Amari Ice — The Prince of Hearts — is a gay matchmaker, relationship coach, and consulting hypnotist who helps Black gay singles level up their dating skills so that love becomes inevitable. According to the Matchmaking Institute, he’s the first black gay relationship coach in the entire love industry who’s also a certified matchmaker. His expertise has helped over 500 gay men develop the skills necessary to find and keep love.

Amari is the author of the international best-selling book, Lasting Love at Last: The Gay Guide to Attracting the Relationship of Your Dreams and is currently working on his second book, Love Alchemy: The Gay Guide to Transforming Your Love Blocks into Relationship Gold. Through his books, live workshops and coaching programs, Amari provides gay men with a proven method to transform from jaded, frustrated singles into competent, confident, love magnets.  Before launching his relationship coaching and matchmaking enterprise, Amari Means Love, he spent over a decade leading organizations and programs designed to empower the LGBTQ community.

Amari received an MBA in marketing from Strayer University after studying communication, culture, and psychology at Howard University. He lives in the suburbs of Washington, DC.