentally.
A mother of five, Amy has lived in the mountains, the desert, the city, and currently resides in a small beach community in Florida. She has been happily married to the real Superman for 25 years and they have taken their family of seven traveling and adventuring around the world, collecting experiences, memories, fossils, rocks, and sharks’s teeth—along with 8 million views on their family’s YouTube channel.
Amy is excited to be co-founding Core Connect with Tami, a friend of nearly 40 years and looks forward to creating meaningful connection through all kinds of fun and adventure.