Entrepreneur Giuseppe Annunziata -talk about dating & more

Hi guys, it's Tuesday, and Tuesday means a new episode of Cat on the Lose.

And today, I have a super nice guy here, Giuseppe Annunziata.

Yes, he's an entrepreneur, he's Italian.

I'm happy by the way, because it's the first time ever that I'm in the same city as my guest.

So, we're actually together in the same room right now.

Yes, perfect.

So, thank you for being here.

I'm really excited that you're here.

And let's go.

Are you ready?

Let's rock and roll.

I am ready.

Are you ready?

Let's teach you.

Before, I just want to tell the people out there listening, you are an entrepreneur.

You're the owner of fabulous, luxury, high-end Italian brand, Giuseppe Nunziata.

It's this beautiful, amazing 100% linen shirts, right?

By the way, if you guys never seen it, check it out on Instagram.

I'm in love.

I'm wearing one now.

I'm going to post the page.

I'm wearing my shirt.

Yeah, Yeah, I'm in love because linen is the perfect fabric for Miami.

And anyway, so you're an entrepreneur.

You have all these brands and everything.

I don't want to waste any time because we have like 10 million questions that the girls send for you.

So are you ready?

I'm ready.

Are you ready?

Just so they know, also, you're divorced and you're single.

Yes.

And you're ready to mingle.

I know that here it's a little bit of a difficult place to date.

That's one of of the things.

Okay, that's one of the things that we want to talk about.

First question.

So what do you look in a woman when you're thinking about like a a a relationship, a long-term partner?

Well, you know, right now I'm 49, I'm going to be 49 on March.

So of course, all the things in our life, when you grow, of course,

everything changes.

So we're looking for a relationship with a person that you can have a conversation, that you can of course

live your life together and you can spend time together in harmony.

So of course it's a little bit difficult because now all these internet, social medias, they only show us, you know, a fake reality about girls' perfections and everything.

And I find that the perfect person for me, it's not a figure, but it's a soul.

That's such a nice sense.

That's really different of being the perfection

because of course the perfect in the couple it's me

so you're not trying to find your better half i don't know i'm trying to find a person that you know that we can uh

we live our life in harmony and do things together yeah and then it's not easy today no it's not but it's nice that you said that it's not all about looks because so many times especially us women we think oh guys just want like perfection and the perfect body and the perfect face.

But the truth is, for one date, that's okay, right?

But for a long-term relationship, you need much more than that.

Yeah, of course.

You need some substance in the person, in the person you're living together.

Yep.

I mean, the physical attraction, it's something that led to start a relationship or a dating.

But after you need more.

I agree.

So question number two.

You kind of started talking about that.

What do you think about online online dating?

Do you think it's possible to find a real relationship through a dating app or most people just use them for fun?

No, I mean,

never say never.

You can always find a person that it's also on these dating apps for a while because to be honest, those dating apps nowadays are so difficult to to distinguish what kind of person you're going to meet there because of course there is everything and especially Miami, it's a difficult city, but this

because

there are a lot of persons that allow those young girls to have their beautiful life, their beautiful fake life.

Yeah, they buy everything for this girl, they they go to the best restaurants, boats, and planes, and travels, and everything.

And of course, those girls are only looking for the next guy to spoil.

And to be honest, I got like a few experience of this, and I'm so over it, over it, and a little bit disgusted because,

of course, I'm a 49-year-old man, bald.

I don't know, every time you find a person, it seems that she's looking for other things, not for the person.

The soul, yeah.

So, there's a lot of, yeah, I agree.

We live in Miami, and I actually interviewed a matchmaker, April, a while ago, and she said to me that it's probably the hardest or one, oh, one of the hardest places for dating in the entire country.

Because you are right, a lot of girls are just out there for material things, unfortunately.

And a lot of men are just out there for like quick sex.

Let's be honest about it.

But it's an expensive quick sex.

Yeah, right?

Nobody wants that.

So ladies, if you're single, Giuseppe wants a nice, serious relationship, not just like a one-night stance.

So see, there are nice men out there.

They actually want relationships.

like you're selling me no well just letting the girls know out there just in case

you know to live my life person rebuild my life and i'm not searching but i don't you know you never know but somebody might find you you never say never

now you know you know that i'm dying to ask you this question because we talked about it in private the subject of ghosting

I didn't even know what ghosting was until it happened to me.

I confess, I was ghosted.

And then I asked Giuseppe and he said the same thing: what the hell is ghosting?

