Her Story
About April
April Cofie, known professionally as April The LOVEologist®, is an interracial and intercultural dating coach who assists Women of Influence in positioning themselves for emotionally safe, spiritually aligned, and lifestyle-compatible love.
After more than 30 years of singleness, April made a bold decision: she wanted to remarry, but she refused to enter the modern dating world unprepared. That decision led her into formal dating education, completing Love in 90 Days coaching certification, and a deeper personal transformation that reshaped how she approached attraction, compatibility, communication, and commitment.
Her insight is not theory from a textbook. April’s personal dating journey includes interracial and intercultural experiences that shaped her expertise, from dating a Caucasian man in her twenties, marrying and divorcing a Ghanaian man, and later building a thriving relationship with a Hispanic gentleman on a stronger, wiser foundation.
Today, April uses that lived experience, her master’s degree in Training and Development, and her apostolic ministry background to guide high-achieving women who are ready to stop guessing, stop settling, and start dating with strategy.
Through AuthentiQ LOVE, April specializes in helping mature women, executives, entrepreneurs, ministry leaders, and women over 50 navigate the unique emotional, cultural, family, and faith-based dynamics of interracial and intercultural relationships. Her work is especially meaningful for women who have been successful in business, leadership, or ministry but still desire a forever partner who can meet them with maturity, respect, and emotional presence.
April is the author of What Your Mama Didn’t Tell You About Dating and The Forever Partner Formula: Interracial Dating Playbook for Women of Influence. She is also the creator of The Private LOVE-Bird Lounge™ and LOVEing Month, signature spaces designed to equip women for deeper conversations, stronger discernment, and healthier love decisions.
Her mission is clear: to help 10K powerful women rewrite their LOVE story and connect with the forever partner who complements their life, values, faith, and future.
Her Interview
Ten minutes with April
01What do you attribute your success to?
I attribute my success to not quitting. Seriously, not quitting. I know many people who are my age, or who have had the same injury, a broken hip, who have just simply stopped. They just let other people dictate what they do, where they go. I walk with a cane, but at the same time, I'll go places, and where other people are used to being the minority, maybe because they're a woman or because of their culture, I'm the minority because I'm usually the only disabled person in the room. And I go to networking events, and I'll work a room. Knowing that I have a message, I have experience, and I have something that can change somebody's life and put a big dent in the divorce rate, I just don't give up.
02What advice would you give to young women entering your industry?
I would say to her that she needs to look within and really say to herself what she really wants. Not what mama said, not what daddy said, not what a teacher said, oh, you'd be good at, but what did she really want, and what does she really want to go after. She needs to begin, if she has not already started, to explore in those arenas. And while she's exploring, she cannot feel like she can't do things because she'll end up doing them alone. You have to do things alone if you want to succeed in things. So when you're just coming out, blooming as that young adult, you want to expand and explore. And if you have to explore by yourself, explore by yourself, because remember, you have to live with yourself.
03What are the biggest challenges or opportunities in your field right now?
One big challenge is that a lot of women who actually need what I have specifically are not aware of how easily available it is to them. They're not open to it. So one of the things that I have to do is educate them on how this will benefit them, and I also end up educating them on their mindset and some of the myths that they have heard in their younger days.
04What values are most important to you in your work and personal life?
Honesty, authenticity, and transparency are most important to me. In this line of work, when you're dealing with different cultures, one of the things that you have to do is you have to open up and talk. And you've got to maintain the relationship between the two of you, regardless of what's happening on the outside, whether it's family or just a random person. Regardless of what they are saying and doing, you have got to communicate in your relationship, and you've got to get your relationship solid. You just have to have that.
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