Ghosting is when you're having a relationship with someone and instead of breaking up with you, they just disappear.

And it happened to me last year.

So, the question I have for you as a man, do you have any idea why would men do that?

And what do you personally think about that?

The thing is that when you explain me what was ghosting, I said, okay, in Italy we call it different.

What do you call it?

It's sensapale.

Senzapale.

What does that mean?

It's lack of bolts.

Sensapale.

Of personality, or to have the courage to speak clearly with a person and say, okay, we're done, or I don't want to stay anymore with you.

I don't want anymore nothing with you.

But you have to say it.

I mean,

being clear, I think it's the first thing you have to have in a relationship, even if it's one day, one night, 10 or 20.

So, you don't agree that it justifies?

I think it's like

we did it also when I did it when I was like

a teenager, yeah, I know, because it's

the easiest way to get out.

You practically run away, yeah,

sometimes right now, at this age, it's like ridiculous.

No, I agree.

I think adults should talk.

No matter what happens, if you're in a relationship, you should sit the person.

Everybody has the right to change their mind, but you don't just disappear.

So I'm glad you are saying that because I wanted to hear a guy say it's not a man thing and it's not okay.

No, no, but say the word again in Italian.

Senza Pale.

Senzapale.

Senzapale.

I like that.

The thing is that, of course,

now we are adults and so I think the first thing in a relationship is to be clear and to be honest.

Yep, communication.

That's one of my problems in life.

I'm too direct and I know it.

And sometimes that brings me bad reactions from persons, from friends, from person I was relating and everybody.

I personally think being direct is a great idea.

Personally, I think the more you communicate and the more you talk about how you feel,

the easier it's going to be.

Sometimes being being direct, it hurts the other person.

So I learned from my last relationship that being direct doesn't mean to be rude.

That maybe

it was the way I was

delivering my ideas and my thoughts.

By the way, what brings me to the next question?

Is it true that it's something in the Italian culture that Italian men are like this macho guys,

major type pay personality, and a lot of them would not accept a woman that has these public jobs like modeling, like social media, like podcasts, that are, or it has nothing to do with the Italian culture.

I think it has a lot

to do because, of course,

we have our root,

especially

Italian from the south.

We have our root about

the big difference from

being the man of the house and being the woman.

That it's not a question right now of

age, not of age, I'm sorry, of being from south or being from north.

The thing is that the time we are living, it's totally different from the time our parents or our grandparents live.

So of course we saw different relationships and during the years we are growing and we think that our relationship would be the same as the ones of our grandmothers, grandfathers, or our parents.

Unfortunately, it's not like that because, of course, everything is changing right now.

The rules of men and women in society are totally different.

And of course, I understand that some person they don't like the woman

of the couple to be, you know, a person that exposes herself physically and maybe that is a successful woman or something like that.

But it's not a question also of being jealous or something because

personally, I'm not a jealous person.

I like that my partner, my

partner in a relationship, is a successful woman.

And I also like that she's

a person that goes around and other men's life because that's a question of being, you know,

proud of her.

Proud of her.

And when you have the attention of other men, it means that you have a good person on your side.

I agree.

I think that if you have a girlfriend and somebody looks at your girlfriend, wow, she's so beautiful, she's so pretty, it's a matter of trust, right?

If you trust her, and you know she's in a committed relationship to you, it doesn't mean she's gonna go out with anybody else.

And for example, in my last relationships, not the last one, but also the other.

I was always a person,

of course, if I see a beautiful woman and I'm I'm with my girl, I say, oh, look how beautiful she is.

And I like that my partner, she says the same.

Or I do it also with men.

So, because, of course, I don't have a lack of personality, you know.

So,

to wear my shirts, you have to be aware of it.

You have to have strong personality.

It's for the man of style.

And it's so...

If I see a beautiful man and I'm with the girl...

Why not?

I say, oh, look at him, how gorgeous he is.

Well, let's be honest, looking at beautiful people is not cheating.

It's fine.

Everybody likes looking at beautiful people, right?

It has nothing to do with cheating.

But in general, the Italian culture is very male-dominant.

And the Italian men, you guys have like very strong personalities, right?

That's not all of that, to be honest.

So I think I'm one of the new

generation of Italian men.

By the way, in case they want to know, you're from Naples, right?

Napoli, the best pizza.

So speaking of cultures, do you think a couple from different cultures, like an Italian guy, an American girl, a Brazilian girl, an Italian guy, whatever, do you think multicultural couples can make it work?

Or it's easier to date if they're both from the same culture?

I believe that, of course, nowadays the world is a melting pot of cultures.

So especially if you grown up in cities like New York,

Sao Paulo, big cities, there is not anymore one culture and one kind of

person coming from that country.

It's different from Italy because we are still living in small cities if you compare to New York, to these big cities.

And so we also do differences from the south and north.

And to be honest, it seems like that I have an old mentality in this way, but I think that the old way of saying are always truth and you know in Italy we say moigia e boy de pae situoi what does that mean that means wife and cow of your land oh really so of course if you are grown up in the same place with the same culture with the same ideas with the same environment the same person in my house no it's easier because you have the same mentality you think the same way, and you're accustomed to the same things.

Of course, it's much, much more difficult if you're starting relating with a person from another country, another culture, and everything.

That makes it

work, right?

Yeah, of course, it can work, and it works because we see that there are like millions of couples like this.

But to be honest, I think that it's easier when you're

from the same culture.

Yeah.

In our case, obviously, we live in a very multi multicultural society which is miami i think we get used to being around people from all kinds of cultures right yeah latin america brazil americas italians

so in a way

i think it's hard for us to think like i'm brazilian my mom was brazilian my dad was french but when i'm here in miami i i can't think like oh i'm gonna date a brazilian guy because he's from brazil you know what i mean yeah no of course it's maybe it's different like you said than being in in a small town or a different place you have to understand that in my case I was born in Naples I grew up and I spent like the first 39 years of my life in Naples so practically I'm

Neapolitan

And of course I moved to Sao Paulo in 2009 and after I traveled a few years and I spent like six months in Casablanca.

Now I'm living in Miami since a while I've been living six months in Madagascar when I was younger so I have idea of different cultures but to be honest I think that it's much easier for me of course if I meet a little person with Italian cultures and Italian origins

I know I get that but in general

if you're like by the way he did live in Brazil and he speaks perfect Portuguese in general a person like you that has traveled the world and has access to so many exact you would think you're a little more open-minded than somebody that just lived in italy their whole life right i'm saying it's easier to relate to a person i don't say that it's not uh it's it's impossible it's easier yeah thank you so much giuseppe this was a lot of fun it didn't hurt right no hurt what well to answer all these questions of course well congratulations have any more more questions.

I was getting like...

Well, we have tons more, but that's the ones I put on

my list.

I'm sure that once I drop the episode, the girls are going to send like 10 million more.

So I'll invite you to like a second episode so we can answer more.

But by the way, your shirts are seriously, seriously fabulous.

They're to die for beautiful.

Like I said, they're for a man of strong personality or a girl because I'm wearing one of them and I love them for girls.

So you girls, check it it out giuseppe annunziata i'm gonna put the spelling and everything and tag him on my instagram and what your personal instagram is my personal it's new sonnicorleo new sonny corleon if anybody wants to have a really sicilian name

if anybody wants to follow your stories around miami they can check it out because every day i look you're like in one different beautiful fabulous place jet setting yeah jet setting no we're trying to do our best here you know yeah and the city offers a lot of opportunities it does right yeah Miami is a fun it may not be the easiest place in the world to date no but it's one of the gorgeous places to live I agree and you know it's so nice to interview a guy that is actually saying that you want a relationship because many times I have a lot of single friends here and they're like oh the man here they just want to party they just want like one night stance but the truth is there are a lot people.

I've touched me before, but to be honest, the last like 18 years of my life or more, I was always in a stable relationship.

So,

I don't feel anymore that I am the party guy.

And to be honest, I love to party with my partner.

That is the best thing to do.

Yeah, I agree.

It's so nice that you're saying that.

So, there are really nice men out there looking for a nice relationship.

Of course.

And I really hope the right person finds you because you're an amazing guy.

Thank you so much.

And by the way, I'm going to also put the video on my Instagram.

You are also the owner of this adorable little Switch covers that I'm using right now.

It's these phone covers that have two lights, yellow light and white light, and they make all these selfies, all these videos look amazing, and I'm in love with them.

So you're like this major creative entrepreneur.

I have like thousands of ideas and projects, and in some

time I'm going produce everything.

Thank you so much.

It was so much fun listening from a male point of view.

And if you ever get like in a relationship or something, we'll come back and interview again and see how it's going.

Thank you, Giuseppe.

Thank you.